I was sick of paying £1.7k rent – so I divorced my husband & quit my job, to live in a van that only costs £415

A WOMAN has swapped her picture-perfect life for the open road, leaving behind her marriage, thriving business, and five-bedroom house to travel Europe in a van – with her cat as her only companion.

Therese Eriksson, 33, once enjoyed a comfortable life in Sweden as a freelance videographer, renting a £1,750-a-month five-bedroom house and running her own successful business.