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THE GOOD LIFE Kicking back in a yurt

Summer is finally here, and for many families the ideal holiday involves a tent in the great outdoors, alongside nature.

But for one family from England, a huge call from the wild enticed them to completely abandon life in the city and live off-grid in rural New Zealand.

Lucy AitkenRead and her husband Tim had, quite simply, had enough of living life on the treadmill. So with two young children in tow, they packed their belongings to take a walk on the wild side.

“It sounds a bit of a cliché, to leave our comfortable Victorian terraced house in South London to go live in a

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