Liz Murphy and her husband Dave were playing with their kids in the back garden in Manchester when the idea popped into their heads to simply leave their life and flee to France and buy an entire 17th-century hamlet.
Mr Murphy ran inside to grab the laptop and within days they were swapping Britain’s grey skies and their jobs in radio for the endless rows of sunflower fields and cattle ranches of the Poitou-Charentes region.
