Work From Home

It took almost a decade of work before Ed Sheeran would countenance a break. Last year, for the first time since he picked up an acoustic guitar.

He finally paused to draw breath, abandoning his phone and social media. He wanted to spend some money, at last, to go where he wanted, when he wanted, without a budget. He spent a month and a half in Japan traveling from north to south, rented a Mini and drove along the west coast of Australia and did a bungee jump in New Zealand. “Then I went to Ghana, then Iceland but I put my foot in a boiling geyser and melted the skin off my foot. I had to get choppered out from the side of a volcano. I missed the Northern Lights because I was in the hospital.” He may be a global star, but you suspect there is a little bit of him that will forever be a doofus.