It’s now nearly five years since Yasmin Kelly set off on a journey into the unknown. Leaving her Shropshire home in an old Volkswagen camper van with her husband, two children and two dogs in tow, she bought a ruin in a small village called Los Almagros in southern Spain.

Nita Reed wants to put the record straight. She’s sick of reading about Shropshire ex-pats who gaze longingly back to memories of their homeland. She emigrated to the duty-free Caribbean island of St Martin six years ago, and makes no bones about it — no money in the world would persuade her to come back!

Shropshire expat Oliver Davies , from Market Drayton, brings us his latest letter from China, lifting the lid on what has become a popular gladiatorial sport – cricket fighting.

It’s not just Christian names which these two ladies share. Alison Lainton and Allyson Thompson are both living many miles from home, and harbouring fond memories of Shropshire.

Shropshire nightclub goers of a certain age may remember the name of Sid “John” Price. He was a founder member of The Earls Dance Band, which was one of the hottest tickets on the county’s entertainment scene during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

It’s been six months since Shropshire hotelier Kevan Downing sold up and emigrated to Spain with his wife Pauline. Here the former Hadley Park House Hotel owner tells their story.