My name is Richard Edwards. I‘m originally from London, England with a mix of Italian, Welsh, Irish and American blood.

I moved to Italy with my wife and 6-year-old son in January 2002. We had got tired of life in the UK. We were ready for a change, a big change. We left our quaint and tiny rented cottage just south of the city of Bath, packed all we owned into an almost worn-out ex-military green van and drove the 900 miles (1,400km) to Piemonte without ever looking back, not for a second.

Our first home was a small 4th-floor apartment with no lift in Torino but we soon tired of the noise, the neighbours and pollution so moved to the house we're in now, out in the quiet and beautiful countryside called Roero - just 40 minutes south-east of Torino and 25 minutes north of Alba.

It’s an incredible place, famous for its wines, honey and landscapes. We’re right on the edge of the zone called Le Rocche. The hills were cut by seawater millenniums ago. The evidence is there, sea shells and sea fossils are easily found high up in the hills. The views of the Alps never fail to impress us, and we feel spot-on geographically.

Buying a home wasn't so easy. The local agency we dealt with seemed to go out of its way to make even simple things difficult and there was no information or explanations. It was only because of the help from local friends that made it possible.

We've lived in our home now for 20 years. My office and studio are here and we always have a project on the go. Currently, we're redesigning our main bedroom and the next undertaking will be converting our old hayloft into a studio for video production and music.

My background is in photography, graphic and Website design as well as teaching and public speaking. In the UK I worked for people such as Liz Mitchell (Boney M), Peter Gabriel, and Chris Anderson (TED Talks).

I've been featured in newspapers and magazines and TV shows in the US and UK. I’m currently working with a US studio to produce more shows featuring people who have bought homes in Piedmont.

Here are some of the things I’ve been featured in:

I'm a YouTuber trying to grow my channel to give more help and advice to those of you considering this area. It's easy to under-estimate how difficult it is to produce good content. Going to a house and having to get the details, deal with the owner/s, photograph it, video it with complex equipment watching never to neglect the audio and having to talk and try to sound intelligent is no small task. And that's just the half of it. Then hours of editing and writing. But I love it and hope to produce a lot more content this year for you. And I hope to get better. I'm on a diet for a start!

I'm passionate about the work I do. Assisting you to buy a home brings me almost as much satisfaction as it will you. I love to talk and share a story. Ask my wife.. But really, what I enjoy most is meeting people. My work has brought me in touch with all kinds of people from all over the world, and that is by far the best part of it. When couples come and say, 'We want to make a change,'. Great!! We did it, and we know how rewarding it can be. I want to help the brave to realise their dream as we realised ours.

All the people I meet are hardworking and don't let challenges defeat them. They have to be this kind of person to get even this far. I'm waiting to hear from you. Let's see what we can do!

I've been married for 33 years. My wife is from Poland. We met at the Berlin Wall in 1990, six months after the wall came down. It was a chance meeting at an incredible time in history and in one of the most exciting cities in the world at that time. My wife, Ula, is essential to the success of our work as we always support each other.

Our son was 6 when we moved here, and settled in fast. He'll tell you that the first year of school was challenging, but he got through, studied video production and graphic design, and then, on leaving school, got his real estate licence. He was one of the youngest agents in the country. It wasn't for him, and now he's a programmer and always helpful to me - an old Generation-X who struggles sometimes.