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00:01Owning a property abroad is the ultimate goal for most Brits.
00:05It's like a dream come true. It's just so magical.
00:08But for some, a conventional home just won't do.
00:13A lot of it was ruins, but we fell in love with it.
00:18They're setting aside their fears.
00:20The key is to never look down.
00:22To do something remarkable.
00:24It's a mammoth task, really.
00:27Resurrecting Europe's lost villages.
00:29I think any sort of rational person would probably not try and do that.
00:35In this series, we meet the brand new pioneers.
00:38I think I'm a bit all over the place. It's like it's a big day.
00:42Delving into their village's past.
00:44I think that's a powder flask.
00:47And we revisit those who already made the bold leap.
00:53And are still battling to keep their dreams alive.
00:57One year. One year without some disaster.
01:00But can they win the race against time?
01:03At the moment, it just feels like everything's falling down and nothing's going up.
01:06To turn crumbling buildings into family homes and successful businesses.
01:12That's a really big moment.
01:14Oh, bless you!
01:15Or will it all fall down around their ears?
01:24Oh dear.
01:25as they try to restore the past to build their future because there's a whole village to be built
01:32yeah today have a couple from yorkshire saving not one be careful but two abandoned italian
01:44villages if we hadn't have come along it could have just gone to rack and ruin even more got
01:50what it takes to see both projects through to completion it's a good feeling but at the end
01:57of the day it takes its toll also in italy a challenging olive harvest threatens to derail
02:08lucy and jerry's rescue mission i'm sure i'm not the first to feel the financial pressures of
02:16agriculture yeah and in france oh i must remember that kevin and anna prepare to open their new pub
02:25we've been really really busy the last few weeks getting all of this ready
02:31that they hope will bring community spirit back to their historic estate
02:36we are within a couple of hours work now have it been ready so that is such a good feeling
02:56the ghost settlements of europe tell a tragic tale of loss and abandonment and for experienced
03:03village saviors like carl and francesca from yorkshire whose journey started 17 years ago
03:09do you want me to get up or no no no you know because you are old i am very
03:15old they were so
03:17captivated by their stories that having already resurrected the italian hamlet of marais 80 miles
03:23south of turin into a holiday village with two rentals and a b&b this was outside but it started
03:32off as
03:33that but there was no stairs there was no nothing but when they heard of a neighboring lost soul
03:39they felt compelled to step in again
03:48end of 2022 we did a great lovely thing and bought this yeah if we hadn't have come along it
03:58could have
03:58just gone to rack and ruin even more the hilltop settlement of contini sat empty for decades but
04:07from as early as 1880 it was a thriving hamlet with roots in wine production the cluster of buildings
04:14provided accommodation for farming families who worked the land
04:22a century and a half later and for just 17 000 euros it's now in the hands of francesca and
04:29carl
04:30hot hot hot hot who are three years into trying to replicate their success at marais here
04:38i'm doing a lot of work i believe it or not it doesn't look like it
04:41it doesn't look like it i mean when it is finished it will be amazing it's just it's
04:47going to take its time i think that was we were a bit naive on that side as you can
05:00see the construction
05:01is i don't know this is if they've made it up as they as they went along making major structural
05:09changes to continue his biggest building is what set carl and francesca's timeline into a spin
05:18francesca's gonna go crazy what on earth are you doing making your bedroom door be careful
05:30but to create space for four guest bedrooms the work had to be done the room just feels so
05:36spacious and wide it just opens things up tremendously however with contini still some way off being
05:42habitable the couple's rescue mission is far from over it's a big project it'll all come together quite
05:51quickly you keep telling me that i know i have to keep telling myself that as well
06:02in the shadows of the italian alps with two villages competing for their attention this morning carl and
06:09francesca are busy at marais so we're just going to fill the bottles up as the new holiday season
06:17starts soon they're striving to enhance their guests village experience i've got some very special olive
06:24oil from some friends of ours i just thought we could offer it for guests to buy because
06:31it's such a unique oil and it will sit alongside other local products they have for sale
