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I just got done watching The Amazing Race premiere. I am not that well travelled and geography isn’t my strongest subject but I had to roll my eyes when Jordan asked for tickets to China because that’s where she thought Santiago was, doh.

Love love love this show even after 16 seasons, but I find myself running into the same age old problem season after season – it makes me green with envy and crave an exotic holiday adventure of my own!

Of course I’d never be able to go on The Amazing Race and would be much more suited to an all inclusive Tunisia or Greece trip instead. I like the idea of adventure but not the realities of it. I would definitely not be happy if I couldn’t lounge around by a pool, visit the shops and have all my meals cooked for me.

I’m not high maintenance, I just like nice things

…that couple, erm…thingy, Shane or something.

Yeah OK so they were a pretty boring couple as far as reality contestants go, but they were nice enough and I think very much the most deserved winners. Going into the episode I wasn’t at all sure who I wanted to win but suspected that Brian and Ericka had been given the winners edit – so when it was mentioned again at the start of the episode that they had never won a leg and they got an early lead I thought that was that.

When Ericka reminded me why I disliked her earlier on during the bouncy bouncy grab the flowers challenge I decided I really didn’t want them to win and when Meghan and Cheyne ended up behind because no one seemed to know which hotel they needed to be at I thought how unfair it would be if they lost because of that and realised I really was rooting for them.

Overall a pretty good season but definitely not a classic or all time favourite.

I hear that Jeff and Jordan of BB romance/he handed her the win fame will be racing on the next season – I wonder how true that is, it seemed like for a while every season there were rumours Janelle and Dr Will were racing and it never happened.

No, not the team who were eliminated from The Amazing Race last week after making the daftest decision ever – me and my fiance. We’re going on three seperate trips in the next 2 months.

Where are we headed, any where exciting? Have I got us some outer banks vacation rentals?

Nope.

We are going to Wakefield, Liverpool and Newcastle – so OK that hardly qualifies us as globetrotters but heck it’s all adventure isn’t it

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I was just reading about the charter ultra fast 60 service that is currently being rolled out across America – green with envy doesn’t even come close to explaining how I feel about it.

My fiance already gets his Internet at twice the speed I do even though we are on the same service and that drives me crazy, so the idea that others are getting it probably 100 times faster makes me almost lose the plot.

As you know by now I watch a lot of TV shows online, if it wasn’t for torrents and streaming sites I wouldn’t get to watch three of my favourite TV shows – Survivor, The Amazing Race and The Biggest Loser Australia. The thing is my upload speed especially is so shoddy that I can’t do two things at once, if I am uploading anything such as videos to youtube or seeding torrents I can’t stream at all – So I can’t just decide I want to stream something and do it there and then, I have to wait until I know my computer won’t be busy doing other things!

My Internet life would be a lot faster with 60mb speeds, therefore buying me extra ‘real life’ time – which I would then probably use to watch more TV hehe.

I can’t watch The Amazing Race any more, it’s official. It makes me so jealous as I always wanted to be a globetrotter and I just love staying in gorgeous far flung places. I always come away from the episodes wanting to look up myrtle beach vacation rentals and book myself a flight to get myself out of rainy and cold old England as soon as possible.

Ahh it’s that time of the year again, The Amazing Race is back on the television and my uncontrollable urge to travel the world has returned.

I would love to appear on The Amazing Race so that I could travel the world, but I would almost certainly be one of the first teams eliminated as I would want to stop every 5 minutes to enjoy the sights or take detours.

What I will have to do instead is save up my hard earned pennies, find myself some killer travel coupons – there seem to be quite a lot of One Tavel Coupons kicking about at the moment – and travel the more conventional way.

Speaking of The Amazing Race, why does every season have to have an annoying, obnoxious, arrogant, nasty shouty couple that just spend the entire time spitting venom at each other? They really kill my enjoyment of the episodes.

The sooner Lance is out this season, the better!

I’m so happy that my favourite shows are starting to come back on, aside from Big Brother UK and USA it’s been pretty slim pickings the last few months.

I am most excited about Project Runway, I have missed it a lot and can’t wait to watch tonight’s two episodes.

I am also glad Top Chef if back but wish I had realised when the new season was starting, I just began watching season 1 a few days ago and I would have held off if I had known.

Now I just need Survivor and The Amazing Race back and all will be right with the world

The Amazing Race is undoubtedly one of the best darn tooting TV shows on the telly. I have loved it ever since I discovered it way back when, but recently I have come away from each episode feeling gloomy — because it makes me turn green with envy.

I want to be able to travel to all those far flung places and take part in the cultural challenges they face.

I have always had a desire to travel, but a lack of money in my younger days and a Fiance who is too scared to fly these days mean that I have found myself firmly planted to the spot. Boo.

Top two places on my must visit list are Australia and Montenegro — Australia probably doesn’t need much explanation, as is apparent from this blog I just love the culture and attitude.

Montenegro wasn’t even on my radar until a few years ago to be honest, my friend visited once and fell in mad crazy love — I would hear tales and about the places she visited and things she saw for hours on end and she went back there several times in just a few years. On the last trip she made there she fell in mad crazy love again, this time with a fella who now happens to be her husband — so I guess I have a somewhat romanticised ideal about the country in my head

I feel like I know the place inside out already, but reading the Montenegro guide confirms I actually know very little — there are lots of hidden gems to discover

I will go there one day, I really will.

Dear TBL Producers,

Thank you so much for coming up with the last two episodes of The Biggest Loser Australia — making the overweight and unfit contestants take part in a 2.5k race across the country to get to their new home, with pit falls, decisions to make and challenges la The Amazing Race was an inspired idea.

Have some extra coffee and doughnuts today, you earned em.

Thank you,
Me