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I'm Dick Strawbridge and along with
my wife Angel

and our two children...

Yay!
Oh, well done.

..we've lived in this magnificent
chateau for the past five years.

Look. Look.
Look, look, look, look.

Oh, my God.

That is so beautiful.

It's not just our home...

And we're up!

..but our business.

You may kiss your bride.

CHEERING

And all over France, there are other
Brits doing exactly the same.

Oh, my God.

We'll follow a new wave
of intrepid chateau owners...

I'll open some windows,
it might help get rid of some dust.

..and some familiar faces...

..as they take on these
majestic buildings,

and we'll reveal more
about our own chateau life.

Everyone ready? Yeah!

There will be triumphs...

This looks incredible.

Do you like it, Laura?
I love it.

..and setbacks...

Oh.

..as they battle to
renovate their homes...

..and earn their keep.

OK, I'm ready.

But no matter how hard
the going gets...

This is probably my worst nightmare.

..they get to live the dream as
custodians of their very own castle.

Today...

Lean it against the wardrobe.
God, it's heavy, that.

..new chateau-owners work flat-out
to be guest-ready.

I might have to have a little
lie-down in a minute. Shall we?

Not that sort of a lie-down.

At another chateau, wedding
preparations are lavished in lace...

They're my best curtains!

..much to the bride's dismay.

I hope it doesn't look
like a washing line.

And one couple dig for
hidden treasure.

Very possibly there is treasure
right below my feet right now

and we're going to be getting
our tickets to go to Barbados.

All over France, lots of Brits
are working hard

to keep their chateaux
up and running.

And for some, their dream journey
is just beginning.

Take the stately Chateau Gioux,
nestling in over five acres

of countryside at the edge of the
Millevaches Park in Central France.

Yorkshire couple Debbie and Nigel
recently sunk everything

into buying it for £280,000.

I think fortune's smiled on us...
It has, it has.

..and we're in the right place
at the right time. Yep.

And it became available,
it was meant to be.

It was meant to be. It was meant
to be. Definitely meant to be.

Located 30 miles east of Limoges,
Debbie, who ran a farm shop

and Nigel, a bar manager,
have recently moved in.

Right, we're here.

Looks really good.

Bit of work to do, isn't there?
But we'll get there.

The chateau needs some serious
renovation, but to pay for that,

Debbie and Nigel need to open
as a B&B as soon as possible.

We've never run a B&B before,
so, yes, it's completely new to us.

We're both very much looking forward
to having our first guests.

Yeah, we're really looking forward
to it.

We're looking forward to some money.

Their first guests
arrive in one week,

so they need to get
three rooms ready.

In the main bedroom,

they've created an en-suite by
knocking through a wall,

and made an entrance inspired by
the story

The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe.

Brilliant. That's going to look
good. Yeah. Happy with that.

Today, Debbie's getting creative
with some stencils

to bring the wardrobe to life.

I'm going to put a lion
on each of the top panels

and then to complete it, I've got
two little lion-head door handles.

First, the forests of Narnia.

Stencils are a cheap and easy way
to make furniture unique.

Last time I did this was circa 1985.

So, yeah, hopefully, I haven't
lost my technique, but we'll see.

The green I've got now, I was hoping
to go for a slightly darker one.

I'm not sure how much it's going
to show up on the green of the door,

so fingers crossed it is going to...

It is going to work.

Oh, yeah, you can actually
see it, which is good.

You don't seem to have lost
your touch, Debbie,

and your artwork has one
admirer already.

TJ was a very antisocial cat
at home in North Yorkshire.

He's just turned into a completely
different personality,

so he's obviously liking
the French lifestyle.

Well, that's chateau life for you.

Hope I can get it off now.
That's the...

There we go.

Yeah, I think
that looks absolutely fine.

Magical.

And it seems the post
has arrived in perfect time.

Here we go. Has he been?
Oh, brilliant.

Ow, wow, look at that!
What do you think?

That's great.
Do you think it works?

Yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah?

So these are the lion-head
door handles.

Oh, wow, look at that.

They're cute, aren't they?
Yeah, I like that.

Do you want me to put them on now?

Yeah, put them on now.

How's that? I think they look great.
They look good, don't they?

That's a good buy. It's going to
look nice, Nige. Well done!

Great stuff.

