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Escape to Florida - Season 1 Episode 13
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00:00Welcome to Florida.
00:02Florida life, nothing quite like it.
00:04Home to theme parks, golden tans and 400,000 Brits.
00:09I absolutely love it here.
00:10Who've made the Sunshine State their new home.
00:13This is what sold me out.
00:14Yeah, like, because it's stunning.
00:16Who wouldn't want to live here like this?
00:18They've swapped drizzly winters and gas bills for new careers
00:22and seemingly endless fun in the sun.
00:25Cheers, big ears.
00:27It's our little piece of paradise.
00:28Get it right and life in Florida can be like a dream come true.
00:32Every evening do this with your glass of wine.
00:35But getting here and staying here takes hard work.
00:39I do pinch myself every day.
00:41Grit.
00:42We've just lost the starboard motor.
00:44And determination.
00:45Good job, well done.
00:46These are the Brits who've made their own Escape to Florida.
00:55Today on Escape to Florida.
00:57There we go, fish on right there.
00:59Oh, come on, don't come off.
01:02Publican Sean skippers a deep sea fishing trip into troubled waters.
01:08Heavy rainstorm coming in there.
01:10That's a huge front.
01:10It's a taste of home for Lincolnshire-born Charmaine.
01:15We've got people going out for seconds already.
01:17Yay!
01:18As she organises a curry night for fellow Brits and friends.
01:23Everyone's English.
01:24Rick's the only American.
01:25What?
01:28And it's time to celebrate for Yorkshire couple Gary and Maria.
01:32Hey!
01:34With not one, but two new grandchildren on the way.
01:38This is what we wanted when we came over here.
01:41The American dream.
01:42Yay!
01:47With over 8,000 miles of coastline
01:50and around 4 million licensed anglers,
01:53Florida is considered the sports fishing capital of the world.
02:00And in Apollo Beach,
02:02it was the thrill of the catch
02:03that drew Northern Irish couple Sean and Anya
02:06to the Sunshine State 25 years ago.
02:09We lived in New York, and New York was fabulous.
02:12But I've always wanted to have a boat,
02:15and we've always wanted to live on the water.
02:17Always by the water.
02:18Yeah.
02:19Just getting all these rods for different types of fishing.
02:22They're heavy-duty, even though they look skinny.
02:24Now it's just technology today.
02:26Apollo Beach really is a great place to come and experience fishing.
02:31There's this wonderful feeling when you have a fish on the line
02:34and you pull it up yourself.
02:38Sean owns a pub in town,
02:40with Anya running the accounts from home.
02:43Sean is also a licensed captain
02:45and has a little side hustle running fishing trips.
02:48I was very passionate about fishing,
02:50so I turned it into a charter business.
02:53Three, four, six, eight, nine.
02:56Let's get a couple more.
02:58Today, Sean's preparing for his first fishing charter,
03:02since their home was devastated by a hurricane last year.
03:06We've been through many, many hurricanes,
03:07but never got affected by the way this one had us.
03:11After nine months of renovations,
03:13they've been able to move back home.
03:15But outside, there's still work to be done,
03:18including restoring a special place beside the water.
03:22This is our little pebble beach.
03:24When Anya was going through her cancer five years ago,
03:28I'm out there.
03:28She wanted a wee beach with those palm trees over there,
03:30so I just made the whole thing.
03:32And just slowly getting it back to where it was, you know.
03:37The day I got diagnosed
03:38was my 20-year anniversary of being in the United States.
03:42I had a form of cancer that was quite rare,
03:46gliomyosocoma of the uterus.
03:49The consultant said to me,
03:50the prognosis generally isn't very, very good.
03:52I had to get everything removed,
03:54and then I had three months of chemo.
03:58What's happening to Mama?
03:59Mama, what's Daddy doing?
04:04I shaved Anya's head.
04:07It was quite a humbling experience.
04:09When it really hit your doorstep,
04:11of course you're going to think the worst.
04:12You're overwhelmed by your loss.
04:15Beautiful!
04:16And then I thought to myself,
04:18you know, children go through this,
04:20so dry your eyes and get on with it,
04:21and that's exactly what I did.
04:24You got a blower there?
04:29When I went back for the full check-up,
04:31everything was clear,
04:32and it's been five years,
04:33so I was very, very lucky.
04:36After Ony went through cancer,
04:38things got into perspective.
04:41You know, it definitely did.
04:42You know, it's the big picture.
04:43You've only one run at this life.
04:45All the things that you are planning to do,
04:47you've got to do them.
04:49The couple have travelled more
04:51and are making more use of their boat,
04:53and today Sean's getting his fishing business
04:55up and running again.
05:00Watch your hat, Anya.
05:02Sean and Anya are looking for schools of whitebait
05:04in Tampa Bay with their neighbour Brian
05:06and his son Grant.
05:10We're heading up right to this tower right up here.
05:14We're going to see if we can see some fishing.
05:16The whitebait will be used as livebait
05:19to catch much bigger deep-sea fish
05:21on Sean's charter tomorrow.
05:23He usually finds them sheltering from predators
05:26around navigational shipping towers.
05:31My sonar, it'll detect bait,
05:33so you're really looking for a bunch of grouping,
05:36you know, a big spoon of bait.
05:37Right over there, they're on the top.
05:39See them?
05:39Yeah, we're going to give it a shot.
05:41Sean needs to work closely with Brian
05:43trying to ensure the heavily-weighted net
05:45doesn't get caught on the tower.
