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<font color="#ffff00">Look at this!</font>
<font color="#ffff00">What a stunning view.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">It is amazing.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Takes my breath away.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yeah. Wow.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">That's some gorge, isn't it?</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Look at the striations of the rock,</font>
<font color="#00ff00">the way they're going down</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">the lines.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Oh, the rock.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">The rock formation,</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">look, do you see, it's going down?</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Older men talking about rocks!</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Lucky me!</font>

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Peaking at 4,000m above sea level...

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..Zaamin National Park.

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Uzbekistan's oldest nature reserve.

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Home to more than 800 species
of plants and herbs,

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some with medicinal qualities.

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The juniper forests are believed
to have

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such powerful healing properties

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that in the 1970s
the Soviets built a sanitorium -

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a health resort
for lung patients perceived to be

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in need of its curative air.

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<font color="#00ffff">It's the sound of the water.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Exactly. Uh-huh.</font> <font color="#00ffff">It's so smoothing.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">Yeah.</font>

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Taking their own therapeutic break
before the next leg,

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Mark, Margo and Andrew.

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<font color="#00ffff">I think what's going to make a</font>
<font color="#00ffff">difference, going ahead, is budget.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Yes.</font> <font color="#ffff00">And our budget is cooked.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Look me in the eye,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">are you telling me the truth or not?</font>

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With just three legs remaining,
funds are dwindling.

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While Andrew and Molly have
the healthiest budget,

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they, alongside Mark and Margo,
are trailing the other two teams.

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<font color="#00ffff">The kids are young.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">They seem to be racing ahead.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Yes.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yes.</font> <font color="#00ffff">They've got enthusiasm.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Absolutely, yeah!</font>
<font color="#00ffff">They've got the energy.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yes.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">How's it going with Molly, though?</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Such a lovely girl.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Well, Molly... Molly has... I think</font>
<font color="#00ff00">has probably struggled this week.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">I've had to be the daddy to her.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Mm-hm.</font> <font color="#00ff00">It was tough.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">I have to be in control.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">But, maybe this leg,</font>
<font color="#00ff00">I kind of will step back</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">and let her go and make those calls.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">And live and die</font>
<font color="#00ff00">by those consequences.</font>

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THEY CHEER

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<font color="#ffff00">Do you think the youngsters will be</font>
<font color="#ffff00">doing that?</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Oh, I hope not.</font>

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BLEATING

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<font color="#ffff00">That looks so good!</font>
<font color="#ffff00">This looks incredible.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Do you reckon we can finish</font>
<font color="#00ff00">all this?</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">No.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Jo, if anyone can, it's you.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">Yeah, come on.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Come on, boys.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">I think it's quite nice</font>
<font color="#00ffff">that the young 'uns are together.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">It's really fun. I have to admit.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">It's a bit different</font>
<font color="#00ffff">travelling with your dad.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">We get on really well,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I'm very lucky for that,</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">but I can find it is different and</font>
<font color="#00ffff">it can be difficult at times.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Like, there's always that kind of,</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">he has final say</font>
<font color="#00ffff">because he's the dad.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">In this life there's only a few</font>
<font color="#00ff00">people you can rely on.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Best friends. And family.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Yeah, yeah, yeah.</font>
Look at his plate!

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<font color="#ffff00">That's a quarter of a sheep!</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">I'm eating all I can now.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Save the budget.</font>

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Have you got another sheep
on the way, coming after that?

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That's the only leg
you're going to win.

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<font color="#ffff00">Oh, God...!</font> <font color="#00ffff">Oh, bro!</font>

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5:30am.

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<font color="#ffff00">Super early. Shouldn't be arsed to</font>
<font color="#ffff00">leave the hotel before breakfast.</font>

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First to leave, with only a
40-minute lead, Katie and Harrison.

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<font color="#00ff00">This is for you.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Thank you so much.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Thank you. Here we go.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Your sixth checkpoint is...</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">..Almaty.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Know exactly where it is.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Back to Kazakhstan.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Exciting! Let's go!</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">We've only got a 40-minute lead,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">so...</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">I hope there's something</font>
<font color="#ffff00">at the bus station for us.</font>

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A journey of 1,500km

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in to the east of Kazakhstan,

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Almaty.

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A stark contrast to the vast steppe
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the city sits in the foothills
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Founded as a Russian frontier fort,

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an influence that remains visible
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and Soviet-era sculptures
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Since gaining independence
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it's evolved into the country's
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With over two million residents,
it's the largest city in Kazakhstan.

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<font color="#ffff00">Right.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">How are we getting to Almaty?</font>

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{\an8}<font color="#ffff00">Looks like we could partially head</font>
<font color="#ffff00">through Kyrgyzstan, or,</font>

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{\an8}<font color="#ffff00">we just go around the top</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">of Kazakhstan, straight to Almaty.</font>

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To get there, teams face a choice of
going through one of two countries.

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They could head north
into eastern Kazakhstan -

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travelling through
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linked by a reliable
but potentially costly rail network.

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Alternatively,
they could cut through Kyrgyzstan.

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A country rarely visited
by Western tourists.

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With mountains dominating
over 90% of its landscape,

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and communities spread thinly
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transport is affordable,
but limited.

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<font color="#00ffff">It's an absolute no-brainer for me.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">I'd love to go to Kyrgyzstan.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">I want to really feel like</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I'm not in the touristy part</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">of that country, and I feel like</font>
<font color="#00ffff">this is going to give it to us.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">And in the bigger cities, they'll</font>
<font color="#00ffff">have the student hostels as well.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Yeah. I think it's going to be more</font>
<font color="#ffff00">budget-friendly,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">so stick to bus routes which I think</font>
<font color="#ffff00">are going to be a lot cheaper.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">I'm so glad that we're ticking off</font>
<font color="#00ffff">another country,</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">like I'm genuinely buzzing.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Let's go to Kyrgyzstan.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Yeah!</font> <font color="#00ffff">Let's go to Kyrgyzstan!</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Kyrgyzstan, we are coming for you.</font>

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{\an8}Venturing east, through Kyrgyzstan,

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{\an8}they're looking for a true
traveller experience

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{\an8}on a budget to match.

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{\an8}But with two borders to cross,

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getting into the country quickly
is of the essence.

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<font color="#ffff00">Bus today - Tashkent?</font> <font color="#00ffff">Tashkent.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Tashkent, through there?</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yeah.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">No?</font> <font color="#00ff00">No.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">So, er, Tashkent - taxi?</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">Taxi.</font> <font color="#ffff00">OK.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">I know very little about Kyrgyzstan,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">but I am very excited for it.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Oh. I'm hoping less expensive taxis</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and more direct bus travel.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">What is your name?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Ferdaz.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Ferdance?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Ferdaz.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Ferdaz. Ah. Harrison.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Nice to meet you.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">Nice to meet you.</font>

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With no buses in sight,

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the siblings are heading to Tashkent
in a local shared taxi.

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<font color="#00ff00">I am in the perfume business.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">You smell good!</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">You are very friendly.</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">I like your accent.</font>

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THEY CHUCKLE
<font color="#ffff00">Manchester. Manchester United.</font>

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Manchester United!<font color="#ffff00">Yes.</font>
Manchester City!<font color="#ffff00">No, no City.</font>

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Good!<font color="#ffff00">No, no, no, no, no!</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Ah, he's getting the scores up!</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Oh, my God, what a guy.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Oh...</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Jo...</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Jo, are you getting in?</font>
<font color="#00ffff">We've got another passenger.</font>

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Just 40 minutes behind...

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<font color="#00ff00">OK!</font>

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<font color="#00ff00">OK.</font>

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{\an8}..Jo and Kush are also taking
advantage of a shared taxi,

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{\an8}as they race to gain ground.

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{\an8}<font color="#00ffff">It's about two hours to get to, erm,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">to the capital, Tashkent.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Realistically, I think</font>
<font color="#00ffff">we'd be going more direct</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">if we go through Kyrgyzstan.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Kyrgyzstan's a new country.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">That's sick.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">So we're looking at Kyrgyzstan.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">I know of it, but I know very,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">very, very little</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">so hopefully it's got</font>
<font color="#00ffff">quite a low tourist population.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">And so we're hoping</font>
<font color="#00ffff">it'll be a lot cheaper.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">We need to get to Kyrgyzstan</font>
<font color="#ffff00">tonight.</font>

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{\an8}Following the same route
as Katie and Harrison,

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{\an8}the best friends are looking
to speed straight out of Uzbekistan,

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{\an8}and cross the border by tonight.

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<font color="#00ffff">I'm really hoping,</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">and I think we can actually</font>
<font color="#00ffff">get across the border today.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">About 45 minutes behind first,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">that is very, very close.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">And so it's not much to catch up.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">This driver's just charging</font>
<font color="#ffff00">through everyone.</font>

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First to arrive in Tashkent...

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<font color="#ffff00">Thank you very much. Thank you.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">OK.</font>

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On the edge of the Eurasian step,
this ancient Silk Road trading post

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retains a blend of Islamic, Imperial
Russian, and Soviet influences.

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KATIE:<font color="#00ffff">Railway ticket office.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Look at that!</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Er, hello. Andijan? Today.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Two tickets.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Two tickets?</font>

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Pressing on, the siblings have
secured tickets

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to Andijan, and are a step closer

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to their intended destination.

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<font color="#ffff00">This transport gets us as close to</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Kyrgyzstan as we possibly can get.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">But, Jo and Kush</font>
<font color="#ffff00">are 40 minutes behind,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">so it's very possible</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that they get here.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">So, we have to move.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">Thank you. Rahmat.</font>

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Close behind...

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<font color="#00ffff">We're trying to get to Andijan.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">What time arrive?</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">1am?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yes.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">400,000, both of us.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">That's so much. Er, thank you.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">We'll ask for a taxi</font>
<font color="#00ffff">because that is very expensive.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">So we're looking at a taxi</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">because 400,000 som for a train</font>
<font color="#00ffff">that takes seven hours,</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">hopefully a taxi</font>
<font color="#00ffff">will be 300,000 som for four hours,</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">if we can haggle our way down.</font>

186
00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,720
<font color="#00ffff">So we need to know if someone</font>
<font color="#00ffff">will drive here to Andijan.</font>

187
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<font color="#00ffff">Please.</font> <font color="#00ff00">The first,</font>
<font color="#00ff00">you should go to the car station</font>

188
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<font color="#00ff00">and then you get</font>
<font color="#00ff00">the next taxi driver.</font>

189
00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:33,840
<font color="#00ffff">Can you ask if they can take us?</font>

190
00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,080
<font color="#00ffff">If these guys can drive to Andijan?</font>

191
00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,360
<font color="#00ff00">No, no, no.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">You can't go to Andijan from here?</font>

192
00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,120
<font color="#00ff00">No, no.</font>

193
00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,200
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, no.</font> Having skipped the
seven-hour train in favour of a car

194
00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,760
straight to the border, the boys
now need to head to the other

195
00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,640
side of town,
where long-distance taxis depart.

