At the turn of the 2010s, Stephen Yarrow decided he'd had enough of London. In fact, he'd had enough of Britain altogether.
Growing up in Willesden, Finchley and Edgware in the 1960s, the north London the one-time Thames TV film editor called home was no longer one he recognised.
As a Jewish man living in an area with one of the highest concentrations of Jews in the capital, he felt rising hatred towards his kin would only get worse.
'I was seeing more and more antisemitism, more and more Jewish schools being attacked, more and more synagogues being attacked,' he said.
Despairing at the cost of his mortgage in Edgware and unhappy at the state of Britain, he began plotting his life abroad in retirement and with Barbara made a move popular with an increasing number of Brits, to the furthest reaches of Europe: Bulgaria.
