Kevin Mcleods escape to the wild

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Anyone just watched it and gone grrrrrr!

The useless bloke on there is being patted on the back for being adventurous and living his dream with his doey eyed wife at his side and all I'm thinking is what a deadbeat dad!

For those who haven't seen it its about a couple who live in very rural Scandinavia and 'brave' the wilderness frontier with their huskies.

So basically he F'd off to another country leaving two kids in the uk so he could follow his dream. He skypes them twice a week and he and his wife bang on about how his kids are his world and how much he misses them! I'm sitting here thinking not enough to contribute to their upbringing or regularly see them though!

If I was Kevin I'd be asking questions about honouring your responsibilies and not putting your own dream first but then I guess I'll never be a tv presenter!!

I suppose the mother of the children is glad to be rid of him. I bet there was always a problem with outgoings toward his dream of the moment being prioritised over more responsible choices. Child support would be nice, but then again, just having control over what money is incoming might be worth as much.

(In my DBROs case, his ex leaving meant he had to reduce to one job, because of childcare needs. He was braced to deal with quite a tight budget, as she had dealt with all the household finance before. To his surprise, his main job turned a household profit, despite the new childcare costs. XSIL spent wads and wads of momey on art supplies and equipment, which is a slightly different category of stuff than the craft supplies and equipment she spent piles and piles of money on, because she was going to run a business from home, etsy and all that.)

Although that makes sense - DH and I kept laughing at the fact that they kept saying the husband had made their house entirety from materials "found" on the island, when he had clearly used things like corrugated iron for the roof.

mabel is that the one whose sin went to boarding school because he felt isolated there?

Clearly there is more to this then. What a pile of bollocks

Hang on I need to know now, who has a hotel on the island, the couple featured or mable ?

the selfishness of some of the people is quite incredible. "I want to go, so everyone else will have to cope with it" sort of thing.

just the couple on the programme.

Chuckled at bosom honking.
(That is my only contribution)

It looks as though it is just the "Escape to the Wild" family on the island and they run the holiday accommodation. Just the four of them (five, when the oldest son is home from boarding school).

I'd say the island where they live (Fofoa) is pretty remote! A 45 minute boat trip to the nearest inhabited island, which in itself is also very remote.

Keep zooming out to see how far from New Zealand/Australia the island group is

I'm giggling at mabel and her misplaced apostrophe. That's how rumours start!

But if it is remote, why didn't they mention it? They mentioned they make a bit of money doing boat trips, but it was implied they had to go quite far in the boat to pick people up and that was their only money.

Quite honestly, if I didn't have kids I could quite happily do it. I wouldn't take the kids away from their extended family and friends though. And if I did and one of the kids were unhappy to the point they needed to leave, we would all be leaving.

I would never leave my kids behind

I'm pretty sure that I have visited that volcano in Chile - it is active but not as dangerous as was made out in the programme It's basically a tourist attraction with visitors trekking to the top every day and then sliding down I felt the peril that they were in was somewhat overstated

I also choked when the man i n rural Sweden started bleating on about his kids were his world

Kevin said that huskie man has 'two kids from previous relationships' so different babymommas. Which just adds to the general idea of him being a feckless runaway...

The ones on the desert island were definitely made out to be living off the land. The bit when they went to scrape batshit confirmed my suspicions of their craziness.
They had come from a hospitality background.

Yanbu as the programming was largely faked to make places seem very remote when 3/4 of them weren't. They were closer to schools and hospitals than when I grew up in rural Gloucestershire! I think also the producers egged the families on to be hostile to him. I've been to that vocanoe and its one of the most studied and understood ones in the world and very popular with tourists. They would oif been 20 mins drive away from a decent sized town and be in very little danger.

Yabu to judge his life, we don't know the full story and it might be better for his children if he's somewhere remote with whatever issues he has. We all run from stuff, even if we don't run geographicaly away.

I never find stories like this 'inspirational' these people are always douchebags.
My dad ran away to a remote part of Scandinavia too! Nothing inspirational about that, he was a runaway who abandoned his kids.

Someone on Twitter also reiterated that the volcano couple were a stones throw away from a big outdoor pursuit town and after all if they could get ehir weird metal bus up a track, why did Kevin have to go by horse

PLUS they seemed to miraculously get ALL THE GEAR to climb the volcano from somewhere

where do the CREW stay in all these episodes? I asked him,he no reply

we need him back for a webchat

( btw found the husky thing AMAZING)

My first reaction to the husky family was "thank God they don't have any kids", until about 7 minutes before the end it was revealed that it was "killing" him being away from his two children from previous relationships. His wife was saying that he is such an amazing father, which was demonstrated by him driving down to a car park to skype one son twice a week. Strangely though the only thing he missed from "Blighty" was food, no mention of family!

The evil stepchild in me was thinking that I bet the wife was delighted that there are no EOW visits.

Yes of course we don't know the full story, but I find it hard to marry the idea of a devoted father who willingly moves to the end of the earth who willingly spends more time raising wild dogs than seeing his children.

How does one even have a semi abandoned car somewhere so remote there are not roads for hours away but the car is only 30 mins walk away and happens to have a good enough WiFi signal desipite being very rural in northern Sweden

I just wish these shows were honest and didn't misrepresent stuff to add drama. This series every story had huge holes in.

They both had "very successful jobs", he claimed to clean 100 bins for 2.50 each a day yet they left with nothing apart from 2000 quid

Kevin is irritating me too. All this feigning amazement/horror/fear only then to go on to say how inspirational they are for "going for the dream" and how dedicated/speshul they are.

The bit where he was pretending trying to find the track on his way to the rainforest house and supposedly got lost and then the host just stepped out of the bush.....come on Kev, keep it real!

I know one of these couples in RL. They are both more and less extreme than portrayed. And have more money than they'd have you believe.

I think that If I had the nerves I'd do one of these things while my kids were young and for a finite period of time - it could be an amazing experience, but once your kids need friends and social circles of their own it's not going to end well. Not really human nature is it, to be isolated and away from support networks of any kind? - except for a journey or seasonal cycle (shepherds up mountains, nomads)

I think the format isn't 'honest' - it's all very well filming a couple build a house in Norfolk with the conceit that the camera is a disembodied eye, but when you have Kevin skiing to a chalet because there's no other mode of transport and someone is filming him from a distance, or he's in a single bedded but in the wilderness and no evidence of where the cameraman is sleeping I find that a bit

I wish they'd done a 'how we filmed it' but at the end like Attenborough does, or be a bit more honest - even Michael Palin admitted the presence of a film crew

In principal I expected to love this series (being a bit of a hippy type that tries to be 'off grid' as much as is possible when I live in a suburb and have a job!!!) but in practice it irritated me to hell...
So many important and blooming obvious questions were just not addressed and situations engineered to make the tv programme.
Was drawn in by the programme but kept shouting - why don't you ask this, what about that...
I'd love elements of their lives particularly while kids are young, but I think they are naive that those lifestyles will work when those kids become tweens/teenagers/young adults. (And it will be more different for them compared to any local kids in those areas precisely because of their family backgrounds...)