The Worst Episodes of Grand Designs Abroad

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   #1 - Episode 3 (Puglia)

   S1:E33/15/2004

   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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   #2 - Episode 5 (Ireland)

   S1:E53/29/2004

   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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   #3 - Episode 6 (Tuscany)

   S1:E64/5/2004

   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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   #4 - Episode 7 (Les Gets)

   S1:E74/12/2004

   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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   #5 - Episode 8 (Alicante)

   S1:E84/19/2004

   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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   #6 - Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House

   S1:E95/3/2006

   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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   #7 - Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet

   S1:E105/10/2006

   Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.

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   #8 - Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle

   S1:E115/9/2007

   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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   #9 - Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat

   S1:E122/27/2008

   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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    #10 - Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw

    S1:E1312/1/2010

    Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.

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    #11 - Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

    S1:E1411/6/2013

    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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    #12 - Episode 1 (Malaga)

    S1:E13/1/2004

    Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.

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    #13 - Episode 2 (Lot)

    S1:E23/8/2004

    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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    #14 - Episode 4 (Creuse)

    S1:E43/22/2004

    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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