I am not an inveterate traveller. I don’t particularly yearn to see distant lands or to backpack around the globe.
In my twenties, I was lucky that work took me overseas quite regularly. I enjoyed meeting new people and being in novel places – but even then I rarely took the chance to go and see the sights in whatever country I might be.
It won’t come as a surprise, therefore, that while many viewers of the BBC’s Race Across the World watch the show for adventure inspiration, I tend to view it with a growing sense of “rather them than me”.
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