05:48It takes an awful lot of skill
05:50to keep the boat in the right position
05:52in order for someone else to throw a net like that.
05:56Marking good right here, Sean,
05:58up on the top and down below.
06:01There they are, right there.
06:02Go ahead now.
06:06A good haul today will help Sean Skipper
06:09a successful deep-sea trip tomorrow
06:11and revive his charter business
06:14to help pay for the restoration of Anya's beach
06:17and other hurricane repairs he's left to complete.
06:21Clients, they're not impressed,
06:22but we don't catch this, you know,
06:23so we just want to have an arsenal of it, you know.
06:26All right.
06:35There we go.
06:36Perfect.
06:37Yeah, Brian, I think we've got enough.
06:39That'll keep us going.
06:41There's about 6,000 in there.
06:43But that's plenty.
06:44We achieved our objective of the fish tomorrow.
06:47So we're good.
06:56260 miles south on the Atlantic coast,
07:00Miami is known as the Magic City.
07:03It's the place to see and be seen in Florida.
07:07Over 23,000 Brits have settled here
07:10and in its chic suburb of Sunny Isle Beach...
07:13Hey, guys.
07:14Hey, guys.
07:15I summed up a little brainstorm from Friday
07:17and we've got some good goals for next quarter.
07:21Lincolnshire-born Charmaine
07:23runs a multi-million pound British company
07:25from our home office.
07:27We sell mobile phones and mobile phone contracts
07:30to businesses in the UK.
07:33Anyone from a plumber
07:34all the way up to really big corporates
07:36with, like, 2,500 handsets.
07:38Good job.
07:39It's on the right.
07:41The big one.
07:43Charmaine established the company in England 26 years ago.
07:46But now runs it from Florida
07:48with a five-hour time difference.
07:51I carry my phones everywhere with me.
07:53Oh, there we go.
07:55And that's the reason why.
07:56Hey, hi, how you doing?
08:00Charmaine and her ex-husband
08:02bought a holiday home in Florida together in 2008.
08:05But when they separated in 2016,
08:07she made the permanent move with Skye
08:10and her elder daughter, Angel.
08:12My Angel's 18.
08:14She's due to start university.
08:16And at the moment,
08:17she's away discovering the world.
08:19What we have been through together
08:22as a little family has been quite bonding.
08:25You know, we moved country together
08:27just after a very messy divorce.
08:29It was quite tough because, you know,
08:31single mother to two children,
08:33I took them to Disney a lot.
08:35And we would just appreciate
08:37that we have each other.
08:38We have this wonderful life.
08:41Charmaine isn't the only one working from home today.
08:46Her 15-year-old daughter, Skye,
08:48is homeschooled and attending online lessons.
08:52Are you on break?
08:54Yeah, for two minutes.
08:56Do you like this?
08:57Ooh, nice.
08:58What is it, an octopus?
09:00Yeah.
09:00Very cool.
09:01Skye is just the polar opposite to me.
09:04I love being with her.
09:05She's very unpredictable.
09:07You fell asleep in that?
09:08Yes.
09:08Oh, my God.
09:09But on the camera?
09:11No, I woke up a lot of it.
09:14My favourite thing about homeschooling
09:16is it's really fun to hang out with my mum.
09:19Has anyone else ever fallen asleep in class?
09:20Yeah.
09:21I'm looking for my pyjamas.
09:25What are you making?
09:26Bacon and eggs, an avocado.
09:29Skye is like my little best friend now.
09:31What I love about her,
09:32she doesn't see limitations.
09:35Skye was diagnosed with a hearing impairment
09:38when she was just two years old.
09:40Skye has a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
09:44When I first heard the news,
09:46I was just so overwhelmed.
09:48She's just the sweetest thing on earth.
09:49And to know that she was just going to have to deal with this
09:52for the rest of her life just broke my heart.
09:54She could completely lose her hearing at a later stage in life.
09:58Skye is a big part of the reason that we moved to Florida, actually.
10:02School back at home in London was challenging.
10:05It was just very difficult to keep up with as I got older.
10:11Everybody I spoke to just said,
10:13look, if you have the opportunity to get an education for Skye in America,
10:16then just run for it,
10:17because they accommodate children with learning difficulties
10:20quite a lot more here than they do in England.
10:23Do you have any plans today?
10:25Yeah.
10:25It's our monthly curry club tonight.
10:28Charmaine started her expat curry club six months ago
10:32to stay connected to both her British and Indian roots.
10:36My dad is from Goa,
10:38and my mother is Anglo-Indian.
10:40I really can't imagine my life without curry.
10:43I love it.
10:46Bread curry club is usually held at Indian restaurants.
10:49But tonight, Charmaine's decided to host it herself.
10:54I think everyone thought that I'd be cooking,
10:55especially as I'm Indian.
10:57But I'm ordering out instead,
10:59because then that way everybody will enjoy the food.
11:02I don't think I'm really built to cook.
11:04I'm built to spreadsheets, and that's it.
11:06You've been raised to tolerate my cooking,
11:08so, yeah, she's fine.
11:09Just somehow.
11:11Thankfully for Skye,
11:12not even mum can make a mess of bacon and eggs.
11:16Let's see you.
11:17Gracias.
11:19So what's in the cold cup menu?
11:22Your favourite, chicken teacup.
11:23When you were, like, six months old,
11:25you'd be eating all the spicy curry.
11:27You loved it.
11:27Today, you'll get to compare a Miami curry
11:31to a London curry.
11:33Boo.
