Katie Cooksey
France
At the age of 33 I shocked many – including myself – when I suddenly quit my job as a BBC journalist and moved to a country where I don’t speak the language, with a man I’d been going out with for five months and no job except some vague ideas about freelance writing. I went from breaking news to breaking out in a sweat doing heavy gardening – and so earning my tongue-in-cheek nickname RustiKatie. I’m hoping this life-changing move will prove to be the best thing I ever did. But lets see…