Kneedling, a man paid by Bellamy, tries to bribe Passepartout to slow Fogg down by giving him something he claims will make him sleep for a few days.Īshley Pharoah, Claire Downes, Ian Jarvis and Stuart Lane Initially reluctant to take them to Aden, they agree to help after the group helps them fend off some raiders, with Passepartout shooting one of them trying to abduct Abigail. When the local leaves them stranded in the desert, they are rescued by Jane Digby and her husband, who Abigail had persuaded to give help. Fearing it too unsafe for Abigal, he and Passepartout decide to leave her behind. Fogg and his companions continue to Aden via the Suez Canal.įogg is tricked by a local who claims he can safely guide them across the desert to Aden. The train successfully crosses the gap and, using the carriage's wood as fuel, they arrive in Brindisi in time to save Alberto. Too far away from the next hospital in Rome, Fogg convinces Moretti that he can safely guide the engine and one carriage over the rails still in place despite the gap in the bridge. When the train has to stop abruptly two hours from Brindisi because a part of a bridge was missing, Alberto is injured and in critical condition. During the journey, Fogg befriends Alberto, the son of industrialist Niccolo Moretti, with whom he shares an interest for mechanical and technological inventions. In France, Fogg inadvertently foils an assassination attempt by rebels led by Passepartout's brother on the President of France, Adolphe Thiers and is forced to flee with his companions on a hot air balloon.įogg and his party land their balloon near Florence, Italy and hail a train going to Brindisi in order to catch a boat to Egypt. His rival Nyle Bellamy goads him into declaring that he will undertake this journey, betting 20,000 pounds that he will return by Christmas Eve.Together with French servant Jean Passepartout, he embarks on the journey to France with Abigail following them to report on his travels for her father's newspaper. When he reads an article by Abigail Fix Fortescue about how a new railroad in India now allows the world to be traveled around in 80 days, he is reminded of a postcard he received only reading 'coward'. Phileas Fogg is a man of routine, spending his every day at the Reform Club reading his newspaper and eating the same meal. Victoria Smurfit as Lady Clemency Rowbotham.Leonie Benesch as Abigail Fix Fortescue.Although the story is fictional, real-life people such as Adolphe Thiers, Jane Digby and Bass Reeves are portrayed interacting with the fictional characters. And, just like Phileas Fogg, you’ll have to start and finish your journey in the same place.The story is about Phileas Fogg making a £20,000 (£2,409,600 in 2022) wager with a snobbish member of the prestigious Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days, joined by his new valet Passepartout and journalist Abigail Fix. All RTW tickets require you to head in one direction or the other and keep moving the same way. But their tickets are only valid for their own planes.ĭecide whether you plan to travel east or west. A number of individual airlines – including Virgin Atlantic ( Air New Zealand ( KLM ( Singapore Airlines ( offer RTW tickets too. Oneworld ( with 11 member airlines, is the next best option, again offering a selection of RTW tickets with varying amounts of miles. They offer four different versions of RTW ticket, depending on the number of miles you want to travel, starting at 26,000 miles and going up to 39,000. The biggest airline partnership is Star Alliance ( which has 28 airlines covering almost a thousand destinations in 162 countries. Most airlines are now part of global alliances, so it’s sensible to pick a ticket with an airline that has multiple partners so you can travel with any of them. Normally, RTW tickets allow you to visit up to 16 different places with a minimum of three stops. Just the ticketīuying an RTW ticket can be far cheaper than purchasing separate tickets linking each of your destinations.

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