Oct 21, 1992
Palin begins at the North Pole, flying there on a small aeroplane fitted with skis. From there, he heads to Greenland, then the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, where the towns of Ny Alesund and Longyearbyen are located. He travels from Norway to Finland, meeting locals along the way.
Oct 28, 1992
Palin meets up with a Vladimir Lenin impersonator, witnesses a Russian Orthodox baptism ceremony, visits the cemetery where the likes of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky are buried, visits the town of Chernobyl, Ukraine, and then travels to Kiev and Odessa.
Nov 04, 1992
Arriving by ferry to Istanbul, Turkey, Palin stays at the Pera Palas, where Agatha Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express and experiences a turkish bath, getting the full treatment from a large staff member. He then takes a train through western Turkey to Marmaris and catches ferries to first Rhodes, Greece then to Cyprus. Palin then visits the British military base at Akrotiri and attends a huge Cypriot wedding. From Limassol, Palin heads for North Africa, his home for the next few months. Catching a boat up the Nile River, he checks out ancient Egyptian ruins ...
Pole to Pole Season 1 (1992) is released on Oct 21, 1992. Watch Pole to Pole online - the English Adventure TV series from United Kingdom. Pole to Pole is directed by Clem Vallance,Roger Mills and created by Michael Palin with Michael Palin and Neil Hardwick.
