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Hello fellow crusaders,

I luv to share my daily riots. My days are crafted like sculptures – everything is planned.

Stephen, Cathy and their family decided to move from Leeds in the UK to start a new life in Tenerife after a series of unrelated events caused them to stop and reassess what they were doing in life.  After just over 6 years of ups and downs, they are still (relatively) happy with their new lives at The Beach in Tenerife.

Days can be very different since we moved from the UK to one of the Canary Islands in 2003.  They certainly are greatly changed from typical UK based days!

Will Carling is a former captain of the England Rugby team, and arguably the most successful, as well as being the youngest ever. He now runs his very successful rugby based website www.rucku.com as well as a corporate hospitality business in partnership with his wife Lisa.  He is a well known UK celebrity and appears on television and radio frequently.

Our bedroom door is usually barged open by our eight year old at 7o’clock sharp! ‘Can I go downstairs?’ is the usual start to my day! He heads off and I listen out to hear if he calls to tell me the cats have left a ‘mouse’ present or not! Always nice cleaning up what’s left of a mouse/ bird or rabbit ! I then make my wife Lisa a cup of tea, she is quite particular about her tea, so it has become quite a ceremony!

Victoria Twead nagged her long-suffering partner, Joe, into moving from England to Spain in 2004. They settled into a tiny mountain village in Andalucía, became reluctant chicken farmers and ended up owning probably the most dangerous cockerel in Spain. Victoria’s hilarious record of their culture shock and life with the villagers is told in her new book, Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools, awarded the HarperCollins Gold Star. For a preview of the book and Victoria’s blog, visit Victoria Twead

It’s always Geronimo’s mule that wakes us up. The mule has a girlfriend in the next village and he insists on serenading her at daybreak. The cockerels then join in, first one, then all of them, each trying to out-crow the other.

Kevin Tea is a journalist and marketing communications professional who by a strange quirk of fate is currently managing a small unit at his local police force. He was previously a manager on the Telework Europa forum on the new defunct CompuServe and worked on a four year European Commission project looking at how the then emerging Internet technologies could benefit the rurally disadvantaged - Euro-speak for those stuck out in the middle of nowhere.  He maintains an interest in how cloud computing and Web 2.0 technology can benefit working practices and writes a blog at http://web2andmore.net.  It is his ambition to live part of the year in Greece and blog from a taverna accompanied by a glass if ice cold Mythos and a plate of Calamari.

I live in Cumbria which surprisingly has more to it than the lumpy bits in the middle known as the Lake District. Located 800 feet up a fell I can see across the Eden Valley to the Lakeland ranges - weather and Global Wetting permitting - and in the summer can sit in my garden and feel sorry for the hoards of tourists stuck in traffic jams far below.  More than a million people visit the Lake District every year but very few, thankfully, find their way to the area where I live except for the demented cyclists who do the coast to coast cycle ride every year. I say demented because from the Eden Valley to Hartside on the North Pennines there is a rise of about 1700 feet in a very short distance!

Mike CJ is a full time blogger living on the idyllic Canary Island of Lanzarote, just off the coast of Africa, but it’s actually a part of Europe. You can read his blog at www.mikeslife.org

I’ve chosen to use a normal working day as my example. I get up at 0730 every morning and head straight to my home office to check see what has been happening overnight on Twitter, Email and my blogs. Satisfied that nothing dramatic has occurred, I have breakfast which usually consists of a bowl of Bran Flakes.