The ‘swallows’ who escape the grim British winter and soaring energy bills for homes in sunnier climates. Here’s how YOU can do it too – and where to go for £50 monthly electricity bills, £1.50 meals and no council tax

The days are getting shorter and the weather has turned cold. After the long, hot summer it has been especially hard to stomach the sudden transition into five months of dark, damp days and, thanks to El Nino (the weather phenomenon), probably a lot of flooding.

Instead of staying in South East England to endure Storms Austen and Boelo, which lashed the UK last month, Elizabeth Macleod took her own grab bag of essentials and headed off for a winter of sun in Cyprus, where it’s currently a balmy 24C.

‘I swim every day as it’s great for my arthritis,’ says the

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