11:34Obviously, it's a group of English people.
11:36They're going to be tough to impress
11:37when it comes to curries.
11:39Hopefully, it's going to be good.
11:41Yeah.
11:52Millions of British families
11:54have flocked to Orlando's world-famous theme parks
11:57since the early 70s.
11:58And thousands of them love it so much,
12:01they make Florida their home.
12:10including bar managers Gary and Maria from Yorkshire,
12:14who are visiting their grandchildren
12:17in the northern Orlando suburb of Tabari.
12:19The couple married in 1993 and emigrated to Florida in 2007
12:32with daughters Ria and Darcy.
12:36Waking up in England, silly o'clock in the morning,
12:38go to work, dark, dismal, rainy.
12:41We didn't want that anymore.
12:42Ria was 12 and Darcy was just about to turn six, wasn't she?
12:45Yes, yes.
12:46As a parent, you want to try and give your kids a better life.
12:4918 years on and both girls are married,
12:51with now 30-year-old Ria and her Puerto Rican husband Angel
12:55expecting their first grandson.
12:59I'll definitely be buying his first Hull City jersey, for sure.
13:03Joining daughters Amara, who's three and 22-month-old Elora.
13:08Our granddaughters are...
13:09Beautiful, absolutely.
13:11Yeah, absolutely gorgeous.
13:12We love them to bits.
13:13Having grandkids over here don't make you want to be anywhere else.
13:19Hi!
13:20You say hi.
13:22You say hi.
13:23There's also another grandchild on the way,
13:26as their 23-year-old daughter Darcy
13:28is expecting a baby girl with her American husband Donovan.
13:32It was a big shock.
13:34It was.
13:34Ria, I kind of knew she was trying.
13:36Yeah.
13:37But as for Darcy, absolutely not.
13:39No, we were absolutely blown away with Darcy.
13:41I mean, we didn't expect that at all.
13:43It's been very challenging on my body.
13:46I didn't realise it would be as physically difficult as it has been.
13:49The cankles.
13:50The cankles!
13:51They're like friggin' sausages.
13:53They're so bad!
13:55The cankles!
13:57Our doctors were very surprised to find out that we were sisters
14:00because she sounds so British and I sound so American.
14:03I think it's because I've been around my mum and dad longer.
14:06And I also worked at the Best of British Café.
14:10So I was around English people a lot.
14:13So I think that's how I kind of kept my accent.
14:16Touch bumps with me.
14:18I think we're carrying differently.
14:20Yours is, like, higher, maybe.
14:22Mine's, like, lower.
14:24Whereas Ria, she moved out at a very young age,
14:26and she was more around the American influence.
14:29You look so pretty.
14:31So adorable.
14:34Gary and Maria have worked hard their whole lives.
14:38Back in Yorkshire, Gary was a pipe fitter,
14:41and they ran a pub and a bouncy castle business.
14:43Here, they're currently managing a sports bar together,
14:47with Maria also doing extra shifts at the Best of British pub.
14:51They've had to roll up their sleeves
14:53to give their daughters the best possible start to life in Florida.
14:57To stay here, it doesn't come easy.
14:59We tried our fingers in lots of hives.
15:01Yeah, from property management, pool cleaning, house cleaning, DIY,
15:06I did barbecue, grill, rental, pharmacies, tour guide.
15:09Still love doing it now, part-time.
15:11Gary's definitely a jack-of-all-trades.
15:13A master of none.
15:14Master of none, yes.
15:19Mum and Dad's entrepreneurial spirit
15:21has rubbed off on daughter Ria, too.
15:23Hey, that's my favourite cookie.
15:25That's your favourite cookie?
15:26Well, we'll save some for you, OK?
15:29She manages her husband Angel's chiropractor business,
15:32and today, they're opening a new clinic.
15:35Woo!
15:38So, it's a proud day for Gary and Maria.
15:42This is my wife, Ria.
15:43She's the one who's keeping everything going.
15:47OK, one, two, three, cut.
15:49Watch your fingers.
15:51Woo!
15:52Woo!
15:54Thank you!
15:57It feels great.
15:58We have all worked very hard to be here,
16:01and we are very grateful for my parents bringing us over here,
16:08so my sister and I could make a life out here,
16:11and if I can stop crying.
16:14This is how it started, four of us,
16:17what we came over for.
16:18The American dream.
16:19Yeah.
16:20Really proud of her, I'm filling up now.
16:22Oh, my goodness.
16:23I can't speak of the teeth,
16:24so I'm very, very proud.
16:26Aw!
16:27It's the pregnancy hormones.
16:30I know!
16:31Today, it's time to celebrate as a family.
16:33I'm going to pour my daughter
16:34a glass of alcohol-free champagne.
16:37Here we go, are you ready?
16:38Five, one, two, three.
16:41Hey!
16:44So embarrassing.
16:46Hi, hi.
16:48Tomorrow, it's the next stage of their pregnancy journey,
16:51with both Rhea and Darcy having ultrasound scans.
16:55With the girls being pregnant together,
16:57and grandkids and everything, yes, sir.
16:59Exciting, exciting times to come.
17:01Cheers!
17:02Cheers!
17:02Yay!
17:10Down in Miami,
17:12busy CEO and single mum Charmaine
17:15is making final plans
17:16for tonight's Brit Curry Club,
17:18which is usually held at Indian restaurants.
17:22Tonight, we're doing it at my boyfriend's house.
17:24I'm breaking all the rules,
17:26because he's not British.