196
00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:52,320
<font color="#00ffff">I feel sick, I can't believe that.</font>

197
00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,800
<font color="#ffff00">I mean, we have to commit.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">We're not even at the border yet.</font>

198
00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,760
<font color="#ffff00">Kush's reaction to stress is</font>
<font color="#ffff00">quite instant.</font>

199
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<font color="#00ffff">Oh...</font>

200
00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,800
<font color="#ffff00">I know Kush has</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that heightened anxiety.</font>

201
00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:07,400
<font color="#00ffff">I don't think we have much choice.</font>

202
00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,640
<font color="#ffff00">He's trying to figure out the best</font>
<font color="#ffff00">routes and best decisions to make.</font>

203
00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:15,120
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, God.</font>

204
00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,040
<font color="#00ffff">We could've got straight to Ardijan</font>
<font color="#00ffff">in the train.</font> <font color="#ffff00">It's going to be</font>

205
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<font color="#ffff00">a long day.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Now we're not getting</font>
<font color="#00ffff">to Kyrgyzstan today.</font>

206
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<font color="#ffff00">No, I don't think we should assume.</font>

207
00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,680
<font color="#ffff00">But it is hard for him</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to look at the bigger picture</font>

208
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<font color="#ffff00">and chill out.</font>

209
00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,720
<font color="#00ffff">Can't believe</font>
<font color="#00ffff">this first day we've had.</font>

210
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<font color="#00ff00">BLEEP</font> <font color="#00ffff">up, big time.</font>

211
00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,360
Back in Zaamin City...

212
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<font color="#00ffff">Going through Kazakhstan via</font>
<font color="#00ffff">some of the major cities...</font>

213
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<font color="#ffff00">OK.</font> <font color="#00ffff">..screams out to me.</font>

214
00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,280
..the third team to set off,
Andrew and Molly.

215
00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,520
<font color="#00ffff">I would love to finish the Silk Road</font>
<font color="#00ffff">in Tashkent,</font>

216
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<font color="#00ffff">head on to Shu,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">and then head to Almaty.</font>

217
00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,320
<font color="#ffff00">And then Almaty. Yeah.</font>

218
00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,400
<font color="#00ffff">Maybe I'm taking over this leg!</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Maybe you are!</font>

219
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{\an8}Molly's plan - follow a busier route

220
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{\an8}and city-hop by rail
through Kazakhstan.

221
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But first, they must reach
the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.

222
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<font color="#00ffff">Taxi.</font>

223
00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,080
<font color="#00ffff">There? Thank you very much.</font>

224
00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:13,680
<font color="#00ffff">Excited for Tashkent.</font>

225
00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,480
<font color="#00ffff">I love cities, I love people,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">and after the last leg where</font>

226
00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,760
<font color="#00ffff">I couldn't even make a bloody</font>
<font color="#00ffff">decision, this is something new.</font>

227
00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,080
<font color="#00ffff">Onwards and upwards. To Tashkent.</font>

228
00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,160
{\an8}<font color="#00ff00">Let's go.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Yes, let's go! Yes, let's go!</font>

229
00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,320
{\an8}<font color="#00ffff">Back on the road.</font>

230
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Leaving in last place...

231
00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,680
..Margo and her brother-in-law,
Mark.

232
00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,960
<font color="#00ffff">We'll get into Tashkent, find</font>
<font color="#00ffff">somewhere cheaper to stay tonight.</font>

233
00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,840
<font color="#ffff00">Cos we're in fourth place,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">we need to claw some time back.</font>

234
00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,320
<font color="#00ffff">Do you think the shortest route is</font>
<font color="#00ffff">through Kyrgyzstan?</font>

235
00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,160
<font color="#ffff00">I think. Kyrgyzstan seems the most</font>
<font color="#ffff00">direct route to go,</font>

236
00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,840
<font color="#ffff00">so, hopefully we can get back to</font>
<font color="#ffff00">third place if we can.</font>

237
00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,560
{\an8}Like two other teams,
they're heading to Tashkent tonight,

238
00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,320
{\an8}before aiming for Kyrgyzstan
tomorrow.

239
00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,000
<font color="#ffff00">He's driving very fast.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Go on!</font>

240
00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,080
<font color="#00ffff">Woo! Jeez Louise!</font>

241
00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,120
As the evening sets in...

242
00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,720
<font color="#ffff00">We've got to get to the border</font>
<font color="#ffff00">tonight, bro.</font>

243
00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:19,480
..Jo and Kush are still trying to
find a cheap taxi to the border.

244
00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,480
<font color="#00ff00">Kyrgyzstan border, for one person?</font>

245
00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,800
<font color="#00ff00">250,000.</font> <font color="#00ffff">That's a lot.</font>

246
00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,560
<font color="#ffff00">We need to do for this price.</font>

247
00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,520
<font color="#00ff00">This.</font> <font color="#00ffff">We have little money.</font>

248
00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:29,600
<font color="#00ff00">No way. Really, I tell you.</font>

249
00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,520
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, I feel sick.</font>

250
00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:33,880
Stuck just outside of Tashkent,

251
00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:38,520
with their goal of the
Kyrgyzstan border still 300km away.

252
00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,040
<font color="#ffff00">We're not getting to Kyrgyzstan</font>
<font color="#ffff00">today.</font>

253
00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,320
<font color="#00ffff">There's no buses, and we'll be</font>
<font color="#00ffff">spending like 40 quid on taxis.</font>

254
00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,600
<font color="#ffff00">Can't believe</font>
<font color="#ffff00">we didn't get the train.</font>

255
00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,200
<font color="#00ffff">It's getting dark, bro.</font>

256
00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,360
<font color="#00ffff">It might just be worth</font>
<font color="#00ffff">staying tonight.</font>

257
00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,600
<font color="#ffff00">But then we're going to have to</font>
<font color="#ffff00">pay for accommodation.</font>

258
00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,200
<font color="#00ffff">We can sleep on the floor.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Oh, no.</font>

259
00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,520
<font color="#ffff00">We need to stay</font>
<font color="#ffff00">for very, very cheap.</font>

260
00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:01,640
<font color="#00ff00">This one, it's a cheaper one,</font>
<font color="#00ff00">you see the price?</font>

261
00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,200
<font color="#ffff00">Oh... That's so expensive.</font>

262
00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:06,280
<font color="#ffff00">Is there any cheaper?</font>

263
00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,880
<font color="#ffff00">We can even do...like if we sleep</font>
<font color="#ffff00">on the floor of anywhere.</font>

264
00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,680
<font color="#ffff00">We are so sorry.</font>

265
00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,640
<font color="#00ffff">I'd literally sleep standing up.</font>

266
00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:17,280
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, I'm so stressed.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">We have second floor, the sofa.</font>

267
00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,120
<font color="#00ff00">You can stay there, for free.</font>

268
00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,000
<font color="#00ffff">Ah.</font> <font color="#00ff00">You're welcome.</font>

269
00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,440
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, rahmat.</font>

270
00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,760
<font color="#00ffff">Free accom, we couldn't get any</font>
<font color="#00ffff">cheaper.</font> <font color="#ffff00">As good as this is,</font>

271
00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,720
<font color="#ffff00">I just think we chose</font>
<font color="#ffff00">the wrong route in general.</font>

272
00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,320
<font color="#ffff00">And now we're here,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">nowhere near the border.</font>

273
00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,400
<font color="#ffff00">I like to plan.</font>

274
00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,680
<font color="#ffff00">Because I like to be in control.</font>

275
00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,520
<font color="#ffff00">But times like this now, as we've</font>
<font color="#ffff00">got more into the unknown countries,</font>

276
00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:43,920
<font color="#ffff00">we've faced a lot of difficulty.</font>

277
00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:45,720
<font color="#ffff00">It's just not up to us any more.</font>

278
00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,800
<font color="#ffff00">It really depends on transport</font>
<font color="#ffff00">connections.</font>

279
00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,440
<font color="#00ff00">Also, you guys can use the TV.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, thank you.</font>

280
00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,320
<font color="#ffff00">I am 100% an overthinker.</font>

281
00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,640
<font color="#ffff00">I do experience quite a fair amount</font>
<font color="#ffff00">of anxiety.</font>

282
00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,840
<font color="#ffff00">Losing my dad</font>
<font color="#ffff00">was, in the space of like a day,</font>

283
00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:03,880
<font color="#ffff00">it was zero to 100.</font>

284
00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,920
<font color="#ffff00">So, a lot of anxiety I feel</font>
<font color="#ffff00">is about the unknown.</font>

285
00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,960
<font color="#ffff00">It is a...everyday struggle still.</font>

286
00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,360
<font color="#ffff00">Not being able to shut off</font>
<font color="#ffff00">a thought in your brain.</font>

287
00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:16,760
<font color="#ffff00">It's exhausting.</font>

288
00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,640
<font color="#ffff00">Can't lie, bro, I'm going to be</font>
<font color="#ffff00">thinking the entire night.</font>

289
00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,480
<font color="#00ffff">I'm going to be sleeping,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I can't lie.</font>

290
00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,840
<font color="#ffff00">I'm going to be stressing.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I'm going to be snoring.</font>

291
00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,360
<font color="#ffff00">Been such a rough day.</font>

292
00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,000
<font color="#00ffff">Grand bazaar.</font> <font color="#ffff00">This is cool!</font>

293
00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,000
With a history
spanning two millennia,

294
00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:56,400
Chorsu Bazaar stands
as central Asia's oldest market...

295
00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:57,480
<font color="#00ffff">Wow.</font>

296
00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:59,200
<font color="#00ffff">Holy moley.</font>

297
00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,080
..crowned by an unmistakable
Soviet-era blue dome.

298
00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,200
<font color="#ffff00">How fast can you do them?</font>

299
00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:09,960
<font color="#00ff00">More faster than you.</font>

300
00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,880
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah. Give me a day.</font>

301
00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,680
Working for Sanjar in one
of the market's popular food stalls,

302
00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:22,000
Andrew and Molly are helping to
prepare the national dish, Plov.

303
00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,840
Said to have aphrodisiac qualities,
it's widely consumed

304
00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:30,280
on Thursdays, a popular day for
conceiving children in Uzbekistan.

305
00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,040
<font color="#00ff00">You're welcome.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Thank you.</font>

306
00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,560
<font color="#00ffff">Thank you!</font>

307
00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,000
<font color="#00ff00">Busy day!</font>

308
00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,440
<font color="#ffff00">It's so cool.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Do you work here every day?</font>

309
00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,040
<font color="#00ff00">My father is working 45 years here.</font>

310
00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,280
<font color="#ffff00">Your father?</font>
<font color="#00ff00">He has big reputation, that's why.</font>

311
00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,720
<font color="#ffff00">Gotcha. Gotcha.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">Yeah. I'm third generation.</font>

312
00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,240
<font color="#ffff00">You're third generation?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah.</font>

313
00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,280
<font color="#00ffff">Which you have to keep going, yes?</font>

314
00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,880
Mohammad. My name is.<font color="#ffff00">Mohammad.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Molly.</font>

315
00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,640
Uzbekistan.<font color="#ffff00">Ireland.</font>

316
00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,240
Oh!

317
00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,280
<font color="#ffff00">I just love being</font>
<font color="#ffff00">in this kind of environment.</font>

318
00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,320
<font color="#ffff00">I'm buzzing with it, actually.</font>

319
00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,240
<font color="#00ff00">Nice colour.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Yeah?</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah, yeah, it's ginger.</font>

320
00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,320
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah, yeah, yeah. Irish.</font>

321
00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,680
<font color="#ffff00">I've got a new mindset coming</font>
<font color="#ffff00">into this, like,</font>

322
00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,080
<font color="#ffff00">I would like Daddy to see me a wee</font>
<font color="#ffff00">bit more grown up and as an adult.</font>

323
00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,800
<font color="#ffff00">To do that, I need to be confident</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and stand on my decisions.</font>

324
00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:24,720
<font color="#ffff00">Say "kebab"!</font>

325
00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:29,560
<font color="#00ff00">I want to do THIS plate.</font>

326
00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,640
<font color="#ffff00">I did that! I cut all the onions.</font>

327
00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,560
<font color="#ffff00">He said that's the highest quality</font>
<font color="#ffff00">of the plate!</font>

328
00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:40,960
<font color="#ffff00">I enjoyed it.</font>

329
00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,120
<font color="#ffff00">Nice to earn a bit of money.</font>

330
00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:46,800
<font color="#ffff00">It'll take us across the border.</font>

331
00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,680
<font color="#ffff00">We have enough</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to get across the border.</font>

332
00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:49,960
<font color="#ffff00">All good?</font>

333
00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,680
<font color="#00ffff">Molly, got paid.</font>

334
00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,440
<font color="#ffff00">How much did you make?</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I made 5,000. How much did you make?</font>

335
00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,120
<font color="#ffff00">Ten.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Ten?!</font>

336
00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,880
<font color="#00ffff">Where will we get a taxi? Outside?</font>

337
00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,320
<font color="#00ff00">From this side.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Thank you.</font>

338
00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:06,280
<font color="#00ffff">See you later.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Thank you.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">See you later, thank you.</font>

339
00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,280
<font color="#ffff00">Bye-bye.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Bye-bye.</font>

340
00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,920
<font color="#ffff00">The plan is get to the border</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and then...</font>

341
00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:14,880
<font color="#00ffff">Yes.</font> <font color="#ffff00">..connect in Shymkent.</font>

342
00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:16,880
<font color="#00ffff">As quick as possible.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">As quick as possible.</font>

343
00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:18,920
Putting Molly's plan into action...

