Above all, it is to be kept in mind that most RTW tickets involve flying in and out of major hubs which of course will increase the cost of the ticket considerably.

Unfortunately, a while later, Phileas Fogg’s Aunt Gertrude sadly passed away and left behind her home in the heart of Theatre Land to Phileas.

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a novel by Jules Verne, described contemporaneously as taking place in the last quarter of 1872, as the historical British Empire on which "the sun never sets" was nearing its peak. Associate Producer William Cameron Menzies, the brilliant production designer who storyboarded Gone With The Wind, was given responsibility for the exterior locations in Europe, Colorado and Oklahoma.

While Fogg was unable to find another steamer headed for Yokohama, he manages to hire the Tankadere to take him to 31. A possible inspiration was the traveller George Francis Train, who made four trips around the world, including one in 80 days in 1870.Initially happy to be back home in London, the team is almost immediately inspired to set out on another adventure, and set out to investigate a newspaper's story about a mysterious sea monster attacking ships at sea, a possible allusion to events depicted in Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

In 1963, a comedy film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze starring The Three Stooges in the Passepartout role was released to exploit the popularity of the 1956 film and the Stooges resurgence in popularity that began in 1959. This was filmed on the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway, running 45 miles between Durango and Silverton alongside Route 550 through the spectacular 3,000-foot San Juan Mountains in South Colorado.Pancras in London to Paris, then trains through Munich and Bologna to Brindisi in southeastern Italy, 29 hours total. Explore our curated collection of the world's most beautiful countries and let your wanderlust soar. There are echoes of silent classic The General when Buster Keaton puts in an appearance as the (talking! There’s Victoriana bric-a-brac on the walls, all the staff are dressed up in period costumes and traditional songs are playing in the background. Here, Fogg learns that the Daily Telegraph article was wrong—the railroad ends at Kholby and starts again 50 miles further on at Allahabad.

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.It's nearby, at the junction of Pelham Crescent and Pelham Place, that Passepartout sees the newspaper vendor and realises that it's still Saturday and all is not lost. This section can also be explored by car along Interstate 80 (I-80) which is a direct highway from San Francisco to New York.