yeah oh my am i the big reveal of the property  yeah a complete tour of the hotel in the woods  

the houses the current condition and um  yeah just uh it's we're going to show  

you as much as we can today yes exactly so  we're going to be heading into the property  

i'm actually going to take you this way a  little bit horse poop so you can kind of see  

the growth behind me that's all of ours back there  we haven't entered the property yet but that's  

kind of what you see from this yeah there's  a couple different paths so this would be an  

alternate one yeah we're gonna take the main way  in so we'll open there's a little makeshift gate  

and then we go and then we go and we'll show  you what we've gotten ourselves into what we  

are about to begin renovating one building at  a time yeah exactly and same with landscapes  

a little a little warning that you may hear some  barking dogs yeah they're all friendly but they uh  

they obviously are they're doing their  territorial guard dog duty by barking  

when when people come in so yeah you'll probably  hear a bit of that let's go in without further ado  

let's do it well here it begins we have the  entrance to the house there's a fallen tree  

over the path and as you can see on either side of  the trail or the driveway going into the property  

the vegetation really is quite overgrown  so i would say it's actually worse  

on this side and here i'm going to introduce you  to a plant that is very well known around these  

parts you know the name yeah salsamora sarsamora  but basically this plant is a crawling blackberry  

so it'll grow a shoot and then dig back into the  ground and then it'll sprout more chutes back  

into the ground and more and more until it looks  this way it's tada basically the the weeds of this  

particular property of the area of the area of the  of the entire area yeah apparently it's something  

that like needs to be managed like throughout  the year it's not like something you just  

you know caught once a year or something like  there needs to be some serious management of it  

and um i mean we've got 20 years  of growth here so you can imagine  

the uh the expansion and the property it's  just uh it's literally taken over so we could  

have a basically a plantation here a blackberry  plantation and i'll mention like this plant you  

can also find it in patagonia it's not just in the  province of cordoba or like this particular region  

it just it loves the climate apparently and then  on the other side we have less sarsa but we do  

have a lot of just bushes that have grown over  the years and yeah there's definitely landscaping  

work to be done over here so that's actually our  first step to find people who are interested in  

kind of like clearing this growth and eventually  landscaping in the sense of making it beautiful  

but first we gotta clean so we gotta clean yeah  and we gotta get in there gotta get in there

in retrospect noon probably isn't the best time  for us to be filming here because the lights  

and the shadows are going to be quite harsh but  we'll show you what we can and we are going to be  

starting out with the oldest house in the property  this one was built first it dates back to the 40s  

and it's like a little two-bedroom chalet so i  actually used to live in this property as a child  

for those of you who don't know the full story but  basically i moved here when i was six years old  

because my parents were running the hotel that's  also on the property and this was actually the  

first house i lived in when we first arrived  don't remember how long i was in here because  

i don't remember how long we actually lived  in this one because afterwards we moved to  

a bigger one we are a family of five but yeah this  here is the chalet it has a nice stone exterior  

so you have specific what's one specific memory  you have a specific memory oh i've got a good one  

yeah so i remember my first morning waking up here  like after we had moved from canada to argentina  

and like i woke up and i could hear little birds  chirping and i was looking around at the ceiling  

trying to figure out where am i like this is not  our apartment in montreal and like you know we're  

just kind of confused and disoriented for a while  and it's like what is this place and it takes a  

few seconds for it to click in and it's like oh  yeah we moved new home new home new environment  

new animal sounds sounds of nature trading in  the big city honking horns yes for the sounds  

of chirping birds exactly so that's my first  memory in this house that's a trade-off i'd be  

uh more than willing to do yeah city for country  living yeah i like the country a lot more yeah so  

um yeah this is interesting we actually did a  little bit of work here two years ago clearing  

some clearing some stuff and it's apparent that  yeah two years of growth uh will produce a lot of  

vegetation so yeah we've got uh we certainly have  uh our work cut out for us in this particular part  

but um it's gonna be exciting to get started  yeah so i'll take you around this this house  

or we'll go as far as we can just so you get a  quick overview we're not going in today this is  

just meant to be at a glance um yeah i don't know  what all of these plants are like what's this here  

for example it looks like it's a plant that really  likes moisture this is an area with a lot of shade

here a motorbike so yeah we'll go through here

and go around

so when we were here just before the pandemic  uh because the plan was to like come down and  

get started in april of 2020 obviously a month  before that march 2020 the pandemic began and like  

borders closed argentina and canada closed you  know we couldn't go anywhere but we had been here  

a couple of months prior and we actually removed  all the ivy from the building not because it's  

not beautiful but we needed to see the condition  of the house and we had an architect come over  

and just look at it see see how it is because like  i said this is an old house it is from the 40s  

so there you have it i really like the  stone look climbing ivy wooden shutters  

it's got a real classic classic look yeah it  just it just screams character doesn't look  

like it's got those oozes character yeah they  just don't make make homes really like this  

very much anymore so i mean my goodness it'll  be interesting to see what it's like inside  

yeah when we eventually get in but um for now this  is what it looks like on the outside yes and back  

here we have a tree that produces a type of nut  it's kind of like a hazelnut but a longer hazelnut  

and pigs really like to eat it they like dig it up  with their snout so we have that tree back there  

so yes i think that is it for this house and we  will continue on to one of the other buildings

yes he's a skittish i'm y'alls hi nailsies

okay so now we are continuing over to house number  two this was the next house that i lived in after  