Only the lion stencils to add,
and it will really look the part.

115 miles away is
the 19th-century Chateau de Brives.

Built by a Cognac baron, it has 25
rooms and sits in 30 acres of land.

Antique dealers Sarah and George
bought the chateau for £415,000

and have spent the last nine years
renovating it into their dream home.

I never in my wildest dreams thought
I'd be a chatelaine

and I'm sure George was absolutely
destined to be,

so his dream's come true.

Thank you.
It suits me very well.

He just needs the crown.

Situated seven miles from Cognac,
in south-west France,

the couple are aiming to turn
their home into a wedding venue

to help with the chateau upkeep
and general living expenses.

We don't have any experience at all
of hosting a wedding,

but I'm hoping we're going
to learn pretty quickly. Yeah.

They started by winning over
wedding planner Samantha...

What an incredible place.

..to help get the new
business off the ground.

So, it's our main salon.

OK. I think it looks great,

but it does look like
a family house.

I do feel you need to declutter.

And with the help of my Angel,
Sarah learnt how to use her love

of antiques to create
a unique table display.

I think it's looking lovely.

I think it's absolutely beautiful.

We've used your stuff, yeah?
Yes.

Now they've decided to create
a photo-shoot

to help drum up some business,

essential if they're going to get
a wedding booking THIS year.

We've waited a long time to get
any photographs of the salon.

It just shows people more of what
they're going to get. Yeah.

It all gives them a far better idea

of what they're letting
themselves in for. Yeah.

To make sure it goes off
without a hitch,

they're using a team
of professionals.

Hi, I'm Sarah. We haven't met
before, have we? Hello, Sarah.

Samantha's brought in make-up artist
Claire,

florist Lisa and assistant India.

Hi, Indy, how are you?

Well, that's pretty much all of us
for the moment.

Perfect. Perfect.

The model bride and photographers
are on their way,

so Sarah shows the team
where they can set up.

So this will be the bride's
dressing room in here.

The girls can get dressed
in here today,

we can do hair
and make-up in here today.

That would be nice, the light
is lovely. Yeah, yeah.

I am anxious to get
the first wedding booked,

but with these fantastic photos,

with the effort that everyone's
put in, I'm sure we'll find a couple

who would love to get married here.

Um, and then the sky's the limit,
what's going to happen after that.

While the team gets on with prepping
for the shoot,

Sarah's giving table decoration
a go,

having learnt a thing or two
from Angel.

I really liked what she did.

I'm going to try and copy.

And I definitely wouldn't have known
how to decorate candlesticks

and the rest of the table.

And be a bit more adventurous,
actually.

It's one of those things
that Angel makes look so easy,

and I'm kind of all fingers
and thumbs.

Glad you've taken Angel's
lesson to heart.

And George seems to approve.

Oh, that's lovely.

Oh, thank you, do you think so,
honestly? I do.

I'm really pleased with that,
and I love those.

The which?

The way they cascade down.

I would never, ever have thought
of doing that myself.

I love the purple daffodil flowers.

They're beautiful.

Well done, Sarah.

Angel would be proud.

We've got high hopes.

It's terribly important that it goes
well today. Goes well, yeah.

With the backdrop decorated,
and the model dressed up,

the photo shoot can start.

Local car enthusiasts have even
brought along their classic cars

to add some style.

Love the Moggy Minor.

Yes, that looks very nice.

Perfect.

Don't you dent it!

It's a bit like having a wedding,
in a sense. Yes.

So many people around and, you know,
the bride coming down the stairs.

Yes, it's a really good feeling.

I've never seen the house look
so beautiful, so... No.

And that's thanks to everybody
who's been here today, so, yeah.

Really, really chuffed.

Bye.

A successful day, now let's hope
those publicity photos

turn today's mock wedding
into a real one.

Coming up,

at one chateau...

"Turn chapel into forest."

..wedding plans get out of hand.

OTT - over the top.

And at Chateau Gioux...

Try my new toy out. Oh, right.

My new laser. Oh.

Ooh.

..Nigel tries another nifty tool.

So what are you doing, then?

I don't know.

Let's do it the old-fashioned way,
shall we?

The stunning 16th-century Chateau de
Lalande sits in 60 acres of land

and even has its own chapel.