344
00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:20,760
<font color="#ffff00">The border of Kazakhstan.</font>

345
00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,920
{\an8}..the team are splitting
from the pack,

346
00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,880
{\an8}heading to the Kazakh
border crossing,

347
00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,400
{\an8}and then traversing north
to the city of Shymkent.

348
00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,280
<font color="#ffff00">To Kazakhstan.</font>

349
00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,440
<font color="#00ffff">Great job, Molly. Well done.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">That's great.</font>

350
00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,240
<font color="#ffff00">Shymkent, whoop, whoop!</font>

351
00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,360
KUSH:<font color="#ffff00">Kazakhstan would've been</font>
<font color="#ffff00">quicker and cheaper.</font>

352
00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,640
After failing to make it
into Kyrgyzstan last night,

353
00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,400
Jo and Kush are still six hours
away from the crossing.

354
00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,800
<font color="#ffff00">Do you have any advice for us about</font>
<font color="#ffff00">how we can get to the border?</font>

355
00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:03,440
<font color="#00ff00">Yeah. The Uber is very...</font>
<font color="#00ff00">You can find somebody.</font>

356
00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,320
<font color="#00ff00">For cheaper. Maybe they can help.</font>

357
00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:07,960
<font color="#00ffff">Kush hasn't slept.</font>

358
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,920
<font color="#00ffff">He's very anxious. He's stressed.</font>

359
00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,880
<font color="#ffff00">Right, let's go.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">He's in such a negative headspace.</font>

360
00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:15,880
<font color="#00ffff">It feels like he's lost hope.</font>

361
00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:20,840
<font color="#00ffff">So... Andijan is here, but we need</font>
<font color="#00ffff">to go to this border,</font>

362
00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,520
<font color="#00ffff">so, like, maybe...</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah, Andijan.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Little bit further.</font>

363
00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,200
<font color="#00ffff">I believe staying positive is</font>
<font color="#00ffff">the best chances of winning.</font>

364
00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,000
<font color="#00ffff">My plan is to help Kush out of this</font>
<font color="#00ffff">spiral he's in right now.</font>

365
00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,040
<font color="#00ffff">We need to get cheapest,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">cheapest place.</font>

366
00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,360
<font color="#00ffff">What?</font> <font color="#ffff00">Are you serious?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah.</font>

367
00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,880
<font color="#00ff00">Yes.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Are you serious?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah, yeah.</font>

368
00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,000
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, my God. Oh, my God.</font>

369
00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,000
<font color="#00ffff">Thank you so much,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">you've been so much help.</font>

370
00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,360
<font color="#00ffff">Can we take a quick picture?</font>

371
00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:47,360
<font color="#00ffff">Oh! OK.</font>

372
00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,240
<font color="#00ffff">When we get to Mongolia,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">we will send you a picture.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Oh, OK.</font>

373
00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,400
<font color="#00ffff">We send you.</font> <font color="#00ff00">OK, yeah.</font> <font color="#00ffff">All right.</font>

374
00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,480
Thanks to new friend Naima,

375
00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,760
the boys have a free ride
straight to the border.

376
00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,200
<font color="#ffff00">Thank you.</font>

377
00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,840
<font color="#00ffff">Naima is a miracle, bro.</font>

378
00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,240
<font color="#00ffff">I think this morning has gave me</font>
<font color="#00ffff">some inspiration.</font>

379
00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,600
<font color="#00ffff">And obviously Naima taking</font>
<font color="#00ffff">such good care of us.</font>

380
00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,960
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font> <font color="#00ffff">I think we'll enjoy the home</font>
<font color="#00ffff">stay, doing a job that's outdoors.</font>

381
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,120
<font color="#00ffff">Which we've been wanting, local,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">and authentic to the area.</font>

382
00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,000
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah. Maybe it'll be worth it.</font>

383
00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:33,560
<font color="#00ffff">We're going to save money, which</font>
<font color="#00ffff">means we can sprint to checkpoint.</font>

384
00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,120
Inspired by local generosity,
they plan to stop for a home stay

385
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,400
in Arslanbob, once they enter
into Kyrgyzstan.

386
00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:42,920
<font color="#00ffff">We can still do this.</font>

387
00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,320
<font color="#ffff00">God...</font> <font color="#00ffff">We just can't give up.</font>

388
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,480
SNORING

389
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,720
Following behind after departing
the checkpoint in last place,

390
00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,240
in-laws Mark and Margo,

391
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,880
taking a picturesque route towards
Kyrgyzstan

392
00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,640
with a train
through the Fergana Valley.

393
00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:11,560
<font color="#ffff00">It's been like this</font>
<font color="#ffff00">for the last hour or so.</font>

394
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,440
<font color="#ffff00">Very rugged.</font>

395
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,240
<font color="#00ffff">They just look</font>
<font color="#00ffff">like giant sand dunes.</font>

396
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,920
A highly fertile basin
between mountain ranges,

397
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,840
stretching from Uzbekistan
to Kyrgyzstan,

398
00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,960
this agricultural heartland
is famous

399
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,800
for cotton and silk production,
and local life is deeply rooted

400
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,920
in centuries-old artisanal
handicraft techniques.

401
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,560
<font color="#00ffff">Kokand. The handicrafters' city</font>
<font color="#00ffff">of the world.</font>

402
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,760
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, Kokand.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Kokand.</font>

403
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,800
<font color="#00ffff">That wasn't on your map, was it?</font> <font color="#ffff00">No!</font>

404
00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,440
<font color="#ffff00">It'd be lovely to explore some</font>
<font color="#ffff00">of these places, but...you can't.</font>

405
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,920
<font color="#ffff00">If we want to keep in the race.</font>

406
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,160
<font color="#00ffff">No, we can't afford to fall</font>
<font color="#00ffff">any further behind.</font>

407
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,080
<font color="#ffff00">We've just got to push on.</font>

408
00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:58,080
<font color="#00ffff">And look at some lovely views from</font>
<font color="#00ffff">the window.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Exactly, yeah.</font>

409
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,560
<font color="#00ffff">Mark and I are fourth,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">and we have got to race.</font>

410
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,520
<font color="#00ffff">But the travelling through</font>
<font color="#00ffff">is going to be the experience.</font>

411
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,040
<font color="#00ffff">And we're going to make</font>
<font color="#00ffff">the most of it.</font>

412
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,160
<font color="#00ffff">Hello. Hi. Hello. Hello.</font>

413
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,560
<font color="#00ffff">Mark and I are a little bit older.</font>

414
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,920
<font color="#00ffff">People might notice</font>
<font color="#00ffff">we're a little bit older.</font>

415
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,920
<font color="#00ffff">I'm 60 next year and I really think</font>
<font color="#00ffff">the best is still to come.</font>

416
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,680
<font color="#00ffff">Any of you speak English?</font> <font color="#00ff00">No.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">No English?</font>

417
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,880
<font color="#00ffff">I am from Liverpool.</font>

418
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,160
<font color="#00ffff">I've got a lot of energy,</font>

419
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,600
<font color="#00ffff">and I do spend a lot of that energy</font>
<font color="#00ffff">looking after my family.</font>

420
00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,600
<font color="#00ffff">But, now the kids are older,</font>

421
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,840
<font color="#00ffff">and especially at such a crossroads</font>
<font color="#00ffff">of turning 60, it gives me</font>

422
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:44,840
<font color="#00ffff">the chance to really reassess</font>
<font color="#00ffff">things, really look for what I want.</font>

423
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,640
<font color="#00ffff">Love this. This is beautiful.</font>

424
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,240
<font color="#00ffff">Let's get the party started.</font>

425
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,400
<font color="#00ffff">Any of you fancy a sing-song?</font>

426
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,200
<font color="#00ffff"># Ba-ba-bah la-da-dah la-la-la-lah</font>

427
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,160
<font color="#00ffff"># Ya-di-dee dee-dee-dee... #</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Where are you all from?</font>

428
00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:59,360
<font color="#00ffff">Are you all friends?</font>

429
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,800
THEY SING

430
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,040
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, she can move!</font>

431
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,400
<font color="#00ffff">Haha, you're a good mover!</font>

432
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,640
<font color="#00ffff">Nice to meet you all!</font>

433
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,560
<font color="#00ffff">I like this!</font>

434
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,680
As the in-laws head to
the Kyrgyzstan border...

435
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,720
HARRISON:<font color="#ffff00">Which way is the border?</font>

436
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,000
<font color="#00ffff">This way?</font> <font color="#ffff00">The border, this way? OK.</font>

437
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,720
..already there,
after their late-night train,

438
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,480
Katie and Harrison.

439
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,160
<font color="#00ffff">I've never done a foot border</font>
<font color="#00ffff">before.</font>

440
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,320
<font color="#ffff00">We've only crossed on boat, train</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and bus so far.</font>

441
00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:50,280
<font color="#ffff00">But you just walk through.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">We just walk through</font>

442
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,240
<font color="#00ffff">and then we're in Kyrgyzstan.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Seventh country, here we come.</font>

443
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,040
One of Central Asia's
most sparsely populated countries,

444
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:04,040
Kyrgyzstan was settled by nomadic
tribes from Southern Siberia.

445
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,240
Their legacy of moving in groups
across mountainous terrain

446
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:12,520
continues today, with local ride
shares, known as marshrutkas,

447
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,320
linking towns and villages.

448
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,720
<font color="#00ffff">We want to go to Bishkek.</font>

449
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,200
MEN CONVERSE

450
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,000
<font color="#ffff00">Ugh, tough, innit, this?</font>

451
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,720
<font color="#00ff00">Taxi.</font> 2,500.<font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font> Kyrgyz som.

452
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,280
<font color="#ffff00">That's too much, sorry.</font>

453
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:40,320
<font color="#ffff00">I want to find out</font>
<font color="#ffff00">if there is a bus to Bishkek</font>

454
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:42,320
<font color="#ffff00">because a taxi's just so expensive.</font>

455
00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:43,960
<font color="#00ffff">Fingers crossed.</font>

456
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,120
Determined to stick
to public transport,

457
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,200
they plan to use Bishkek,
on the northern edge,

458
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,120
as a stepping stone
to the checkpoint.

459
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,080
<font color="#ffff00">Auto bus.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Bishkek.</font>

460
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,880
But no buses depart after 6pm.

