Following the successful tour of “Jones and Smith” last year Griff Rhys Jones is going back on the road this spring to explore the subject of travel.

Where was I? takes as its starting point some of Griff’s personal jaunts from the last fifteen years. He has sailed a boat to St Petersburg and around the Med. He has travelled in Morocco, the Galapagos, India and Australia. But mostly he has ventured forth to work for TV, making Greatest Cities, A Slow Train to Africa, In Search of the Black Rhino, Burma and The Forgotten Army, several series of Three Men In A Boat and programmes on mountains, rivers, lost routes and tribal art.

He’s going to look behind those “making of” snippets for the real truth about TV travel. He has wandered from The Torres Strait Islands to Mali, from Moscow to Dar Es Salaam, ridden “the train of death”, jumped from a burning boat in the Galapagos, sat with tribal elders and been ordered off their island. He has unwillingly climbed up mountains and abseiled down waterfalls, gone window cleaning on New York skyscrapers without a safety rope and clambered through Manchester’s most demanding sewers. And all without the help of Bear Grylls.

The tour starts on January 18 in Chipping Norton and currently ends in Hereford on March 29.

Griff Rhys Jones – Full dates and ticket info here.

Picture by Steve Ullathorne