LIKE many people, I find the idea of visiting far-flung areas of the world very appealing.

But six British families in My Family’s Crazy Gap Year on Channel Four make their dream come true and bravely decide to up sticks for a year.

They swap the day-to-day grind and conventional routines for treks and adventures in exotic and remote corners of the world.

The show captures their travels on camera in search of much-needed life-changing experiences. The first episode in the series followed the Willmott family, who are cocooned by wealth and private schooling, as they left their life of luxury to visit some areas untouched by the modern world.

John Willmott, 55, and his three children — Cyrus, 12, Emile, nine, and Eliane, six — have lived a charmed existence but mum Rafia, 33, wanted to burst their privileged bubble.

Their world tour to see what life is like outside the home counties saw them playing at being Mongolian nomads and visiting a remote Papuan tribe who had never met white people before.

At one point it looked as through the tribe might eat them alive.

Please do, I thought. It would have been a much more interesting programme if they had.

Instead they all got along splendidly, and learned from each other . . . we’re all the same underneath blah blah blah.

Hopefully, next week there will be a little more excitement.