The Travel Diaries14 Heinä 2020

Sir Michael Palin

Sir Michael Palin - where do you start! He’s a legendary comedian, part of pop culture history as one of Monty Python. He’s a BAFTA-winning actor, a best-selling author, and one of our most loved travel documentarians and travel writers. His journeys across the world, beginning with Around the World in 80 Days, followed by Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Sahara, Himalaya, Brazil and more, were a key part of how many of us discovered the world growing up, through his eyes, and through his warmth and curiosity with whoever he encountered along the way.

From Saharan Africa and the Amazon, to western Scotland and North Korea, it was such an honour to hear the travel diaries of Sir Michael Palin. I hope you enjoy them.

Destination recap:

Sheffield, England
Norfolk, England
Solden, Austria
Venice, Italy
Barbados
Morocco
Mauritania
Chinguetti, Mali
Persian gulf to Indian Ocean dhow boat trip
West coast of Scotland including Glencoe
Aberfeldy, Scotland
New York, USA
Istanbul, Turkey
Kolkata, India
Pongo de Mainique, Peru
North Korea
Algiers
Vietnam
Gulag camps, Kolyma, Russia
Mongolia and the 'Stans
Altai Mountains
Walking in the Dolomites, Italy

Michael Palin’s North Korea Journal is out now, and available from all good bookshops.

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