17:27And then, none of my friends
17:29have actually met Rick yet,
17:30so it's, you know, baptism of fire.
17:33Charmaine's getting a takeaway delivered
17:34and needs to confirm her order.
17:37Oh, gosh.
17:38That's cool.
17:38It's not a problem.
17:39Just bring him.
17:40He's awesome.
17:42But new Curry Club members
17:43are joining all the time.
17:45Bring, bring Selden.
17:47It's totally cool.
17:47Lovely to see him.
17:49I think I closed off the list
17:50a good couple of days ago,
17:52but, like, it always happens,
17:53people keep adding themselves,
17:54which is always, you know,
17:55really convenient,
17:56adding yourself at the last minute
17:57when there's going to be food there.
17:59Could you just go through with me again
18:00what's on the order?
18:02Fakiness is definitely part
18:04of the Miami lifestyle,
18:05and you just have to get used to it.
18:06So it's not a problem
18:07to add two more people on.
18:11Lovely.
18:13It'll be interesting.
18:14I'm a little bit nervous for it.
18:16That's perfect.
18:17Thank you so much.
18:18Bye.
18:19Random people being added on,
18:21but that's OK.
18:22We're good.
18:22The more, the merrier.
18:30Charmaine's hosting curry night
18:31at her boyfriend Rick's house,
18:33and daughter Skye is coming along to help.
18:36Hello.
18:38Oh, you know what?
18:39He might still be at the store.
18:41She's bought four catering bambaries
18:44to keep the Indian food warm
18:45when it gets here.
18:46I think that's kind of low down
18:47for people to have to reach for food,
18:49and then the curry's going to go all over
18:50that nice beige sofa.
18:51I can help out if you want me to.
18:53You want me to grab them
18:54and put them here?
18:55Yeah.
18:56It was also really great
18:57having Skye at the curry event
18:58to help me set up.
19:00Besides her hearing impairment,
19:02Skye has been living
19:03with other complex needs
19:05since she was a baby.
19:06Thank you, boo.
19:07There's, like, lots of little things
19:09in her body that go wrong
19:11that we don't really understand.
19:12Like, in her knees,
19:13she has her bones
19:14have grown the wrong way.
19:15She has a lower bite.
19:17She has to have her jaw broken
19:19at some stage.
19:20I'm going to put the oven on
19:21so if they do come,
19:23they can just sit in there for a bit.
19:25Do you know how to work an oven?
19:27Do I know how to work an oven?
19:29Do you know how to work a company?
19:31Uh, well, technically,
19:34I'm actually in school.
19:38Luckily, she's a very independent child.
19:41In five seconds,
19:42I will drop these packages.
19:43The universe has given her other gifts,
19:46and it makes her who she is.
19:48Oh, no, that was not the bowl.
19:51Damn, Charmaine,
19:52read the sizes probably
19:54before you order it.
19:55It looked really big in the photo,
19:57and it's called a salad bowl.
19:58I mean...
20:01Boyfriend Rick's arrived to become
20:03the inaugural American
20:04in the British Curry Club.
20:06And the miniature salad bowls
20:08are a handy size for Bombay mix.
20:11All these pistachios are divine.
20:13Is that something a Brit would say?
20:15Oh, no, Rick.
20:17Any self-respecting Brit can tell you
20:19that the green things in Bombay mix
20:21are dried peas.
20:21I really don't get very nervous
20:23about meeting people
20:24that are British
20:25that I've never met.
20:26Well, as long as I have tequila,
20:29I should tequila get by.
20:31While Rick primes himself
20:33for the British invasion of his home,
20:35Charmaine's had a quick change
20:36and is preparing
20:37for the curry delivery
20:38in just 20 minutes.
20:40I have a very simple job.
20:42All I have to do
20:42is make these things warm.
20:44But I don't know how to do it
20:46because I've never done it before.
20:47When in doubt, YouTube.
20:51Her search
20:52sheds some light
20:53on the situation.
20:57I see a flame.
20:58OK.
21:01Each tray needs to be filled
21:03with an inch and a quarter
21:04of boiling water.
21:07Do you own a kettle?
21:08Yeah, that's my kettle.
21:09Put it on 15
21:10and that thing will be
21:11boiling in seconds.
21:12We're going to have to fix that.
21:13You're with an English person now.
21:16Ooh, but see it?
21:18Pull already.
21:20The Indian food
21:21is due any minute now.
21:23If the Bambouries
21:23aren't up to the mark by then,
21:26Charmaine's fellow Brits
21:27could be eating cold curry
21:28by the time they arrive.
21:32That's not a one and a quarter inch.
21:34That's not even a half an inch.
21:35Inch and a quarter
21:36would be to here.
21:38We aren't even
21:38an eighth of an inch.
21:39Well, if you had a kettle,
21:40we may be at an inch at least.
21:50It's 6am over on the West Coast
21:52in Apollo Beach.
21:54Today, publican Sean
21:56is skippering his first
21:57fishing charter of the year.
21:59Morning.
22:00How are you?
22:00Doing good.
22:02You all right?
22:04The clients are fellow members
22:06of a fishing club Sean runs
22:07from his pub.
22:08They're loading the live bait
22:10he netted yesterday,
22:11along with the other essentials,
22:13like bucket loads of beer.
22:16All right.
22:17Ten lifejacks in here, right?
22:20Safety is first always
22:21when you're not sure.
22:23I'm totally responsible
22:24for all passengers on that boat.
