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Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree return to offer advice to more Brits buying chateaux in France, as well as helping new and established expat owners. In the opening episode, Dick joins Elaine and David as they look around an 1850s chateau with 25 rooms, telling them what to look out for when buying such a vast property. The programme also catch up with Tim and Krys from the first series, who renovated rooms for a boutique B&B in the Dordogne, but have been struggling to juggle parenthood with running the business.
Tim races to get his chateau ready for the first paying guests, battling to get a fence built for a marauding flock of 25 sheep, while partner Krys tries to balance the books.
Angel Adoree teaches Belinda the art of decoupage on a classic 1950s family dressing table, and Elaine and David visit a 19th-century chateau in Normandy.
Belinda and Lee welcome their first guests. Angela and Steve invite eight friends over to test-run their holiday business and Dick and Angel invite Tim and Krys over to their place.
Tim and Krys have their first gastronomic weekend, and the pressure is on to make sure it runs smoothly. Belinda and Lee are hosting their biggest event so far with music, dancing and a slap-up meal for paying guests from the surrounding towns and villages. However, it seems they might have underestimated the wine requirements of the British contingent. Dick Strawbridge visits Angela and Steve to lend a hand with a precariously dislodged beam holding up the roof of one of their chateau turrets.
Dick Strawbridge helps Lincolnshire couple Tim and Rebecca find their feet after leaving the UK to start a new life in a dilapidated 25-room chateau that has no plumbing.
Dick and Angel host a special wedding for close friends, and motorcycle-mad Essex couple Martin and Kim start their search to buy the perfect chateau but cannot see eye to eye.
Couple Martin and Kim continue their search for a dream chateau, and the clock is ticking for Fiona as she has just 24 hours to prepare for her first-ever wedding.
Tim and Rebecca receive a booking and prepare for the arrival of their first guests, while Martin and Kim take their search up a gear and view the last chateau on their list.
Anna and Edward host another big wedding, but Edward is put out of action and with the food delayed and the weather threatening to take a turn for the worse, Anna has to work hard to pull it off without a hitch. Dick visits Tim and Rebecca as they run into structural problems on their second B&B guest suite. With only one guest room up and running, they're in a race against time to double their income by the end of the summer season. Paul tackles a leaking outbuilding to finish the cinema room, while Karen does all she can to bag their first wedding booking.
Dick Strawbridge demonstrates how he maintains his land on his trusty tractor, while three sisters raised in the UK travel to France in search of the perfect chateau.
Dick helps Paul cut some vintage tiles for an art deco bathroom, Abbie is busy painting furniture for bedrooms and mum Karen has problems with their swimming pool.
Couple Mariam and Johnno arrive at their new chateau and discover they have no running water, and Julia has a decision to make when she re-visits a chateaux she fell in love with.
Emma and Paul host an artists' retreat, and while she steps in as a model, he struggles in the kitchen. Angel gives Abbie and Karen a few tips for their wedding business.
Emma and Paul plan to host locals - including the mayor - to view the work they have done on the front of their chateau. However, Paul has first to design, build and, with a bit of advice from Dick Strawbridge, fit two heavy balconies from scratch. Elsewhere, Mariam and Johnno get their antique fireplace fitted, create a stylish sink out of a copper bucket, and host a `thank you' meal for their builders
Dick Strawbridge helps new owners Erin and JB, who have discovered rising damp after recently moving into their fairy-tale chateau, complete with turrets and a moat.
Dick Strawbridge fixes up his temperamental vin de van at his chateau, while Erin and JB start work on their honeymoon suite and solarium/sun room.
Erin and JB host a 90th birthday party, and a family begin working on their Yoga retreat. Elsewhere, the day of the wedding party arrives for Tim and Margareeth.
Dick helps Erin and JB fix the rusty hinges on their solarium doors. Tim and Margareeth decide to launch a foodie weekend, and May and Jack prepare the yoga room for guests.
Erin and JB launch their chateau business by opening it up for a tea party for the locals, including the mayor. May holds her health and wellbeing retreat using her new yoga studio for the first time.
Musicians Ben and Billie want to start putting on foodie events at their home, while Dick Strawbridge helps his father-in-law clear a stubborn tree trunk on his land.
Nicole and Stefan work on turning the ancient gatehouse of their castle into an apartment. Billie visits Angel to pick up ideas on natural table and room designs for the food event.
Dick Strawbridge visits Ben and Billie to help restore Ben's traditional wine press, and Johnny and Ashley finish off their work on the library ceiling.
Ben and Billie host Sam Brown's Ukulele Orchestra in their ballroom and show her their new music studio. Wendy and Marcus launch their wedding business with a raucous hen party.
Nicole and Stefan continue their renovation of their historic chateau in Lucheux, as Stefan uncovers a fireplace and tries to discover where an arrow slit is situated so he can create a window. Ben and Billie host their foodie evening with a pop-up restaurant in their orangery.
New owners Jayne and Steve need to get four en suite bedrooms ready for their new B&B business, while Justin and Annabelle are turning their chateau into a family home.
Dick visits Stephanie to help get the original chateau pizza oven working, while Annabelle and Justin return from holiday to find their chateau infested with bees.
Justin and Annabelle put up their newly renovated exterior chateau shutters, while Jayne and Steve complete their second en suite bedroom.
Justin gets things ready for a visit from his 95-year-old grandmother. Jayne and Steve battle a giant four-poster bed. Dick helps Stephanie with the boiler for her mum's apartment.
Stephanie finishes her mother Isobel's apartment. Painted and decorated, it now has her fathers framed pictures on the walls, a stunning 200-year-old mahogany canopy, plus furniture. Elsewhere, Jayne and Steve finish the Oriental Room and are ready to take in guests.
Last in the series.
