![]() Once named the second best coastal destination in the world, Pembrokeshire turned the head of freelance designer Caroline who lived in a flat in Chelsea, London. Well not exactly out-takes but one of the self-made videos that we had to film as part of the interview process.Welcome to wet Wales - surely it's not the weather that is the issue? (Image: BBC) We won’t ever forget our Escape to the Country. Ultimately we thoroughly enjoyed the whole process of applying and participating in the show, it was a wonderful experience and we got to stay in a posh country hotel for a few days and see so much more of beautiful Wiltshire. So interesting to see what made the final cut. And some of those conversations we had with the host, Alistair, the healthfood shop lady, and the barge owner were a hundred times longer than the throw away lines they showed. ![]() All of the other properties looked a lot nicer on TV than they seemed at the time, clever filming I suppose. I think it may have been a bit bare and basic as it was very old and extremely small. Strange that they cut the first property we viewed from the final show. Seeing yourself on a video on your phone is bad enough so what was being on TV going to be like? Well not as bad as we imagined to be honest.Īfter an initial horrifying few minutes we relaxed a little and actually quite enjoyed the show. With a bottle of peach schnapps and our hands over our eyes we settled down to view the show earlier today fearing the absolute worst. We told a few people in advance as we just wanted to see it ourselves before it became common knowledge (or common viewing or whatever). Yes TODAY! We were on BBC1 at 3 o’clock this very afternoon and it was slightly terrifying to say the least. So the time did eventually come and the live transmission was actually today. So I took the post down as instructed and saved the world from impending destruction. Interesting huh? They were right and we had signed but for goodness sake ……. They proceeded then to remind us that we had signed contracts not to reveal any details from ETTC and attached the legal documents for us to read! Apparently they had seen our ‘ little blog‘ and noticed that we had written a blog post all about our experiences during filming the show. Having almost forgotten about it we were surprised to receive an email a month ago from the legal arm of the production company with slightly heavy overtones. It was all very exciting and we had a lot of interaction with a lot of our normal blog followers but fairly quickly we settled back into our lives with the promise that the BBC would let us know when our programme would actually be screened. ![]() It was an incredible experience going through the complex interview process and then actually doing the filming and we obviously wrote a blog post all about it when we returned. We applied back in mid-May and found ourselves filming in beautiful Wiltshire in early June in what was a bit of a rollercoaster mini adventure. Not sure if we mentioned it, and to be honest we haven’t really talked about it a lot, but we were featured on a little TV show here in the UK called ‘ Escape to the Country‘.
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