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Jsamoan
  • 6/5/2025
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00:00Oh
00:30wow this is picturesque india really has it all though it really does yeah ready selfie
00:39is that better no i missed you which is good
00:44gear national park the only place outside of africa where lions still roam in the wild
00:52these big cats were hunted close to extinction before 1900 when the navab of junaga turned his
01:01hunting ground into india's first wildlife sanctuary
01:08and today it's home to a thriving population of lions once more oh look down there it's beautiful
01:16it's just an oasis of calm and it makes the stress of the race so worth it being on a safari
01:26it's amazing not thinking about the race just yeah having this experience together
01:31it's lovely just to drive around it's lovely isn't it really it's being the dream to feel the wind in
01:36your hair how fast can lions run 60 60 kilometers and how fast can this go oh my gosh oh there's a
01:52there's a lion in a cup that is so magical that is so gorgeous
02:00that's incredible i didn't think we were going to see this at all
02:04the lion down on a snooze in the middle of the road wow
02:14oh my god that was super it was wasn't it mate it was great that that is genuinely a
02:20serious that once in a lifetime i think excited it just surprised me yet again
02:34good morning sir 5 25 a.m this is for you thank you thank you so much sir as brian and melvin were
02:46first to reach the checkpoint they're now first to leave all right we'll go and have a look
02:54in the penultimate leg just six and a half hours separate the brothers and last place
03:00the closest the race has been so far see where we're going hey ready
03:07your seventh checkpoint is panadji panadji panadji never heard of it
03:19it's here bloody hell mate well spotted oh it's on the coast that could be sea sand and beer
03:25almost 1500 kilometers south of sassangir
03:33panadji the capital of goa india's smallest state until 1961 it was under the yoke of portuguese
03:43colonial rule now it's palm fringed beaches are visited by both nesting turtles and millions of
03:50tourists each year the decision we've got to make is do we go back on ourselves using the same route
04:00or do we cut across the bay their first decision how to get off the kartyavar peninsula
04:09they could opt for a ferry but with only two crossings a day timing the connection is key
04:14or retrace their steps north on land before heading south to goa the ferry brings you all
04:24the way south to south it's going to save you 12 hours today once off the peninsula a choice skirt the
04:32konkan coastline via the mega city of mumbai a more direct but popular route where demand for tickets is
04:40high or veer inland through the deccan traps one of the largest igneous areas of the world here they
04:50may avoid the crowds but could add mileage to their journey the mumbai is one of the busiest cities in
04:58in india beat beat blah blah smog smog you don't want to go to mumbai
05:03hmm i'm not that bothered about it i would sooner go in the countryside yeah i'm well up for that
05:10right okay we've got a very early start which gives us a chance to get to the ferry port we need to get
05:16there as quickly as possible okay if we're going to win this race we've got to take a chance we could
05:23stretch a lead by taking the chance now thanks very much my thank you if we can get to that ferry port
05:30knowing that let's say there was only one ferry and another couple turns up as the ferry's pulling
05:35away they'd be cruel wouldn't they we're away
05:42okay let's go leaving the checkpoint two hours behind the leaders wow we're going down
05:48wow okay caroline and tom right what i really want to do is go the most direct route to checkpoint
05:57straight down i think mumbai might be a really good option um possibly a time to try a train
06:05yeah i think we have to brave it it would be good for connections i know we're a bit threatened by
06:10bigger cities but this is leg seven it started off as a marathon in china and we're basically now on
06:16the sprint so i think this is really important that we face our fears so rather than being worried
06:23by mumbai and avoiding it we're actually going to try and use it as the best connection for our race
06:30i'm feeling weirdly excited about this leg i've no idea what mumbai has in store for us
06:35but i'm keeping my mind open right what are we doing to try hitch
06:43hi could you take us into the bus station please
06:45we've already relinquished our first place and that doesn't feel good
06:51we really want to battle to get that back so we will have to really dig deep
06:55this is a good start great start
07:06where do we buy tickets from
07:10tickets thank you thank you already at the ferry port current race leaders brian and melvin
07:17well at least we made it well i'll let you know when i've got a chicken in my hand all right
07:22we don't know how much it is so whatever it is this is the gamble we're taking
07:31hello hello can we please have two tickets to get over the water just a rat