There are 40 rooms, which
have been lovingly restored

over the 13 years
Stephanie has owned it.

It was definitely love at first
sight when I saw Lalande.

I hope it was love at first sight
the other way round, as well,

but she's not making it clear.

Located in Centre-Val de Loire,
53 miles from Limoges,

Stephanie now runs it as a B&B
as well as putting on events.

It's always lovely to see people
arriving for the first time

and to see the chateau
anew through their eyes.

And in just ten days' time,

she's putting on the MOTHER
of all events.

Just the thought, "What do I have
planned for my mother's wedding?",

just fills me with dread cos
there's so much to do.

Stephanie's recruited live-in
chateau helper Marie

to help her finalise
decoration ideas for the chapel.

Well, there's a lot to do in here.

Couple of centrepieces here.

Um, yeah.

Maybe we could do a bit of
vases of flowers just in the...on...

..by the door? Yeah. Yeah?

Eeh! Eeh! It's so heavy.

Stephanie's found an original
chandelier that could be used.

And it's for real candles,
which would look so pretty.

Yep.

Maybe we could have big
branches in here. Yeah.

Sort of tree-like inside the chapel.
We could do that.

That would hide a lot of the bird
poo on the walls as well.

Trees in the chapel? A novel idea.

I wonder what Isabelle
will think of that.

Turn chapel into forest - Marie.

MARIE LAUGHS

There we go. That's your job.

What? Forests?
Why are you foresting the chapel?

We thought it would be wonderful to
have tall trees as you go in.

OTT, over the top.

Are we doing torches around
here for the evening? Yes.

For the wedding breakfast,

Stephanie is creating an extra
special alfresco dining area

by building a pergola across

the 30-metre terrace
and draping it in lace.

We will build a pergola frame over

and chandeliers hanging
down from the pergola.

You will arrange flowers.

What were you thinking
for the flowers with the frame?

Um, just hanging lots
of greens from the forest.

The scale of how much needs
to be done in ten days

has absolutely hit now.

Plated food, yes.

The most challenging job,

because it's the most
structurally difficult job,

is transforming the terrace.

Lace to source -

we still don't have
enough lace to make a ceiling.

Chandeliers to rig up,
mirrors to put up.

But we'll need hurricane
lanterns for the candles.

I am pretty anxious

that all those things are going to
take an awful lot of time,

but it's reassuring
to know that there is a plan.

I like plans. Me too, Isabelle.

Let's hope it goes to plan -

the terrace transformed
and the chapel decorated

before the big event in
ten days' time.

37 miles south, at Chateau Gioux,

Debbie and Nigel have only a
week before they open their chateau

to their first paying guests.

Come on, then, here we go. Oh.

At the moment, there's
nowhere for them to sleep.

Nigel's job, when it comes
to dressing rooms,

is basically lifting
anything heavy...

Lift your end up.

You OK?

..putting screws in walls,
hanging things up,

and then the rest
of it is down to me.

So, I'm the dresser of rooms.

Lean it against the...

God, it's heavy, that.

Debbie and Nigel need to
put together a brass bed

they brought with them from the UK.

Good, that's one done.

Putting the bed up
isn't the biggest job.

The biggest job is fitting
the ciel de lit above the bed,

which is the...basically the
drapes at the side.

Um, so that's the thing I'm
most concerned about.

OK. Yep.

DEBBIE LAUGHS

Perfect. Come and have a sit.

No, no time for resting, come on.

No napping on this job, Nigel,

you've still got to put the bed
and side tables in place

to work out exactly where that
ciel de lit should hang.

Right, I'll mark
the centre of the bed.

Doesn't need to be exact. Yeah.

Well, the thing is,
if it's not exact,

we can always shift
the bed a little bit...

Move the bed across a bit. Yeah.

..to cheat, can't we?
Right, are you getting up, then?

I'm just going to take my shoes off.

I might have to have a
little lie-down in a minute.

Shall we?

Not that sort of a lie-down.

Ah, dear.

Come on.

I just want it to drape to the
side and just look a little bit...

Right. ..a little bit special.

Let's have a look. All right,
so that's about the centre.

So, that's going to be...
Higher, lower?

Hang on, hang on,
I'll tell you in a minute.

I just need to look at
it from the back as well. So...

Yep, that's fine.

I need a longer...a longer tool.

