Long Way Down. BBC2 9pm Sundays. The road to Kenya.

Watching Charley and Ewan struggle through the talcum powder fine earth had me twitching every time one of them dropped a bike, I have ridden on stuff like that and don't want to do it again in a hurry. Ewan has settled down a bit and was relaxing more into his riding, letting his bike do the work instead of fighting it, but is still struggling mentally with the trip, he seems to want all the good bits without the work, whereas Charley just keeps going, ok they have had their ups and downs but they should have expected that, it's like Ewan has forgotten the hardship of the Long Way Round! Charley says what he feels and then gets on with it, Ewan is in over his head sometimes, at least he still going though. Claudio seemed to be having a far worse time, he really is struggling with it all and the journey over the rougher parts seems to have taken quite a toll on him, he can't get the hang of riding in the bad conditions and sounds ready to give up. The rear shocks of the bikes are also taking a terrible battering, what with the conditions and the weight of the equipment they are carrying. Why didn't they cover the rear shocks in old inner tubes (an old courier trick) to help keep the crap out, it would help to protect the seals which the fine dust and sand is destroying.

Camping out in he wilds of Kenya because of the delay whilst repairing Claudio's rear shock, made them all look a bit worried due to being told it wasn't a good idea because of the bandits, and when the slaughter of the goat started some facial expressions were quite comical (Ruth was out of the room for that bit…), good on Ewan though for standing up and being counted in a world where no one really understands where their food comes from these days, he went up a bit in my eyes then.

I do get a bit fed up with being reminded that they do have money, both saying they would like to come back and stay where the elephants were, is just rubbing my nose in the fact that I can't afford it. They also seem to forget that they are privileged in the fact they are well known when it suits them.

The looks on their faces as the story of the massacre in the Kenyan village unfolded showed just how much the tragedy had hit them, I thought they were both going to start crying and it would have taken nothing away from them if they had, sometimes it takes something like this to remind us of just how bad humans can be to one another, it also serves to remind us how lucky we are in the western world, even though the conditions some of those people live in are perfectly natural to them it is still a very hard life for them and one most of us would not cope with at all.

I still have mixed feelings about the way this is going - but enjoying it more.