NaN/100 votes#1 - 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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6.3/107 votes#2 - 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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NaN/100 votes#3 - 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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- 7.5/107 votes
#4 - 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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#5 - 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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- NaN/100 votes
#6 - 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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- NaN/100 votes
#7 - 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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- NaN/100 votes
#8 - 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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NaN/100 votes#9 - 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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NaN/100 votes#10 - 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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NaN/100 votes#11 - 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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NaN/100 votes#12 - 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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NaN/100 votes#13 - 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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- NaN/100 votes
#14 - 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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The Best Episodes of Grand Designs Abroad Season 1
Every episode of Grand Designs Abroad Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Grand Designs Abroad Season 1!
Kevin McCloud presents Grand Designs Abroad. The stakes are higher, the risks are multiplied, and the ambition - to build your dream home in the...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Channel 4
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Episode 1 (Malaga)" is the best rated episode of "Grand Designs Abroad" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/1/2004. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2 (Lot)".