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Grand Designs Abroad - Episode Guide

Season 1

Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 8, 2004

Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

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

Lot, France: House From Straw

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 15, 2004

Lot, France: House From Straw

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.

Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2004

Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat

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.

Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 29, 2004

Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House

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.

Ireland: Church Conversion

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2004

Ireland: Church Conversion

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.

Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 13, 2004

Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle

Kevin meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany.

Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 20, 2004

Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet

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.

Alicante, Spain: Florida Villa

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 27, 2004

Alicante, Spain: Florida Villa

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.

Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Nov 6, 2013

Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

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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