Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Faltering Economy
By Miss Alli | Season 12 | Episode 6 | Aired on 12.08.2007
And here we are, at the Prague airport. Guess what! All kind of delays. Apparently, the flight to Prague was very late, so they've missed the connection. In fact, by the time they get out to the gate, there's no sign of anyone or anything; everything's long gone. It's so deserted that the sound guys pull out the "single marble bouncing around in a tin milk pail" effect that means "You just could not be more screwed." That's way worse than the gong and the rattlesnake. "We missed the flight," Nick observes unhappily. And kind of obviously. They all make their way to a counter where TK and Rachel get some tickets through Vienna, but when Nick and Don get up there, they can't get tickets on that flight. They have to take a flight through Zagreb. So now, they're going from Vilnius to Prague to Zagreb to Dubrovnik, and that's pretty circuitous, even if you don't know where any of those places are.
Aaaaand Dubrovnik! It's a very, very pretty town on the water, and Nate and Jen come flying out of the airport, and she literally leaps into the street to hail a cab. They head for the Fort Of St. Lawrence. Kynt and Vyxsin are behind them, and they get a cab, too. And then, Ron and Chris. Driving along the water, Jen comments that the view out over the water is completely fantastic. "We have never seen a view like this [in bed]," she says. Kynt agrees, saying it's one of the prettiest places they've been. Christina calls it "a piece of heaven." And the Dubrovnik Tourism Board turns over its payment to the show. Nate and Jen and Kynt and Vyxsin find their way to the harbor nearest the fort, with Ron and Chris behind, but as the teams dash around the harbor area looking for the clue box, it's Ron and Chris who get there first. They open the clue, which is a Roadblock that asks, "Who has a builder's eye?" Phil explains about Roadblocks, and says that in this one, you "help out with the renovation of Dubrovnik's city walls." Hey, that's patronizing! Just another example of the reality-show establishment looking down on Dubrovnik's regular wall-builders! Phil brings some gravity by saying that the walls need to be rebuilt because of all the bombings during the civil war here. Well, then. There's a pile of 150 stones, and you have to pick out one of eight that will fit in a row of open spaces in the wall. Once you find the right one, you'll get your clue. Ron takes the Roadblock, and he makes his way to the pile of rocks. Because you know what's good for a hernia? Rock-hauling. Christina urges him on as he realizes that fitting a particular stone into a hole in the wall is not going to be as easy as he thought.