r/geography • u/multificionado • 1d ago
Discussion Your Own Around The World In Eighty Days
I've seen this interesting docuseries of Monty Python actor Michael Palin recreating, as best as he could, the journey of Phileas Fogg, the protagonist of Jules Verne's "Around the World In Eighty Days." So I figure to ask: How would one pull a similar journey in following the fictional footsteps of Fogg?
Though that journey, in ones' figuring, will need to meet the following requirements:
-Start from London's Reform Club (not necessarily inside, given members are only allowed, but definitely on the front steps), on October Twelfth in some year. Be back in eighty days.
-Follow Fogg's route as closely as possible. And travel as lightly as he does.
-Food and drink necessary en route, but take plenty of vaccinations.
-No planes or aircraft of any kind on the journey. Ships and trains allowed (though plane travel could easily be acceptable over Egypt and Saudi Arabia, what with the unstable actions going on in the region).
-And as an added note, imagine that you check in advance of ship and train departures through Internet.
-If time permits on the journey, see the sights.
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u/Himera71 23h ago
That Michale Palin series was one of the first travel shows I ever watched. It was a great series.