Footloose: Sydney To London Without Flying

Mark travels from Sydney to London without flying, taking buses and trains and boats across three continents, more than a dozen countries.

He catches a cargo ship across the Indian Ocean, risks a dicey gauntlet of terrorists and Chinese tanks, has beers with a naked ex-Soviet officer in Kazakhstan, eats shrooms for breakfast in Amsterdam.

He wears flip-flops for the whole journey. Why? Well, to be honest, for no good reason -- though it does mean saving money on socks. (He also doesn't have shorts. Or a towel.)

As he travels across the globe, he tells it like it is with off-kilter opinions and left-field humour. You'll laugh as you learn about the world and what it takes to travel it.