07:37two class available eight five zero business class one ticket price second class slipper class nine
07:43double zero okay we'll take business then is that what's business yeah it's 850. business is
07:48eight five zero eight for slipper class nine double zero it's much the cheapest eight fifty
07:56eight five zero eight five zero is the cheapest well figured out melvin when we were younger used to
08:01beat me up that's the fact i honestly do not remember you did you used to get me in headlocks
08:08well it's always worth tripling what about the second class the agency's just said two classes
08:14available business or sleeping you're not listening you reckon i need me here syringing
08:21but nowadays we have had different opinions occasionally um we both support the same football
08:26team yeah but uh i don't think we're the bickering type
08:30i think we might have achieved our aim today i think we're in front on the first night
08:36how long would it take you do you think to get on the bus to go from where we were
08:40to surat by road how long or rail at least two days two days so in theory we could have sneaked
08:48today it is possible other teams can make it here and catch this ferry well nobody else here it's
08:55early days melv so let's not count our chickens i don't think many will actually not do what we're
09:04doing i'm not so keen on the ferry next to depart hello can we go to bus stop let's go bus stop yeah
09:15elizabeth and leticia let's do this we're only a couple of hours behind like anything could happen
09:22yeah i think the more i'm getting closer to the finale the more competitive i'm getting
09:28cello cello cello go go go go thank you thank you thank you thank you maybe we can get a train train
09:36to mumbai to go straight down yeah sticking to roads and rail the sisters plan to head north off the
09:45peninsula before picking up speed along the coast i feel like there's more pressure when everyone's so close
09:51like there's no room for mistakes there's no room for taking the wrong transportation there's no room
09:56for error right i want to do what we did last leg but faster ready to start chasing down their
10:04competitors let's go finn and seanet brian and melvin are first but only six hours ahead of us
10:11considering we just caught up about 26 hours that's easily doable it's all to play for and it shows that
10:18as possible with what we've just done so for the next leg and the last leg first first
10:28all along the coast to mumbai i think it's probably the fastest option hoping to replicate
10:33their successful strategy of back-to-back transport the couple plan to make for vedodara before the day is
10:40out go try hitchhike okay three three no no we know we need to be communicating with locals more
10:53i feel like i'm growing in confidence for the next two legs we need to ask a lot more questions to get a
10:59lot of people's help without asking questions we definitely wouldn't have got as far please stop
11:05please stop yay oh my god to the bus station oh wow yeah thank you very much thank you
11:14that went well though that was unbelievable we should be proud of ourselves for that
11:18hello we're trying to get to the bavnagar yeah bus bus two tickets perfect thanks sir bus
11:32hopping their way along the coast towards bavnagar caroline and tom have made it to diu
11:3998 kilometers southeast of sassangir
11:42linked to gujarat's southern coast by a bridge it's home to a 16th century fort standing watch over
11:51the arabian sea i like things like this obviously restoring this yeah it's lovely though thomas
12:00should we pop a squat yeah yeah pop a squat
12:05the further we get the closer we're getting towards the finish line now
12:08i think we should try and just work on helping each other as much as we can
12:12because it's only going to get more stressful it was easier to start with because i felt i had a
12:17more maternal role so i was helping you and now i don't know if i'm frightened making the wrong
12:21decision last leg there was one point where i was kind of left to make a big decision and then you didn't
12:27help me as much as i would have liked you're a very confident person but but when it comes to making
12:33a decision i feel like you're kind of holding yourself back a little bit but thomas you must
12:38be aware at home i'm not used to making decisions the last 20 years i haven't had to make them
12:43i think you're worried that when you go home it's going to slip back into normal life yeah
12:50i have been perhaps getting a little bit stuck in a rut i'd like that to change i want you to back
12:57yourself a bit more you're still my amazing mum
13:03i'd really love to know that i am capable of doing whatever i choose to do in the future
13:08we're going to go a beach because i was quite capable before and i'd like to feel i am capable
13:14again just feels really tropical already it does wow oh my golly look at this it's incredible isn't it
13:22and we were in jungle only two hours away oh my god it's beautiful it is lovely you inevitably