22:25We're going about 120,
22:27130 miles today,
22:29so we're going to run
22:30a straight run out there,
22:31and then we're going
22:32to zigzag our way back.
22:33Any questions?
22:34Nope.
22:35All right.
22:36Good stuff.
22:36Here's to a fun, safe trip.
22:38Sean's wife, Onya,
22:39has arrived to wish the crew luck.
22:42Tightlines, my friend.
22:43Tightlines.
22:44But she won't be joining
22:46Sean's planned
22:47nine-hour deep-sea expedition.
22:49I love to go fishing,
22:50but three to four hours
22:52is quite enough for me.
22:54The sea can be
22:55quite a dangerous place.
22:56When you go that far out,
22:58anything can happen.
22:59Knowing how to deal
22:59with those experiences,
23:00that's where your captain's
23:01training comes in.
23:03After a long layoff,
23:05whilst he renovated
23:06his hurricane-damaged home,
23:08Sean hopes this trip
23:09will lead to many more
23:10in the future.
23:11My objective is to put
23:12everybody on fish,
23:14the boat to run,
23:14good,
23:15and hopefully we have
23:16a good experience
23:17that might allow me
23:18to start doing more charters.
23:21Sean leads the charter
23:22out of Tampa Bay
23:23and into the open sea
23:25of the Gulf of Mexico.
23:27He's taking them
23:28to one of his best fishing spots
23:3060 miles offshore.
23:35It's a great boat.
23:36It can handle a lot of rough water.
23:41But she's going to be
23:43a bit gnarly going out.
23:44Did we lose anybody?
23:48The weather forecast
23:50was for calmer conditions
23:51than Sean finds
23:52at their destination
23:53two hours later.
23:55The wind's out of the southwest
23:57and these waves
23:58are just hitting us
23:59from the side.
24:00You guess these weathermen
24:01sit in houses
24:01with no windows,
24:02I guess, you know,
24:03or whatever they do.
24:06This is going to be
24:07a lot more challenging
24:08fishing-wise.
24:10Hold on.
24:11Don't drop yet.
24:12Don't drop yet.
24:13The boat's going to go
24:14with the waves,
24:15so there's a possibility
24:16lines can get tangled.
24:18All right,
24:18you can drop now.
24:19Drop.
24:21Despite the tricky conditions...
24:23There we go.
24:24Fish on right there.
24:26Sean's clients
24:26have some early bites.
24:29Easy, isn't it?
24:29It's like fishing in the tent.
24:34The first snapper of the day.
24:36We don't know.
24:37Yeah, no.
24:38Get us on that.
24:38That's a good one.
24:39Young Grant's using the live bait.
24:41He helped Sean catch yesterday.
24:43Hold on.
24:44All the way up.
24:44All the way up.
24:45All the way up.
24:45All the way up.
24:46Up, up, up, up.
24:47There you go.
24:49Wait.
24:51That's an amberjack.
24:53That's a cool fish.
24:54I call it a big amberjack.
24:56Got him?
24:57He's slimy.
24:57I know.
24:58He is slimy.
25:00To prevent overfishing
25:01in Florida's waters,
25:02some species can only be kept
25:04at certain times of the year.
25:06I've never caught one before.
25:08Good job, Grant.
25:10Unfortunately for Grant,
25:11his prize amberjack
25:13is out of season,
25:14so we'll need to go back.
25:16Well, we got a picture,
25:17so I can prove that I caught it.
25:20Oh, I'm on.
25:21Oh, here we go.
25:22Oh, I got stuck there.
25:24All right.
25:24Good girl.
25:25Tommy's on.
25:25Oh, come on, don't.
25:27Come off.
25:28Tammy's hooked a mahi-mahi.
25:30It's in season,
25:31so if she can reel it in,
25:33this is a fish they can keep.
25:36Oh.
25:37Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
25:39I love catching mahi.
25:41They jump and give a show,
25:43and then I love their colors,
25:44and they're delicious to eat.
25:46You can't go wrong with mahi.
25:50It's a relief for Sean
25:52to see his clients catching fish,
25:54but with sea conditions
25:55in this area worsening...
25:57This is crazy.
25:58They're drifting so fast.
26:01Sean decides to find a calmer spot.
26:03All right.
26:04Let's tie them all up.
26:06Secure them.
26:08Hang on.
26:10But there's a problem
26:11with one of the engines.
26:13Sean.
26:14Sean.
26:15Yes?
26:15Go and try to crank it.
26:17Yeah, it's not...
26:21It's not happening.
26:22All right.
26:24I'll take it up, Daryl.
26:25Yeah.
26:27And let's get...
26:30Right, lads.
26:32We just lost the starboard motor,
26:34so we've got one motor,
26:36and we're about 60 miles offshore.
26:40Sean's charter is in very deep water.
26:45When you're that far offshore
26:47and one engine fails,
26:49it's not a good situation.
26:51People are relying on you.
26:53That's sufficient for you.
27:10Up in Orlando's northern suburb of Tabari,
27:13there's a baby boom in Gary and Maria's family.
27:17I've got two beautiful grandkids.
27:18About to be four,
27:20so that'll make our babysitting lives
27:22a little bit more hectic.
27:24We like to come round and look after the kids.
27:27Well, Maria does well.
27:27I fall asleep on the couch.
27:30I've got to have my grandad naps.
27:33Elder daughter Ria is due her third child
27:36and first boy in six weeks.
27:39Darcy, their younger daughter,
27:41is a first-time mum and you a girl three weeks later.
