Lynn Stephenson swapped her two-bed city home for hotels and hostels around the world after she got the travelling bug. The 61-year-old has visited 168 countries so far but hopes to chalk the remaining 27 off of her list within the following year. Lynn worked in admin at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court while also juggling a part-time fitness instructor role but gave it all up in 2022.
She sold her semi-detached town house in Carlton, Nottingham, and pocketed £136,000 after her mortgage was paid off - using the profit to fund her travels. Now Lynn’s amassed a small following as she documents her travels - with over 12,000 people following her across Facebook and Instagram . Most recently she’s been island hopping around the South Pacific, where she claims to be the only white tourist.
She has also swam with manta rays and sharks, visited a leprosy camp and spent time with a tribe in Vanuatu who are “obsessed with Prince Philip”. Lynn, who only has brothers back in the UK, said: “I lived in Carlton for 40 years, I'm originally from the North East but moved to Nottingham at 19. “I did my first round the world trip in 1992, it was a whole different world then without internet and mobile phones.
“You had a guide book and tried to find yourself somewhere to sleep. “After I sometimes go off for bits and bobs. I did an around the world trip in 2003 too.
“But it was in November 2022 that I decided to sell up. It was always on the radar and what I wanted to do. “It.