461
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,960
<font color="#ffff00">We are on a tighter budget, we want</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to save for the next two legs.</font>

462
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,400
<font color="#ffff00">No marshrutkas?</font>

463
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,880
<font color="#ffff00">It might slow us down in the race</font>
<font color="#ffff00">a little bit.</font>

464
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,640
<font color="#ffff00">I think it's probably more of a risk</font>
<font color="#ffff00">splashing out.</font>

465
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,480
<font color="#00ffff">There's no more today.</font>

466
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,160
<font color="#ffff00">Ugh!</font>

467
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,600
<font color="#ffff00">Stuck in Osh.</font>

468
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,600
<font color="#ffff00">Very different from where</font>
<font color="#ffff00">we've been on the race so far -</font>

469
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,360
<font color="#ffff00">in terms of Greece and Turkey,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">buses ran all day and all night,</font>

470
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,880
<font color="#ffff00">you could get anywhere you wanted</font>
<font color="#ffff00">in the country.</font>

471
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,280
<font color="#ffff00">Kyrgyzstan's not turned out</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to be as we thought.</font>

472
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,800
<font color="#00ffff">Men's room. Perfect.</font>

473
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,800
Having made little progress
and stranded for the night,

474
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,920
a chance for Katie's hostel dream
to become a reality.

475
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,160
<font color="#00ffff">Did you say you were from Toronto?</font>

476
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,680
<font color="#00ff00">Toronto.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Oh, wow.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Where are you</font>
<font color="#00ff00">from?</font> <font color="#00ffff">We're from England.</font>

477
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,280
<font color="#00ffff">This type of travelling,</font>

478
00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,560
<font color="#00ffff">where it can get a bit difficult</font>
<font color="#00ffff">or you're completely</font>

479
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,440
<font color="#00ffff">out of your comfort zone,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">is exactly what I wanted to do.</font>

480
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,000
<font color="#ffff00">How long have you been doing this</font>
<font color="#ffff00">for?</font> Two and a half years.

481
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,200
<font color="#ffff00">Really?</font> Yeah.<font color="#ffff00">Not been home</font>
<font color="#ffff00">in two and a half years?</font> Yeah.

482
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,400
<font color="#ffff00">Like, the mindset just blows me,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">like, how you can just travel</font>

483
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,320
<font color="#ffff00">and not kind of know where you're</font>
<font color="#ffff00">going to end up next.</font> Yeah.

484
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,480
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah. Happy?</font>

485
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,200
<font color="#00ffff">Yes, very happy.</font>

486
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:27,280
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font> <font color="#00ffff">I've been looking for one</font>
<font color="#00ffff">for about five weeks.</font>

487
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,320
<font color="#ffff00">Mm.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yay!</font>

488
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:31,880
<font color="#ffff00">The guys in our room...</font>
<font color="#00ffff">They're so cool!</font> <font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font>

489
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,760
<font color="#00ffff">I want to be them.</font> <font color="#ffff00">He's got like</font>
<font color="#ffff00">other countries, like on his bag.</font>

490
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,560
<font color="#00ffff">They're like proper backpackers.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font>

491
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,960
<font color="#00ffff">This is like...feels like the place</font>
<font color="#00ffff">to be for travellers.</font>

492
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,920
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah, a lot of people.</font> <font color="#00ffff">And I'm here,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">cos I'm a traveller.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font>

493
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,600
<font color="#ffff00">I think Katie's very good at turning</font>
<font color="#ffff00">a situation into a positive.</font>

494
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,920
<font color="#ffff00">Erm, and making the most of it.</font>

495
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,000
<font color="#ffff00">There's so many things</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that could go wrong,</font>

496
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,960
<font color="#ffff00">but she just seems</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to just go with it.</font>

497
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,680
<font color="#00ffff">It is a good thing</font>
<font color="#00ffff">that we're staying tonight.</font>

498
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,120
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Cos we'll have more options</font>
<font color="#00ffff">tomorrow.</font>

499
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,440
<font color="#00ffff">What do you do? Do you just...?</font>

500
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,000
As the teams settle in
for the night...<font color="#ffff00">Oh!</font>

501
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,240
<font color="#ffff00">Salam alaikum. What is your name?</font>

502
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,040
<font color="#00ff00">Zubayr.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Zubayr. Kush.</font>

503
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:16,960
<font color="#ffff00">It's one of the best things</font>
<font color="#ffff00">about Scouse accents</font>

504
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,920
<font color="#ffff00">is you can pronounce names</font>
<font color="#ffff00">a lot better.</font>

505
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,040
200km to the north,

506
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,600
a direct taxi has pushed Jo
and Kush into the lead,

507
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,000
as they arrive
in the rural village of Arslanbob...

508
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,680
<font color="#00ffff">Are we working tomorrow,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">in the morning?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah, yeah.</font>

509
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,320
..where they're staying with
walnut farmer Abdurazzoq.

510
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,320
<font color="#00ff00">Bon appetit for you.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Bon appetit.</font>

511
00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:42,120
<font color="#ffff00">Mm.</font> <font color="#00ff00">This is like fresh bread.</font>

512
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:43,480
<font color="#00ffff">Ooh.</font>

513
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,960
<font color="#00ffff">That is fresh. That's very fresh.</font>

514
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,440
<font color="#ffff00">Nice and doughy.</font>

515
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,120
<font color="#00ff00">OK.</font>

516
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,520
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, it's so nice.</font>

517
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,960
<font color="#ffff00">Feeling a lot better.</font>

518
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:55,560
<font color="#ffff00">It's our first time in Kyrgyzstan</font>
<font color="#ffff00">today.</font>

519
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,200
<font color="#ffff00">I guess not so many tourists</font>
<font color="#ffff00">come in Kyrgyzstan,</font>

520
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,680
<font color="#ffff00">compared to, like,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">maybe Thailand and Spain.</font>

521
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,640
<font color="#00ff00">25,000 population,</font>
<font color="#00ff00">everybody know each other.</font>

522
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,160
<font color="#ffff00">So you know maybe 25,000...?</font>

523
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,960
<font color="#00ffff">Sounds... Sounds like Liverpool.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Everyone knows everyone.</font>

524
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,240
<font color="#ffff00">You know, it's the same...</font> <font color="#00ff00">OK.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Everyone knows everyone.</font>

525
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,400
<font color="#ffff00">And everyone's happy to help each</font>
<font color="#ffff00">other, and so, it is, it's boss,</font>

526
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:17,880
<font color="#ffff00">we love it. I mean...</font>

527
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,280
<font color="#00ff00">What boss mean?</font>

528
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,680
<font color="#ffff00">Boss.</font>

529
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,800
<font color="#00ffff">Boss is like...</font> <font color="#ffff00">Really good.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Yeah. Like very good.</font>

530
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:24,960
<font color="#00ffff">Like...</font>

531
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,720
<font color="#ffff00">Like this food is boss.</font>

532
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,560
<font color="#00ff00">We have some words say boss -</font>
<font color="#00ff00">like this, bazar jok.</font>

533
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,880
<font color="#ffff00">Bazar jok.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah. Like really cool.</font>

534
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,720
<font color="#00ffff">This green tea, bazar jok.</font>

535
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,320
<font color="#00ff00">Oh!</font>
HE CHUCKLES

536
00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:39,200
<font color="#00ff00">And it's boss</font>
<font color="#00ff00">because of you're here.</font>

537
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,400
<font color="#ffff00">That's what I'm talking about!</font>
<font color="#00ff00">OK, you're welcome.</font>

538
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,200
<font color="#00ffff">True... True Scouser.</font>

539
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,320
<font color="#ffff00">Abdura was boss.</font>

540
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:49,120
<font color="#ffff00">I mean, we've had such a lucky</font>
<font color="#ffff00">run-in with people that we meet,</font>

541
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,080
<font color="#ffff00">there's just a sort of really,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">really generous energy about them.</font>

542
00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,720
<font color="#ffff00">But, I'm feeling a little anxious</font>
<font color="#ffff00">still.</font>

543
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,760
<font color="#ffff00">It is proper off the beaten track,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">I really think that we're going to</font>

544
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,760
<font color="#ffff00">be behind everyone else</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to get to checkpoint.</font>

545
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,040
<font color="#00ff00">And you can start the forest.</font>

546
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,720
<font color="#ffff00">Yes!</font> <font color="#00ffff">That'd be so good.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, that's boss.</font>

547
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,440
<font color="#00ffff">Mate.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Is it boss?</font> <font color="#00ff00">It's boss, yeah.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">It's good.</font>

548
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,760
<font color="#ffff00">This is fab!</font> <font color="#00ffff">Innit?</font>

549
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,800
<font color="#ffff00">I love a dramatic flag.</font>

550
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,760
After crossing the border
last night,

551
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,920
Andrew and Molly have reached
Kazakhstan's third largest city,

552
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,800
Shymkent.

553
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,760
<font color="#ffff00">Hello.</font> But they're already looking
for a way out...

554
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,800
<font color="#00ffff">We need the earliest train to Shu.</font>

555
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,960
..with plans to move swiftly on
to Shu,

556
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,560
a city 450km closer
to the checkpoint.

557
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,400
<font color="#00ffff">No earlier trains?</font>

558
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,480
<font color="#ffff00">Taxi?</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Just to see what it is price-wise.</font>

559
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,400
<font color="#00ffff">OK. OK.</font> <font color="#ffff00">OK. Thank you.</font>

560
00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:01,440
<font color="#00ffff">What is the difference in that price</font>
<font color="#00ffff">between the taxi and train?</font>

561
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,040
<font color="#ffff00">Jesus!</font>

562
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,840
<font color="#00ffff">Yeah.</font> <font color="#ffff00">15 times.</font> <font color="#00ffff">15 times the value.</font>

563
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,720
<font color="#ffff00">$225.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yeah.</font>

564
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,800
<font color="#00ffff">I think get the train.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Train. Yes!</font>

565
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,480
<font color="#ffff00">There's no...there's no questions!</font>
ANDREW LAUGHS

566
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,080
While Andrew and Molly wait
five hours for the train...

567
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,880
<font color="#ffff00">On the move.</font>

568
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,360
<font color="#00ffff">There's, like, 10 seats on here</font>
<font color="#00ffff">but there's, like, 30 people on it.</font>

569
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,880
<font color="#ffff00">It's great.</font> ..in Kyrgyzstan...

570
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,760
<font color="#ffff00">Just feel like you're local.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Like, it's just local people,</font>

571
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,600
<font color="#ffff00">going to work or whatever,</font>

572
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,600
<font color="#ffff00">it's brilliant.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yeah. Great.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">And it's cheap as chips.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Loving it.</font>

573
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,080
..finally on the move,
using public transport,

574
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,000
Katie and Harrison are setting
a course to the capital, Bishkek.

575
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,240
<font color="#ffff00">Oh!</font>

576
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:46,920
<font color="#00ff00">BLEEP!</font> <font color="#ffff00">No!</font>

577
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,280
<font color="#ffff00">Quite hectic on the roads.</font>

578
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:52,880
<font color="#ffff00">But, getting us closer.</font>

579
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,360
<font color="#00ffff">Yeah. We're making progress.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Yeah.</font>

580
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,040
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, what is that?</font>

581
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,080
<font color="#ffff00">Traffic jam.</font>

582
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,040
<font color="#ffff00">Ah.</font>

583
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,280
<font color="#00ffff">No idea what's going on.</font>

584
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,160
<font color="#00ffff">Ugh!</font>

585
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:15,840
<font color="#00ffff">Great.</font>

586
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,320
<font color="#ffff00">One simple road...</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that won't be a simple road.</font>

587
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,920
<font color="#00ffff">Well, there's worse places to be</font>
<font color="#00ffff">stopped by a road, I suppose.</font>

588
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,080
<font color="#ffff00">If anyone's travelling</font>
<font color="#ffff00">up through Kyrgyzstan today,</font>

589
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,680
<font color="#ffff00">they won't have done it quicker</font>
<font color="#ffff00">than us.</font>

590
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,200
<font color="#00ffff">Ow! Ow! Ow!</font>

591
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,200
<font color="#00ffff">Oh-hoh-hoh!</font>

592
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,280
<font color="#00ffff">The silly beast's stuck to my feet.</font>

593
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,600
<font color="#00ffff">Oooh.</font>

594
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,400
Having now caught up
with the siblings...