06:40every euro earned going straight into continuous restoration pot
06:46this is such a good stand here for hours doing this all day there we go
06:53but as marais has been closed for seven months other parts of the village need tending to
06:59fill that bucket and take it up as it wakes from its winter slumber
07:07i've got the wall repairs because it's in the shade the sun comes around another hour so it's still wet
07:15from the past four weeks of rain a recent spell of bad weather has shown that even though marais
07:21has been resurrected the village's exposed location in the mountains means it can very easily fall back
07:28into disrepair we'll do some mixing so to keep the good reviews rolling in staying on top of maintenance
07:39is important we used to have two windows here two glass windows so i'll just render over that now and
07:47make it look a little bit neater and tidier than what it does like that
07:55it's just a shame i'm doing it now i should have been doing it earlier but i just couldn't because
07:59of the rain with marais first guest of the season soon to arrive and a summer full of bookings ahead
08:08as carl and francesco also want to push forward at contini
08:12it means their lives for the next few months will be split in two
08:20the guests are here for three or four days and we've got more guests arriving next week once it
08:25starts going once it gets into its momentum and there's nothing much to do here then i can go to
08:30the other property and do work up there it's a good feeling but at the end of the day it
08:36takes its toll
08:46while taking on one of europe's abandoned settlements isn't for the faint-hearted
08:51each rescue mission provides the opportunity for our village saviors to put their own stamp on
08:57as they restore and rebuild on this side we want one slightly higher for the optics yeah which is
09:07exactly what husband and wife kevin oh i must remember that and anna
09:14are trying to do in western france we'll actually be back to where we started this morning
09:23their large estate la rosalie to the north of the city of poitiers comprising of a main house
09:30separate jeet a large central courtyard and 11 other derelict buildings
09:37was primed for redevelopment when they became its latest custodians
09:43the scale of it is is really quite impressive as well as being quite daunting sometimes
09:53traditionally this hamlet would have been a major wine making area
09:59that's evidenced by the fact that we've got the pressoir and the wine barn
10:05it would have been a wealthy landowner who owned the property and the buildings and a significant
10:12amount of land for the past four years the pair have welcomed guests to their holiday jeet and in a
10:19bid to
10:19bring back a sense of community to la rosalie they've been turning the old carriage house into an english-style
10:25pub
10:27it's for our use friends family it's just for fun it's not a commercial venture
10:34but we got the space we thought why not use it
10:39it's now early august and the day before anna's 60th birthday which will be celebrated with the grand
10:45opening of the doghouse pub they covered up the wires there we've still got a little bit of cabling to
10:53cover there and please please and it will dry very very quickly in this temperature at the moment
11:00having got the electrics in and introduced some of the interior details today's all about the finishing
11:08touches and prepping the party food that like the new village watering hole also has an english theme
11:19just made some scones and i'm just about to move on to the sandwich fillings we've been really really
11:25busy the last few weeks getting all of this ready particularly being difficult for kevin because he's
11:32had to do all of the heavy work we first started the project mid-march we've overcome certain obstacles
11:40particularly with anna's back the pressures have been there but 11th hour just in time we are
11:49within a couple of hours work now have it been ready so that is such a good feeling
11:55the following day after a final push kevin and anna's new pub yes this dog house is ready to take
12:03center
12:04stage at la rosary starting out life as the carriage house in the estate they've transformed what had
12:13become a derelict space into a warm and inviting pub full of character this has come on overnight
12:23it looks i think fantastic nobody has seen it in its finished state so it'll be absolutely amazing this
12:32afternoon when we've got about 50 friends coming along and they can see it and they can share the opening
12:38with us
12:49would you like a drink the busy courtyard quickly becomes reminiscent of la rosary's glory days
12:57when the estate was teeming with life while the welcome drinks receive a mixed reaction