What do you need?
I need my long spirit level.

Won't the tape measure do? No.

Every time we do something,

Nigel does 25 trips up
and down, up and down.

"I need this, I need that."

And I always say to him, "Have
you got everything you need?

"Yep, yep." And
inevitably, he hasn't, so...

But it does him good,
it's good exercise.

A man after my own heart,
Nigel has a tool for everything.

Thought I'd try my new toy
out. Oh, right. My new laser.

Ooh. Mm.

So, what are you doing, then?

I don't know.

Let's do it the
old-fashioned way, shall we?

So, your new toy doesn't work, Nige?
My new toy doesn't work.

But it would do,
if I knew what I was doing.

But I don't, so it won't.

DEBBIE LAUGHS

Don't give up, Nigel,
have another go, mate.

NIGEL DRILLS

Right.

Oh, perfect.

Right, would you like
to pass up the shelf?

LAUGHS: Shelf?

A ciel de lit, Nigel.

You'll get the lingo.

How about that?

Is it on? Does that fit?

That's amazing.

Yeah, that looks good. Central.

You've got your
Bedknobs and Broomsticks

and you've got your witch wardrobe.

All very theatrical.

And no fairy tale would be
complete without a magic mirror.

How's that?

And some gold trimmings.

OK, how's that?

That looks great.
I really like that, Nige.

I tell you what.

That looks good for a
bargain, doesn't it?

Five euros for those each...
Five each...

..and ten euros for the mirror.
Yeah, exactly.

They were a find.
Less than 20 quid for the lot.

Now, just the bed to make up.

This is my favourite bit,
I like the dressing...

..the dressing-up of rooms.

Yeah, it's good fun.

That's the one.

Are your hands clean? Yes.

Are you sure?

I'm not going to put it right
across, I just want it halfway.

OK.

Across the bottom of the bed, Nige.

OK?

OK, that's good. Good job.

Nigel will give me opinions on what
he thinks about colours and stuff.

But then I just do what I like.

In that room, we've managed to get
everything sort of in place

that we wanted to do.

You could walk in there and stay

and I wouldn't be concerned
about how it looks now.

I think it's coming together. Yep.

It certainly is.

Where do you want it?
On here, this wall?

Yep, against that wall.

They've also managed to pick up
some bargains

for one of the other guest rooms.

How much was that?
Ten euros, I think. Ten euros?

Every euro helps,

especially when you've stretched
yourselves to get this far.

I think the chateau will grow
organically with us,

because at the moment, we can't
afford a huge amount

of extra furnishings, really.

To add a bit of colour, we've just
gone for a nice red cotton throw.

Oh, wow. What do you think?

Hey, that looks fantastic.

Oh, Deb, this is really
coming together, now.

I could sleep in here.

You might be. I'd pay good
money to sleep in here.

LAUGHS: I might be.

After today, we've got
two rooms ready for action.

So, guests can walk in there
and they're ready to go.

So, that's a good feeling.

Indeed.

Always great when you've ticked
something else off your list.

115 miles away at Chateau de Brives,
near Cognac...

OK, one, two, three.

Perfect.

..Sarah and George have had
their wedding publicity photos taken

as they need to secure
a booking for this summer.

Now it's time to decorate
one of the rooms which will be

used during the weddings -

the salon.

I'm very much hoping that it will
really look that much better

when it's finished.

And it needs more than
just a lick of paint.

All the cracks have to be
filled in and chalked,

do all the preparation,
all the filling.

And the fact that it's all panelled,
it's quite a challenge for us.

They're curious to know what colour
the original panels used to be,

so they've called in painter
and decorator Vincent

for a bit of advice.

He's a local Brit who's worked
on numerous historic buildings.

Right, let's just see if
we can get a bit of this off.

You've got two colours
there, actually. Have you?

Yeah, you've got that
darker grey. Yeah.

And you've got the lighter grey.

You've got the topcoat,
that's the next coat.

Yeah.

And that's the original. Yeah.

You've only got three
coats of paint on there.

So, that's quite unusual, really?

It is, yeah, for a
property this age,

normally there would have been
layers and layers of paint.

Yeah, OK. Let's get cleaning.

As Vincent has established there
aren't too many old layers,

it means they can paint on
top after a good scrub.

Now I can see the grime.