595
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,240
<font color="#ffff00">Margo, there's a car coming!</font> <font color="#00ffff">Ooh!</font>

596
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,520
..Mark and Margo.

597
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,000
<font color="#ffff00">Get across the road now</font>
<font color="#ffff00">because it's going to get busy.</font>

598
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,680
<font color="#ffff00">It's been cleared, we're moving now.</font>

599
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:56,960
<font color="#00ffff">Ugh!</font>

600
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,880
HARRISON:<font color="#ffff00">Let's get back on the bus.</font>
KATIE:<font color="#00ffff">We're moving.</font>

601
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:01,960
<font color="#00ffff">Don't want the bus to leave</font>
<font color="#00ffff">without us!</font>

602
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,520
<font color="#00ffff">Thistle prongs.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">That was really, really stupid.</font>

603
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,520
<font color="#00ffff">One of the stupidest things</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I've done on this race so far.</font>

604
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,160
<font color="#00ffff">Who does that?</font>

605
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,880
<font color="#ffff00">YOU do that!</font>

606
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,080
<font color="#ffff00">I think today's going to be</font>
<font color="#ffff00">a very long day.</font>

607
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:20,520
<font color="#00ffff">Bishkek tonight.</font>

608
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,040
<font color="#00ffff">We're doing it.</font>

609
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,200
<font color="#ffff00">This is a very impressive landscape.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Mm-hm.</font>

610
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,680
<font color="#00ffff">Very dramatic.</font> <font color="#ffff00">I will remember it.</font>

611
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,720
<font color="#00ffff">Dramatic and extreme, isn't it?</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Yes.</font>

612
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,080
Connecting the south of the country
with the capital in the north,

613
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,600
a single precipitous
700km-long highway,

614
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:49,320
weaving through steep canyons,
tunnels and high mountain passes,

615
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,560
at its peak reaching altitudes
over 3,000m.

616
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,080
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, Margo!</font>

617
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,560
<font color="#ffff00">Snow!</font>

618
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,280
<font color="#00ffff">Yes!</font>

619
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,320
<font color="#00ffff">This is what we came for!</font>

620
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,280
<font color="#00ffff">I reckon, having done this,</font>

621
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,880
<font color="#00ffff">I reckon we could be in with a good</font>
<font color="#00ffff">chance of keeping in with the pack.</font>

622
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:13,360
<font color="#ffff00">We're very short of money. We've had</font>
<font color="#ffff00">three days of real hard travel.</font>

623
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,680
<font color="#ffff00">Tomorrow...</font> <font color="#00ffff">Let's see</font>
<font color="#00ffff">if there's any work in Bishkek.</font>

624
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,160
<font color="#ffff00">Yes. We deserve some time off.</font>

625
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,600
KATIE:<font color="#00ffff">It looks like</font>
<font color="#00ffff">the Magic Kingdom from Disney.</font>

626
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,360
<font color="#00ffff">I've never seen anything like this.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">No, this is very cool.</font>

627
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,200
<font color="#ffff00">Shall we go over?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah.</font>

628
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,160
<font color="#ffff00">Whoa!</font>

629
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,200
<font color="#00ff00">Bazar jok.</font>

630
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,280
<font color="#00ffff">How many do you want?</font>
<font color="#00ff00">How many more is better.</font>

631
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:44,320
<font color="#00ffff">5,000.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Oh!</font>

632
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,400
The Kyrgyz forest of Arslanbob,

633
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,000
the largest natural walnut grove
on Earth.

634
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,920
<font color="#00ffff">So hard to find them.</font>

635
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,960
<font color="#ffff00">I thought they'd be, like...</font>
<font color="#ffff00">proper easy.</font>

636
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,360
Leaving their homes en masse
every autumn,

637
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,880
local families head
on to the mountain slopes to camp,

638
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,960
harvesting up to 1,500 tonnes
of walnuts every year.

639
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,840
The precious crop is not only stored
year-round for food,

640
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,040
but used as currency in the town,

641
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,640
with nuts of different values
being traded for goods in shops.

642
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,320
<font color="#00ff00">This cheap one again.</font>

643
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,400
<font color="#00ffff">Cheap one?</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah.</font>

644
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:28,880
<font color="#00ffff">I'll find some...</font>

645
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,360
<font color="#00ff00">But also good.</font>

646
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,400
Joining Abdurazzoq's family
to pay off their bed and board,

647
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,000
Jo and Kush.

648
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:41,240
<font color="#00ff00">The market, the white one is</font>
<font color="#00ff00">expensive, this is the cheaper.</font>

649
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,840
<font color="#00ffff">How is it different?</font>
<font color="#00ff00">Like sweet.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Nice.</font>

650
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,960
<font color="#00ff00">Tastes different walnut, you know.</font>

651
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,520
<font color="#00ffff">Jo, there's loads here.</font>

652
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,400
<font color="#00ffff">Come and get your walnuts.</font>

653
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,640
<font color="#ffff00">So nice to actually see</font>
<font color="#ffff00">the mountains.</font>

654
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,880
<font color="#00ffff">Think that's one of the best views</font>
<font color="#00ffff">we've seen.</font>

655
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,040
<font color="#00ffff">Bazar jok.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Bazar jok!</font>
CHUCKLING

656
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,800
<font color="#ffff00">Nice one for staying up with me</font>
<font color="#ffff00">last night.</font>

657
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,800
<font color="#00ffff">It's all good.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Made a big difference, you know.</font>

658
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,720
<font color="#ffff00">I actually wouldn't</font>
<font color="#ffff00">have been able to go to sleep.</font>

659
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,200
<font color="#00ffff">Yeah, I know, you were just chatting</font>
<font color="#00ffff">to me, I'm like,</font>

660
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:10,080
<font color="#00ffff">"Bro, just shut up and go to sleep."</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah!</font>

661
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,320
<font color="#ffff00">That's easy, just tell the head</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to shut up for a minute.</font>

662
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,160
<font color="#ffff00">You know how I get.</font>

663
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,360
<font color="#00ffff">I wouldn't say it surprised me.</font> <font color="#ffff00">No?</font>

664
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,160
<font color="#00ffff">It's like part of your personality.</font>

665
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,240
{\an8}<font color="#00ffff">I do think Kush can be</font>
<font color="#00ffff">glass-half-empty.</font>

666
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:33,040
<font color="#00ffff">Which is understandable,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">since he has gone through a lot,</font>

667
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,240
<font color="#00ffff">so I understand where</font>
<font color="#00ffff">that negative state comes from.</font>

668
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,680
<font color="#00ffff">You can't expect to go on a journey</font>
<font color="#00ffff">and expect it to be all fine,</font>

669
00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:47,640
<font color="#00ffff">but I know you're benefitting</font>
<font color="#00ffff">from venting.</font>

670
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,160
<font color="#00ffff">Do you know what I mean?</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Just talking, yeah.</font>

671
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,920
<font color="#00ffff">So I kind of do let him rant, get</font>
<font color="#00ffff">'em off his chest, and I'll be like,</font>

672
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,760
<font color="#00ffff">"OK, let's look at this</font>
<font color="#00ffff">from a different point of view."</font>

673
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,840
<font color="#00ffff">When Kush is not feeling good,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">we link up, we go on walks,</font>

674
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:10,880
<font color="#00ffff">we go on bike rides, park,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">play footy. Honestly, any activity,</font>

675
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,640
<font color="#00ffff">as long as we're doing something,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I can tell, improves his mood.</font>

676
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,720
<font color="#ffff00">Job would be boss, bro,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">if you had a leaf blower.</font>

677
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,760
<font color="#00ff00">Yeah.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Just that walnut left behind.</font>

678
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,080
<font color="#00ffff">Kush means a lot to me, definitely.</font>

679
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,120
<font color="#00ffff">And I want to show him,</font>

680
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,680
<font color="#00ffff">there's always light</font>
<font color="#00ffff">at the end of a tunnel, you know?</font>

681
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,080
<font color="#00ffff">I hate to see you in such</font>
<font color="#00ffff">a negative...</font> <font color="#ffff00">I know.</font> <font color="#00ffff">..space.</font>

682
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,880
<font color="#00ffff">I actually do care for you.</font>

683
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,960
<font color="#00ffff">You know?</font> <font color="#ffff00">Mm.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah, I really appreciate that.</font>

684
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,080
<font color="#ffff00">On the race, every day's a difficult</font>
<font color="#ffff00">day, every day's a struggle.</font>

685
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,680
<font color="#ffff00">You have bad days,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">you have good days, off days.</font>

686
00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:47,160
<font color="#ffff00">But every day's hard.</font>

687
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,080
<font color="#ffff00">I'm trying to learn</font>
<font color="#ffff00">how to function under high stress.</font>

688
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,480
<font color="#ffff00">But I think it's only in the past</font>
<font color="#ffff00">sort of couple days</font>

689
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,200
<font color="#ffff00">that I've realised</font>
<font color="#ffff00">how much I value having Jo here.</font>

690
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:03,600
<font color="#ffff00">I just really appreciate the fact</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that Jo's always up for, sort of,</font>

691
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,760
<font color="#ffff00">looking after me, in a way.</font>

692
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:10,320
<font color="#ffff00">I don't think Jo will understand,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">like, the difference it makes.</font>

693
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,480
HE SNIFFLES

694
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,360
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah, I mean,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">he is, he's me best mate.</font>

695
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,480
<font color="#00ffff">Oi! Keep going!</font>

696
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,360
<font color="#ffff00">In this entire journey,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">I've got nothing,</font>

697
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,640
<font color="#ffff00">just absolutely nothing</font>

698
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,800
{\an8}<font color="#ffff00">at all but Jo.</font>
BAG RUSTLES

699
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,160
{\an8}BOTH LAUGH

700
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,520
<font color="#ffff00">Lad! Whee!</font>

701
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,680
<font color="#ffff00">That is home.</font>

702
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,040
<font color="#00ffff">How much money is that?</font>

703
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,560
<font color="#00ff00">300, 400.</font>

704
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:56,920
<font color="#ffff00">Nice!</font> <font color="#00ffff">So good.</font>

705
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,880
<font color="#00ff00">Boss, yeah?</font> <font color="#ffff00">It's good.</font>

706
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:04,520
<font color="#ffff00">Do you know anyone who can drive us</font>
<font color="#ffff00">tonight for a bit?</font>

707
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,440
<font color="#00ff00">Maybe I can drive you to Jalalabad,</font>
<font color="#00ff00">and we'll look there.</font>

708
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,040
<font color="#ffff00">OK, thank you.</font>

709
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,040
<font color="#ffff00">We think maybe we should go</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to Kazakhstan border tomorrow,</font>

710
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,480
<font color="#ffff00">we go the whole way from Jalalabad.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Does that sound like a good idea?</font>

711
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,560
<font color="#00ff00">Also possible.</font> <font color="#00ffff">It's possible?</font>

712
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,520
<font color="#00ff00">From Jalalabad, many cars go there.</font>

713
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,200
<font color="#ffff00">It's going to be a long, long day,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">it's going to be an expensive day.</font>

714
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:28,400
<font color="#00ffff">Bro, let's just pray that we can</font>
<font color="#00ffff">still pull it out the bag.</font>

715
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,480
<font color="#ffff00">Look at the hat! Look at the hat!</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Look at that amazing hat!</font>

716
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,720
<font color="#00ffff">Your hat is fantastic! Woohoohoo!</font>

717
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,600
Having travelled the breadth
of Kyrgyzstan yesterday,

718
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,800
Mark and Margo are in the capital,
Bishkek.

