the Travel Guides twins on the highs and lows of travelling the globe

“The Deep South was very occasion oriented,” says Stack. “Everybody was smoking weed in every single place, and that’s completely not our factor. It was simply fully not who we’re.”

Like the opposite Journey Guides individuals, Stack and Mel have been affected by their tour of the slave quarters at a plantation property.

“It makes you assume, the place we’re immediately [in Australia], and be very grateful for what everybody has gone by way of for our freedoms now,” says Stack.

Having by no means left Australia earlier than the collection, the twins have caught the journey bug and hope to return to their pals and the rodeo in Texas “after this COVID stuff blows over”. Of all of the locations they’ve seen, they fee as their favourites Germany and Hungary, which they visited on their season three European cruise; New Zealand; and Australia’s High Finish. They loathed Tokyo, their first cease in season one.

“I hated that place,” says Mel. “By no means once more.”

They seen that totally different cultures react in another way to twins.

“In Thailand they actually seen us,” says Mel.

“And in Oman, bear in mind them?” says Stack. “We have been scared to stroll down the road ’trigger they’d take a look at us and go, ‘Similar identical, identical identical’. It made us really feel like we stand out like canine’ nuts.”

Neither has any need to pursue a profession in media, regardless of their newfound fame. However they’re happy to have impressed different Australians to see the world.

“We’ve had individuals come as much as us and say, ‘We by no means would have gone to this place’, however as a result of Mel and I’ve gone there and we’ve had a go, they’re keen to have a go.”

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After their globetrotting adventures, which they tot as much as about 120 days of filming, they’ve determined there’s no place like house.

“We’re very fortunate to name Australia house and be Aussies,” says Mel. “We’re very grateful for this place, aren’t we Stack?”

“Yeah,” Stack agrees. “You don’t realise how good you’ve bought it till you go to different locations the place there’s no bathrooms or no energy, or girls don’t have the rights. Simply the straightforward issues that Australians can go and do every single day.”

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