TV It was one of the revelations of the previous tv year: “Down the road”, in which Dieter Coppens with six young people with Down syndrome in Europe drew. In the second season, they travel through the beautiful South Africa. The landscape may be completely different, the heart-warming moments remain, even now, fully present.
In september 2018 collected Dieter Coppens six new young people with Down again on an adventure to draw. For three weeks, without parents. Tour guide Chick was by her busy schedule and was replaced by the Saar, and there were lessons learned from the first season. Thus, the vicissitudes of Europe exchanged for exotic South Africa – “too hot is also not good, that we have in the South of France noticed” – and also got the program update. “We have learned that we are on the pace of the young people have to travel, and that we they have enough space to give”, says Dieter Coppens. “Because those men take over, eh.”
One of the most notable candidates is the cheerful Maarten De Gryse (30) from Aartselaar. For him was the trip to South Africa, and especially departure dates september 6, an extra dimension. The group went namely to the day three years after the death of his father to South Africa. “Daddy is on 6 september 1957 born on 6 september 2015 died, and on september 6, 2018, we are going to South Africa left. A very special but very symbolic day,” says Maarten. “I am going to never forget, really. South Africa was a godsend from heaven.”
martin, which is now a disconnect with Lore from the first season of ‘Down the road’, tells in the first episode, laughing, that he himself recognizes in Balthasar Boma from ” F. C. The Champions.’ That comparison reveals not so far-fetched. “Mr. Boma drink occasionally a Jack, just as I do. ‘My thought’, that I say also a lot. And I was quickly in love with. But not now, because I have Lore. Now I know what the difference is between real love and fall in love with the carers, such as Saar.” Martin, the oldest of the gang, took during the shoot, also his responsibility, as it turns out. “I have good helping,” he says. “I was the right hand for certain cameras, and I went to tell them when they, for example, of battery needed to change … Along with director Gijs Polspoel, of course. Actually, it is thanks to me and Gijs that the series is so good,” he laughs.
