That meant that Palin had to take a "crash course in sound recording" so they could film aboard the ship. The agreement allowed only Palin and the cameraman Nigel Meakin to travel aboard the ship, and on condition that they worked as deckhands. Eventually, an ".Anglo-German-Indo-Yugoslav agreement the UN would have been proud of" was reached and Palin sets off on a Yugoslavian freighter, eleven days behind. In Madras, he has difficulty finding a connecting boat to Singapore. On the way, it stops in Pune, where Palin talks about his father winning two rowing cups there in 1923. Palin then embarks on the Indian Railways express line called the "Southern Express" for Madras in Tamil Nadu province. Before leaving Bombay, he visits an astrologer who, after giving him a chart for a baby to be born to one of his referees, tells him he will complete the journey a day ahead of schedule. After getting a quick shave from a blind barber under a tree and seeing a snake charmer's cobra, he is able to get a train ticket to Madras in south-eastern India. In Bombay, Palin finds himself a week behind Phileas Fogg. In September of 2008, Palin announced on his official website that he will be traveling to Gujarat in an attempt to locate the crew and reunite with them. In the interview included with the DVD release, Palin said that he would like to meet the dhow's crew and thank them again for their gracious hospitality. Along the way, Palin bonds with the dhow's crew who were an extended family from the Indian state of Gujarat, letting the oldest one listen to a Bruce Springsteen song on his Walkman, and developing a bad case of diarrhea, resulting in many trips to the ship's unique open-air latrine. In Dubai, the team finds a dhow named the Al-Sharma to take them to Bombay. Palin recounts his trip from Jeddah to Dubai via Riyadh, and notes that he drove the distance from London to the Black Sea in one weekend. As a last ditch effort to save the journey, Palin and the director Clem Vallance are permitted by the Saudi authorities to drive across Saudi Arabia to Dubai, with the rest of the crew (and their problematic camera equipment) making the journey by air. Even though he is able to take a ferry from the city of Suez to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, he misses a key connection that would have taken him to Muscat. After seeing the Pyramids in Giza and riding a camel named Michael, Palin runs into difficulties when the ship he was supposed to board has engine problems and cannot sail. On arrival, he attends a local football match and appears in a cameo role in an Egyptian film. Palin arrives in Alexandria, Egypt and has difficulty getting a train to Cairo. After a brief stopover in Crete, Alexandria beckons. After that, he travels through the Corinth Canal to Athens, where he sees the world-renowned evzones, and meets a die-hard Python fan. Arriving in Venice by coach, he helps the local sanitation department clean up the city. After taking a ferry across the English Channel, Palin crosses the Alps by train before being stopped in Innsbruck due to an Italian railway strike. He also has dinner with his 'referees', who include fellow Pythons Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. After setting off from the Reform Club in London, he boards the Orient Express at Victoria Station in London, while reminiscing on his rigorous preparations for his upcoming circumnavigation, which included a daily exercise programme, a chat with seasoned TV traveller Alan Whicker, and the purchase of an inflatable globe. Palin accepts the offer from the BBC to attempt travelling around the world in 80 days. Michael Palin's attempt to circumnavigate the world heralds a phenomenal journey of dhows, diarrhoea, hungry parrots and a world full of surprises. Documentary hosted by Michael Palin and published byĪ Venetian refuse barge, a battered taxi in Egypt, a primitive boat across the Persian Gulf, a Chinese steam engine and a container ship across the Date Line.
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