Race Across the World

[Liquorandvinegar]

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!

Who are the brother and sister?

There is no brother and sister. There are 2 brothers and 2 sisters, separate couples.

They're boyfriend and girlfriend i thought.

I think you mean the young couple - who are a couple, not brother and sister (they do look a bit similar, to be fair).

I enjoyed it. found the mum and son a bit irritating though.
ike the 2 sisters best at the moment, but its very early days.

That was so funny. The "toilet" was so disgusting, and the key in the door was just the icing on the cake.

The Welsh ones? They aren't brother and sister.

They are teenagers in love in a quiet Welsh village and so sweet. Fin has type 1 diabetes and Sioned has already said she's fed up with making all the decisions. But they obviously adore each other.

The Welsh couple did so well considering they are so young and seem to have hardly been out of Wales. Contrasting with Posh boy who had been 'travelling' and seemed super confident

Im first generation and my dad insisted on English being spoken at home. So we would integrate.

I did like the brothers having a giggling fit at their room.

I like yin and gaz the best so far. And the sisters. They’re all likeable to be fair. Love ratw. Makes me want to travel again.

Welsh young couple are Fin and Sioned 20/19.

Brothers are Brian and Melvyn in their 60s

Ex couple but good friends are Yin and Gaz in 50s

Mother and son are Caroline and Tom 60 and 21

Sisters Letitia and Elizabeth, 26 and 33

Just posting to remember 😄

I have no idea how they're all going to cope with such a meagre daily income.

They'll need to do a lot of work and free stay efforts.

I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm mindful that the mum may very well be a Mumsnetter and there have been a few negative comments about her already- please be gentle!

I think Patsy Palmer is beautiful and I very much meant it as a compliment.

Oh I love the mum and son combo - both very emotionally intelligent and supportive of each other. I think they will do well after initial wobble.

I also adore the brothers - the key was hilarious 😆

We hadn’t watched any of the regular shows of this, just the Celeb versions so watching regular people one for the first time and so far, loving it. I’m a bit in awe of all of them, what a fabulous opportunity they’ve got to take on such a challenge, I like all of them but as a 60 year old, I really admire the older people who are taking part.

We also lived in Beijing for a while about a decade ago and I picked up a few words of Mandarin but not as much as Letitia, she did really well particularly on the bus. Its a very hard k gauge to learn as it so tonal, I wonder how long ago she lived there to have retained so much.

Yes so do I! I didn't mean your message, just that a few people have said they find her annoying.

@Femalefootyfan

Mandarin is a popular language taught in many countries in Africa, which the sisters have travelled to. Kenya has introduced it onto the national curriculum. Makes sense given trade connections between China, provinces within and various African countries.

But if she grew up learning Cantonese (spoken and written) she should be able to understand the majority of spoken mandarin and the writing. DH native language is Cantonese but he understand and can read both.

Haha that kiss makes a lot more sense now !! I wondered why no one else had mentioned it
i need to pay more attention when watching

Letitia said she only lived for 6 months in china, i think, so it really helped her, agree about the happy family with the pomegranetes.

I don't think it's that strange she can't speak Mandarin or Cantonese. My dad was a second generation immigrant growing up in the 50s, they were the only non white, non British family on their road and in their school. Survival was based on integration and his parents didn't speak their native language in the home.

Ah, thanks, I didn’t realise that