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Inside track: In Fogg's footsteps: around the world in 12 days A new adaptation of the Jules Verne classic has just hit the screen. Adrian Mourby finds out what the journey would entail today

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040711
Author:Adrian Mourby

Phileas Fogg did it on trains, ships, and elephants, but nowadays no one - apart from Sir Richard Branson - would go about circumnavigating the globe in such a difficult way. The new film of Around The World In 80 Days re-routes Fogg and and his valet, Passepartout, away from Suez and sends the pair east, via Istanbul, in their attempt to prove that a gentleman can circle the earth in less than 12 weeks. I got out my guide books and decided that it ought to be possible in 12 days, even if Concorde is no longer breaking the sound barrier from New York to London.

To test my journey plan, I ...

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