13:29sacrifice so much to be a parent you willingly do it but it often takes a toll on you and i think
13:36that contributes to making you a little bit old and possibly in my case boring thomas oh no way yes
13:46he's going up i don't know how many summers i've got left it would be shame
13:51not to live life to the full wow that looks so fun do you think you'd ever do that god yes
13:58definitely would you yes maybe i don't have to do what others think might be expected of me
14:07tell us we've got to be at the bus station
14:08well let us off first which is good yeah i feel like any minute i'm going to get run over my motorbike
14:21after catching the last ferry of the day brian and melvin are the only team to have made it off the
14:27peninsula my gut feeling is that we're still ahead at the moment because we didn't see anybody else on
14:33the ferry and we've got to capitalize on that job done yes
14:41470 kilometers north
14:47fenn and shawned are trading sleep for speed on an overnight bus to vedodara
14:52it's very loud but we can't complain oh right now it was about 2.50 each for the tickets yeah
15:02there's so much going on
15:05whoa it feels like i'm in a horror film
15:08i'm so tired
15:18i don't think it's worth going to the ferry plotting their route and we already have a
15:23solution staring us in the face barring disaster we get there tomorrow morning we're exactly where
15:27we want to be let's do it caroline and tom have found a 15-hour bus ah we're going to be in the
15:33lightning that is bloody good i think that will take them all the way to mumbai
15:40at last we're on the go on the move on the way to mumbai
15:46let's go to the bus station last to secure transport off the peninsula
15:51can you say straight if we can ask along the way yeah elizabeth and letitia are determined to reach
15:58palgar a town 87 kilometers north of mumbai
16:05hello is there direct please to palgar direct okay surat and then palgar
16:13how long time 10 hours 10 hours
16:18well we know there's a bus to surat in 15 minutes but that would require us changing again
16:29yeah so it's not really ideal
16:33should we just go to a train station okay maybe that's a direct train yeah yeah i have a good
16:39feeling letitia with the gut instinct yeah i feel like that chat the last leg definitely um
16:46benefited us and yeah i feel like we are more comfortable around each other we are communicating
16:51better we are um yeah cooperating yeah it's working out for us yeah ready let's go searching for a
16:59better option letitia's hunch take a gamble on the trains hello we want to go to howard gar
17:12that's good okay yes we want to get back to it i definitely think that literature has changed
17:19from the younger sister that i remember when we were growing up well this is smooth
17:25is it i feel like you've definitely got a knack for it she is more determined than i thought and
17:34maybe even more determined than she thought as well now she can't even go back on herself she
17:38can't say that she can't do things because it's very very clear that she can do a lot
17:43i was so confident in that so it's a good decision okay that's good your confidence gave me
17:49conscience i think it worked really well yeah if it's first leg we would have jumped on that bus
17:57i thought yeah i think i still would have jumped on the bus if it wasn't for you so yeah yeah feeling
18:05happy we have booked onward travel so we're on the move
18:10plan of attack is to get to nashik the wine capital of india i'll leave the wine to brian i think on
18:23this i'm quite happy with that you've got your parasita keen to swerve mumbai brian and melvin are
18:29the only team heading inland to a region known for its 175 000 acres of vineyards
18:36islands maybe england is uh popular for their football yeah uh we support derby county in india
18:44only no manchester city and manchester united yeah that's the trouble you see they need to learn
18:49about a proper football club hey so you guys are visiting india yeah so we're going down to
18:56there panji goa panjiga oh on the way you're going to um valoon vineyard yeah
19:02when you reach nasik uh there are local buses
19:12we've got the whole bus involved everybody's helping these guys are going near igatpuri place
19:18they will help you thank you there's a plan the plan is formulating right brilliant that's very helpful
19:25without people like you we we get lost you're brilliant thank you so you've been very helpful
19:30nice to meet you thank you thank you i'll see you soon happy journey for you thank you thank you
19:37we're getting close i can smell the wine quite a way actually isn't it yeah it was a five hour bus
19:44trip it's eight hours all together long day uh it is what it is bro we'll get there today but it's not
19:52that bad really is it could be snowy
20:02340 kilometers to the north the gujarati city of adhodara
20:09across india on myriad street corners chai valas serve up steaming cups of sweet
20:23spiced tea from the roadside stalls vishnu has been serving his local community for over 30 years
20:31well that's a lot of sugar hello chai and for finn and shawn ed with the lowest remaining budget of
