Grown Up Gappers...

Oct 02, 2003 8 Replies

No, not some strange Gay sex ritual, but a Documentary being filmed for the BBC!



This is some of the blurb, if anyone is interested in taking it further, please contact me by email for contact details:


--start-- Thank you for your interest in 'Grown Up Gappers'. In short, the programme will be a prime time observational documentary series on BBC Two, featuring eight people, who for various reasons, are wanting to take time our later on in life, this programme is not looking at students who have some time on their hands, we want to feature the grown ups! The people who have had families, relationships and careers and never got the chance to travel when they were younger. It is so popular now for mature people to take a long break from everything and more and more people are considering doing this later in life. The programme will film all the planning preparations for extended travel (this might include selling or renting homes, leaving jobs or selling possessions to fund the trip), then subsequently film everything during the time abroad observing the decisions and actions taken, to the final return.



To let you know a little more, the programme is restricted to travellers who are over 30, based in the UK, self financing and prepared to start travelling for only 3-4 months from November or December 2003. If you feel that you would like to be filmed for the documentary and are flexible we would love for you to give us a daytime contact number so we can call you and have a little chat about your plans. Thank you again for your interest in the programme.



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Martyn


There seems to be a fair bit of this about from time to time. When we went to Canada/USA for a year motorhoming, we were contacted by a C4 producer, but in our case nothing came of it. On the other hand, my friend Jim has taken his wife and two daughters sailing across the atlantic and up the coast of the USA. He hopes the trip will last about a year and he was approached by a tv company. He's even getting some sponsorship money from them and a dv camcorder to record the trip. The sponsorship paid for most of the extra gear he had to buy for such a long trip, including a satellite phone...the jammy b****rd!!!

Regards Martyn Cottrell

Crumbs!

It's almost worth planning a short 'gapping' or whatever term is correct, just to get the freebies. Shame it has to involve being filmed, though!

Martyn

What I want to know is why it's always the bu**ers that have plenty of money that get all the freebies? I wouldn't mind but he bought that bloody satellite phone off of eBay and when he opened up the box there were two complete sets in there. He sold the second one for what he'd just paid for the two!!!! Jammy jammy git!!!

Mind you, at $1.20/min to call him, he won't be hearing from me until he comes home.

Regards Martyn

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What I want to know is why it's always 'someone else' going off to do great adventures, and not me :-(

I looked at these some time ago and was reminded of my very old Panasonic 'brick'. I guess it's a handy thing to have at times, essential if in the middle of the desert.

Didn't David French have one of these for the Iceland trip?

David, are you there???

Martyn

On or around 3/10/03 10:26 pm, Mother using , in article ID snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, scribbled:

DING!

What a damn good idea!

Let's sponsor Martyn to drive Grumble around the world.... That'll keep him busy for a few weeks!

You know where to send the cheques :-)

A few weeks? The 4.6L V8 isn't quite that good. I'd want to take at least a couple of years. I probably wouldn't be too busy to stay online though, as I have a broadcast quality global sat uplink for Grumble:

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and I doubt I'd ever have problems connecting, or having my news access terminated by my ISP :-)

Martyn

On or around 3/10/03 11:53 pm, Mother using , in article ID snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, scribbled:

I haven't had anything terminated, thank you very much, but I have made it more difficult for you to follow me around the Internet by switching to supernews like yourself!

The need to earn a living?

Also essential if your wife's the company accountant and needs to do the banking via the internet, whilst in the middle of the Atlantic.

Martyn Cottrell

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