13:13will the hamlet's first ever pub go down better when they officially open its bar
13:23coming up this is a really sad amount of crates we're back at lucy and jerry's borgo as they face
13:30a make or break olive harvest we're paralyzed by indecision and inclement weather also going around in
13:39circles so is the top step where it should be no i don't think so carl and francesca try to
13:46push on
13:59at contini for centuries italy has been one of the great agricultural powerhouses of europe
14:06but modern farms don't rely on the labor they used to and rural villages have struggled to survive
14:14having also been hit by an earthquake the odds were really stacked against borgo montecole
14:20to the northeast of rome that was until three years ago when lucy and jerry from london arrived
14:2820 centimeters apart now with aspirations to revive its rich farming history i reckon there's the shadiest patch
14:38and to rebuild its crumbling properties
14:45we've achieved so much probably not what we thought we'd achieve we thought we would be further with
14:56the house and less far with the farm and that's ended up flipping due to what's under our control yeah
15:05after being awarded an eu grant to rebuild the main farmhouse work is stalled until they secure
15:12a planning permission but while they wait they're being kept busy with the other phase of securing the
15:17borgo's future honoring its agricultural history by reviving its olive farming roots there's always farm
15:27jobs to do and we try and like balance farm and house jobs the next big farm job is the
15:35harvest so
15:36that's the next logistically important thing
15:41it's now august and time for lucy and jerry to assess their olive groves
15:49the leaves and the vegetation is so much like lusher and thicker and greener we're actually going to have a
15:59really good amount of fruit this year which is a big boost to the finances and it's a relief as
16:06they've
16:06already taken pre-orders for their oil we've got loyal customers now hopefully we'll get even more
16:13loyal customers who will subscribe to receive oil monthly so now we're lucky that it's really at the
16:20stage of the more oil that we can produce that the more we can sell a few months later though
16:31it begins as the time comes to harvest their trees the weather conditions threaten to undo all their
16:39good work look then there's the sun i it's like it starts raining then the sun comes down then it
16:49rains
16:50we are paralyzed by indecision and inclement weather
16:58climate change would have been less of a concern decades ago but early villages would have also
17:04monitored mother nature during the olive harvest albeit without modern forecasting tools to help
17:13if you pick them and they're wet they oxidize faster so getting them to the mill quickly and in
17:21good condition is like the key to really good oil harvesting around an unpredictable forecast
17:30does however have an impact on how fruitful this is a really sad amount of crates each of lucy and
17:37jerry's daily trips to the olive mill are because it's been raining we've had to pick so on and off
17:44but anyway it is what it is
17:56arriving at the mill their olives are unloaded and swiftly put through the press
18:08to produce the type of oil the pair strives for it's spicy still
18:13yeah geez that's a good thing though that's a good thing while the quality may be good the quantity
18:22they're pressing is still a concern normally we turn up at the mill with one ton of olive something like
18:30that yeah today we turned out with 300 a bit kilos yeah which is really not ideal so we've just
18:39got to
18:40hope that the rain stops there is like a massive economic incentive to make enough oil that we
18:45can sell so that we can fund like the next phases of the jobs
18:57over 300 miles north in piedmont with almost 20 years of experience under their belts
19:03kyle and francesca know all too well what a costly business being village saviors can be
19:12you look quite close you've done a good job there
19:16under my supervision of course no more so than as they continue restorations across at their second
19:23village continue i can't get through to you look you're going to have to move your ladder
19:30put your ladder up against the other side that's it after reconfiguring the layout of the biggest
19:36property to maximize space for new guest accommodation
19:42today they're fitting a spiral staircase
19:48sourced second hand along with other furniture to keep costs down
20:06in the middle ages of all shapes and sizes can be found in building design across europe
20:20in the middle ages when they became a well-established feature especially in castles
20:26the continuous curve providing a swordsman's advantage for right-handed defenders
20:36but now in the 21st century so is the top step where it should be no i don't think so
