![]() ![]() It’s a 23 minute walk from Waterloo to the Reform Club on Pall Mall. From Southampton, Southwestern railway ought to sort you out, taking you into London Waterloo within 90 minutes. Or, I’d recommend taking the Queen Mary 2 from New York to Southampton, which would be a leisurely seven nights of luxury. 40 days to cross the Atlantic? The solo rowing record is four days quicker than that, so you should be fine. We’re about 35-40 days in now, depending on how that Russia to China hop went, and with only the Atlantic left. Seattle to New York City on the train takes 2.5 days. (For anyone wondering if you could just do Yantian to Yantian on this freighter, yes you can, but it takes 97 days.)Ĭrossing the USA and Canada by road or rail will be easy, compared to that. For about $130 per day you could get from, say, Yantian in China to Seattle in the USA, or Vancouver in Canada within three weeks. This is an established, albeit unusual, way of getting around by hopping on a container ship and taking a spare, surprisingly spacious, cabin. Not impossible, but not easy.Ī better bet might be to go from Russia to China, then pick up a freighter cruise. Only issue: it’s not easy to get from Japan to the Americas by sea. You’ll be travelling for eight days (for those keeping track, we’re now at 9.5 days), and from there you can get a ferry to Japan. The journey takes 1.5 days (it’s not currently running, due to you-know-what), and takes you through five countries.įrom Moscow, you could get one of the three Trans-Siberian Railway routes. If you’re going east, the Eurostar, Eurotunnel or a Channel ferry will get you to Paris within a couple of hours, and you could then pick up one of the twice-weekly Paris-Moscow trains. ![]() Let’s assume you’re going from London, like Fogg. Not ideal, and that’s before you look at the price – £14,134. A round trip with Princess Cruises to and from Los Angeles, for instance, takes 111 days and visits 48 ports. Steamers – or ocean liners of any kind – aren’t as readily available as they once were, and while you can do world cruises, those aren’t very fast, because they’re not meant to be. ![]() These days, that might not be the most sensible route, for either speed or adventure. He returns to the Reform Club, feeling smug, precisely 80 days after he left. He then gets a train to Calcutta, then another steamer to Hong Kong, another to Yokohama, then yet another to San Francisco, then a train across the USA to New York, before a final steamer all the way back to London. He leaves from London by train, accompanied by his valet, Passepartout, and picks a route that takes him on the train to Venice, then to Brindisi, then a steamer to Suez in Egypt, then another steamer to Bombay. So, around the world in 80 days, 2022-style, without taking a plane: how hard can it be?įogg’s journey starts at the Reform Club in London, where he gets into an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph (the incendiary rag) and bets he can get around the world in 80 days. It’s still worth looking into more closely, though, because we might as well dream about travelling again. They all did it slightly differently, though, and like Fogg, all met their fair share of obstacles. The answer is yes, as anybody who remembers the 1989 Michael Palin travelogue will know (he got there with five hours to spare), and in fact since the publication of Jules Verne’s novel in 1873, dozens of others have attempted to circumnavigate the globe within 12 weeks. ![]() #80 days from now tvAnd, “This is all a bit slow and dull, isn’t it?” – or at least, that’s what many TV critics thought.īut while we slumped before the adventures of Phileas Fogg, a simple question of intrigued wanderlust probably emerged more than any other: “Around the world in 80 days without a plane, eh? Could that really be done these days?” “I wonder if I could get away with a moustache, like David Tennant, in 2022?” some might have thought, to which the answer is almost certainly not. “How is he doing this without PCRs on arrival and departure?” the more institutionalised among us might have wondered, of this fictional 19th century tale. There have likely been a number of questions rattling around in the heads of viewers as they’ve watched the BBC’s Christmas family highlight, Around the World in 80 Days. ![]()
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