I'm house-sitting pretty right around the world

A PENSIONER who lives on just £300 a month has spent the past 20 years travelling the world and living out of a suitcase.

- By MILO BOYD

Tiera St Claire, 69, has no permanent home and instead supports herself through house and pet-sitting across the UK, Europe and the US.Since divorcing in 2005 after 18 years of marriage, she has adopted a nomadic lifestyle centred on freedom rather than security.

‘After her divorce, Tiera walked the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain, a journey she has now completed 15 times.

“I’m grounded and strong inside myself” she said. “I stay aware of my surroundings and work hard on staying physically strong.”

She fell head over heels again in 2009, but that relationship didn't last.