Laura, 24, opened Bodycare on Victoria Street in summer 2012.
In the last five years she has built up a thriving business with a regular full-time client list of around 300, offering the likes of nail treatments, spray tans, massage and facials, waxing and microdermabrasion.
Each winter she has taken a couple of months off to explore the likes of south-east Asia and the USA. In September she will embark on a bigger adventure when she heads off to Canada for a year.
'I love my work and I've really enjoyed getting to know my clients, but I've definitely been bitten by the travel bug,' she said.
'I love Alderney but I feel the need to challenge myself and experience new things while I'm young and I would rather leave the business while it is still going well with a good name than become unhappy and let it go downhill.'
Her travels are open-ended at present, but she will come back to Alderney intermittently to see family and friends.
