After the happiest day of our lives, we spend on average a staggering £4500 on a honeymoon holiday. Whether it’s a bucket-list beach holiday or a walk on the wild side. When these holidays go right, you’ll make memories to last a lifetime. But when they go Horribly Wrong, the honeymoon period will be well and truly over.
A trip of a lifetime to The Bahamas ends in horror when a newlywed is bitten by a shark. The bikini-clad bride recoils in pain and swims for her life while all her terrified husband can do is look on in horror. A marriage faces an uphill struggle when an adventure-loving couple get stranded in the wilds of Asia. While biking through a remotest Laos, their vintage motorbike breaks down and then they do. And a couple are all at sea on a cruise when the deadly Norovirus strikes.
Other highlights include a safari honeymoon that gets stopped in its tracks when a silverback gorilla charges at a woman, knocking her to the ground. Mother nature strikes leaving two newlyweds no choice but to weather their first storm; a deadly Typhoon in Jebi, Japan. And there’s the tragic tale of a honeymoon to South Korea which failed to get off the ground as two newlyweds find themselves fleeing from war torn Ukraine.
Contributors include journalist and broadcaster Lucrezia Millarini, meteorologist Clare Nasir and travel writer Simon Calder. Narrated by Joanna Page.
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