A New Life in the Sun: Road Trip

In the first edition, he sets out on a tour of southern Spain's whitewashed villages in Andalucía, where three sets of expats each run beautiful boutique hotels. He meets a couple with a grand plan to host weddings, and another learning on the job. Plus, can a single mum juggle work and family?

In the beautiful Bordeaux and Bergerac wine regions, we meet two sets of winemakers making a name for themselves, and a sommelier and his chef wife who are launching a gîte and a cookery school

Fred Sirieix explores Mallorca's coast in a sailing boat, and meets a family who are attempting to launch a restaurant on the north of the island.

In the Midi-Pyrénées region of south west France, we meet two young families setting up a cycling business, a London couple running a glampsite and a couple dealing with a big renovation project.

Our tour takes us on a refreshingly different trip around the Costa del Sol, where we meet a chef with a keen eye for fresh seafood and two sea lovers running a boat charter business.

Fred Sirieix meets more Brits who have set up lives abroad. In the medieval towns of south-west France, an ale lover tries to persuade the wine-loving French to drink British beer, a chef and his partner launches a new restaurant and a former shoe designer finishes off a renovation project started by her late father.

Fred Sirieix visits the Orange Blossom coast and the area surrounding Valencia, where he meets two Londoners who have taken on a mandarin self-pick farm, a couple setting up a vegan restaurant in Javea and two British expats setting up a cycling business in the city of Valencia.

Fred Sirieix visits the Côte d'Azur, where he meets two friends setting up a cookery school and a couple launching a fruit juice business, and takes to the waves in Saint-Tropez.

Fred Sirieix is in the Spanish region of Almería, where he meets two Britons setting up a glampsite inspired by Spaghetti Westerns and a couple of olive farmers.

Fred Sirieix's tour of Europe takes him to the Périgord-Limousin National Park, where he spent his childhood. He meets two green-fingered Britons who have just launched a plant nursery, and checks in with a Jersey couple launching a gîte business and two Londoners trying to set up a log cabin business at the edge of their lake.