Race Across the World

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New series starting next week - really looking forward to it. The teams are travelling in Asia, but I can't find information about the couples yet. Wednesday nights sorted!

Right. I’m ready, are you?

I think the mum is a bit Annabel Croft.

Ready

Watching

This is such an interesting route!

Want to go to Sanya!

Camper van tv signsl playing up but OK right now.

Sanya looks like Chinese Dubai.

Those mountains look amazing.

He's probably still in love with Yin.

Definitely.

I think mum and son will be out next week.

I hope so, they are so depressing.

Loved the scenery on this leg - mountains and paddy fields. The weather looked … challenging, there will be a huge advantage for the couples that managed to keep ahead of it.

Really enjoyed this episode especially the interaction with the divorced couple (Yin & Gaz?). he’s being so open and honest about how he felt when they separated. Loved the scenary. Really feel for the young Welsh couple - they do seem overwhelmed. Hope they make it past next episode and they go into the next stage.

Im baffled by how they are paying for things. I literally returned from Shanghai 2 weeks ago and it’s pretty much a cashless county, WeChat and Alipay is the main mode to pay for things, that’s not to say I saw no cash being exchanged but it was very far and few between, then again they are primarily going through small villages and towns so maybe they are still much more reliant on cash in those parts.

All this season is doing is making me feel depressed and want to go back 😂 even with all the language barriers I would go back in a heartbeat, but probably go to Beijing or guangzhou next time

I went to Guilin during my honeymoon. It's very much chocolate box rural China, so was lovely to see it (briefly) and other places with similar characteristics.

We also went to Nepal and India so I'm hoping more familiar places come up on the series.

We started in Hong Kong, worked our way north to Beijing, into Mongolia, back to Beijing and were really lucky with timings to get permits to Tibet and travelled through Tibet to the Nepalese border. Through Nepal, aross the north of India to Rajasthan, then flew south and travelled across the south of India.

I joked to DH that if we were still married by the time we got home from honeymoon, it was going to be a good marriage. Still going well 15+ years later

Race Across the World always makes me nostalgic. I'd love to have another go at that spontaneous style of travelling again.

Our arrangements in advance were flights in, flights out, 3 visas and the first hotel. The rest we made up on the go. The beauty of not having plans was being able to follow obscure recommendations as we went and being able to dodge events such as the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution that have a major impact on travel.and accommodation arrangements.

The first really different thing that struck me before we even got to the hotel was the bamboo scaffolding!

For the first time i found my attention drifting. It felt a bit overly sob/backstory heavy tonight. I do love the brothers though and their ability to see humour in situations. will help them as it gets more tiring and emotionally harder.

I’m finding this series less engaging so far. I prefer it when they are passing through more countries so you can compare and contrast. China is huge and has very distinctive regional differences. That’s not coming across when we’re mainly seeing bus and train stations. 😩

I agree, I really want to see other countries. I loved rural China tonight but I hope the next checkpoint takes them onto the next country. I'm also slightly miffed that they won't be going to Pakistan as parts of that are just a feast for the eyes!

Love the brothers. Think they are becoming my favourites.

That sounds amazing!

Me too. I was doing other things whilst watching (scrolling on here ) which is unusual for me when it’s RATW.

Gaz is definitely still in love, but he blew it there obviously.
Cant believe how China is so different in so many places. I still wouldn’t want to go there though
The sisters are amazing! I like the brothers , obviously chalk and cheese characters.
The welsh teenager was saying their lives were mostly stress free, but they must be working or at college or Uni ? I can’t remember what they said last week. They seem nice and doing well.
Tom and his mum might be the first out I think.

I thought that too-I’d much rather see more of the journey than hear their backgrounds.

Brothers still may favourites although that wheeled suitcase is annoying me!

I like Yin and Gaz too and agree he is still in love with her. It seems a shame they are separated when they still get on so well and clearly have affection for each other. I guess there must be more to it (contradicting myself now about not wanting the back story!)

Dare I say it, but I’m finding the very competent sisters a tad boring. Early days I suppose but they just seem to get places without any issues or arguments, where’s the fun in that?

Team Brian and Melvin FTW.