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Ruth Bloomfield

London Leavers: 'After living in a one-bedroom flat in East Dulwich, Scotland seemed idyllic'

Matilda Tsappis was raised in rural Scotland, her husband Tom grew up near Romford in Essex, and they might never have met had they not both decided to spend a spell living and working in Japan. They bumped into each other while watching a Rugby match at an English pub in Tokyo.

Since then this risk-taking couple have continued uprooting their lives and careers, returning to London, setting up an at-home supper club, and then taking on a restaurant in the wilds of Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park. Along the way they have also become parents to Evelyn, now 18 months.

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