719
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,880
<font color="#ffff00">Tasty savoury breakfast.</font>

720
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,480
<font color="#00ffff">Mm, better than Greggs.</font>

721
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,520
<font color="#00ffff">They like statues, don't they?</font>

722
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,640
At the northern tip
of the Chuy Valley,

723
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,760
this once-small settlement grew
into a lush garden city,

724
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,400
with residents encouraged
to plant trees near their homes.

725
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:15,760
HORSE WHINNIES

726
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,080
Today, its nomadic heritage is
intermixed with contemporary living.

727
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:25,280
Fermented mare's milk as well as
flat whites are sold side by side.

728
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,400
BARKING
<font color="#00ffff">They're very busy, aren't they?</font>

729
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,320
Adding to their funds before
pushing on to the checkpoint...

730
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,040
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, my little friend.</font>

731
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,880
<font color="#ffff00">You must stay here.</font>

732
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,120
<font color="#ffff00">Yes.</font> ..the in-laws have found work
at a local pet groomer's.

733
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,600
<font color="#ffff00">Look at that!</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, I'd like that myself.</font>

734
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,000
Traditionally seen
as working animals,

735
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,800
pets in the capital are increasingly
kept for companionship...

736
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:50,960
<font color="#00ffff">Oh...</font>

737
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,320
..with pedigree breeds emerging
as a status symbol.

738
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:59,200
<font color="#ffff00">What are you telling me?</font>
<font color="#ffff00">I don't speak Kyrgyzstan.</font>

739
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:02,600
<font color="#00ffff">Most experiences we've had</font>
<font color="#00ffff">have been tailored for me.</font>

740
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,640
<font color="#00ffff">Margo's been very happy to go along</font>
<font color="#00ffff">with that.</font>

741
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,240
{\an8}<font color="#ffff00">There we go.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">She's got a lot of time for people.</font>

742
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,120
<font color="#ffff00">Here we go.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">So this is an experience for Margo.</font>

743
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,440
<font color="#ffff00">Doing fine, you're doing so well.</font>

744
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,360
<font color="#ffff00">I'm here, don't worry.</font>

745
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,560
<font color="#00ffff">It has been a very exhausting</font>
<font color="#00ffff">journey,</font>

746
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,760
<font color="#00ffff">so, today is a chance for Margo</font>
<font color="#00ffff">to relax</font>

747
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,080
<font color="#00ffff">and just forget about the race,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">just for one day.</font>

748
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,480
<font color="#ffff00">Would you like a dog like this,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Mark?</font>

749
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:28,960
<font color="#00ffff">Nope.</font> <font color="#ffff00">So cute!</font>

750
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,080
<font color="#ffff00">Hello!</font>

751
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,520
<font color="#00ffff">This is something</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I would never want to do.</font>

752
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,560
<font color="#00ffff">I don't like animals</font>
<font color="#00ffff">that are smelly.</font>

753
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,480
<font color="#00ffff">Dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs.</font>

754
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,520
<font color="#00ffff">I'm doing it for Margo.</font>

755
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,120
<font color="#ffff00">Come on.</font> <font color="#00ffff">And she loves this.</font>

756
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,040
<font color="#ffff00">Oh! Whee, whee!</font>

757
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,840
<font color="#ffff00">Don't tell my dog, Bailey,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">what I'm doing.</font>

758
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,520
<font color="#00ff00">You have a dog?</font> <font color="#ffff00">I have a dog.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Oh!</font>

759
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,000
<font color="#ffff00">When my dog sees this,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">she'll be very jealous.</font>

760
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,240
<font color="#ffff00">My Bailey will not forgive me.</font>

761
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,080
MARGO CHUCKLES

762
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,120
<font color="#00ffff">You're not happy with this, are you?</font>

763
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,480
CAT GROWLS

764
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,960
<font color="#ffff00">She can't wait to go home.</font>

765
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,360
<font color="#00ffff">Goodbye.</font>

766
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,040
CAT HISSES
<font color="#00ffff">Ooh!</font> <font color="#ffff00">Ooh!</font>

767
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,960
CAT HISSES
<font color="#ffff00">Oh!</font>

768
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:17,000
<font color="#ffff00">Today has just been my day in the</font>
<font color="#ffff00">happiest place I could be on Earth.</font>

769
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,000
<font color="#ffff00">I've just loved it.</font>

770
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,480
<font color="#00ffff">She's very upset now.</font> <font color="#ffff00">I know.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">You're in there now.</font>

771
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,680
<font color="#ffff00">Particularly with you.</font> <font color="#00ffff">I know!</font>
MARGOT SNARLS

772
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:28,240
<font color="#ffff00">I am very, very pleased Mark is</font>
<font color="#ffff00">doing this job for me.</font>

773
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,680
<font color="#ffff00">Oooh, look!</font>

774
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:35,440
LOUD PURRING
<font color="#ffff00">And I'm absolutely amazed at how</font>
<font color="#ffff00">we've got on so far on the race.</font>

775
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,360
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, you gentle soul.</font>

776
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,480
<font color="#ffff00">We're just really accepting</font>
<font color="#ffff00">of each other.</font>

777
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,440
<font color="#00ff00">Your like our place?</font>

778
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,680
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, it's lovely.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">I'd love to bring my dog here.</font>

779
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:50,440
<font color="#ffff00">But, somehow, the two of us have</font>
<font color="#ffff00">become so supportive of each other.</font>

780
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,840
<font color="#00ffff">I'm still getting fur</font>
<font color="#00ffff">out of my eyes and nose.</font>

781
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,120
<font color="#ffff00">Tomorrow, checkpoint, here we come.</font>

782
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,200
<font color="#00ffff">We really are in the middle</font>
<font color="#00ffff">of nowhere.</font>

783
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:11,040
<font color="#ffff00">It might slow us down</font>
<font color="#ffff00">in the race a little bit,</font>

784
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,040
<font color="#ffff00">but that's absolutely incredible.</font>

785
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,160
25km outside of Bishkek,

786
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,040
after three days
of relentless travel,

787
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,720
Katie and Harrison have reached
the remote village of Kashka Suu.

788
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:30,120
The siblings will work for husband
and wife duo Iliiaz and Maureen...

789
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,120
<font color="#00ff00">Welcome to Gulsary Stables.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Thank you.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Thank you.</font>

790
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,160
..in return for a horse ride
through the mountains.

791
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,640
<font color="#ffff00">It is just such a nice break,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to come to somewhere like this,</font>

792
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,280
<font color="#ffff00">so serene and peaceful.</font>

793
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,920
<font color="#00ffff">Yeah, I couldn't have done</font>
<font color="#00ffff">another day of chaotic stress.</font>

794
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,160
<font color="#ffff00">It's a nice temperature as well,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">really nice and warm but windy.</font>

795
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,600
<font color="#ffff00">It's like ideal ginger temperature.</font>

796
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:03,240
<font color="#00ffff">I really just wanted a real, rustic,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">rural experience, you know.</font>

797
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,640
<font color="#00ffff">This is where I'm, like, really</font>
<font color="#00ffff">ticking the bucket list off.</font>

798
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,600
<font color="#00ffff">Ajee, where we going?</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Where we going?</font>

799
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,360
<font color="#00ffff">You can't eat that.</font>

800
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,520
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, God, I've lost my horse.</font>

801
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,320
<font color="#00ffff">My horse. My horse.</font>

802
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,520
<font color="#00ffff">Harrison!</font> <font color="#ffff00">Katie, are you</font>
<font color="#ffff00">getting walked by your horse?</font>

803
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,400
<font color="#00ffff">My horse doesn't like me!</font>

804
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,920
MAUREEN: The horses look
nice and shiny.<font color="#00ffff">Thank you.</font>

805
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,400
<font color="#ffff00">Perfect, thank you.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">It's time to reward some...</font>

806
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,120
Yeah, let's get out there and ride.

807
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,880
<font color="#00ff00">Nice and easy, boy.</font>

808
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:35,400
<font color="#00ff00">Good boy.</font>

809
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,440
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, my God.</font>

810
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,400
<font color="#ffff00">I'm on a horse, in Kyrgyzstan.</font>

811
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:44,960
<font color="#ffff00">What?!</font>

812
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,160
<font color="#00ffff">It's...it's incredible.</font>

813
00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:52,880
That is just ridiculous.

814
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,560
<font color="#ffff00">This is stunning.</font>

815
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,840
<font color="#00ffff">Hoh-hoh-hoh!</font>

816
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:02,600
<font color="#ffff00">What?!</font>

817
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,120
<font color="#00ffff">Wow!</font>

818
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,760
Formed over 50 million years ago,

819
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,520
as the Indian and Eurasian
continental plates collided...

820
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,520
<font color="#ffff00">That is in...sane.</font>

821
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:23,400
..the Alatau Mountains form a vast
chain of snow-capped peaks,

822
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,480
creating a natural border
between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

823
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,240
<font color="#ffff00">Not bad.</font>

824
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,360
<font color="#00ffff">This isn't real,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I feel like I'm in a painting.</font>

825
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,360
<font color="#ffff00">Absolutely beautiful.</font>

826
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,440
<font color="#ffff00">But it is the middle of nowhere.</font>

827
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,760
<font color="#ffff00">It's a long way to get to Almaty.</font>

828
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,640
ELECTROPOP MUSIC PLAYS

829
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,360
<font color="#00ffff">We've got the vibes in the car.</font>

830
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,120
With a 570km taxi
through the mountain roads

831
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,840
secured for just over £50,

832
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,600
Jo and Kush have their sights set
on reaching Almaty tonight.

833
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:09,680
<font color="#ffff00">My God.</font>

834
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,680
<font color="#ffff00">Look at that, it's insane.</font>

835
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:14,800
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, shit!</font>

836
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,000
<font color="#00ffff">Where are the snowboards at?</font>

837
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:22,440
<font color="#00ffff">Out of all the Stans we've been to,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">this is definitely the prettiest.</font>

838
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,040
<font color="#ffff00">It's definitely the most beautiful</font>
<font color="#ffff00">drive I've ever been on</font>

839
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:26,680
<font color="#ffff00">in my entire life.</font>

840
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:32,480
<font color="#00ffff">Ooh, it's cold.</font>

841
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:37,800
<font color="#ffff00">Nowhere near!</font>

842
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,160
<font color="#00ffff">My hands are cold.</font>

843
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,560
<font color="#ffff00">I've never drove through somewhere</font>
<font color="#ffff00">like this. It's just stunning.</font>

844
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,400
<font color="#ffff00">We've still got a long,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">long way to go,</font>

845
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,120
<font color="#ffff00">but we're trying to stay positive.</font>

846
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,520
<font color="#00ffff">Hey! Sick.</font>

847
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,520
<font color="#ffff00">Unless you can really come to terms</font>

848
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,840
<font color="#ffff00">with the constant stress</font>
<font color="#ffff00">of the race,</font>

849
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,320
<font color="#ffff00">only then can you actually relax</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and start to enjoy it.</font>

850
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,880
UPBEAT POP MUSIC

851
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,400
<font color="#ffff00">Come on!</font>

852
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,600
<font color="#ffff00">That's mental!</font> <font color="#00ffff">Let's go!</font>

853
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,240
<font color="#00ffff">Bazar jok. Stars are on our side.</font>

854
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,720
<font color="#00ffff">There's a chance to get to Almaty</font>
<font color="#00ffff">tonight.</font>

855
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,400
<font color="#ffff00">We might have a chance</font>
<font color="#ffff00">at maybe second or third.</font>

856
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:26,800
<font color="#ffff00">To Kazakhstan.</font>

857
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,640
BLEATING

858
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,480
<font color="#ffff00">Have you ever rounded up sheep</font>
<font color="#ffff00">this way before?</font>

859
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,240
<font color="#00ffff">Yeah, it's lovely, though.</font> <font color="#ffff00">It's just</font>
<font color="#ffff00">like walking the fields at home.</font>

860
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,120
<font color="#00ffff">You couldn't beat it.</font> <font color="#ffff00">It's just so</font>
<font color="#ffff00">interesting, and just beautiful.</font>

861
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:47,200
<font color="#00ffff">You couldn't beat it...</font>

862
00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:48,680
<font color="#00ffff">Oh! Janey Mac!</font>

863
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:52,080
After a seven-hour journey
from Shymkent,

864
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,840
Andrew and Molly have arrived
in Tasotkel.

