Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg over 100 years earlier. Palin sets out, from the Reform Club in London, to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days.The rules of the trip were simple, but nothing else about the journey was straightforward…Palin toured Venice on a rubbish barge, played at ship spotting on the Suez Canal, experienced a bicycle rush hour and was tempted by snake snacks in China, all in the name of an unparalleled tribute to man’s ability to make life difficult for himself…