20:42i think it
20:43has to go in this corner the battle falls more in their construction you see i don't know with the
20:50the distance you have between each do you understand what i'm saying yes i do understand
20:57it's just a matter of juggling around they're quite close here that's it all overlapping
21:07okay and the extra challenge these days oh it's little isn't it is that on average humans have got
21:17taller than they were centuries ago oh what are you holding on for just in case it goes oh oh
21:25there's
21:25only a piece of wood just wedged in here oh you see you are up getting the staircase erected is
21:39an
21:39important step forward in completing the structural changes to the building so we have the white walls
21:45painted all white look really good yeah good and with the more decorative phase of the project on the
21:57horizon in between bookings at marais carl and francesca are keen to upcycle the other items of
22:04furniture from their second hand haul this is the top to the wardrobe that's going in bedroom three
22:14hoping older pieces will be in keeping with contini's history
22:19this was advertised a lady where her father had passed away it probably cost more money
22:28to buy the modern stuff which is nice and clean and tidy but just to put a bit of effort
22:35into
22:35something like this it's look quite spectacular when it's done believe me as carl gives the wardrobe
22:42cornice a whitewash francesca's going for a darker look for one of the bed heads i was going to
22:51reupholster it and cal had the brilliant idea of trying to dye it i've put one coat on it's a
22:59little
22:59bit greeny so i'm hoping with another coat it will go more black while tackling every aspect of village
23:08restoration themselves gives great satisfaction but it's quite ornate that's lovely i'm really really
23:16happy with that transforming an entire ghost settlement from scratch again while also juggling
23:22demands at marais means there's still a long road ahead before continue sings again
23:36coming up
23:42is it last orders already for kevin and anna's new pub water is obviously coming through that is just
23:49crumbling while in italy lucy and jerry have a hard deadline to hit you'd have to do another 20 nets
23:58like this to get minimum for the mill
24:12at kevin and anna's former farming estate residents of the local commune plus some of their friends and
24:19family from the uk have assembled
24:27for the official opening of their new british style pub
24:35we're delighted to welcome everybody to the grand opening of the doghouse
24:41most importantly it's anna's 60th birthday and we're delighted to share it with everybody
24:49dog bon anniversaire merci
24:57once the formalities are out of the way i declare the doghouse open
25:10the guests can finally get a glimpse inside
25:13so
25:17Beaucoup de travail, tous les juin.
25:19Tout refait.
25:20Tout refait, oui.
25:22En anglais, on dit on va au dog house
25:25quand quelqu'un a fait une bêtise,
25:27ou quelque chose comme ça.
25:28D'accord!
25:30Que Kévin a fait, c'est simplement magnifique.
25:32De pouvoir bricoler et de...
25:35De bricoler mais de garder les choses anciennes.
25:38Ah oui, ça, c'est très important.
25:40Le patrimony.
25:42While in the past socialising at La Rosarie would have likely been reserved for the aristocratic
25:49landowner and his family, excluding the estate's farm workers, what Kevin and Anna have created
25:57means laughter has returned to the air, but the hamlet is now being enjoyed by all.
26:04I think it's going to be quite a popular watering hole for local people, as well as
26:10they guessed.
26:11So, we haven't seen the pub, and maybe we'll do it a little while to see what's happening
26:16and what they propose in this pub.
26:19I think it's brilliant.
26:21I wish I had one.
26:21They smashed it.
26:23They have, haven't they?
26:23And it's lovely to see it come to fruition and see everyone enjoying it as well.
26:28The hard work has fully paid off, hasn't it?
26:31Yes, it has.
26:31It's been a real joy to welcome everybody and share it.
26:36Yeah, really, really lovely.
26:37They're still here, they're still drinking, so the pub is still open.
26:41Yeah.
26:42I'll have to call last orders soon.
26:45Ring the bell again.
26:46Yeah.
26:47Yeah.
26:50Ten days later, while the hangovers may have cleared, a new issue has arisen in one of the
26:56derelict barns causing Kevin and Anna a new headache altogether.
27:02You can see there how we've got a problem.
27:09Water is obviously coming through.
27:15And then this is very soft.
27:20That is just crumbling.
27:25To identify the source of the leak...
27:27Ooh!
27:28My knees have gone.
27:29...Kevin needs to inspect what's happening above the old bread oven.
27:36And it's here that I have the problem.
