Ben meets a 40-year-old former communications manager who gave up her old life to train huskies in the Swedish Arctic Circle. Gaynor and her husband Milos live in a hand-built cabin with no running water.

Amber and Amy pack their family onto a school bus to explore the coastlines and mountain ranges of New Zealand's North Island.

After six years of globetrotting, Scott and Casey gambled their life savings on a kite-surfing school in a remote stretch of the Peruvian coast. As Ben lives their day-to-day life, he learns what led them both to this decision.

Ben meets a couple who left their comfortable lifestyle in the US to produce coffee in Panama; Ben learns how to craft his favourite drink.

In Sri Lanka, Ben meets a vet who has swapped Tyneside for the south coast of Sri Lanka, where she has opened a clinic and also runs a charity that cares for some of the island's many stray dogs.

In the mountains of northern Ethiopia, Ben meets native Glaswegian Susan, who rejected an ordinary retirement for a remote region of Africa. Susan has had a huge impact on the local community, and now runs a restaurant on top of a mountain.