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Originally Posted by John-DownUnder
We won't get the LWD TV series here in Australia for a while. They are currently showing a re-run of LWR on one network. So I bought the LWD book. It has already been discounted at one big outlet from AU$35 to AU$25. I have covered two-thirds of the book and for the first third, both Charlie and Ewan continually complain about being rushed. Both are quite pi$$ed-off about not spending enough time in each country and having to stick to a schedule. This even causes a lot of tension in their larger group. Was this featured in the TV series?
Earlier they did the visit to Rachel House (in Scotland, for terminally ill kids), then a Kenya detour on Riders for Health. I am now up to where they are in Ethiopia/Eritrea and things have settled a bit. The focus at this point is UNICEF and land-mines killing and disfiguring people (especially children). These things seem to be a significant aspect of the whole trip. In fact, it was an earlier UNICEF visit to Africa, and MotoGP exposure to Riders for Health, that inspired the LWD trip. Not much has been said in this thread about these humanitarian aspects being part of it all.
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your reading seems to be in time with the UK tele release. I missed the 1st episode. So I can speak to the Rachel house, but yes both the Riders for health and Unicef bits are in the show. But unfortunately like most tele things it really does just come off as a Celb taking a few shots with the unfortunate wearing charity X's shirt and then they piss off to act like nobs at a camp ground. there is no mention of giving them actually giving them any help. So it does not really seem to play a part in the show just a side line, so this is probably why there is little to no mention of it in the threads. The unicef one in particular kinda annoyed me, they show up; CB rants about how landmines only kills kids, EM crys, and the next shot they already forgot about it .. and are complaining about something trivial.
Funniely the thing that is really starting to get me goat is the really shit camera work.. there shots are really bad. LWD the shots were really good, but for some reason the editing the "pretty" shots out to show CB lighting his farts.. (yes i am a bit too in to my photo/videography.)
I do feel sorry for the pair, but at the end of the day they chose this ride. they both have more money they most of us do. they did not have to make this in to a comercal venture.. they could just do the ride for them selves...
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