27:41I'm not going to stand too heavily because if it's rotten, I don't want to fall through.
27:48The eleven barns which wrap around the central courtyard all share the same roof structure.
27:54So a problem in one could become a problem in all.
27:58So I've got a couple of rotten rafters.
28:02This has bowed completely.
28:05Mmm.
28:07I've got to be honest, it's in a much worse condition than I expected.
28:11Definitely, this is not a patch-up job.
28:13It's more than I've ever done, but then I've never built a pub before either, so...
28:18But we need to preserve it.
28:20And it's a stark reminder that very often, once our saviours rescue one corner of their
28:26lost villages, it's not long before another cries out for help.
28:39Across in Italy, Lucy and Jerry are facing their own battle.
28:45As their annual olive harvest continues to be hampered by Mother Nature.
28:50It's been raining for the last week.
28:53Hopefully it will stay clear today.
28:56The reason it's quite stressful is because it set us back by about a week.
29:01And ultimately, if we don't finish the harvest beginning of November,
29:06then we're delayed bottling all the oil.
29:08We're delayed shipping the oil.
29:10And if we can't ship the oil to the UK in time, we've promised everyone orders in time for Christmas.
29:17So we're going to have to pick extra fast.
29:20Adding further pressure is that they've also committed to harvesting more trees than ever before.
29:27We're picking in our neighbour's grove up on the hill in an attempt to kind of expand the amount of
29:34olives we're picking.
29:35So we picked some of Marco's trees last year and it went well.
29:40So he's asked us to pick another four or five hundred.
29:44But with just a pair of them doing the picking, it's crucial they take advantage of the break in the
29:50rain.
29:53So you'd have to do another 20 nets like this to get the minimum for the mill.
30:01This might be worth doing a long net, you know, this row.
30:04OK, well, that's fine. We can move sideways.
30:07Maybe we'll see Marco today. I don't know that he'll venture out.
30:10Because for Italians, this is too wet to do anything.
30:14But later that afternoon, Marco does pop by.
30:18Ciao!
30:19Ciao, Marco!
30:20And is pleased with progress.
30:24It's clear that to be here, if you weren't here, if you weren't doing that clean job,
30:33I wouldn't be able to see it so beautiful.
30:38Well, I'm happy.
30:40Once again, the collection was all in hand.
30:44And the collection was done with the scales, ramping up the leaves.
30:48So there were no nets, no trees, nothing.
30:53There was nothing.
30:54It was all in hand.
30:54Standing up on the leaves, it was dangerous.
30:59Yes!
31:01But I always like to ramping up the trees, and Geri told me,
31:04no, no, take the cleaner, it's faster.
31:07Because it's true that it's faster than it's faster.
31:10There are many incidents.
31:11I see.
31:13While electric olive shakers make things safer and speed up the picking process,
31:21unlike their predecessors,
31:23Lucy and Geri can't call on a team of villagers to help.
31:31Geri's just going to roll the net up now.
31:32I think he'll put it in and then he'll just go down the hill.
31:36And as they move across the grove,
31:38their other modern machinery,
31:41when combined with the slippery slope,
31:43throws up brand new hazards.
31:50Lucy, what do I do? What do I do?
31:52That would have never happened in the past.
31:55Ah!
32:00What do I do?
32:02Ah!
32:13That is up there with the closest I've come to dying.
32:19Jeez.
32:19Yeah, that was quite terrifying.
32:21Four or five tons sliding on 40 degree angle.
32:26With that level of wetness.
32:28Oh my God.
32:29That tractor was so close to tipping.
32:36That was a close shave.
32:39Keen not to risk further accidents or damaging any more of the ancient trees,
32:44they decide to call it a day.
32:47The net is pretty messed up after that as well.
32:51The perils of working solo and in damp conditions
32:58having taken their toll.
33:01I reckon we've picked 200 kilos of olives today.
33:07Yeah, we've not picked much. It's been a hard day.
33:10I just hope the grove dries out a bit.
