All Episodes of Grand Designs Abroad
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Season 1
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Episode 1 (Malaga)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/2004
Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.
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Episode 2 (Lot)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/2004
Kevin travels to the Lot region of France to meet the Sampson family as they prepare to embark on the construction of a hugely ambitious, open, wooden-framed house.
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Episode 3 (Puglia)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2004
Kevin follows a couple of artists who have moved to the beautiful region of Puglia. Their dream is to turn a derelict olive farm into a home and a summer school for artists.
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Episode 4 (Creuse)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/2004
Kevin visits a couple who have given up everything in the UK to start a new life in a remote part of central France called the Creuse.
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Episode 5 (Ireland)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/29/2004
Kevin travels to the romantic west coast of Ireland where architect Andrew Lohan is embarking on the conversion of a ruined 150-year-old church into the perfect home.
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Episode 6 (Tuscany)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/5/2004
Kevin meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany.
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Episode 7 (Les Gets)
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/12/2004
Kevin travels to a ski resort in the French Alps where English couple Nicky and James Dobree are turning a 300-year-old farmhouse into an luxurious eight-bedroomed chalet.
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Episode 8 (Alicante)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/19/2004
Kevin McCloud travels to Spain to meet a family who have moved lock, stock and barrel from London to start a new life in Alicante on a lovely block by a lake.
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Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/3/2006
Kevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs who bought and started renovating a 19th century manor house in Creuse, France.
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Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/10/2006
Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.
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Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/9/2007
Kevin revisits Janne Hoff-Tilley and Howard Smythe whe spend seven years and 700,000 Pounds renovating a castle in Tuscany.
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Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/27/2008
Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton three years after they bought an olive farm in the Puglia region of Italy and planned to convert it into a home on a budget of £25,000.
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Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/2010
Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.
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Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/6/2013
Ten years ago Gil and Hillary Briffa decided to retire to southern Spain, where they planned to build a contemporary home in the Andalusian hills against the backdrop of more traditional properties. A few years ago, Gil died, but now Kevin McCloud revisits Hillary to find out whether her residence has settled into its landscape and how life is treating her as a British widow living abroad.
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