we moved out of the chalet this one is well it's  also an old house but not as old as the other one  

um it has four bedrooms little bedrooms and yeah  this one is known as lausteria because it used to  

be a place where like you could rent out bedrooms  to workers or people in the area it was originally  

built as a place like to rent out bedrooms access  to a bathroom and then a shared communal kitchen  

living dining area so this house is also  in pretty pretty rough shape but this was  

home sweet home for many years this up here  this little tower there used to be an owl  

that lived in there and you could  hear it hooting um at night so  

we'll just walk along here oh  pepperoni hi pepperoni how exciting  

so yeah vegetation really overgrown  this is a cool detail this arch  

it kind of has a bit of a spanish colonial  style colonial flare so yeah like i mentioned  

today it's just a quick overview we're kind of  showing you the exterior but we're not going  

inside and then that was the back side of  the house right now okay this area is open

yeah so now we're in the front where you kind  of have this brick terrace courtyard area

so yeah the light actually is quite harsh  but hopefully you're getting an idea  

this is that's the plan with today's video  nothing super fancy we're just trying to  

give you an idea of what we're going to  be working on there you have it folks

we have a lot of work ahead of us but honestly i'm  just super excited because i know the potential  

i know what it has the potential to look like  at its peak when it's well taken care of when  

there's someone who you know is like tending  to the landscape and upkeeping the houses and  

i know how beautiful it was at one point and i  know what it can be and i'm also a person who  

likes challenges i don't really shy away  from hard work and i feel like the harder  

the project the more rewarding it is so yeah  i'm i'm super pumped to get started with this  

so that is construction number two there  is still more left to see in this place

it rolled over and purred and  then the dog came and he's like no  

i want the pets not the cat pin meowsies

does it look like also i am super amused by the  fact that a lot of the cats in the area is there  

real oh sorry you're talking yeah i'm telling a  story all the cats in the area like the one we  

just met here on the property and the one at  the neighbor's property they look a lot like  

this cat morris we used to have and he was a wild  free roaming cat who just lived in the wilderness  

sometimes showed up for food a few times a week  but they all look like him they have the same  

coloring the same coloring coloration yeah  so i wonder if they could be his descendants

most likely

this is all salsa you need thick pants here some  jeans because everything is trying to like grab  

you and scratch you and eat you especially the  sarsa okay so we found the third house i was  

looking for just behind me over my shoulder  i feel a little bit like indiana jones yeah  

crawl it going through almost like the it's  not the jungle but it's the thick forest  

in search of a uh a lost treasure a lost treasure  and alas we found it it's it's behind us right  

there did you ever dream of being on indiana  jones well yeah she's like covered in branches  

most definitely and i mean wow like we didn't  see this the last time we came here no this is  

fascinating it's a completely different um the  house is completely different than the other two  

i'm gonna step down i look like a little giant  next to you a little a giant giant so i mean i  

i don't have a full view of the house from here  apparently there were stairs before yes but what  

i can see uh it's a completely different type of  architecture from the other two houses so yeah  

it's totally distinct it's more of a rectangular  shape um yeah let's see if we can get down there  

and film it a bit more yeah i'll tell you guys  a little bit more about it so basically this  

third construction here i think it was originally  built to house workers it's kind of a simple house  

two bedrooms but this is also where my granny used  to live and so this isn't like my official grandma  

grandma like were related by blood but still this  person was very important to me and to her family  

her name was anna and she was like a second mom  to my dad and a grandma to me so she lived here  

and i spent a lot of time visiting her  in this little house we can't actually  

get down at the moment because the  sarsa has grown there you have it  

and covered everything but there used to be  like a a curving staircase that went down  

and then you could access this little house  which has a tree growing right next to it  

that that is not good um anyway okay that's  the third house what else can i show you  

we've got the old dog house our dog bonnie  used to live there bonnie was a german shepherd  

and then her brother jessie had another little  dog house as well audrey yes i just thought of  

something interesting here what so if we can't  get down there the drone might be able to get  

down there yeah yeah we might be able to launch it  but i think it would be a lot more interesting to  

see if we can get down there though so you want  to try yeah let's give it a shot we we should  

obviously be safe but okay i mean you kind of  know the lay of the land better than me yeah  

okay so instead of trying the stairs let's try and  take this trail because there's a winding trail  

that goes behind the house uh we should be able  to walk through here we also need to kind of be  

careful because there are wild boars in the area  uh so we got to be mindful of that uh they do have  

tusks so our strategy is to leap over them leap  over them or like try to climb a tree if you can  

yeah i'm actually kind of joking about the  leaping the thing would be to you'd want to  

get against the tree and block yourself from their  the charging in their tusks yeah and you'd also  

want to have a stick to swing at it so oh yeah  obviously but um hopefully you won't see one today  

is that was that yours yeah probably  was that your bike from the back

wow so this place definitely needs to be cleared  quite a bit um i can't believe we were able to get  

down here that's awesome i mean this gives  us an idea of what we could potentially be  

working on over the next coming weeks we could  at least try to clear some space around the  

the two the two houses and around the hotel that  would be uh that'd be great progress for you know  

just starting off what do you think yeah i  agree yeah so just getting that vegetation  

away from the homes so that there's no further  damage and um yeah just just starting to clear  

a little moat around these places yeah also  so that we can get the workers in because  

it's hard to work on the construction if you  can't reach the building true i mean yeah this  

was a little bit of a tricky path to get here  um but at least we made it down and and this