33:13Every day you lose, you're conscious that it's another day where
33:17you could potentially not be getting people's orders in time for December
33:21and then people start asking for refunds because they want it for Christmas.
33:28I'm sure I'm not the first farmer to...
33:31Feel the financial pressures of agriculture, yeah.
33:37Which is probably why...
33:39People don't do it anymore.
33:40We're the last people in the village doing this.
33:49Coming up...
33:50It's hot in here.
33:51Carl unearths clues of Contini's past.
33:55And that was the main road they used to walk here
33:58all the way to get to Aqua Terme 100 years ago.
34:00And there's a change of pace...
34:02Gosh, this is rapid.
34:04This is almost too fast.
34:07For Lucy and Gerry.
34:12Oh!
34:25In Northern Italy, it's now early August.
34:29And Carl's hard at work at Contini fitting new lights in the kitchen.
34:37Meanwhile, Francesca's holding the fort across at their other village.
34:41She's actually up at Casa Marais doing...
34:44I think there's six people, even five, coming in today.
34:48We've been really, really busy.
34:50Busier than normally for July and August.
34:53But I just keep bobbing up as and when I can.
34:58Completing Contini's restoration remains a priority.
35:05But later that afternoon, having just added a new piece of equipment to his village saviour toolkit...
35:13Shouldn't be out here, really, but...
35:15Carl can't resist taking it for a test drive.
35:20It's hot in here.
35:27The new digger having been bought to help them get a handle on the unruly 13 acres of land surrounding
35:33the village.
35:36Trying to clear a path. I'm going to walk in now.
35:39Just to survey it before I start taking this in.
35:42Oh!
35:43It's so hot.
35:45I've never done a lot like this before.
35:47I need to come all the way along here and get rid of these trees.
35:52This is a lot of work.
35:55But as he makes a start, he unearths some clues on early village life.
36:02Believe it or not, at the top of there there's a road.
36:05It's only a dirt track, but you can walk it.
36:08Because there's another village up there about a kilometre on about five or six houses there.
36:12And that was the main road they used to walk here all the way to get to Aquitermi 100 years
36:17ago.
36:20How secure it is, I don't know, but it's all made by hand because we just didn't have the equipment.
36:25So we dug it out of the grounds.
36:26If you actually look at the valleys up and down here, some of them used to be vineyards, but there
36:30were also a lot of quarries here.
36:33Half of Aquitermi was built from the quarries around here, well over a thousand, two thousand years ago.
36:40So there's a lot of history around here and it's just left to rot and decay, to be honest.
36:47Nobody seems to care about it, but why do everybody look to the future and not the past, I suppose?
36:56Yet for Carl and Francesca, preserving the rich history here is what drives them on.
37:04And by early September, with the peak holiday season finished at Moray, they're both now free to push on at
37:11Contini.
37:12That's it.
37:14Francesca changing tack with the headboard, opting to upholster instead of dyeing it.
37:20I'm sure I'll get there in the end.
37:23While Carl cracks on with some tiling upstairs.
37:27Just takes forever.
37:30It's like battleships.
37:32This is bedroom number one.
37:37And behind me, the walkway through there to bathroom number one.
37:42In the ideal world, to get this one complete before Christmas.
37:52Working tirelessly to breathe new life into Contini by the following month, Carl's tiling marathon is transforming the look of
38:00the first floor.
38:04And Francesca's upcycled headboard takes pride of place in the newly decorated third bedroom.
38:13The bed's lovely, you've made a great job of that.
38:16Thank you very much.
38:17You're very welcome.
38:21The adjoining bathroom, previously left derelict, now fitted with all the mod cons, and across the corridor...
38:32I normally just fold it like that.
38:35...Carl's now striving to create Francesca's vision for a bright master suite.
38:41It looks, erm, busier than what I anticipated it to be.
38:47But Francesca likes it.
38:50This is my last one.
38:52In here.
38:57Right.
38:58It's not perfect, but...
39:02I'm happy with it.
39:03Ready?
39:05Finished.
39:10Hmm.
39:12I'm only joking.