It's quite extraordinary,
isn't it? Yeah.

I think it's fabulous, watching
these men doing the cleaning,

I think you should keep going.

By the time we've finished, you
probably won't have to repaint it.

LAUGHS: Looking better
already, it was just dirty.

Now it's clean, they
can try out some samples.

I can tell you already
I don't warm to that colour.

Well, it's for you to get
an idea of the colour. Yeah, yeah.

Good call. I usually leave those
details to Angel as well.

Do that underneath? Yep.

Oh. Oh, gosh, that's really
close to what's there.

I find the first one too creamy.

Do you? Or... What do you?

Let it try and see what happens.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Ahh.

Looking interesting.
I quite like that colour.

Yeah, I like the colour.

Let's just wait for it
to dry a minute.

Well, certainly for me,

the darker colour grabs my eye a
lot more than the pastels.

And I think with the fact that
there's so much light in this
room...

Yeah, I think the darker
colour with the light,

I think is the colour we'd go for.

Palette picked, now just
the rest of the room to prep.

Four weeks later,

the salon is ready for its
long-awaited re-decoration

to make it fit for
a chateau wedding.

Come on, then, darling.
Can't wait to see the paint on.

Let's start putting on some topcoat.

Do you want...? Shall I do bottom?

You do bottom, I'll go
up the ladder.

You think you can do it quickly,
but actually,

it takes one or two days just to
clean one wall,

so there was a lot to do.

George likes to do the big areas,

and then I get called in to do
the fiddly bits.

Sarah always says that
I'm the bodger.

SARAH LAUGHS

So, I like to do something and
think, "Ooh, that looks nice

"and it hasn't taken long."

Yes, George likes speed and I like
to do it kind of properly.

And what is nice when you're
doing this kind of job

is you really get to see the
detail of the craftsmanship.

Like those little things, there.

I just think it's
so incredibly sweet.

I think the change is
already fantastic.

Yeah, it looks so much better.

It shows the detail far better.
Yeah, definitely.

It was so dirty before,
it was greasy and...

It's one solid colour, which
is so much better.

..now it's starting to really...
Yeah, it looks lovely.

..really look grand again.

Nothing like a fresh coat of paint
to bring it back to life.

It's very good.

Yeah, I'm just finishing
off this bottom. OK.

Yeah, yours looks quite blotchy.

SARAH LAUGHS

But that could be the light.

I was certainly faster. Was I
better? I don't know. We'll see.

We'll have to wait until it dries.
We'll see when it dries.

We've got a lot of things to
do in a lot of places.

But we've just got to
get on and do it.

Yeah, we just have to put our
minds to it, we'll get there.

That's the spirit.

One wall down, just
three more to go.

Coming up, at Lalande,
the bride-to-be butts in.

Why not another band there?

But her sister sends her packing.

Non. Come on, disappear. Thank you.

And at Chateau Gioux...

Hi. Welcome.

..Debbie and Nigel
greet their first guests.

God, that's amazing. You like it?

Yeah. That's brilliant.
It really is nice.

Back at Stephanie's,
in central France,

preparations are under way
for her mother's wedding,

in just three days' time.

Dream team of lace here.

A pergola has been constructed
on the terrace, where the

wedding breakfast will be held.

And now it's down to Stephanie
to decorate it, using over 80

metres of lace, with help from Aunt
Chantelle and live-in helper Marie.

We are trying to use all the
spare lace in the charity

shops of France to make a lace cover
here, because I would like to

make a nice tented effect of
lace and greenery and chandeliers

and just this beautiful wonderland
for the table, for the dinner.

Sounds like a great way of
re-using old curtains.

Not so sure what Isabelle
will think, however.

Hello, sister. My best curtains!

LAUGHTER

It's a bit late.
You don't need them.

It's a bit late.

They're my best curtains. We made a
managerial decision, Isabelle.

Oh, my God. They had to be cut.

Lots of borders, fantastic.

We should use
the borders as borders.

I hope it doesn't look
like a washing line.

Getting it down again is
going to be a laugh.

Stephanie... I'll just rip it off.

Why not another band there?

No. No. Isabelle, let your
daughter decide.

Yes, I will let her decide, as long
as she decides what I suggest.

Come on, disappear.

Thank you.

Stephanie has such big ideas and...