27:45My bump is just, like, getting in the way of everything,
27:47bumping in all the counters.
27:50Boo!
27:52Today, the sisters are having scans together
27:55to check the progress of their babies.
27:58I'm hoping that today at the scan,
27:59they tell me that the baby is head down,
28:02because that was one of the reasons
28:03I had to have a C-section with Allura,
28:06is because she was breached.
28:07So, fingers crossed.
28:08Fingers crossed for you.
28:10And my fingers are crossed for you, too.
28:12The ultrasound clinic is in central Orlando,
28:16so Gary and Maria are on babysitting duties again.
28:19I love my girl time, family time.
28:22I look forward to it, aren't we?
28:23Grandad's making a nice flower for you.
28:26I love it. I love it. I love being a grandma.
28:29Oh, thank you so much.
28:32Oh, you guys were blessed.
28:34Very.
28:35Blessed.
28:36Very true.
28:37We came over with just the four of us, didn't we?
28:39And now there's going to be ten of us.
28:41Yeah, thank you.
28:43Hi!
28:44Nice to meet you.
28:46The sisters, yeah.
28:47Yes.
28:49Having children over here,
28:50you've got to pay for your health care,
28:52whereas in England, it's on the NHS.
28:54Even with health insurance,
28:56the cost of giving birth can be eye-watering in Florida,
28:59as can actually giving birth.
29:02Let's see if I can get up here.
29:03My first baby cost me about $60,000.
29:08Insurance kind of, like, kicked in
29:10and took care of some of those bills.
29:13He just kicked.
29:15And my second child,
29:17close to $150,000.
29:20And that is because she was breached.
29:23Hopefully the head is down.
29:25Hopefully.
29:25Hopefully.
29:27So the position of Rhea's baby boy
29:30could make a huge difference to the bill she'll have to pay.
29:34And he's facing up, so that's a good thing.
29:37Yay!
29:37Good news.
29:40It does cost a pretty penny to have a baby here.
29:43I'm going to pop my bags right now and go.
29:46I'm going to do the heartbeat.
29:50It's the best sound in the world.
29:53So this is a high-definition ultrasound.
29:56Now you can see more real features of the baby.
29:58He's sucking his thumb.
30:00Look at him.
30:01Perfect scan, yeah.
30:03All right, you ready?
30:04You're up.
30:05Go, go, go.
30:06I want to see that.
30:08Now it's time for Darcy and husband Donovan
30:11to see their baby.
30:16She looks like mom.
30:20That was a cute baby, so that's good.
30:23So what are the chances she has red hair?
30:25Usually, dad takes over.
30:27It's strong teens.
30:27She might have that red hair.
30:29I hope so.
30:30Very thin.
30:31I hope she's going to be a little ginger.
30:33Aw.
30:34Well, thank you.
30:37Both babies are all set to make their appearance in the world.
30:41With Rhea's due in six weeks,
30:43and Darcy's just three weeks after.
30:46Yay!
30:47That was so nice.
30:49I'm so excited.
30:50I'm so happy.
30:52Yay!
30:52She looks just like you.
30:55She's so cute.
30:57She's so cute.
30:57She does look like you.
30:58Do you think?
30:59100%.
31:06Down in the exclusive neighborhood
31:08of the Venetian Islands in Miami,
31:10the Bammarees have been filled
31:12to the all-important inch and a quarter of water.
31:15Guy, you want to come help, babe?
31:17And the final touches
31:18to Charmaine's British Curry Club event
31:20have been made at her American boyfriend Rick's house.
31:24You've got to put them in bed.
31:25That one slipped out.
31:27The first guest to arrive is a newbie.
31:30Good to meet you.
31:32Pleasure.
31:32Come.
31:33Come in.
31:34Charmaine established the club with her expat friends.
31:37Lovely.
31:38It would be a curry night without some sterling, baby.
31:40Exactly, exactly.
31:42But British newcomers to Miami are always welcome.
31:45The point of the Curry Club is to have a community
31:48of English people in Miami.
31:50So how did you get into the group?
31:52There's a guy looking at me.
31:53He's a fencer.
31:54I met him on a night out in downtown
31:57and I challenged him to a fencing match.
32:00British banter is so different.
32:03Americans take themselves very seriously,
32:04especially in Miami.
32:05So he brought all his kit out
32:07and we were fencing in the street.
32:08Oh, yeah, he was at the first curry night.
32:11Is that a British thing?
32:13Meet someone, get out there in the bar,
32:15start fencing in the street.
32:17A curry club, of course,
32:19wouldn't be a curry club without a Ruby Murray.
32:21And the Indian food has arrived bang on time.
32:24Thank you so much.
32:26Wow, that's a lot.
32:27I hope everyone's hungry.
32:28Hello, how are you doing?
32:30American Rick has become an honorary Brit
32:33for one night only
32:34after giving up his home to the Curry Club.
32:37Nice to meet you.
32:38Nice to meet you.
32:38Thank you for inviting me.
32:39This is Rick, my boyfriend.
32:41This is his house.
32:42Hi.
32:42Everyone thinks that Rick's the only American.
32:45But I don't know.
32:46You know, exactly.
32:49Ruth and Hannah are here,
32:50who are my longtime Miami girlfriend.
32:54It'll be interesting to see what they think of her.
32:57How are you, Hannah?
32:59Lovely to meet you.
33:00Lovely to meet you, too.
33:01How are you?
33:01I'll get the lowdown later, I'm sure.
33:03So you live in South Beach?
