RACE ACROSS THE WORLD 2024

[TokyoSushi]

Just seen my first advert that it's back!!!! Japan to Indonesia starting 10th April, brilliant, my absolute favourite!

It's not a ravel show, it's a race.

Travel....

I thought from the conversation that Stephen and Viv did know about the genocide but understandably not about the specific detail re that particular cave.

They would have been the same age as I was when the Balkan conflict was going on. I was generally aware of it but it doesn't mean I wasn't shocked or upset to read/learn certain things when I was in that part of the world more recently.

And I'm glad the contestants don't do the standard tourist sites and go off the beaten track. It's not bloody Wish You Were Here.

I think so. Many people watching will be too young to remember it. I think it was for the viewers benefit.

I need to watch series 1 and 2 as I haven’t seen these. Enjoying this one.

I was thinking how long these overnight bus trips would be and, in general, how they entertain themselves on them. I can’t read during travelling as I get travel sick so it got me thinking.

Also, how do they wash their clothes? Is it just me that thinks about these daft details?

I’m guessing that at the check points there are people who look after them a bit and do things like clothes washing.

It’s not just you @OriginalFloorboards I’m trapped in a wormhole wondering about the series based on the narrowboat community.

There are people who live a wandering water life I.e. no marina address. Under the terms of their licence they have to move on every two weeks. One couple have both a car and a camper van that one lives in during his regular work days and nights in the NHS. He works then drives to catch up with his partner who’s on the boat. So where’s the car? And how do they keep moving it to where it’s any use to them. It appears they do go on canal and river cruises, not just backwards and forwards along the same small stretch. Besides which, the campsite used for the van is still a 40 minute drive to the hospital.

I get distracted by unknown mechanics and practicalities.

@martinisforeveryone ha now you’ve got me thinking about what you’re thinking about and questioning it! Glad it’s not just me!

Yes, that makes sense @OutOfTheHouse

I reckon this, too. I'd be annoyed at being made to sound thick or ignorant by a production team. I can imagine them saying to the contestants "right, now ask if the regime killed kids too" Nope. But I will say "I believe whole families including children were wiped out"

I imagine they get their washing done at the checkpoint hotels although in Series 1 when they were all stuck on a boat for 3 days one of them was seen washing his pants.

Another thing is the toilets en route. In S1 we were treated to several shots of the vilest toilets I have ever seen - I've been to some interesting places but I am never going to Uzbekistan despite the amazing scenery and buildings. The last 3 Series (all I've seen) don't seem to have gone into this. I'd expect the toilets in Canada to be fine, of course, although they have the weird doors that only come down to your knees.

If the toilets in Canada are like some of the ones I experienced in Alaska then they could be interesting. People talk about the stalls with massive gaps in the doors in the US, when I was out in a park area the only toilets didn't even have doors. They were all open stalls separated with short tiled walls, basically to discourage vandalism and drug use. That was great fun when I was on my period there.

Mongolian toilet pits...
The one thing worse than an open air toilet pit is a toilet hut over a pit 🤢

Everest base camp toilets aren't exactly salubrious either 😂

Did it take a while for the extent of the killing fields to emerge to the rest of the world? I can remember Newsround/ news reports talking about them at some point late 80s/ early 90s-ish but I'm not great on the whys and whens.

I would expect someone like Stephen to know more about it.

I'm glad that the money loss was survivable for James and Betty, but it mught put extra pressure on at the end. They seem to be settling together as a team now.

Owen and Alfie are my favourites. They've got such a great rapport. Hopefully they can close the gap back up, and first to the checkpoint isn't necessarily a great advantage if the check out time doesn't work for travel connections.

Isabel and Eugenie need to drop the emotional barriers. It's hard being the child of an emotionally stuck parent. It's a double disadvantage as you have hard relationship in the first place and you don't have that healthy emotional role modelling either. There was something a few episodes ago where Eugenie commented about her sons and suggested that their relationship was easier. Sometimes parents just click better with children of one sex than the other; I don't know if that's the case here.

Yay! It's today, favourite TV day of the week!

Looking forward to it. Also applications are open for S5 - they close on 12th May if anyone is interested! I had a nosy because I was curious, apparently this year they plan to film between October and December.
It'd be my worst nightmare 😬

My DD and her friend have applied!

I've been to Uzbekistan and don't remember a single thing about the toilets there. Really interesting country - Samarkand alone is amazing. However, if we're having a worst toilet in the world debate I will say rural China.
I was travelling by bus one time, a basic bus with no loo on board.... the bus stops and everyone shuffles off, men to one side of a screen, women to the other side then they squat on the edge of a precipice which was like an open air no seat long drop loo. I could only imagine the horror of tipping over backwards and falling into the ordure below - it was writhing in maggots!😮

My mum spent some of her childhood in a house with a long drop toilet. She said she would hate it as there were rats below.

I can't deal with the snapping and sniping.
Need some silly happy times

The toilets featured weren't long drop. They were squatting style which I don't mind but with piss and shit and toilet paper all over the floor. The one on the ship was an inch deep in urine.

Just realised I think Viv looks like Rod Stewart. In the pieces to camera in the studio

Interesting. So presumably southern hemisphere. Africa has to feature soon.

Thats a fuck load of ducks!

I love the way they move like one mass then suddenly change direction.