Two packs, two Meowth!
Bought the kid two packs of Perfect Order for getting through the first few days of SATs, haven't had much luck with PO at all (even ex's) so this was one hell of a shock, he was jumping around the room! The big one in the first pack and then rounded off nicely with the regular ex in pack two.
He just needs one more Meowth to round off the page...
It's not something you can definitively argue one way or another, but I often wonder if teams having a camera crew (or at least one camera operator) and being in the unique situation of a TV race (especially a BBC one) fundamentally alters the experience in terms of interactions around them.
I've no doubt there are some incredibly kind and generous people out there for whom tourists of any kind are a welcome novelty, but -for example- are two backpackers chancing their arm asking for a cheap stay really getting a free night in a hotel lounge AND free onward travel? Or does a camera crew (which have probably paid for rooms in the same hotel) make that substantially more likely?
There is no way around that really, short of teams truly going it alone and filming on GoPros for the entire trip, so it's not a complaint as such. But as somebody who is lucky enough to go off and do a solo trip every year for a week, it does often make me wonder if some of these places are actually that incredibly hospitable (or even just safe full stop) or if the format of the show is, in some cases, making quite a big difference to how the teams are treated.
I can count the number of truly sketchy experiences or locations shown across all the series on one hand, it just never seems to be an issue, yet in real life you'll sadly often run into those trying to take advantage of tourists.
Thankfully at RRP from the PCUK release a few months back. Pretty sure we saw these for around £65 a box at the weekend. First box was a peach ;)