But she has no or
very little notion of time.

And at the last minute,
it is a rush, rush, rush,

and so I am slightly concerned
about the ability to have

everything tied up in a pretty
knot at the right time.

How is it possible that this
fits so perfectly

and we didn't measure any of it?

I admire people's enthusiasm,

doing so much work for the
wedding of two elderly people.

I hope we don't pop off a month
or two after the wedding.

Bit up from that.
Whoa, careful of the wire.

Two days later, with just 24 hours
to go until the wedding,

Stephanie's had a change of heart.

I've annoyed everybody by thinking
that actually, it might be nice

if the lace was flat as a ceiling,
so all the lovely things that

have been put up are now being
opened out and flattened across.

It's a blessed relief for us all.

My mother's gone to have
her nails done.

She can't even text us instructions
while she's having them done,

so it's complete peace
and quiet in the house

and we can get on
and make everything beautiful.

Stephanie's also decorating
with ivy from the garden.

Using plants from your own grounds
is exactly what Angel would do

to great effect.

It's actually looking quite good.

I just feel like I'm in
a jungle canopy right now.

To make sure she gets
everything done on time,

close family friend Gerry
is also drafted in.

See when I used to be an altar boy?

SHE LAUGHS

You practising for tomorrow?

Now for the piece de resistance -
outdoor chandeliers.

It looks amazing.

I wish it could just stay
outside all the time.

No, you don't. Yes, I do.
No, you don't. Yes, I do.

Is that OK?

That's beautiful.

Well done, chaps, it's looking good.

But with less than 24 hours to
go until the wedding,

and the chapel still to decorate,
you can't rest on your laurels yet.

37 miles south, it's a busy day for
new chateau owners Debbie and Nigel,

as they're launching their B&B.

It's our guests' arrival at
teatime tonight, so.

Yeah, quite nervous, actually.

It's quite a big day.
It's a very big day.

Sadly, their Lion, The Witch and
The Wardrobe-themed room is

missing its roar.

So the one disappointment is that
the lion stencil hasn't arrived.

It's had to be reordered, but it's
not going to be done in time

for our first guests, so that is
a bit of a disappointment.

It's turned into a
bit of a joke now,

the lion stencil has got bad vibes.

"Where's the lion stencil?"

Missing stencils aside, there
are still some finishing touches

Debbie wants to do in the room.

So these two tables
came from a brocante.

They're quite plain
and I felt they needed a little

bit of something to make them
a bit more fitting for a chateau.

So I discovered this gilding wax,
and it just gives a little

bit of gold effect without being
completely overpowering.

It does the job and it does
it on a budget, which is again,

obviously our criteria.

Glad to see Debbie's taking a
gold leaf out of Angel's book

and beautifying as
cost-effectively as possible.

Yeah, I'm really pleased with it.

So you should be,
and just in the nick of time.

A few hours later and their
first paying guests arrive,

who are travelling down to Spain.

Hi.

Hello.

Welcome.

How are you? Hi, Denzel, are you
all right? I'm all right, yeah.

One of the chaps is a friend
of Nigel's from the UK.

Hi, Neil. Good to see you all.
What a place this is.

Do you like it?

Come on in.

At last, they can start making
some much-needed income.

In just six weeks, they've turned
a bedroom into an en-suite,

with a magical Narnia-style
entrance through a wardrobe.

And they've given the others
a colourful new lease of life.

This is Vassiviere room. Wow.

God, that's amazing.

You like it? Yeah.

Very happy here for the night.

Yep? Yep.
Nice and comfortable for you.

No, it's brilliant, really is nice.

This is the room
that we've knocked through,

obviously, with a nod to The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe.

So that's the way through
into your en-suite.

God, this is absolutely brilliant.

Isn't it? Yeah.

I didn't expect that.

Didn't you? There you go, then.

So that's your room.

Great stuff, thank you.

Hopefully, the others
will like theirs. All right?

Thank you very much.
I'll leave you to it.

I thought it was absolutely amazing.

The attention to detail
was second to none.

That was a really nice reaction.
Very positive.

Yeah, for us,
this is an important first step.

It's a very important first step.

We'd like regular weekly guests,
to be able to sort of carry on...

..carry on renovating.

Cheers. Here's to a good holiday.

