Thanks for your reply @Pazza
In the end I was very lucky, We used the chat and my trade partner had a TransferWise email and it all went through ok using it. I realised after completing the trade I should have chosen a safer method, eg the mediation as you mention. I’m just very fortunate that it seems most people in the Bisq community want to do the right thing.
Thanks for the encouragement, I will try another trade and for the sake of future forum members I’ll report back how I get on.