Travellers checks
| Published date | 06 April 2024 |
| Publication title | Huddersfield Daily Examiner |
They don't have access to their smartphones, the internet, or bank cards, so they get to travel the world in a totally new way - and be in with a chance of winning a lifechanging cash prize of £20,000.
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When Race Across the World returns to BBC1 for its fourth series, the teams will start their adventure in Japan. They set off from Sapporo, the capital city of northernmost island Hokkaido, and must make their way to Lombok in Indonesia via a number of checkpoints.
Ahead of the new series, let's hear from this year's travellers. There's Owen and Alfie, both 20, best friends from Hertfordshire; brother and sister Betty, 25, and James, 21, from Yorkshire; mother and daughter Eugenie, 60, and Isabel, 25, from Barking and Birmingham; Kent-based mother and daughter Sharon, 52, and Brydie, 25; and retired couple Stephen, 61, and Viv, 65, from Rutland.
Eugenie and Isabel, you're mother and daughter - why did you want to sign up? Isabel: The past few years, we've not really had that time to spend with one another, so it's about embracing that.
Eugenie: Our conversations could be a bit deeper emotionally. Sometimes we're at loggerheads - I say sometimes, because it's not all the time, but it's about learning how to understand each other.
Isabel: I almost think we don't know each other very well, so it's an opportunity to actually get to know each other.
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Eugenie: I think, for us, it's more emotional, it's more about understanding each other's emotions and feelings.
Alfie and Owen, you're the youngest racers this series. What do you think your biggest challenges will be?
Alfie: Finances and staying sane would be fair. Obviously, finances is the tangible one and I just think as time goes on we're going to get more and more dragged down, particularly if we're low on sleep, low on food, low on money, it's going to add up very quickly.
We're both quite young so we've still got that drive in us, but we'll see how that looks in week six with no sleep.
Owen: I can work in a high pressure situation as long as I don't let it get to my head too much. If I let it get to me that's when it would be a problem, but if I can keep the pressure out then I can deal with it.
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