Meet the intrepid Britons who set up businesses to live the expat dream

Roo and Pete Lucas
Roo Lucas: 'It’s incredibly ­rewarding, making sure people enjoy themselves on holiday, whether they’re a Saudi princess or a Grimsby plumber', with her husband Pete

Roo and Pete Lucas and their teenage children Jago and Chloe are, by their own admission, living the expat dream. 

From a pretty green-shuttered fisherman’s townhouse in the old town of Port de Sóller, on the west coast of Majorca, they run a boat charter business. That means no commuting, just days spent on their converted classic wooden fishing boat, cruising the crystal-clear waters of the secluded bays and mooring up near restaurants perched on the cliffs.

Roo, now 42, was never going to settle down into a desk job after a peripatetic life spent on boats. She was nearly born on one, as her parents both lived on boats in Brixham, Devon, and the family spent a year sailing around the Caribbean...

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