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Series 1: Episode 2
Teesside actor Mark Benton joins forces with Robson Green on a quest across the North Yorkshire coastline to sample outdoor activities that promise to be good for the mind and body.\n\nThe humour-filled road trip sees the pair take the world-famous cliff lift in the Victorian seaside resort of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, while their campside accommodation offers a real-life Hobbit hole for the night.\n\nThe acting duo take a drawing lesson in the pretty North Yorkshire fishing port of Staithes before squeezing into wetsuits for a bracing cold water swim in the River Tees.
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