How to Travel the World on Less Than $33 a Day!

With no phone, internet or air transport involved!

8 Countries, 54 Days, £26 a day budget ($33) - No phone, internet access or air travel.

This was the challenge given to 5 couples in season 4 of one of my favourite UK shows - ‘Race Across the World’.

So far there have been 4 ‘civilian’ series and 2 ‘celebrity’ series. They’re all absolutely fabulous and as a seasoned nomad I LOVE THEM!

In each series, contestants are given the equivalent of £26 a day for their entire trip, a map and their first checkpoint.

Phones are confiscated and the intrepid pairs head off, carrying their worldly wears on their backs, hoping to reach each checkpoint ahead of the other players.

The goal is to be the first couple to reach the final checkpoint and win the £20,000 ($25,500) prize money and serious bragging rights.

Each season has been a phenomenal effort with contestants traversing from the UK to Singapore, the length of South America from Mexico to Ushu…