“I hope that we will soon be able to orientate ourselves better, because I really don’t know where we are.” You may or may not know it yet, but the candidates of the game program are driven around in a darkened bus. Finding out the so-called final location by putting an X on the map at the end of the episode is the weekly final goal.
A novelty tonight: not everyone had to put an X on the card at the end. The brand new candidates were immediately played off against each other in two teams. Every tip is very welcome. And a first important tip, hidden in a silver petanque ball, could be obtained by winning a series of duels – think a scout camp with a larger budget.
Steve, the ‘confidence coach’ of Miss Belgium, participates in ‘Destination
Fucked in the balls
The tip was a bowler hat, but it had nothing to do with Great Britain or France. In this first episode the bus stayed close to home, literally. The journey started at Mont Saint-Michel in France, where Archangel Michael – also the patron saint of Brussels – towers above the abbey.
After wandering through our own piece of desert in the Dune Belt of Oudsbergen, the wine estate of Genoels-Elderen and an exact replica of the French Lourdes in the Dutch Valkenburg, the bus parked right in front of the main attraction of our capital.
At the Atomium, Kyala was the first to leave the game. The Kempen talkative was misled by her own roots, the “Kempian vibes” that she felt during the game in the dunes. Unjustified, as it turns out. However, her final words will linger for a while. “This sucks,” he said, disappointed.
