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In 2004 Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor rode around the world on two motorbikes. Their journey was filmed and turned into a TV travel documentary called Long Way Round. A few years later the two friends set off on their motorbikes again, this time riding from the northern most tip of Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa. This trip was made into another documentary called Long Way Down.

Charley Boorman’s latest travel adventure sees him travel from Ireland to Sydney, Australia, trying to use as many different forms of transport as possible, except flying. He begins the journey at his father’s house in Ireland. From there he rides by motorbike up to Dublin. He crosses the Irish Sea to the Isle of Man on a fishing trawler. England sees a variety of modes including driving a double-decker bus and sailing a small yacht across the Channel to France. In all, he uses more than one hundred forms of transport including container ships, dugout canoes, elephants, a solar car, wakeboarding and even a Yak! Accompanied by Russ Malkin and cameraman Paul ‘Mungo’ Mungeam, Charley travels through twenty-five countries and over 20,000 miles. The entire experience was filmed and made into a documentary, Ireland to Sydney: by any means. So, what next for Charley Boorman? He’s already done the Dakar Rally as well as his two trips with Ewan McGregor – so what’s left?!