Starting from John O'Groats on the northernmost coast of Scotland in 1983, 16-year-old Ffyona Campbell set out on an epic walk that would take her around the world. Eleven years and 19,586 miles later, she returned to the starting point, having raised £120,000 for charity.

Lieutenant Colonel Burnley Campbell, an Englishman, claims the record after completing the circle of the world In forty days and nineteen and one-half hours. When Jules Verne sent his famous hero of romance, Phileas Fogg, on a tour of the world he allowed him only eighty days, but that was in 1872. According lo the two time schedules, both of which were extraordinary for their day, Campbell came out a whole lap ahead of his predecessor, but the lines of fast travel have changed vastly in thirty-five years.

Meanwhile, all the travellers whom Candide met in the inns along his route, said to him, "We go to Paris." This general eagerness at length gave him, too, a desire to see this capital; and it was not so very great a détour from the road to Venice. He entered Paris by the suburb of St. Marceau, and fancied that he was in the dirtiest village of Westphalia.