Since 2018, Arrive Relax Travel has operated as homeworking agency, with its head office in Southend. However, at the start of this year, Angie Akister and her husband Max decided to relocate to the countryside like the prospective buyers featured in the BBC One series.
Akister said: “We found Harleston because we went looking at the beginning of the year. We wanted to relocate from Southend. We knew that we could not set up a travel agency in Southend, so we started looking along the Suffolk-Norfolk border. We did watch a lot of Escape to the Country. Weirdly, the week before we moved BBC One featured Harleston on Escape to the Country.”