33:05No, I live in North Miami.
33:07But I'm from Maine with Hannah.
33:10Probably about four years ago.
33:11Okay.
33:12I met Rick for the first time tonight.
33:13He seems lovely.
33:14Hey, thank you, Sharon.
33:16Absolutely adore him.
33:18I've got booked in Germany,
33:19and that's really funny.
33:20Well, that's next week.
33:21The German event's next week.
33:23Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's...
33:24He gets the...
33:26from me.
33:27Rick has just been the American appetizer.
33:30Okay, guys.
33:32Guys.
33:33Welcome to Curry Club, May edition, 2025.
33:37Time for Charmaine's Anglo-Indian main course.
33:40Come and have some curry.
33:47I'm a British Indian.
33:49It was really lovely to have an Indian meal tonight
33:52with all these British people who love their curry,
33:54and I love my curry.
33:57Curry's going down well.
33:58We've got people going out for seconds already.
34:00And there's enough food.
34:01Yay!
34:02That's weird.
34:04My local curry house back home,
34:06the Mahabara in Torquay,
34:07I'll drop that in there.
34:08Big shout-out to Ali.
34:09But that curry tonight was fantastic.
34:12But we seem to be one Brit short of a curry club.
34:15Guy has disappeared from bed
34:17and probably called her boyfriend.
34:20But she's back now because she's hungry.
34:23It's actually so beautiful
34:25just to be around English people.
34:26I love America.
34:27I love Miami.
34:29I love Americans.
34:31But I'm still British at heart,
34:34so when I'm around British people in Miami,
34:37that's just such a happy place to be
34:39because I get the best of both worlds.
34:5060 miles off the west coast of Florida,
34:53northern Irishman Sean has very little to be happy about.
34:57He's still stranded with a boat full of clients.
35:00There's really nothing I can do.
35:02I apologise for it,
35:03but these things do happen, yeah.
35:07The starboard motor of Sean's $500,000 twin-engine boat
35:12has broken down.
35:14As a captain, you don't panic, you know,
35:16you just can't panic
35:17because all the people are relying on you
35:19is to let them know that, you know, they're safe.
35:23Sean has a plan.
35:24We're going to idle back on one motor
35:26and we're probably going to be going about six mile an hour.
35:32But we're safe.
35:34We've got all the emergency equipment.
35:36The only thing I just want you is to be as careful.
35:39Just walk around the boat
35:40because it's going to be quite like this
35:42for the next few hours.
35:44There's plenty of beer and food.
35:45Sean and his clients have already been at sea
35:48for almost seven hours.
35:50They now face what could be a 10-hour journey home
35:53to Apollo Beach.
35:54I'm devastated.
35:55I'm sick to my stomach right now.
35:58It's not a good environment to be out.
36:00And the one thing you need to rely on is your boat.
36:03Sean was hoping that this charter
36:05would help him get his fishing business up and running again.
36:08It's pretty bad.
36:09My trip's booked next week.
36:11I have to cancel them now.
36:13Sean met many of the clients on board
36:15in fishing clubs he's set up through his pub.
36:18Thankfully, he's got very understanding friends.
36:22You invite people on your boat, you feel bad
36:24because you feel like you're ruining everybody else's time.
36:27But it also builds stories.
36:29We go to the pub.
36:30We always say, hey, you remember that night?
36:32You know, so it's a good story.
36:35I trust Sean.
36:37We're going home.
36:37It's all good.
36:41But now there are alarming sounds coming from the only motor working.
36:49You just hear the rubbing noise there off the port motor.
36:52It's taking all the drag right now,
36:55but it still shouldn't make a noise like that.
36:58I've twin 300 engines on that,
37:00and they're less than three years old.
37:02The last thing you think is the second engine going down.
37:06We're not overdoing it, just in case you know.
37:14Sean decides not to take any chances
37:16and changes course to take the boat directly to the dockyard
37:19in the city of Clearwater,
37:21four hours closer than Apollo Beach,
37:23where the engines will be repaired.
37:26But there's more trouble on the horizon.
37:29There's a heavy rainstorm coming in there.
37:31It's a huge front.
37:34In Florida here, we have storms in the afternoon.
37:37Some of those fronts can be 10 miles wide,
37:39and there's no avoiding it.
37:43Lightning.
37:44You ever see lightning?
37:45Yeah.
37:46The lightning can be a huge risk.
37:48You've really got to be very black and white
37:50in making decisions.
37:52Could you tick down the antennas, please?
37:55We're about to get wet. Here we go.
38:00On just one engine,
38:02Sean manages to navigate a safe path
38:05that avoids the thunderclouds.
38:07And, like any good captain,
38:09smiles through the storm.
38:12What do you think of that rain smacking you in the days?
38:15Yeah.
38:16I'm the wind-drying guy.
38:17But when they reach the other side...
38:19Good night, everyone.
38:21...there's still a long way to go
38:23until they reach dry land.
38:25We're still about three or four more hours.
38:27Three or four more hours.
38:28Oh, yeah.
38:45Up into Barrie,
38:47Yorkshire couple Gary and Maria
38:49have become grandparents
38:50for the third and fourth time.
38:53We have mama and baby.
38:57Five weeks ago,
38:59elder daughter Ria
39:00and husband Angel
39:01welcomed their first boy into the world.
39:04This is little Angel Avon Jr.
39:08Amara and Allure
39:09are very excited to have a little brother.
