Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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We are a family building a house in Portugal and renovating an abandoned farm. 👒🔍 Download June’s Journey for free now using my link: https://woo.ga/4tingjwq

In this episode our incredible team of Stone Masons work on laying the first layer of stone on our house. We're also chatting a little bit about some stressful weeks we've had on our home build, and John continues on with tiling the steps he built to connect the garden to the new house.

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