Michael Palin has reached 100. Not in age, of course; he is still 18 years short of a century, and looks much younger than his 82 years. The Monty Python star-turned-global explorer is back from his 100th country. And a mighty strange and seductive one it was, too.
“I’m glad to have been to Egypt and Moldova, to Iraq and Mali, but none has the same alluring cadence as Ven-Ez-Ue-La.” That is how he introduces the book that accompanies his latest Channel 5 series: Michael Palin in Venezuela.
