Happy story

There have been plenty of relationships that have faultered on long passages. Here is one that didn't:



Jim Brockett, 42, and Gerardine McNulty, 35, were just friends when they decided to leave their jobs to embark on the life-changing adventure in January 2006. They used their combined life savings to buy a £100,000 yacht, Albert II, and visited 42 countries during 1,029 days at sea.

As they swam with dolphins in New Zealand, fed sharks in the Pacific and enjoyed some of the world's most romantic sunsets together love began to blossom. The couple got engaged in December 2007 when, dressed in a Father Christmas suit, Mr Brockett proposed to his travel companion – known as Ged – on the island of Phuket, Thailand. -- Telegraph, read on