Iraq? That's the place on the TV isn't it? Are you mad? It is and no we're not. This is the 'other' Iraq: It's safe, the people are hospitable and it is well worth adding to your itinerary.

A photograph of Sanliurfa, Turkey.

A photograph of Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Growing jealous of the people he was helping to inspire while working in the London office of a gap year website, led Will Peach to set off on his own travels.

“Living abroad is an opportunity to reinvent yourself that rarely exists outside the witness protection program,” says author and travel writer Karen McCann. “You get to hit the reset button on your life.” She and her husband have journeyed to nearly fifty countries, including many developing and post-war nations where they volunteered as consultants to struggling microenterprises.

Since she was a child Francesca Luke dreamt of living in a sunny Mediterranean country and fulfilled that ambition when she moved to Madrid to work as an English Teacher.

12 years after we posted the 100th issue of the Jobs Abroad Bulletin newsletter, we have sent out the 101st. Like London buses, the next two issues arrived soon after.

J R Duren is a copywriter, published author, award-winning journalist and the creator of As the Bro Flies. With his wife Heather and their dog Charlie he has lived in Barcelona since August 2013.

24 year old British-American girl Jessica Bowler answered our questions on living in Barcelona. She works as a translator and freelance travel journalist, and blogs at Hola Yessica, which is named after how people in Spain pronounce her name.

A photograph of Gjirokastra, Albania.