Living the Dream Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Living the Dream: Season 3 (2004)

• Season 3 Episode 4: Goan Bonkers

  Ken and Jackie Johnson hatch an ambitious scheme to leave their families behind and relocate to India, where they plan to run a pub. The romantic adventure they were expecting gets off to a disastrous start when they find they've arrived in the middle of the monsoon season. They also encounter difficulties with the local workforce and bureaucracy, and struggle to find their place amid Goa's expat community

• Season 3 Episode 3: Caribbean Cruising

  Anthony Heckendorn and his family move to Mexico in a bid to turn their motor yachting hobby into a business. They buy a home an hour's drive from Cancun, with a view to taking well-heeled tourists on exquisite charter cruises up and down the Mayan Riviera. But before they can attract any clients, they've got to navigate the red tape involved in importing their £260,000 deluxe yacht

• Season 3 Episode 2: La Dolce Vita

  Two Welsh brothers plan to open a bistro in the Algarve, but when they arrive at their destination, it appears they may not even own the premises they think they've bought. To make matters worse, 35 Welsh golfers book tables for the opening night

• Season 3 Episode 1: Hotel in the Country

  The fortunes of 28-year-old Hari Evans, who gave up her London life, her job and her boyfriend to run a million-pound hotel in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean. With the help of her parents, who have raised the cash to fund the ambitious project and agreed to work under their daughter's management, Hari strives to transform the dowdy two-star hotel into something rather more exclusive. However, the dream soon seems impossible to achieve thanks to the staff she's inherited from the previous owners

Living the Dream: Season 2 (2003)

• Season 2 Episode 2: Cabbies on Safari

  The fortunes of Allan and Vera Fray as they heed the call of the wild by swapping their successful Cheshire cab company for a safari lodge in South Africa, complete with zebras, ostriches, giraffes and an unruly herd of hippos. Before they can even think about opening, they have to oversee a total redevelopment of the site and contend with the fact they don't have any experience with animals

• Season 2 Episode 1: Sunny Side Up

  A Nottingham couple decide to buy a cafe on the Algarve, intending to run it with their son and his wife in the hope of securing the family's future. However, their plans for an idyllic lifestyle look set to end in disaster when the clan fall out over various responsibilities and potential staffing problems. Meanwhile, the establishment's current owner ponders whether to pull out of the sale altogether

Living the Dream: Season 1 (2003)

• Season 1 Episode 5: Field of Dreams

  A British couple take advantage of government aid and head for France, where they buy a farm - even though they have never been there before and can't speak the language. Their first year is spent under the cloud of BSE and the French farming system's insistence they keep cattle rather than sheep, a directive they are determined to ignore to increase their chances of survival

• Season 1 Episode 4: Restaurant in the Sun

  Pritpal and Neelam Darar escape the misery of Scotland's weather and head for the sunny Spanish Costa Blanca to open an Indian restaurant. With only five weeks to complete their project, the odds are stacked against them, and the frustratingly laid-back attitude of local tradesmen only adds to their problems

• Season 1 Episode 3: French Holiday Heaven

  Commodity broker Marc Finch and his banker wife Jo decide to turn their backs on the rat race and head for France, where they buy a dilapidated campsite in a scenic corner of the Dordogne. Their plan to transform the scruffy two-star holiday venue into a four-star paradise is beset by many problems, including a faulty beer pump that turns everything to froth, and Dutch inspectors obsessed with the toilets

• Season 1 Episode 2: Guest House Paradiso

  A divorced couple give up their lives in England and travel to Spain : together with their new partners and children : to form an unlikely business alliance by opening a B&B. It's an ambitious project which looks like failing even before their convoy of battered vehicles has reached its destination

• Season 1 Episode 1: Hotel by the Sea

  A couple give up a trendy clothes shop in Bath for a 17-bedroom hotel on the Cornish Riviera : an ambitious move considering neither of them has any experience in the field. As the bills flood in on top of a hefty mortgage, Mike and Orange Trevillian wonder whether they are ever going to break even

Living the Dream:

• French Holiday Heaven Revisited

  A year ago, Marc and Jo Finch abandoned their home in Buckinghamshire to run a campsite in the Dordogne. Their first year has been a stressful one, with 18-hour days, blocked drains and several tussles with the health inspectors almost convincing them to pack up and go home. However, now the couple have finally settled into their new life and also have big plans for the future

• Guest House Paradiso Revisited

  An update on Bob Wood's dream of leaving behind long hours and terraced houses near Basildon, Essex, to open a guest house in southern Spain with his current wife, ex-wife and her second husband. Eighteen months later, the two families are still soaking up the sun, but now live very separate lives. Bob and Tracy are discovering that isolation in their mountain home leaves more than a little to be desired, while Jenny and Simon are working round the clock to escape what for them has become a nightmare. Last in series

• Restaurant in the Sun Revisited

  An update on the Darar family, who set off from Scotland last year to open an Indian restaurant in Spain. One year on, Neelam and kids Sashkia and Rohan long for Pritpal to take a night off now that his curries are a Costa Blanca institution, but problems arise when the tandoori chef mysteriously disappears and the front-of-house manager calls for one of the waiters to be sacked