What did you make of the one where he ended up jogging to Shannon Airport? I struggled with that one.
That’s the one I referred to above. I was rushing to finish it before I got off the train mind.
EDIT: I didn’t even get the link between him out jogging in the first bit and going downhill at Shannon in the third bit!
My take on the third bit was that it was some kinda pre or post suicide revery?
Trying to be too smart and it not adding up?
Did he do a TV series to accompany it I wonder? I’d say the last Palin series/book combo I watched/read was Himalaya, that must be at least 10 years ago.
Yes he did. It was on channel 5 and I didn’t see it
It would be a good one to catch on IPTV. I’ve a good few NK docs on my “List” on Netflix I’ve yet to watch.
These travelogue programs are two-a-penny now, but Palin was the Daddy of them. Pole To Pole I remember was a fantastic show.
The Phileas Fogg one he did was great. Around the World in 80 days. In the mid 90s.
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Did he get sidetracked?
It was actually first broadcast in 1989. Jesus.
A top top show.
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1988, it was broadcast in 1989
Yeah went looking and just saw that. October 11 1989.
Pole to Pole was made over about six months in the second half of 1991
It’s his best series I think
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Jaysus 1991. 
Maybe it aired on RTÉ a few years later (I must have seen it on RTÉ…)
They were brilliant shows, have seen 80 Days and The Full Circle as well. Himalaya is a very decent offering from his later oeuvre.
He’d a lovely way about him.
Simpler happier times before skynet invented Facebook and twitter and destroyed humanity
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Good man Cormac, timely
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Malcolm Gladwell “Talking to strangers” is excellent. The Audio book adds a whole new layer to audiobooks. Not just one person reading it. The chapters on US spies, Amanda Knox and the myopic effect of alcohols and water boarding are particularly interesting.
