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The 23-year-old woman who picked up and went round the world with a man who she hardly knew says it all worked out okay. She is Elizabeth Gallagher and her ticket to this expensive tour was her name. As you may recall, she had to have the same legal name as the woman for whom the tickets had been purchased. The man is Jordan Axani, 28. He had broken up with the first Elizabeth and needed a replacement to keep from travelling alone The girl who made the trip, Elizabeth Quinn Gallagher, Cole Harbour, N.S., said she began to feel confident about things when she met Axani’s parents, before the trip began. “You can tell what someone’s going to be like based on where they come from, so it was really nice to meet his parents,” she told CTV Toronto on Tuesday. The pair of strangers left Toronto for New York City on Dec. 21, spent three weeks visiting destinations including Paris, Milan and Hong Kong, before they flew back to Toronto on Jan. 8. “It sort of brought out this brother-sister dynamic between us,” Axani told CTV Toronto on Tuesday. “When you spend three weeks with somebody, travelling around, you get to know anybody pretty well. I feel like I’ve known you for years after this,” he said to Gallagher. Prague was Gallagher’s favourite city on the trip, while Axani said he loved Hong Kong. They spent part of the trip together, but did some sight-seeing on their own. They said they were approached by people in almost every city who recognized them and knew their story. They also got invitations over social media from people who lived in the cities they visited. “We met some amazing people and it really made the trip,” Gallagher said, mentioning other tourists, tour guides and residents of the cities they visited. Axani said he thinks they’ll remain friends and will keep in touch, but there’s “no romance here.”
