How we met: ‘She was so glamorous

Jane, 60, and Kristi, 53, met on a trip to Scotland in 2012. They live on different continents, but visit one another every year

In 2012, Kristi was living in Santa Barbara, California, running an on-demand pilates streaming service. She’d recently started dating an anatomy teacher who was based in Florida. When he invited her to join him in St Andrews, Scotland, where he would be teaching a dissection course, she jumped at the chance for a holiday. “He was really good friends with the course manager and his partner, Jane,” Kristi says. “I’d heard a lot about them and was nervous to meet them.”

Jane, who lived in Bath and worked as a primary school teacher, was also joining her partner on the Scottish trip. “The dissection classes were for people with an interest in a holistic approach to anatomy. They were usually in London but this one was moved to St Andrews because of the London Olympics,” she says. They all booked to stay in a shared cottage, where Jane and Kristi met for the first time. “I remember how noisy the seagulls were,” laughs Jane. “Our partners were so close at the time that I think there was a lot of pressure for us to get on.”