Cheers, guys. All the best.
To a good holiday. Cheers.

In terms of what's next,
for the big part of the renovation,

is the orangery at the
back of the chateau.

Which, at the moment, it's currently
a little bit of an eyesore,

it doesn't fit in, so there's a lot
to think about on that one,

so we need to think carefully as
well, don't we? Absolutely.

Let's hope those bookings
keep rolling in

and they can restore the orangerie
back to its former glory.

115 miles away, near Cognac...

Is that quite nice?
Can you see that?

..Sarah and George have finished
painting their salon ready to

launch as a wedding venue.

It is difficult to get it all in,
isn't it, actually?

Now their pictures need
to do it justice.

Look. I think that's quite nice.

Yeah, that's nice.
Maybe a bit too much ceiling.

No, it's good.
That's quite nice, actually.

Today, they're putting wedding
business plans on hold...

Let's find this room.

..in favour of a money-making whim
they've harboured for years.

When we bought the house,
we realised quite

quickly that the cellars mirror
the upstairs of the house.

And the dining room, this room here,
there was no access to get

underneath the dining room,
every other room, you can get

underneath, this one you can't, so
we thought that was very peculiar.

It does seem a bit odd.

Because the chateau was built by a
Cognac Baron, George has a theory.

All the best cognac was hidden
before the Second World War.

Now, I'm hoping to find a room,
and if it's been blocked up,

there must be some kind of reason
why it was blocked up, so.

My logic would be it would
be full of cognac.

Very possibly, there is treasure
right below my feet right now,

and very possibly,
by the end of the afternoon,

we're going to be getting
our tickets to go to Barbados.

That'd be nice.

Some vintage cognac can
fetch £10,000 a bottle.

Time to start their treasure hunt.

What kind of a size hole
are we talking about here?

Well, to start with, just like that.

Oh, OK. And then you have to
get bigger and bigger

so we can get a camera through.

To solve the mystery, they need to
drill through the metre-thick wall.

Salut. Salut.
Ah, bonjour, Davide.

Bonjour, George.
Bonjour, Sebastian.

So they've called in a favour
from local stonemason Davide

and his pal Sebastian.

That's what we need.

That's a big boy. Ahh. Superb.

Look at that. Even bigger.

Let the treasure hunt begin.

Yeah, why not?

Having worked out where the
dining room above is,

they're planning to drill a big
enough hole to put a camera

through and see what's
on the other side.

So, there's no soil.
So that is a good sign.

Soil would mean no
unearthing a mystery room.

We've gone through the wall,
which is one metre,

and there's no evidence of
foundations or soil, which is

evidence that there's a space there.

So, yeah, once we make this hole
bigger... We can see.

..we can put a camera through
or shine a torch and see

if we can find something.
It's looking good.

It's looking as though there's
something there. So, keep on going.

A short while later, there's a hole
big enough to shine a torch through.

You see anything, Georgie?

So the material that they're
finding here is more recent than

what would've been used to
construct the house.

So, maybe this is where they did
block it up for some reason,

more recently.

You can tell from what he's finding
the style of how it was done.

And he's saying if you
were a proper mason,

it wouldn't be done like that.

And so it was done in quite a hurry.

The plot thickens.

So maybe someone did do a
rush job to hide the booty.

I can't wait to find out.

Coming up, Isabelle checks out
her wedding chapel...

How lovely! How lovely.

But the inevitable doubt set in.

Don't know
if that's a bit of a Pagan twinge.

Well, I like that. I see you
as slightly Pagan.

Yeah, but the priest is not.

And Sarah and George have
a breakthrough...

So, we're through.

..in their hunt for hidden treasure.

It'll be time to put the little
camera in and have a look.

In south-west France, Sarah
and George are still on the hunt

for hidden treasure in the cellar.

They're getting close to finding out

if there's a stash of cognac
hidden in a secret room.

So we're through.

OK.

Shall we try and put the little
camera in and have a look?

You hold the torch.

So, shine the torch in.

Rather than the hidden room filled
with cognac they were hoping for,

it seems to be a room
filled with rubble.

The roof is made of
a huge piece of stone.

Exactement, oui.

But I don't think it's resolved.

Well, it's not resolved, but that's
as far as we can really go.

I know, how far can you go?

So it remains a mystery as to why
the room was blocked up.