20:40any team it's an opportunity to earn some rupees there we go
20:48choice okay one iced tea three chai okay
20:52how long are you guys in india about four weeks all together is this yours yeah yes there you go
21:00thank you um so yeah now we're working our way to mumbai now nice yeah after mumbai uh after
21:04mumbai we're going to panjim down south
21:08shirad's got on i think better than me she's got stuck in thank you thank you i already see that she
21:14is gaining confidence 18 rupees well it was hard for the start and i do think slowly she's overcome a
21:22lot of challenges good poor natural there we go thank you there we go to try i've been chatting away to
21:34some customers and yeah it's been nice okay this race is off the scale something to be proud of
21:48it's nice to say i am proud of something because normally it's just i'm proud to be welsh
21:54finished finished yay hello hello how's your experience in india yeah it's really good so far we're going
22:04to goa that's a good game is it nice i haven't been there you haven't it's a dream for all indians
22:10really oh wow yeah do you know if this train's from mumbai to goa yeah it's a there's a direct train
22:17direct yeah it's always for your book you have to rebook like a couple of months ahead wow one of
22:24the reason i cancelled my plan for goa was that i didn't got any reservation in three oh okay
22:32that's made me nervous now months months in advance
22:37bye bishnu
22:41i've got a bit of nerves about getting out of mumbai because of what the woman
22:47uh the chai shop said i mean on this stage in the race it's really hard to make a decision because
22:53you really cannot go wrong only 50 rubies 50 rubies perfect any holdups can cost us a lot
23:05while finn and sean ed consider their options
23:10so you go up with the ladder just 60 kilometers to the north
23:15oh it actually wasn't nice being at the top here you could see everything
23:19elizabeth and leticia are trying something new
23:24it's our first super train on this race today where it's gone really really well actually
23:32i'm really learning from the tissues i think the dishes got
23:35it's magic instinct your feet hanging out a little bit oh i don't think i like that like
23:44just people walking past and they get a lovely stench
23:46it's actually more comfortable with some of the beds
23:56well i don't know what we let ourselves in for
23:58no neither do i don't after more than 10 hours on the road it does seem a bit
24:04way out doesn't it completely off the beaten track i'm thinking how we're going to get away from
24:09here tomorrow brian and melvin have finally arrived at their destination hiya hi the valany vineyards
24:17in igat puri on the outskirts of nashik
24:22we've made good progress today but it's been a very long day very tiring day this is your
24:28home sir please all right ah we've got a room with two beds no we don't have any i can uh give you
24:36some mattress uh that's right and yeah can we have another much another mattress then yeah no problem
24:42i'll do that we've paid four and a half thousand rupees for the room here it's the most expensive
24:47room that we've had in the whole of india do you get many people stay here they want single rooms
24:55in there we are taking only for the marriage well i'm gonna put the kettle on i'm gonna have a cup of tea
25:12all right let's roll the first team to set foot in mumbai are you ready let's go caroline and tom
25:20are looking for a way out have you seen anything like it this is really quite something
25:33once an archipelago mumbai was initially composed of seven islands that were joined together under the
25:40watch of the east india company in the 19th century today home to 21 million people it's known as the city
25:50of dreams is it possible to book tickets here please i want to go to panji as close as possible one way
26:00two people please not this it not here you can't do it here oh no sorry okay he's just told me to wait
26:11hello so do you speak english oh thank you hello so do you speak english trying to go to panji okay i
26:23don't think you get the ticket over here from this is only one local train you can go to church gate
26:28from church gate you book our ticket lovely okay thank you so much you're welcome thank mom i found the
26:34answer you can only go within the state at this station because this is a local train station okay
26:41well done but the train is not very fun but we are going to conquer it
26:47right platform five yeah oh it's quite a busy train station oh my god
26:56the pair must master a train network that carries over seven and a half million commuters every day
27:04eight 24 whoo glad you're feeling it church gate
27:12oh oh for god's sake let's move down move down where i don't like this oh my god
27:20so i can't scramble with this lot i haven't got a home
27:24oh well okay let's go yes come on thomas okay okay go go go there you go first train
27:37we're on the move
27:40this experience is just making me feel so alive
27:43i think that was the best overnight bus of being on thank you
