Every year, hundreds of thousands of young travellers from around the world choose to head Down Under for a spot of Backpacking.
They leave behind their financial security and comfortable lives, ex.
British photojournalist Matthew James Harrison was one of them.
During one of the worst global recessions in modern history, Matthew and his Danish partner Lia hand in the keys to their quaint countryside cottage in Derbyshire and hop on to a Singapore Airlines flight bound for Sydney.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of young travellers from around the world choose to head Down Under for a spot of Backpacking