Highlights
Gondolas, dhows, trains and balloons but no planes! A selection of highlights from Michael’s journey from Around The World In 80 Days.
A few hours to kill in Venice before leaving by boat for Greece, Crete and Egypt. The director thinks it would be nice for me to see the city from the back of a rubbish barge, and very soon, perhap...
My Arab Gazette tells me it's the start of Fifth National Cleaning Week. For me it's the end of Second Travelling Week and nothing is getting easier. The word is that Achmed has been up all night a...
Somewhere a long way away it's my wife's birthday and A Fish Called Wanda is being shown to the British public for the first time. Here in the Gulf of Oman my chief preoccupation is avoiding seasic...
Up at 6.15. Misty half-light over the Pearl River. To Guangzhou station for the 8.30 train to Shanghai. Through the cycle rush-hour. Only older men still favour Mao jackets. Otherwise it's Western ...
Route
Discover Michael's route around the world as he travels in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg.
Photography
The journey that began it all. I didn’t meet my ace photographer Basil Pao until we reached Hong Kong, so these photos are taken mostly by the crew (myself included) and have a nice rough and ready feel.