Stuart Gillies
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2 Mar
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It was a basic, I think it was a lot higher level and expectation than the NVQ certificates are now.
So that was just standard and it was full-time two years or three years part-time apprenticeship, which is what I did, the apprenticeship.
So that's your entry ticket to good jobs in...
Yeah, pretty much.
That was it.
So that gave me the basic tools as a chef, qualifications.
And my third, end of my third year, I'd been working all those years as a young chef and all my friends were doing other jobs and earning three times the money and had jobs.
doubled the time off and I was working with a whole massive team at the Royal Gardening because back then kitchens had about 45, 50 chefs in the brigade.
They were huge teams of people and I met a Swedish girl named Andrea and we got together and started seeing each other and she was heading back to Sweden at that time and I was just finishing my year.
So
She said, why don't you come back with me?
So, yeah, a boy from Crawley who'd never really been anywhere except London to get the chance to go to Sweden and have an adventure.
Leave all those friends behind who are showing off about how much they were earning.
Yeah, well, it was good.
Go somewhere more exciting.
Well, I was just so excited at the opportunity to grow and do something else and travel.
So I went to Sweden with...
And when I got to Sweden, all the Swedes were completely different culture to the British back then.
They are all about outdoor health and travel, and they're huge travelers.
They were traveling the globe in big chunks of three months, 12 months.
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