28:05oh 150 kilometers southeast after changing tag to avoid mumbai
28:14finn and seanid have arrived in the city of punay
28:19i feel like it was a good decision to make changing from mumbai to punay especially after what we heard
28:25from other people back in vatidara so i think i feel better about this decision yeah i'm just hoping that
28:31this this route is definitely benefiting our race and is a little bit quicker than mumbai would have been
28:37eager to keep moving hello hello do you go to pun gym they're searching for a direct bus to the checkpoint
28:467 30 p.m tomorrow oh right that's not good is there anything earlier before
28:54nothing nothing before seven okay okay okay thank you must be something do you go to goa panjim
29:06only night tomorrow everyone ah do trains go in the day no trains full full maybe we should have gone to
29:16Mumbai then the earliest we could get directly to panjim from here is tomorrow night so
29:26we're gonna have to find another option we're here we could go to kola pur which is like midway
29:36if we get in there we can take a taxi from there
29:39is that a ticket place i think so i think i've adapted and i'm actually getting used to how things
29:50work around here and how busy places are this one around there thank you i mean it's not going to
29:59change for me so it's either get used to it or go home so it's heads down and do the best we can
30:06what times to call i put tomorrow 12 30 30. oh yay that's what time does it get to kola pur
30:13five o'clock can we book two tickets thank you
30:35it's great loads of great loads of grapes isn't it yeah in return for discounted accommodation
30:45and a chance to sample the produce so that needs to be up there like that
30:51brian and melvin are training vines
30:55whoa that's good we will train our wines so when sun goes from east to west the bunches are
31:02constantly exposed to the sunlight right at an altitude of 2 000 feet india's wine capital nasik
31:10is framed by the 150 million year old western ghats a mountain range older than the himalayas
31:18so we generally give our vineyard boys the target right so for you four rows four rows that's fine four
31:29rows okay i'm certainly a gold gold given man i will smash my target and normally i'd say i would go on
31:38to surpass it but maybe not on this one occasion brian doesn't like to come second
31:49he beat me at rummicum and he's in your face with it you know and i like that about him do
31:54you know we've done about six now don't you melvin i've done eight on me own
31:58his determination and will to succeed i think it's made him extremely successful
32:07that's it well they're talking to me oh the bride comes along like a bully in a china shop and knocks
32:13it out again i'm sorry right melvin's a grafter he's ambitious he's driven he has had a lot of jobs
32:24but he's done very well at them he's been keen he's got promotions and he's moved on yeah i'm proud
32:31of him um and maybe i should tell him i thought we're doing our over quota well you're just enjoying
32:39it mel the best way to learn more about wines is to taste them and you mean taste not drink moderation
32:48is is good yeah yeah drinking in moderation is good thank you yeah cheers mate well done cheers
33:02oh that is marvelous look at the view it's nice isn't it
33:10you've got a leg and a half to go and i know we're always conscious of the next leg and and
33:16it's nice to not think about it for an hour isn't it yeah when we come to places like this and we
33:23think well we're going to do a little bit of work and then you think well we can actually chill for
33:26a few hours it's nice this race has has pulled something out of us i think i think i think it's
33:36it has brought us together i think the last few weeks we've found out we're more similar than we
33:41think yeah similar traits we are sharing things more now we're not just brian on his own or melvin
33:47on his own it's it's brian and melvin yeah and and and as long as we remember that that we're all
33:52there for each other yeah which which which which which we will well like we might piss each other
33:58off from time to time but the fact is we're brothers yeah well i think it's a brilliant change in
34:04our relationship before the race i can't imagine brian and i do it talking the way we've we've
34:11spoken over the last six seven weeks our relationship will only get better now once
34:16this race is finished we'll speak to each other more doing something together whether it's if we
34:21hired a villa somewhere or other i'll bring all the kids over and then you come over um for
34:26a few days or whatever you want it'd be brilliant i'm not a bigger lovey-dovey bloke but yeah yeah i
34:35love him really i wouldn't tell him that to his face i don't mind that i've got to be honest jesus
34:44i don't think i'd ever say to brian i love him even though i'm sure he knows i do
34:49i i am absolutely delighted to have done this adventure uh with you
35:00i couldn't think of anybody else i'd rather do it with no we've done we've done okay mel yeah