Non. Non, non.

Oh, well, no trip to Barbados,
so time perhaps to return

to getting your wedding business
up and running.

Over in Central France,
at Stephanie's,

it's the day before her mother
Isabelle's wedding.

So it looks as though Gerry's on
candles, you're on trees. Oh, no!

She's roped in Gerry
and friend Michael

to help decorate the private chapel,
where the blessing,

in front of family and friends,
will take place.

What trees do you want in here?

I was just sort of imagining...

..maybe two trees?

Stephanie wants to bring the outside
in, by using natural foliage,

something my Angel has made a theme
throughout our chateau

when we host weddings.

These hydrangeas are great
because they are still fresh,

but they're starting to dry.

It's a resourceful technique,
which always looks impressive

and saves the pennies.

So we're going to put two trees
here. Yes.

Are we going to put lights
in anywhere?

Oh, let's put fairy lights in them.
Yes.

But what I'm thinking, you have
to be very careful,

if a Roman Catholic priest is going
to be coming to perform the service,

if it's going to look a bit garish
and a wee bit over the top,

it's got to look proper.

Gerald, are you suggesting that my
decorative scheme would be garish?

Oh, just in time.

That's God.

Sorry, that's God.

"My dear son, Gerald,
you are absolutely right."

Sorry!

And there's one other thing, which I
think you're going to struggle with.

Could you just hang that back up?

No, Stephanie,
that's dangerous, look.

If we put this up,
we'll have a wedding AND a funeral.

Hmm.

Just say to the priest, "Can you do
another wee quick service?

"While you're here. We don't want
to light the candles again."

Yeah, OK.
I really wanted that up. No.

But I think we're going to have
to shelve that idea.

Yeah, very much so.

OK, we have to distract Mummy
from the fact that that's not up.

Does she want it up?
By big trees.

Well, she thought it was going up.

I think she'll understand,
but big trees, lots of fairy lights.

Good, OK.
Good, good, good thinking.

Shall we go and find a tree? Yep.
Yep.

We're going to cut down something
that your mother likes.

"Oh, no. It is my favourite."

"My favourite tree!"

Can we take that one, there?

Yes.

Might need a bit more weight
at the bottom there, boys.

Round peg,
square hole springs to mind.

"Can I have Percy and Isabelle?
Are you here?"

Right.

Much better.

I think it's looking
absolutely lovely.

I actually feel quite emotional,
seeing it with all of these trees,

it's more beautiful
than I thought,

but I hope my mother likes it.

All that's left is for the
bride-to-be to give it her blessing.

What do you think?
What do I think?

How lovely!
How lovely.

But I don't know
if there is a bit of a pagan twinge?

Well, I like that.
I see you as slightly pagan.

Yeah, but the priest is not.

I don't want him to be offended.

Why would you be offended by a tree?

Because it looks a bit druidish.
Dridish?

Druid-ish.

He's going to have a shock,
he's an old man.

Shocked by a tree?
I do like that.

Don't worry about the priest.

I think you're worrying too much
about what other people will think

and not thinking
about what you like.

All right, let's get on. OK.

Thank you, darling.

I don't know why my mother seems
to think that the priest might

find trees evil,
but I'll speak to the priest

when he arrives tomorrow
and I'll be very surprised

if he does come to the conclusion
that my mother is a druid.

I feel as though I've been working
all day and haven't

really achieved anything,
because nothing's finished.

I'm definitely going to be working
all night, tonight.

There's no question.

I have to finish the chapel,
I have to finish the terrace,

I have to put all the fairy
lights on the terrace.

The cake, there's so much to do.

Not much shut-eye for you tonight
then, Stephanie.

I look forward to seeing
how it all goes tomorrow.

Next time...

Got my new comb.
Oh, you've got your new comb, yeah.

..Debbie and Nigel have
decorating differences.

I think that might look nice
mounted on the wall.

It might detract from the paintings.

What do you think?

I don't want to detract
from your paintings.

It's wedding day at Lalande...

Oh, Maman!

..but the bride has concerns over
carriage flowers.

I just hope it doesn't tickle
the horse's behind,

because then I could go
at a frisk gallop.

And Sarah and George try not
to put a foot wrong.

OK. OK, OK.

He's not happy with his team
of English people, but...

I think he's all right.

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