They ended up spending 17 years in Majorca and, in many ways, Mandy, 61, feels nostalgic about their life in the sun. Mark has since set up home with a local Spanish woman. Mark worked as a chef and Mandy was a hotel manager when they decided to make the move to Spain. ‘We’d only been on holiday in Majorca twice, but we were smitten with the Spanish way of life,’ says Mandy. ‘It sounds silly to say we were forever having problems with our satellite connection but we were.’The couple returned to the UK nine months after they had left.