35:10we need to we need to shift mate because we're we're back in the races from now
35:13so let's go i should bug her off oh dear i'll get home i like it
35:23passenger reservation office first floor still in mumbai with the correct station located
35:30hello we'd like to get two tickets to panji caroline and tom now face the trickier task
35:37of getting hold of tickets there's a train by 50 in the morning from csv it reaches magdal by three o'clock
35:47that's pretty good two of us please
35:57okay okay wait so
35:59now you have to put your tickets and then tomorrow morning go to the station one hour before the train
36:04depart we had to check whether they have got a confirmed or not and then according to you how
36:09to travel the ticket isn't guaranteed yeah it's not bad it's it's a bit risky yeah but if we wait it'll
36:18be another day i think we have to do that okay let's put the tickets obviously being on the waiting list
36:26is a worry we asked about trains later on in the day and they are fully booked i'm really hoping it
36:33just goes our way and we turn up tomorrow and they say yes you've got seats that would be amazing
36:37so we just had to take the gamble and we'll have to wait and see
36:43taking the risk on the 5 50 a.m train tomorrow towards panaji let's go let's go leave the pair free
36:50to indulge in some sightseeing mum look at that building i know it's beautiful it looks like it's
36:56got trees going inside of us and one of the city's most eclectic neighborhoods bandra where modern high
37:04rises sits side by side with crumbling indo-portuguese bungalows everything's so individual and different
37:12and colorful and graffitied streets are lined with catholic shrines and grottoes
37:20what are these oh yeah it's called it's like the street food these are like what walls with uh spicy and
37:28are they nice really nice you should eat some yeah you should try some yeah is it really spicy
37:35it's a bit spicy oh my god now on the race i think i've seen mum more carefree she's really
37:53confident excuse me could i taste the sugar cane please
37:59oh my god is that nice it is like a milkshake is it
38:11oh that's so yum it's not quite a coffee it's lovely isn't it i have to admit i really like mumbai
38:20oh thank you very much oh at last
38:29it's just been the best day this race has given me newfound confidence that there are things i can do
38:46i would like to make some changes when i get home i've always felt a great sense of guilt if i wanted
38:52to do something for myself or perhaps not that the family first which most parents do under completely
38:58understandably but now i feel if i want to do something i can find something that i absolutely
39:04love and follow it through right should we get going i think we should get to bed because we've got an
39:12early start tomorrow tomorrow is going to be a a stressful day it's just the worry of not knowing
39:19for certain that we're going to get on that train and that we're going to make it to checkpoint tomorrow
39:2412 hours from now the train leaves actually right
39:31while caroline and tom wait to learn whether they've secured tickets
39:40brian and melvin are competing with local traffic
39:43it's not really affordable for those who have bloody heard on them it's actually milking time in it the
39:52bloody daring
39:56whilst 100 kilometers west elizabeth and letitia have made it to the outskirts of palgar
40:02to work at a retreat run by the chavra family so lovely to have you they will prepare the evening meal
40:14for guests under the guidance of daughter ayana
40:18okay thank you that was so cute like cooking outdoors yeah it's really fun yeah in return
40:31discounted accommodation and a massage i love the architecture here like it's all open
40:39but you know you have some shelter it feels like you're in the jungle yeah
40:44that's what we wanted yeah very relaxing yeah it's it's mostly for people to come from the city and
40:50relax because like it's very chaotic there yeah
40:53and do you normally cook yeah i love cooking i started cooking when i was four years old wow
41:01how old are you i'm 15 15 15 you're so good
41:08so you've grown up here yeah it's nice it's peaceful quiet no i love the idea of retreat yeah i've been to
41:17a few retreats yeah and i would like to have my own retreat as well yeah i like that
41:26i've traveled a lot i've lived abroad and i've come back to my hometown and i've just been a bit
41:33stagnant really i've been a bit you know deciding what am i going to do with my life etc etc etc
41:39i started getting into going to retreats and it's definitely helped with understanding myself a
41:47little bit more being more confident in what i want to do and actually i would like to provide
41:53it for other people because i know how beneficial it's been for me i'm just excited for what the future
41:59i'll hold sit down yeah oh okay okay you're comfortable yes
42:21i'm very comfortable thank you
42:35i guess seeing my sister envision her dream about starting a retreat it does make me think oh what
42:40should i do you know which i feel like i'm still trying to figure out for myself