39:11And then, just six days later
39:14and two weeks early,
39:15their younger daughter Darcy
39:17and her husband Donovan
39:18became proud first-time parents
39:20to a little baby girl.
39:22This is what I met.
39:27Her name is Isla Maeve.
39:29She is a little angel sent from heaven.
39:32That was a good toot.
39:35Oh, grandma, grandad's here.
39:37Hey!
39:40Gary and Maria now have two more reasons to visit.
39:44Oh, where's your baby brother?
39:47Oh, there he is.
39:48He's got big since last week.
39:50There's your little woodland fairy.
39:52Getting more ginger.
39:54We'll have to die that, won't we?
39:55I know.
39:56I'm absolutely ecstatic for the girls, yeah.
39:59I mean, as a father moving over here,
40:01you can't be more proud of them,
40:02the way they've turned out.
40:04Darcy and Ria are both strong, independent women
40:06and they're both great mothers.
40:08I think they're doing really well.
40:09I'm so proud of them.
40:10They make me cry.
40:11They're so good.
40:13The grandparents are both working two jobs
40:16so that they can eventually enjoy retirement
40:19with their grandchildren.
40:20They're running a bar together
40:21and Gary's a part-time tour guide.
40:23But there are some jobs
40:25that jack-of-all-trades isn't keen on.
40:28Shall we go clean your butt?
40:29You looking at me for?
40:30I'm too old to do diapers.
40:34We try and put Grandad to work.
40:36I ain't got a clue how to do this.
40:38Can you pull it down?
40:39Oh, hang on.
40:43But skills at changing the bin need some work.
40:45Did they have these back in your day?
40:48No, you just put it in the bin.
40:50Ria, you might have to give me a hand here.
40:53Oh, my goodness.
40:54Pull it.
40:55I'm like, there you go.
40:56Oh, there we are.
40:57So, good job.
40:59He got there eventually.
41:00That's all that matters.
41:01It's like catching your first fish.
41:02Hey!
41:04He's useless.
41:06He tried.
41:07He's useless.
41:09With Ria and Angel starting their own business
41:12and four grandchildren and counting,
41:14Gary and Maria's Floridian family tree is flourishing.
41:19We had a certain vision in our head what we wanted when we came over here,
41:23but the way life's going at the minute,
41:24our expectations have been, like, blown away by everything that's going on.
41:29But the family's Yorkshire roots remain strong.
41:32I feel British, and I love that our babies get to grow up knowing that they're British.
41:38But I hope that my children live the American dream, like we did.
41:44Yeah.
41:44And we are.
41:45But never forget your roots.
41:47Yeah.
41:49But we couldn't be more happier, actually.
41:51We've done our part as parents.
41:53We've grown up now.
41:54Parents ourselves.
41:55So, wish them all the best of luck, and we're here to help them any which way we can.
41:59Yeah, every step of the work.
42:01You can take the family out of Yorkshire,
42:03but you can't take Yorkshire out of the family.
42:07Can't wait to take a little angel out for a pint when he's 21.
42:11Probably...
42:1378.
42:14Dead.
42:26Out in the Gulf of Mexico,
42:29Sean has navigated his fishing party safely through troubled waters.
42:34We go through it.
42:35Team work.
42:37And they're now able to contact their loved ones.
42:39We've just got phone service now, so that's good.
42:42I don't know.
42:43Okay, we're on our way to Clearwater.
42:45I'm not getting any messages.
42:47To Clearwater?
42:48Oh, my God.
42:49Boom.
42:50But they're still a long way from home,
42:53as Sean nurses his broken boat back to shore on just one engine.
42:57We're just going to put on in this afternoon.
43:00Either way, it's always a great adventure.
43:03We caught some fish today.
43:03The water's beautiful, the sun's shining.
43:06I love you.
43:06Still can't beat it.
43:08There's nothing to do but sit back and enjoy the ride.
43:21I see land.
43:23I see land.
43:24Land on.
43:25We are here.
43:26We're going to be safe.
43:27We're going to be sure.
43:28Get home, Daryl.
43:30It's going to be all right.
43:31It's going to be all right.
43:32It's going to be all right.
43:34With land in sight,
43:37it seems a pod of dolphins have arrived to welcome them home.
43:42The dolphins always make an appearance.
43:44They'll do a nice mantanay show for you.
43:46Hey, you got it.
43:47Right here.
43:50Being on the water, there's nowhere like it.
43:52Sometimes you'll just get blown away by nature's natural beauty out there, you know?
43:57They're swimming with us.
44:00Despite the engine failure,
44:02Sean's first fishing charter of the year
44:04has been a day to remember for the whole crew.
44:08Going out in the boat and being around good people
44:10and having a good time, there's nothing like it, you know?
44:13And it seems to have reinforced Sean's new outlook on life with wife Anya.
44:18Anya went through cancer
44:19and then we've been through this madness of the hurricane
44:23and things got in the way, you know?
44:25It definitely seemed to take an awful lot out of us this period.
44:30Adios, amigos.
44:31Adios.
44:34But resilience is the way to go
44:36and to be able to face and cope with
44:39the many things that life will throw at you.
44:42We're safe.
44:42I mean, how did you guys enjoy yourselves?
44:45It was amazing.
44:46Had a great time.
44:47Had a great time.
44:48My previous boat in Irish was called Sale of Wine,
44:52which means one life.
44:53So with the charter business,
44:55there's no better time than the present.
44:57It's good having positive people around you,
44:59so that was good.
45:01Thank God I know them all.
45:03Thank you, sir.
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