Race Across The World Series 5 Thread 2

[TwentyKittens]

With only five posts left on the old thread, thought I'd start this so we can link between the two.

This thread carries on from the first:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5314933-race-across-the-world?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Oh yes, I read that one too. Wonder if he left work, went travelling with his mum (as I think they've been travelling together), then set up his business.

Well, I like all the contestants and find them all interesting in different ways. I enjoy hearing their back stories, seeing their enthusiasm, their struggles, the awe and wonder of their individual journeys too.

I don't like some of the character assassinations that I read on MN- remember all these people have families and friends. They have put themselves forward for this challenge to entertain us not to be called names/attacked. Be kind and enjoy the RATW conversation.

I don't think I've called anyone names but if people put themselves forward to be on TV in a show that, this year anyway, puts so much emphasis on backstories then they should be prepared for comments. Particularly if they are being economical with the truth.

Agree
and we get to watch people travelling across some wonderful countries and beautiful landscapes.

First and foremost though

It is a Race

I just feel that maybe she only got to do all the horsey stuff when it suited her husband.

So, yes, she’s had success at it but only when she wasn’t having to be the perfect old-style housewife (dinner parties for his clients, social events to help him climb the ladder etc).

I get the impression he will very much have insisted on being her No. 1 focus, pretty much told her what she had to do, and this may well have eroded her confidence despite being a successful horsewoman (if your success is unpaid and considered ‘a little hobby’ by a successful, high earning husband this can happen).

Maybe I’m projecting a bit, but I can identify with having what seems like the luxury of being a SAHM, when in face it’s soul destroying for much of the time. It can be a gilded cage.

That seems like a massive projection @SociableAtWork - there’s been no indication of any of that.

You’re pretty much saying she’s a victim of coercive control. I don’t see that at all. If your post reflects your own situation, then I hope you find a way out of what sounds like an unhealthy relationship.

If you read the article on P15, Caroline is a farmer’s wife. So unlikely to be doing many dinner parties for her husband’s clients or social events.

I really like this programme because I love vicarious travelling but this series has been way too much talking about relationships at the expense of real travel stuff.

I actually have no idea where they usually ate or slept the whole series and this is a huge part of travelling.

I'd also like to know how they managed in China with only cash.

I probably am projecting - and I did finally leave my own situation, thank you (and thank God!). Back then, coercive control wasn’t really identified.

I wasn’t meaning to speak badly about Caroline - or her husband - just offering an alternative view of the ‘I’m just a housewife’ narrative.

No offence intended and I hope none taken.

Companies House lists him as a barrister. Either way, you’d be unlikely to be inviting your clients to dinner.

I’m just relieved you found your way out!

Her husband's company was named in the Paradise/Pandora papers leaks.

He's as much a farmer as she is a housewife.

So Caroline's husband is a barrister and a farmer?

What’s the Paradise / Pandoras papers @TwentyKittens?

Completely different topic, but is anyone else surprised we haven't seen much to do with cricket? One shot on the intro to Mumbai I think, but nobody has done a related job or activity.

Sioned seems to have got the hang of India now, I think it was a baptism of fire in the initial very busy cities! I noticed she was wearing Loop earplugs in one episode which I thought was a good idea, take the edge of the traffic and all the honking a bit. Where they are now seems more relaxed.

I think Caroline loved it from the beginning, she seems energised by all the hustle and bustle.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/global-investigation-tax-havens-offshore/

Also see Panama papers.

I thought he was a barrister too.
I haven’t seen anything about him being a farmer

I sound incredibly ‘posh’ and use similar terms but was brought up working class with a labourer and cleaner for parents and my parents and ancestors way back where also dirt poor in Ireland.
No idea why I sound the way I do, my cousin sounds the same.

We really shouldn’t judge based on accents and words.

In the same way as Jeremy Clarkson is a farmer you mean?

I found Melvyn and Brian quite smug this week. They really weren’t expecting to come last. I don’t really get the love for them on here. I mean they’re OK, but I clearly don’t see what some of you see in them.

Caroline and Tom for the win for me!

Fin and Sioned don’t have a healthy budget left do they

Caroline describes herself as a farmer's wife in an article in Horse and Hound.

I didn't notice the Loops, I wonder if she brought them with her, or if they either managed to source some, or even if the medic team 'prescribed' them.

Yes - very privileged people like Caroline can’t see their privilege.

But how do you know Caroline can't see her privilege? Granted, she hasn't mentioned this, but TV producers construct a narrative- Caroline may well have then said something like, I recognise how lucky I have been, but it's been cut.

I think Caroline's narrative has done her any favours btw.