865
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:57,280
<font color="#00ffff">Horse coming through.</font>

866
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,640
<font color="#00ff00">That's my father.</font>

867
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,840
<font color="#00ffff">Oh!</font> <font color="#ffff00">Hello, hello, nice to meet you!</font>

868
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,960
<font color="#00ffff">Nice to meet you.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Hello, hello,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">hello. Hello.</font>

869
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,320
<font color="#ffff00">Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.</font>

870
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,440
They're joining host Zhalgas...

871
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,080
..and his father in the day-to-day
running of the farm.

872
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,480
<font color="#ffff00">So, me do... Yes.</font>

873
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,240
<font color="#ffff00">I help.</font>

874
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:19,920
<font color="#ffff00">OK.</font>

875
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,320
<font color="#00ffff">It's very rural,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">we're in the middle of nowhere.</font>

876
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,280
<font color="#00ffff">We're on a farm,</font>

877
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,640
<font color="#00ffff">and, er, I'm loving it, actually.</font>

878
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,400
<font color="#ffff00">Did I do good? The... Yeah.</font>

879
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,720
<font color="#00ffff">This leg, Molly's kind</font>
<font color="#00ffff">of making the decisions,</font>

880
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,400
<font color="#00ffff">and, by me stepping back,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">she's able to take over.</font>

881
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,360
<font color="#00ffff">You're very good at onions.</font>

882
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,600
<font color="#ffff00">I am, I've discovered that.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">But it's a shallot.</font>

883
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,120
<font color="#00ffff">It's lovely to see</font>
<font color="#00ffff">and lovely to see her flourish.</font>

884
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,960
<font color="#00ffff">But in another way, I find that</font>
<font color="#00ffff">quite difficult at times.</font>

885
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,080
<font color="#00ffff">Because when I was Molly's age,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I grew up in Belfast,</font>

886
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,680
<font color="#00ffff">during the, er,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">the beginning of the Troubles.</font>

887
00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:00,280
<font color="#00ffff">Away youse go. Go on.</font>

888
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,920
<font color="#00ffff">Catholics and Protestants</font>
<font color="#00ffff">just not seeing eye-to-eye.</font>

889
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,920
<font color="#00ffff">And it turned to violence.</font>

890
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,280
<font color="#00ffff">You had to be careful,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">some of the areas you went to,</font>

891
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,280
<font color="#00ffff">what pubs you went to,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">what streets you went to.</font>

892
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,720
<font color="#00ffff">And everybody was on edge.</font>

893
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,920
<font color="#00ffff">There was bombs going off,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">soldiers walking around with guns.</font>

894
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,560
<font color="#00ffff">People would've been killed</font>
<font color="#00ffff">for their religion.</font>

895
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,800
<font color="#00ffff">And it affects you.</font>

896
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,200
<font color="#00ffff">Particularly as I become a father,</font>

897
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:43,400
<font color="#00ffff">you kind of manifest that</font>
<font color="#00ffff">onto your children.</font>

898
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:49,160
<font color="#00ffff">A lot of my generation has that</font>
<font color="#00ffff">kind of fear and lack of safety.</font>

899
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,920
<font color="#00ffff">You could be a bit over-bordering,</font>

900
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,520
<font color="#00ffff">and you're probably</font>
<font color="#00ffff">a wee bit more hypervigilant.</font>

901
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,000
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, my Jesus.</font>

902
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,800
<font color="#ffff00">It's just so like Nanny's house,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">isn't it?</font> <font color="#00ffff">Uh-huh.</font>

903
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:09,440
<font color="#00ffff">Seeing Molly grow up,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">you're losing her in a way</font>

904
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,840
<font color="#00ffff">and she's growing up into this</font>
<font color="#00ffff">independent person,</font>

905
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,120
<font color="#00ffff">and you're not having that kind of</font>
<font color="#00ffff">level of control,</font>

906
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,240
<font color="#00ffff">and that's the bit that I'm learning</font>
<font color="#00ffff">to deal with at the moment.</font>

907
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:21,520
<font color="#ffff00">Go on! Move it!</font>

908
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:23,920
<font color="#ffff00">They're just like schoolkids.</font>

909
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,080
<font color="#ffff00">They just walk off in their own</font>
<font color="#ffff00">direction!</font>

910
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,480
<font color="#00ffff">It's been 24 long years</font>
<font color="#00ffff">of looking after somebody.</font>

911
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,520
<font color="#00ffff">Enjoyed every second of it.</font>

912
00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:38,440
<font color="#00ffff">And...</font>

913
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,680
<font color="#00ffff">..you don't want to let her go.</font>

914
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,520
<font color="#00ffff">But that's life.</font>

915
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:51,640
<font color="#00ffff">You have to.</font>

916
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,000
<font color="#ffff00">Dinner? OK. Spoiling us!</font>

917
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,000
SINGING
<font color="#ffff00">Woo!</font>

918
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:09,840
<font color="#00ffff">Fab!</font>

919
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,520
<font color="#ffff00">Very good.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Excellent.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Were you a party girl?</font>

920
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,040
<font color="#00ff00">Oh...</font>
THEY LAUGH

921
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,200
<font color="#ffff00">I like a party. Yeah.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Oh!</font>

922
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,160
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, this looks lovely!</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, wow! Wow!</font> <font color="#ffff00">Wow!</font>

923
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,280
<font color="#00ff00">It's your turn to sing.</font> <font color="#00ffff">No. No.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Sorry, no.</font>

924
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,760
<font color="#ffff00">What'll we sing? I'll sing badly,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">if you want me to.</font>

925
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,320
<font color="#00ff00">It doesn't matter.</font>

926
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,640
<font color="#00ffff">This is a song about,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">er, a girl in Belfast.</font>

927
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,440
<font color="#ffff00">I can't believe we're doing this!</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Enjoy!</font>

928
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,600
BOTH: # I'll tell me ma
When I go home

929
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,880
# The boys won't leave
the girls alone

930
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,880
# Pulled my hair, and stole my comb

931
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:48,840
# But that's all right,
till I go home

932
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:50,800
# She is handsome, she is pretty

933
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:52,760
# She is the girl of Belfast city

934
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,840
# She is a-courting one, two, three

935
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,840
# Please, would you tell me
who is she?

936
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,080
# Albert Moody says he loves her

937
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,040
# All the boys are fighting for her

938
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,960
# They rap on the door
and they ring the bell

939
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,160
# Sayin' "Oh, my love,
are you well?"

940
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:06,920
# Out she comes as white as snow

941
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,520
# Rings on her fingers
Bells on her toes

942
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,560
# She is the girl of Belfast city

943
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,480
# She is a-courting one, two, three

944
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,040
# Please, will you tell me
who is she? #

945
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,200
<font color="#ffff00">One more?</font> <font color="#00ffff">No, one time only!</font>

946
00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:29,960
<font color="#ffff00">I'm so sorry,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">I'm such a bad singer!</font>

947
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:31,480
<font color="#00ff00">No, it was beautiful.</font>

948
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:32,880
<font color="#ffff00">Aw!</font>

949
00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:39,560
TRAIN HORN BLASTS

950
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,160
<font color="#00ff00">Kazakhstan?</font> <font color="#ffff00">Kazakhstan, yes.</font>

951
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,320
<font color="#00ffff">Kazakhstan, yes!</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yes!</font>

952
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:51,040
<font color="#00ffff">We've made quick time</font>
<font color="#00ffff">for the border.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Checkpoint!</font>

953
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,280
Following an early start,

954
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,640
Mark and Margo have now crossed
into Kazakhstan.

955
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,080
<font color="#00ffff">Woo!</font> <font color="#ffff00">Are you ready to run, Mark?</font>

956
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,360
<font color="#00ffff">I have a feeling</font>
<font color="#00ffff">we might surprise ourselves.</font>

957
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,200
<font color="#ffff00">I'm ready to open that book,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and see a better number there,</font>

958
00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:06,160
<font color="#ffff00">than four.</font>

959
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:07,760
<font color="#00ffff">Almaty, here we come!</font>

960
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:11,560
ANDREW:<font color="#00ffff">I can't thank you enough.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Thank you very much.</font>

961
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,840
Close behind them,
Andrew and Molly...

962
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,120
<font color="#ffff00">We normally have to pay</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to get there fast.</font>

963
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,560
..using their healthy budget
to carry them quickly

964
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,080
to the checkpoint.

965
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,120
<font color="#00ffff">Well, you need to go fast.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Fast, fast, fast.</font>

966
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,200
The former Soviet capital
of Kazakhstan -

967
00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:36,760
Almaty.

968
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,000
Meaning "place of apples",

969
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,760
the wild orchard-covered slopes
that surround the city are believed

970
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,320
to be the ancient ancestral home
of the popular fruit.

971
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,200
<font color="#ffff00">I think we're here.</font>

972
00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:50,600
<font color="#ffff00">Here we come!</font>

973
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:55,040
Today, it's also home
to the sixth checkpoint.

974
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:01,920
BEEPING
<font color="#00ffff">"Make your way to Gogol Street.</font>

975
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,320
<font color="#ffff00">"Find the Memorial of Glory."</font>

976
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,400
<font color="#00ff00">"Behind the eternal flame.</font>

977
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,480
<font color="#00ff00">"Pass the Ascension Cathedral,</font>

978
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,240
<font color="#00ff00">"and locate the emblem</font>
<font color="#00ff00">of Kazakhstan."</font>

979
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,440
<font color="#00ffff">"On the front of KBTU."</font>

980
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,000
<font color="#00ffff">So we need to get to Gogol Street.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">Gogol Street.</font>

981
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:21,480
<font color="#ffff00">A lovely day for a walk in the park!</font>
<font color="#00ffff">It is, absolutely, yes!</font>

982
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,160
<font color="#ffff00">Remember though, it's a race.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, lordy, lordy, yeah.</font>

983
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,800
<font color="#00ffff">Excuse me!</font> <font color="#00ff00">Thank you!</font> <font color="#00ffff">Thank you.</font>

984
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:30,920
<font color="#00ff00">Come on,</font>
<font color="#00ff00">we're doing four-minute kilometres.</font>

985
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,360
<font color="#00ffff">I just need his skates!</font>

986
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:34,920
<font color="#00ffff">Can I have your skates?!</font>

987
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:36,040
<font color="#00ff00">This way.</font>

988
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,200
<font color="#ffff00">Oh! Memorial of Glory -</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that has to be it.</font>

989
00:52:39,240 --> 00:52:43,680
<font color="#ffff00">That's one...big...monument.</font>

990
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:46,840
<font color="#00ff00">It's there!</font>
<font color="#00ffff">You see it? Ascension Cathedral.</font>

991
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:49,720
<font color="#ffff00">Choo-choo!</font>

992
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,200
<font color="#ffff00">It's gorgeous, isn't it?</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Beautiful, isn't it?</font>

993
00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:55,960
INDISTINCT

994
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,320
<font color="#00ff00">KBTU that way? That way.</font>

995
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,600
<font color="#00ffff">Fab, thank you.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, is that the emblem?</font>

