Race Across the World series 2

[IsabelleSE19]

I loved this show last year and was very excited to see a trailer yesterday that seemed to show series 2 was coming soon and was located in the Americas? But Googling it has revealed absolutely nothing! I thought I'd start this thread so that fellow fans have a place to comment when we have more info.

If it is the Americas, it will stop the contestants just copying last year's journeys, although I must admit I think the Europe/Asia route will prove more interesting as there's such a great variation in cultures as you travel east. But I don't know much about South America so looking forward to being wrong, and I'm sure it will be just as exciting as the last series. It'll be the people that make it - loved Darron and Alex from last year and their changing relationship/bond!

The brother and sister are bloody annoying. I keep to my view that the brother is a dick

@WolfCub Both pretty annoying but TBH the sister seems much, much the worse of the two to me. A real drama llama that one.

Like most people on here it would seem my favourites are the Mother and son.

The son with the mother is fairly immature. At some point his very lovely and very competent mother will have to step back and let him make decisions even if she knows they are not the best ones. He will learn more from making mistakes and rectifying them instead of just being his mum’s travel companion. He is 20 or 21 and about to move out of home when they return after their trip?

I believehe is 19. I read an article before this series started. I think he had a lot of problems growing up. He was affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and also his ADHD made school a struggle

19? That is young. I still think he will learn more by making at least some of the decisions and mistakes, It would do wonders for his confidence and resilience esp with his very supportive mother by his side.

Well she wants this to be a launch pad for him travelling more alone so I'm sure she will encourage him, but prob also knows he needs easing into it and to learn by her example

I thought that he was early 20s until it was mentioned that he was 3 when the SE Asia tsunami happened. Which means he was born 2001/2002 ish

I thought she said he was six months when he was adopted and he had turned one when she heard the story about the mother having to let one child go and she realised she could never choose between her two boys.

I teared up at that story. Such a tricky start in life. Jo and Sam are definitely my faves.
I like Jen and Rob too; wonder if she is being so loud and gesticulating because she is compensating for Rob’s hearing loss.

The mum of team mumma boy seems a very kind and genuine woman. And so patient.

The nephew and uncle grew on me last night once we heard more about why they hadn't seen each other.

The wife of the married couple seems to really want her husband to get something great from the trip. I think in one of the clips they both said that they want to reconnect with who they were when they first fell in love. Brave of them to be so honest.

The wife of the married couple seems to really want her husband to get something great from the trip. I think in one of the clips they both said that they want to reconnect with who they were when they first fell in love. Brave of them to be so honest.

Yes I got the impression their relationship is now co-living and they are trying to get it back to what it was.
It struck a cord with me.

@crapette exactly lots of options if you put your mind to it

Does anyone else thing Jen and Rob's marriage is doomed? Least of all because I think he might be gay

Also this lot aren't a patch on the contestants in series one. I can't really relate to any of them

I’ve just binged watched the first series while ill and loved it.
Loved Darron and Alex, was gutted they didn’t win tbh. So close too.
Hoping this one gets more exciting soon!

I’m loving watching the characters develop as the series goes on. I definitely think the military couples money was stolen. When I backpacked I had money stashed in different places & still managed to get some stolen. It really eats into your budget. But I think they gave up too easily.

We had that day's pocket money easily accessible in wallets in our pocket. Most of it in the money belt under our clothes where it didn't need to be displayed, and an emergency credit card and copies of documents wedged into the frame of the rucksacks so it was hard to lose too much in one go.

DH was wise to a dodgy moment in a monestary, twigged the distraction and automatically slapped his hand onto his wallet pocket, slapping onto a roaming hand. Better to have a small amount for immediate use at a higher risk than expose critical amounts.

Really enjoyed series one - perhaps in part because I binge watched it - this one hasn't grabbed me as much yet but there's still time!

Re: the son in mother-son team - if he does have a Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder that would have a massive impact upon his ability to be independent and is not something she can safely just give him the space to learn.

Cause and effect/consequences are very difficult for people with FASD to grasp - for example one activity in the testing process is showing you a picture and asking what might happen next. One picture is of a person crossing a road with a big lorry coming towards them - a lot of people with FASD wouldn't be able to grasp that they might get hit by the lorry.
It isn't really something you can help someone with FASD develop - they need loved ones who know them very well and can support them to be independent when the situation safely allows.

I take my hat of to the mum! What a lovely relationship they have 😊

That's really interesting @FlamingOranges.

Didn’t realise Jen and Rob we’re both 33. They look younger,

The brother and sister team are frustrating - he so talks over her.

It’s a shame the couple have had to withdraw. I quite liked them

The mum and son duo are lovely. The son is going to mature a lot from this experience. However, the mum annoyed me a little in the first episode, talking as if her life was over.

Wife of husband and wife is bloody hard work

Love the fact that they've more or less reversed the order on this checkpoint from the last!

Oh the wife (Jen I think) is so annoying, I really dislike the way she talks to her husband, she’s just a horrible person through and through. The way she was so rude to the couple last week, this week she’s talking to her husband like he is trash. I hope he comes to his senses and realise he could do so much better!

Jen is pretty high maintenance but I think she's OK. Interesting indeed how the order of the couples really mixed up in this leg. The brother and sister will be so pissed off to be last, I think the brother will blame the sister for having to shovel the poo. Good episode though.

The brother was awful not to help his sister do the work, at the end of the day they all have to do some work to supplement their funds. He can’t have been that afraid of horses as he got on one and trotted off down the road and wasn’t just led around by someone holding the horse.

I don’t know what to make of Jen and Rob. She overtalks but he is frustrating because he veers off without telling her which must be incredibly annoying. His suggestion of walking around from 6am to 2pm looking for cheaper accommodation was ludicrous when they hadn’t slept properly for two nights. I can see why she gets so annoyed. He appears quiet yet he makes decisions that affect her too with little to no communication, let alone discussion. When she was queuing at a counter and he ducked down to read a map/timetable, she was left searching for him. How hard would it have been but him to shout out - just a minute, let’s read this. I thought he was playing a game of hiding before I realised he just had no consideration for how she’d feel when she looked around and he had disappeared from view.

Uncle and nephew have the talk but the uncle is coming across quite lazy.

Mother of son is incredibly patient. She keeps talking about her last time to do this and that. She is only 54. I wonder if she is ill? She comes across as very nice and genuine.

I'm with you @theschoolonthehill rob's been quite irritating in a quiet way, especially when you consider that his hearing is bad so when he was ducking down to read the map, he might not have heard her calling for him, and when he walks off, he can't hear her behind him. He's got to start managing to communicate better for their marriage to survive.

I was frustrated by the very set-up scene of mother and son in the salsa club - it seemed completely engineered to provide drama for the cameras. It was clearly the worst job the son could have been asked to do, and yet the mother accepted it knowing his limitations and surely knowing that he wouldn't be able to cope.

Cue inevitable storming out and 'this is it, I'm done, I give up, I'm out of the race' - next minute they were laughing and hugging over a birthday card. Totally silly.

Agree, the salsa job seemed very staged to get that response. I wonder how much they were involved in the decision process for that job as it seemed to have even chosen at the expense of the sons mental health. The mum is so unbelievably patient and I really admire her.