42:44before the race i think i definitely had a cycle of starting things not finishing things and just
42:55being upset about that like university i mean i lasted until you know over last year and then i was like
43:03actually no i don't want to do it i couldn't stay in a job really so long i just had the fear of failure
43:12scared of just putting myself out there such a weird sensation i don't know what to do with myself
43:21i'll embrace it i'll embrace it
43:26being in a race there's so many things you can fail at small things like communicating with people
43:32getting rejected that's like a sense of failing and that was happening on the daily
43:36you just have to become comfortable with failure
43:45it's toughened me up i would like to have that feeling um just completing something that i've worked
43:54hard on and um i've tried my best on oh this is lovely
44:06well being you can just yeah feel isn't it yeah i definitely wish we were here for longer
44:12right let's go 200 kilometers southeast on the outskirts of pune
44:27this place is absolutely beautiful this looks really nice finn and sean ed are embracing the great
44:32outdoors oh wow look at that everyone's chilling having a good time it's cute good vibes at pauna lake
44:41a popular campsite destination for locals seeking a weekend getaway from the cities of pune and mumbai
44:49i love being here with you yeah i mean we're together a lot of home anyway but
44:53we've not had a breather from each other no and somehow still kicking yeah i know
44:59do you think after in the finish line do you think you could carry on i don't think i'd want to go on
45:03for longer i think i'd want to go home for a little bit see everyone but then i do think
45:09i'll have that itch again to go traveling so i honestly think give me three days at the finish line
45:15i'll go again it just makes it just inspires me to i want to do more things
45:20i do just want to see more of the world yeah do a lot of fun things first
45:26then all the serious stuff we are still young before coming on the race all i was thinking was
45:35the house the family marriage all of that stuff the race has made me realize there's so much
45:44more that i'm able to do that i'm able to see i'm only 19 i've got the rest of my life to settle down
45:56just the kind of vibe going on here do you know the words it's between us you have come to show you go
46:13go on you could switch with it near far wherever you are
46:33oh this is so cute
46:39i don't think that was meant to happen
46:50good night i love you good night i love you
46:55i was quite cozy in here i need to pee
46:57Mumbai 5am
47:08good morning check out please thank you very much
47:13yeah i'm feeling really quite nervous just because there's still a chance that we're not going to
47:19make the train and then we're back to square one so all i need to do is find out that we've come off
47:25the reservation list list and we have reserve tickets which is what we're going to find out in
47:30the next five minutes i think so it's oh it affects our whole day
47:37why do we do this to ourselves this is awful
47:42with all other trains sold out it's their only chance to escape mumbai today
47:47passenger assistance hello sir hello we we need to get confirmed seats
47:58oh he's typing something okay we're at the right place
48:00well he's writing something oh my god
48:10ask him sorry to do do we do we have seats
48:15so we we have seats we have seats oh
48:25so it's it's coach number six 38 39
48:32it was all worth it look at that oh i am absolutely over the move all the worry of yesterday despite
48:39really enjoying my day this was at the back of my mind it just makes it all worthwhile that we might
48:43be getting there so exciting
48:48seven plus on seven okay just 22 kilometers northeast of mumbai
48:54first one that's just arriving elizabeth and letitia are also taking advantage of the indian rail network
49:01come in come in come in come in come in no lovely we're getting close to checkpoint and we get
49:09there today we get that today and you had a vision of getting there today yeah i'm happy we're getting
49:16there today we are planning to buy some tickets where are you planning to go right now uh panji tonight
49:28lining up their last transfer to checkpoint brian and melvin
49:40okay we'll wait here then for 45 minutes that is brilliant
49:45i'm actually quite confident that because we caught that ferry on the first day
49:50if you had to go back up and back down again that's a 12-hour trip that took us four hours
49:55so in theory that gives you an eight hour lead do you guys speak english do you know how much a taxi
50:03would be from kolapur to panjin leaning on locals for a little help
50:08do you want to go tomorrow tonight today after this bus finn and sean it we're just wondering like how much a taxi would be and how do we get a taxi
50:17if you want i can take it out of my children oh that would be really good if you could yeah thank you so much
50:25i mean if we can get it if we can get it sorted for us i mean
50:28it would be half it
50:29it's a very kind man it's just actually really helped us out