39:15It looks great.
39:16I like it.
39:18You're not just a pretty face, are you?
39:21I think this face is pretty.
39:23No.
39:25It's been a hectic summer for Francesca and Carl, but as experienced saviours, they've shown that they have what it
39:33takes to continue juggling the demands of two villages with very different needs.
39:50300 miles south, it's mid-November.
39:54And despite tricky climate conditions, by the end of the harvest, against the odds, Gerry and Lucy have managed to
40:00pick 14 and a half tonnes of olives.
40:05Producing 1,200 litres of oil.
40:08Four times that of last season.
40:12Right.
40:14See what we're dealing with here.
40:16Which now all needs to be bottled and shipped.
40:20We can do it.
40:21I really think we can.
40:24Last year, they chose to bottle in the UK, but faced a massive six-month delay getting their oil through
40:30customs.
40:32So this season, they're keeping the operation local to ensure they can fulfil the £15,000 worth of Christmas orders
40:39they've taken.
40:42The harvest went really well, so we were really pleased with that, but on to something even more busy.
40:48The stakes are pretty high. We've basically got a week to bottle everything.
40:53But before they can begin, the unit they've rented needs prepping.
40:58We obviously wanted somewhere that was actually ready to start bottling, but it's so, so hard to find somewhere that
41:08is classified as a food lab.
41:11And luckily, this place was classified as a food lab, which means that as long as we get it hygienic,
41:18then we can just start bottling immediately.
41:23It's likely the Borgo's earliest villagers would have bottled directly from the press.
41:28Unbeknown of the modern food hygiene and safety standards that would follow centuries later.
41:41OK, just a little bit more that needs plastering.
41:47This is not the funnest part of starting a small business without our own space, yeah?
41:56The pair's rebuild plans for the main farmhouse will include their own olive press and bottling room.
42:02But until then, after a fresh lick of paint and a clean, they'll have to make this space work.
42:10I'm pretty pleased.
42:12I didn't think we could get it this clean this fast.
42:15Mm.
42:16Yeah, it's amazing.
42:20The following morning, Lucy and Jerry return to set up their new equipment.
42:26This spaceship.
42:28This is our new bottling machine.
42:31Label their packaging and begin bottling.
42:42Gosh, this is rapid.
42:44This is almost too fast.
42:46Their assembly line quickly becomes a well-oiled machine.
42:52That is perfect.
42:54Happy?
42:55I'm very happy, actually.
42:57And for the first time in weeks, they stand a chance of hitting their deadline.
43:06What's my pace now?
43:08I don't know, but I don't have space for your pace.
43:11Oh!
43:13Smells nice.
43:16Within four hours, the pair have got over a thousand bottles ready to dispatch.
43:25All of this work is going towards rebuilding the houses in the village.
43:30I actually feel, for the first time in a long time, like we've actually achieved something quite good.
43:39And by the end of the month, as they pack the last of their international orders...
43:44This is going to America, so I need to bubble wrap it.
43:47There's even more to celebrate, as their UK deliveries have landed.
43:53In eleven minutes, the customs clearance was finalised.
43:57Really?
43:57So last year was six months, this year was eleven minutes.
44:00That's pretty good.
44:01Phenomenal. Almost unheard of.
44:03And it means, in future years, it's really encouraging as well.
44:07While the building phase of Saving the Borgo remains on hold,
44:11when it comes to reigniting its farming roots,
44:15it's been Lucy and Jerry's most successful olive harvest to date.
44:25Next time...
44:26Ooh!
44:27Well, you're up.
44:29Kevin and Anna are forced to scale new heights.
44:32This is not just DIY.
44:35If it goes wrong, it's a horrible, expensive mistake.
44:39Lucy and Jerry begin a brand new phase of their Borgo's resurrection.
44:43The dream is to get the lake fully functioning.
44:48And Francesca and Carl prove there's always something to learn
44:51when saving a lost village in Europe.
44:54We'll just test the shower.
44:56There's no end on it.
44:58No!
44:58No!
44:58Ha ha!
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