Our guest Andy Donaldson grew up in a small coastal village in the west of Scotland to an Indonesian Mother and Scottish Father. He studied accounting at Loughborough University in conjunction with pursuing the Olympic Dream in elite level swimming, an endeavour which ultimately brought him across the globe to Perth Australia in 2013.
Andy has since gone on to race around the world for club and country, he's swam in one of the world's craziest channel crossings from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain (a 30km swim which was followed by an unforgettable Formula 1 experience watching from the royal box with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, the king of Bahrain and the king of Spain), and this year, he came out retirement following 10 months of backpacking to win Perth's very own Rottnest Channel Swim. His time of 4:04:30 is one of the fastest channel crossings in the event's history

Welsh Expat Neil talks to us about his encounters with ghosts and how this and his passion for song writing led to him writing a book.

Our guest this episode isn’t an expat yet but hopes to be emigrating to Australia soon.
Yumi and her husband Matt decided after having their little boy Ori, that instead of selling the house they’d give someone the life changing opportunity to WIN their lovely south London home.
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This weeks guest is an accomplished physicist, innovator, and an internationally-recognised leader in industry applications of plasma-based accelerators. She made the move from England to Sydney after being appointed as the Leader of the Centre for Accelerator Science for ANSTO in NSW.
It was absolutely fascinating talking with Dr Ceri Brenner.

After hearing about his motorbike adventures in India and the beautiful Kimberly region in WA you’d be forgiven for mistaking Scottish Expat Scott Hannah for Ewan McGregor, or for comparing him to Bear Grylls.
In reality though this Champion Bagpipe player is very much his own man and it was a pleasure hearing his story.

Helen Berry is an English Expat and CEO of Midland Women's Health Care Place as well as an invaluable member of the admin team for the popular Poms in Perth Facebook Page.
For more information on the organisation visit www.mwhcp.org.au

Kerrie McCormack has recently moved to Queensland with her husband and 6 year old boy.
We talk to her about her experience dealing with quarantine and having to leave family in the UK during Covid.
You can follow Kerrie's adventures on Instagram and YouTube @mccormacksonthemove

Chris Batten is a Scottish Expat and is the founder of the popular Scots in Perth Facebook Group.

Irish expat Mark O'Toole is a hard working ex army Chef from Dublin. As well as looking after a number of age care facilities Mark finds time to play a bit of Football and coaches at Yanchep United FC.


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