Around the World in 80 Days is a British travel documentary series made to support the annual BBC Children in Need charity appeal in 2009.

It sees twelve celebrities attempt to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days without using air transport, recreating the journey of Phileas Fogg and Michael Palin.

At the handover, they pass to the succeeding team a carpet bag containing, amongst other items, a journal and a phone.

Each of the celebrity pairs contributed to the journal as their leg of the journey progressed, and ahead of the trip Palin wrote an entry containing advice for the travellers.

These were then auctioned to raise money for Children in Need, as was the journal completed by the travellers at the end of the trip.