996
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,040
<font color="#00ffff">What an amazing building!</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Do you think it's that one?</font>

997
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:05,920
BEEPING

998
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:11,120
<font color="#00ffff">"Follow the apples and sign in</font>
<font color="#00ffff">on the terrace of Almaty Hotel."</font>

999
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:14,440
<font color="#ffff00">Keep your eyes peeled.</font>

1000
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,320
<font color="#00ffff">There's apples down here.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">And there's apples up there.</font>

1001
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,080
<font color="#ffff00">Excuse me?</font>

1002
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,280
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, he's lost, himself.</font>

1003
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,000
<font color="#00ffff">Molly, there's apples down here.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">There's apples up there!</font>

1004
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,040
<font color="#00ffff">I know,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">there's bloody apples everywhere.</font>

1005
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,440
<font color="#00ff00">No, Daddy, there's more apples</font>
<font color="#00ff00">this way, this makes more sense.</font>

1006
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,000
<font color="#00ff00">Follow the clues.</font>

1007
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:34,640
<font color="#ffff00">Leg it, Mark! Whew!</font>

1008
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,800
ANDREW:<font color="#00ffff">Almaty Hotel? Thank you.</font>

1009
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,080
<font color="#00ffff">I'm wrecked now, Molls.</font>
<font color="#00ff00">You're doing really well.</font>

1010
00:53:42,240 --> 00:53:44,080
MARK:<font color="#00ffff">Margo!</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Leg it!</font>

1011
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:45,760
<font color="#00ffff">Irish bar!</font>

1012
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,520
<font color="#00ff00">Yeah!</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yeah! Give it everything.</font>

1013
00:53:51,720 --> 00:53:54,640
MARK:<font color="#00ffff">It could be that one up there.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Leg it, Mark!</font>

1014
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,160
ANDREW:<font color="#00ffff">That's it, Molly,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">straight up in front of you.</font> <font color="#00ff00">Yeah!</font>

1015
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,200
<font color="#00ffff">Hang on for me!</font> <font color="#00ff00">Sorry.</font>

1016
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:01,560
<font color="#ffff00">I want a big glass of rose wine.</font>

1017
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:04,400
<font color="#00ffff">Steps. I love a step.</font>

1018
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,560
<font color="#ffff00">We're here!</font>

1019
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,400
<font color="#ffff00">Way-hey!</font> Hello.
<font color="#00ff00">Am I glad to see you?!</font>

1020
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,640
<font color="#00ffff">Good afternoon.</font>
Welcome to Almaty Hotel.

1021
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,120
<font color="#00ff00">Thank you.</font> <font color="#00ffff">OK.</font>

1022
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:15,680
Please sign here.

1023
00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:17,880
<font color="#ffff00">Wonderful.</font>

1024
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,320
<font color="#ffff00">"Congratulations.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">You have successfully reached</font>

1025
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,240
<font color="#ffff00">"your sixth checkpoint." Yes!</font>

1026
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,240
<font color="#00ffff">Please sign in overleaf."</font>
<font color="#00ffff">All right, kid?</font>

1027
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:26,960
<font color="#00ffff">Been a great leg now, right?</font>

1028
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,440
<font color="#ffff00">Go on.</font>

1029
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,120
<font color="#ffff00">Go on.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Go on.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Third.</font>

1030
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:34,880
<font color="#ffff00">We're second! Hey!</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yes!</font>

1031
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:37,800
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, that's...!</font>

1032
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:39,040
<font color="#00ffff">Jo and Kush!</font>

1033
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:42,240
<font color="#00ffff">14 hours in front of us.</font>

1034
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:43,680
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, gosh, they've made good lead!</font>

1035
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:45,200
<font color="#00ffff">Whew!</font> <font color="#ffff00">Ah!</font>

1036
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:52,880
<font color="#ffff00">Is this right?</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yeah.</font>

1037
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,880
<font color="#ffff00">Whoa! Agh!</font>

1038
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:57,120
<font color="#00ffff">Shit, you good?</font>

1039
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,280
<font color="#ffff00">I just hit the kerb. Yeah, I'm fine.</font>

1040
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,640
<font color="#00ffff">You sure?</font> <font color="#ffff00">Yeah, honest.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Nice one, bro.</font>

1041
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:03,760
<font color="#00ffff">Dream team. Come on, bro,</font>
<font color="#00ffff">final sprint.</font>

1042
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,440
<font color="#ffff00">There it is. Here it is, Jo.</font>

1043
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,240
<font color="#ffff00">Jo. Open the book to be last...</font>

1044
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:14,360
<font color="#00ffff">We're not going to be last.</font>

1045
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,120
<font color="#ffff00">Salam alaikum.</font> Hello.

1046
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,240
Please sign in here.

1047
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:22,600
<font color="#00ffff">Yeah, bro, allow me. I think, it's</font>
<font color="#00ffff">been so hard, but, whatever place.</font>

1048
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,440
<font color="#ffff00">I'm fine with fourth.</font>

1049
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,000
<font color="#ffff00">It just is what it is.</font>

1050
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:27,960
<font color="#00ffff">"Congratulations.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">You've successfully reached</font>

1051
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,040
<font color="#00ffff">"your sixth checkpoint.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Please sign in overleaf."</font>

1052
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,440
<font color="#00ffff">What? Wait!</font>

1053
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:40,960
<font color="#ffff00">That's not right!</font>

1054
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,560
<font color="#ffff00">That's not right.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Ah, it's the wrong</font>
<font color="#00ffff">page or something.</font>

1055
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:44,720
<font color="#ffff00">That's not right. That's not right.</font>

1056
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,480
<font color="#ffff00">Are you sure this is...</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Nah, someone's...</font> <font color="#ffff00">..the right book?</font>

1057
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:48,760
<font color="#00ffff">Lad!</font>

1058
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,600
<font color="#00ffff">How did we do that, bro?!</font>

1059
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,280
<font color="#ffff00">We did it, man.</font> <font color="#00ffff">First place.</font>

1060
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,080
<font color="#ffff00">First. We finally got a taste of it.</font>

1061
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,720
<font color="#ffff00">But I truly think it's thanks</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to the locals along the way.</font>

1062
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,320
<font color="#ffff00">How much sleep have I lost</font>
<font color="#ffff00">over this leg?</font>

1063
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:06,440
<font color="#ffff00">I can't believe it.</font>

1064
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,640
<font color="#00ffff">Me neither.</font> <font color="#ffff00">I just want to say</font>
<font color="#ffff00">thank you for everything,</font>

1065
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,720
<font color="#ffff00">I know I've been a pain in the arse,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">but...</font>

1066
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,080
<font color="#00ffff">Don't worry about it.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">..it means the world.</font>

1067
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:15,400
<font color="#00ffff">Always.</font>

1068
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,360
<font color="#ffff00">Bro. I was really struggling,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">mentally, but I realised that</font>

1069
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:24,000
<font color="#ffff00">I can actually rely on Jo a lot more</font>
<font color="#ffff00">than I originally assumed.</font>

1070
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,120
<font color="#ffff00">You've helped me so much in general.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Bro, same here, it goes both ways.</font>

1071
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:32,480
<font color="#00ffff">I would probably still be in Palermo</font>
<font color="#00ffff">somewhere without you, mate.</font>

1072
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:34,480
<font color="#00ffff">I'm not... I'm not joking!</font>

1073
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,080
<font color="#00ffff">Second, fifth...</font> <font color="#ffff00">Third, third.</font>

1074
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,400
<font color="#00ffff">Second.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Second.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Second, second, first.</font>

1075
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,080
<font color="#00ffff">That's a tune, that, you know.</font>

1076
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:43,640
THEY LAUGH

1077
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:51,960
<font color="#ffff00">Next leg... I'm sorry, boys,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">we're coming for you!</font>

1078
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,560
<font color="#00ffff">We're gunning for you, boys.</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Gunning for you.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Absolutely.</font>

1079
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,280
<font color="#ffff00">We did the route we wanted,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">we did it our way, and we've come...</font>

1080
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,000
BOTH:<font color="#00ff00">Second!</font>

1081
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:00,600
<font color="#00ffff">And I think we can win.</font>

1082
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:03,720
<font color="#ffff00">Third!</font>

1083
00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:07,120
<font color="#ffff00">Oh, Jesus.</font>

1084
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,960
<font color="#ffff00">The boys did very well.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Well done.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Fair play to them.</font>

1085
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:11,520
<font color="#00ffff">Fair play to them.</font>

1086
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:16,080
<font color="#ffff00">I have thoroughly loved this leg,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and I think we communicated well.</font>

1087
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,840
<font color="#00ffff">Well, yeah.</font> <font color="#ffff00">And I think we just need</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to keep it going forward.</font>

1088
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:20,280
<font color="#00ffff">We only have to win one.</font>

1089
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:26,000
<font color="#ffff00">Come on...</font>

1090
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,280
<font color="#ffff00">Will we sprint, just for a laugh?</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Sprint?!</font>

1091
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,200
<font color="#ffff00">Come on!</font>
<font color="#00ffff">Sprint's not in my vocabulary!</font>

1092
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:45,760
Welcome to Almaty Hotel.
<font color="#00ffff">Thank you very much.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Thank you.</font>

1093
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,600
<font color="#ffff00">We knew it.</font> <font color="#00ffff">Yeah. What time is it?</font>

1094
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:51,440
<font color="#ffff00">Yeah, it's a day behind again.</font>

1095
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,280
<font color="#00ffff">I am actually a bit devastated</font>
<font color="#00ffff">with coming fourth,</font>

1096
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:55,680
<font color="#00ffff">I really would've loved second</font>
<font color="#00ffff">or third.</font>

1097
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:59,520
<font color="#00ffff">We tried to save a bit of money</font>
<font color="#00ffff">which cost us maybe a few hours.</font>

1098
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,960
<font color="#ffff00">I do have that regret that we didn't</font>
<font color="#ffff00">spend a little bit more money,</font>

1099
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:06,680
<font color="#ffff00">but it is the eighth leg</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that matters for first place.</font>

1100
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,240
<font color="#ffff00">We've got the extra money to spend</font>
<font color="#ffff00">now, I think,</font>

1101
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,520
<font color="#ffff00">so, just spend it wisely.</font>

1102
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:16,240
<font color="#00ffff">Really need some leggings</font>
<font color="#00ffff">and a moisturiser, so, yes.</font>

1103
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:17,880
<font color="#ffff00">Absolutely not.</font>

1104
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,160
<font color="#ffff00">Mongolia's your problem now.</font>

1105
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,840
<font color="#00ffff">Mongolia's a pretty big problem</font>
<font color="#00ffff">to have.</font>

1106
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,560
<font color="#00ff00">We need speed, and we've got</font>
<font color="#00ff00">the money to be able to spend.</font>

1107
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:33,160
<font color="#00ff00">There's no point being rich losers.</font>

1108
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,960
<font color="#ffff00">This kind of experience is</font>
<font color="#ffff00">what I wanted out of Mongolia.</font>

1109
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,320
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, my God, no, this is tough!</font>

1110
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,080
<font color="#00ffff">This is the best memories we've had</font>
<font color="#00ffff">so far.</font>

1111
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,760
<font color="#ffff00">Uh...</font> <font color="#00ff00">It's just all going wrong.</font>

1112
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,880
<font color="#00ff00">Tomorrow's another day, but today...</font>

1113
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:50,720
<font color="#00ffff">Oh, holy moley.</font>

1114
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:52,240
LAUGHTER

1115
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,000
<font color="#ffff00">This is absurd.</font>
<font color="#00ffff">There's been a miscommunication.</font>

1116
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,640
<font color="#ffff00">Fasten your seat belts,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">you're in for a bumpy ride!</font>