50:42it does really prove that just having that a little bit of extra confidence to just speak to people
51:01can work wonders really our wife prepared a special dish brilliant you try all of you try oh it's still hot
51:15that's really good spicy we've learned along the way people in india are very hospitable
51:21and very giving and just want to help all the time it's really good it's very good your wife makes
51:30absolutely lovely foods very nice you could say that we've learned it too late but i think we've
51:37learned it just in time really because we're taking it into that last final lag hey no it's yours it's
51:43your food i hope you need are you sure oh thank you so much oh he's so sweet so yeah we're very happy
51:54transport to checkpoint is just all organized now so yeah i do like the biryani so good
52:13ready yeah go after an 11-hour bus
52:19humid isn't it sticky brian and melvin have arrived in panagi
52:27on the banks of the mondovey river goes regional capital is a jumble of colorful streets
52:36towered over by the sparkling our lady of the immaculate conception church
52:44along the coast bamberlin bay and the seventh checkpoint in the race
52:49on foot head through the colorful street and turn right after the temple and find the panjim's
53:00people's gallery colourful street street this is a colorful street in it keep coming mel that's the
53:09temple right there right is it left or is it right would be wouldn't the choice of three
53:16which one would you normally pick well there's more people down right you go that way i'd go that
53:20way so let's go that way nah this way trust me here you go panjin people's gallery you were
53:28right first time head through the village up the incline street to reach the immaculate conception
53:36church incline i'm just starting to sweat a bit what's the name of the church the immaculate
53:44conception excuse me do you know where the immaculate conception church is is that it could be
53:51it's good i just asked this chat that's it
53:54the yacht by tuk tuk or taxi travel to the checkpoint hotel the grand hyatt and check in at reception on
54:03the first floor tuk tuk yeah we're going the grand hyatt yeah how much mate
54:07how much mate five hundred good lad thank you go go go are we going to be first are we going to be
54:15second are we going to be third or what i don't know i don't see what we could have done any better
54:20on the leg but who knows we both know that if we could get a bit of a lead on this leg
54:26we've got a chance yeah we've got a bit of a jackson haven't we
54:30there you go well right excellent thank you so much thank you mate thank you
54:35thank you wow this looks a bit special doesn't it lovely view it is lovely isn't it
54:42uh here you go mel it's here it's here hello mate good morning good morning how are you welcome to
54:52grand head go please sign in here thank you congratulations you have successfully reached
54:58your seventh checkpoint please sign in over leaf you ready yeah
55:05i don't know how we've done that i don't know how we've done that bollocks
55:16this place is incredible reception thank you thank you come to the left go to the left
55:23oh don't tell us come on keep going nearly there oh here it is yes yes yes yes yes yes yes hello
55:31hi okay okay okay you ready yeah oh my god oh my god oh thank you
55:43i can't believe we are first it's the most incredible feeling three's a charm
55:48and i think if we can win on the final leg win three times it would just be fantastic
55:55oh it would be nice to come first but you know maybe you've asked for the last leg
56:06oh okay it's fine because we're all still very close together it's not like we've fallen behind again
56:15yeah yeah yeah yeah no we should be very happy with that at least we're not 31 hours behind
56:21i know and we're not fourth anymore exactly okay after nearly 13 000 kilometers only eight hours
56:28separates the top three teams going into the final leg for brian and melvin a 17-hour gap to close
56:36we didn't expect it before i've got to be honest the only people that we can blame is us yeah um so
56:46we've we've we've cocked it up mumbai would have had an infrastructure of transport links and what we
56:53did is that we avoided that so we've avoided all of those fast transport routes it's all in last leg
56:59isn't it yeah we've moved from fourth to first before and we'll do it again it is what it is we're
57:07not despondent we'll get out there for the eighth leg and we'll hammer it well we will give it the best
57:11shot it all comes down to now it does we've seen the world and now we're racing
57:19let's go come on oh that's all right isn't it one mishap could jeopardize our position why can't we
57:27catch up 19 hours everybody knows that you can catch up time run sean edmund we just need to get
57:34that extra little push to win i think we can do it vote vote vote if thomas and i can win this race
57:40it will mean the world to me i feel the pressure's on let's go go go faster it's all down to this book
57:50why does the book hold this much power
58:03you
58:06you
58:18you