To mark the twentieth anniversary of “Around the World in 80 Days” we went back to Dubai and India to retrace our steps and to see if we could find any of the crew of Al Shama. The result was a one-hour documentary and an account of our return and a whole stack of new pictures. Now they join all my other traveller’s tales.
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