A New Life in the Sun

In France, a Devon couple take on more than they bargained for. Two sisters from Lincolnshire buy the diner they worked in. A couple from Kent buy a B&B with guests already in it.

In Spain, the sisters bicker over plans for their steak restaurant. And in France, a couple hit rock bottom when they realise their new B&B is a money pit.

It's the height of the season, and a Spanish fiesta pushes the sisters to their limit. And in France, a couple finally open the doors of their B&B after a year of renovations.

In France, calamity ensues when the B&B guests are too tall for the beds. In Spain, the sisters are close to breaking point with staff shortages at the height of the season.

It's the end of the first season and a storm threatens to devastate a paddle boarding business in Spain. In France, there's big business at the B&B when an orchestra comes to town.

A couple from Southend open a glamping site in rural France, an Anglo-French couple renovate a townhouse, and two ex-army pals build a crazy golf course in Spain.

In France, a couple from Southend struggle to make glamping bookings, and tension rises in the kitchen of a family-run restaurant, as well as on a mini-golf course in Spain.

The future of a French restaurant hangs in the balance, and scorching temperatures cause problems at a glamping site. In Spain, a couple from Halifax open a B&B with a cave, and a crazy golf course is ready to tee off.

A crazy-golf course in Spain does a roaring trade, and a couple from Halifax plan a big event at their B&B. In France, an Anglo-French restaurant opens its doors for the first time, and a couple from Southend try paragliding.

As the summer ends, we catch up with the Brits running businesses in Europe. In Spain, storms flood a B&B. A couple from Southend are overwhelmed with glampers, and it's panic stations at a restaurant in France when the mayor arrives and the cooker is on the blink.

A family from the Midlands gamble an inheritance on a diving school in the Balearics. In France, a couple from Warwickshire take on a massive gite renovation project.

A Warwickshire couple who run gites in France get married, rival bar owners in the Costa del Sol compete to open first, and a broken-down van could ruin a diving school in Menorca.

With a bar full of customers, two twentysomethings battle with a dodgy pizza oven. A diving school's boat breaks down. Two gite owners receive a surprise glamorous booking.

Two ex-pat gite owners open for business in France. In Spain, a diving school deals with a very nervous customer, and there's a life-changing event for two young bar owners.

A horse-riding school in Spain has a chance to earn big money. And in France there's a jaw-dropping surprise for a gite owner.

A young couple decide to bring an alternative lifestyle to rural France. And in Spain, entrepreneurs from Leicester find a new way to make cash at their mandarin grove.

In Spain, a Leicester couple's café kitchen is complete, but their first service is chaos. In France, a couple from Bath try to keep their guests cool in the middle of a heatwave.

In the height of the season, southern Spain meets the Wild West at a remote glamping site run by a Cambridge couple. In France, an artist finds a new way to bring in some cash.

There are weather woes in Spain for a Leicester couple hosting a Mexican fiesta at their poolside café. And a heatwave strikes a glampsite in the Sierra Nevada desert.

An artist and a chef from Bath try to break into a bigger market with their painting and culinary retreats. Vegan gite owners hope to find the recipe for success in rural France, while in Sierra Nevada, a Dorset couple try to salvage their glampsite from the biggest storm to hit Spain in over a century.

In France, Somerset ex-pats take on an ambitious renovation. And a young couple stake everything on running a cycling holiday business in Spain.

Gite owners in France face plumbing problems for their first guests, two caterers face a colossal cooking challenge, and a couple encounter problems in buying their dream home.

A catering couple from Bristol have a plumbing crisis in the face of a cooking deadline, while in France, two ex-pats deal with a major swimming pool leak.

A Yorkshire can-can dancer in France teaches her amateur troupe a classic routine, while in Spain, a Buckinghamshire couple's cycling holiday venture hits the skids.

A Buckinghamshire couple face a battle to boost bookings for their cycling holiday business. In France, a Yorkshire can-can dancer prepares her amateur troupe for their first public performance.

Three generations of a family from Kent open a French campsite, a couple from Brighton run holiday lets in rural Spain and foodies from Warwick plan to start culinary holidays.

A couple with a gite in France find their pool infested with algae, a family running a campsite find themselves with no hot water, and money troubles threaten holiday lets in Spain.

A Brighton couple host a yoga retreat at their Spanish apartments. Meanwhile, gite owners in France are forced to lower their prices.

In France, a family face a tough inspection of their campsite and a Bristol couple buy a house with a gite. A couple with holiday lets in Spain rush to finish their renovations.

Ex-pats continue chasing their dream lives in the sun, as gite owners in France open a cooking school, a couple from Bristol finally start their businesses and there's a Mexican party to celebrate a successful season in Spain.

A family from Teesside club together to buy a rundown property to turn into a restaurant in Spain, while a couple from Maidstone take on a cycling tour business in Girona.

Holiday hosts in France are reviewed by a travel website, renovation work pushes a project in Spain to breaking point, and cycling tour operators struggle with logistics.

A couple from Manchester become accidental olive farmers. Meanwhile, a family from Teesside open the doors to their new restaurant in Spain.

A storm threatens to devastate the crop for Manchester olive farmers in Spain and a Teesside family become victims of their own success at their Spanish restaurant.

It's the moment of truth as harvest time arrives for olive farmers in Spain, while plumbing problems threaten the launch of a tea room in France. A Teesside family finds ways to cope when there's a fiesta in Spain.