(11 June 2008) From Calais the expedition drove down to Paris in a 1969 Citroën DS and boarded the Venice-Simplon Orient Express which took them across France, Switzerland and Austria to Venice, Italy.

From there they travelled to Zagreb in a Yugo and then to Vukovar where they spoke to locals about the devastating Croatian War of Independence and the city's water tower with over 600 bullet holes in it that still failed to collapse it.

Later they travelled through Bulgaria by train, where they compared the hills and pastures on the landscape to the Lake District in England, through Sofia where they stopped very briefly for refreshments before continuing on to Istanbul.

They reached Iran, where they joined a truck cargo with over one million kilometres to its name and its drivers who took them through to Tehran, on the way noting how the journey seemed split by lush green countryside in which tea was grown, and suddenly juxtaposed against the desert landscape by only a tunnel which they encountered on the second half of the leg.

(18 June 2008) From Iran the team took a catamaran across to Dubai which Boorman described as "paradise" before boarding a 270 metre long cargo ship across the pirate waters of the Gulf and the Arabian Sea to Mumbai, India.

Later they took a helicopter trip to Tengboche in the Himalayas which Boorman described as "the most awesome flight he had ever taken in his life" due to the scenery of the green valleys, the looming mountains and Mount Everest.

Back in Kathmandu, due to the natural disasters that have devastated Burma and Sichuan, they caught a plane to Guangzhou in south-east China, where Boorman received treatment for his painful wisdom tooth.

In Wuzhou they caught a bus to Yangshuo where they experienced village life in the area and the rice fields, exploring the deep pot hole mud caves, and enjoying a balloon ride.

They later travelled down the Mekong past Pakse to Champasak and by minibus to visit the Khon Phapheng Falls in southern Laos near the border with Cambodia, the largest waterfall in southeast Asia.

Then via minibus to Veren Kham in Cambodia, they took a rocket boat for two hours which was equipped with a powerful road engine, leaving Boorman confessing it was the greatest mode of transport to date.

After some time visiting the ruins of Angkhor and the surrounding temples, they continued on to Phnom Kulen and rode on an elephant truck to Chang Neas, witnessing the primitive rice farming livelihoods of the Cambodians on their way to Sisophon.

They departed Bangkok on the International Express Train in which due to the tight schedule travelled a 24-hour journey down to Butterworth on the border with Malaysia, from which they caught a coach directly down to Kuala Lumpur, leaving Boorman disappointed that they could not have experienced that leg further.

(23 December 2011) Boorman went to Pontianak in West Kalimantan, and visited a UNICEF tetanus vaccination facility in the area before catching a flight on a Boeing 737 to Bali where he caught up with Russ.

There Boorman then boarded a small iron wood ship named the Oelin helmed by an experienced Australian and they crossed the 643 miles to Darwin in six days at an average speed of 7 knots.

From Darwin they drove in an old camper van for the 906 miles to Alice Springs, where they took the time for some camel riding and for meeting up with a group of old touring Australian bikers, during which they rode around an old airstrip.

They resumed in the pickup van to Coober Pedy and William Creek, reportedly the smallest town in Australia located near the world's biggest cattle run, the size of Belgium but only farmed by three people.

They then met up with a rally of bikers in a fashion that emulated Long Way Round, and Boorman on a BMW motorcycle with gang rode the 76 miles north along the coast to Sydney.