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Cut-off times vary by operator: in most cases they are 6pm or 11.59pm the day before, but with CrossCountry you can sometimes buy Advance tickets online as little as 15 minutes prior to departure.? 4. Time your travel Even if you can’t book ahead, you can save significantly by avoiding peak such as Monday-Friday during business travel periods and buying Off-Peak and, if available,jordans for cheap, Super Off-Peak tickets. Though pricier than Advance rail fares, they don’t restrict you to travelling on a specific train. See?thetrainline.com/train-times?for which services are peak,cheap wholesale jordans, off-peak and super off-peak on a specified route.? 5. Take a slower route This may result in big savings. For example, peak-time travel on the main route between Bath and London Paddington costs ?190 for an Anytime Return. But travel peak between Bath-London Waterloo, taking an extra 75 minutes and changing trains in Salisbury, and the Anytime return drops to ?81.30.? 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The Victoria Falls and Livingstone featured significantly, in part because he was a missionary and I was brought up going to church regularly. Now and then we would have a visiting missionary who would grasp the pulpit with the one hand that had survived his brush with a tiger, and tell us what life was like on the Limpopo river, or about losing his legs in a mass baptism. It was fascinating. At the same time I envied people who were successful in the world I enjoyed, which was listening to comedians such as Spike Milligan. At school I had a lot of friends, largely because I could make them laugh; it was my way of coping with school stresses. Palin as a schoolboy - back row, third from left) However, my father was very strict about my not becoming an actor. He’d spent a lot on my education at Shrewsbury School and he saw it as a slippery slope towards bankruptcy. But while studying at Oxford I became good friends with Terry Jones. We ended up writing The Frost Report, before moving towards the ultimate goal of making people laugh and doing a bit of acting, which is what happened with Monty Python. I wish I could say we saw the golden future ahead of us, but really we were just lucky to have that particular job at that time. It didn’t pay well, but it was enough for me to start raising a family. I got married quite young, at 22, to Helen [Gibbins]. We’ve been together 50 years, which feels like forever, certainly for her. It was a teenage holiday romance and we just got on very well. We shared a sense of humour, which has kept us going; we’re still giggling together. I think my younger self would be quite pleased, as he was very fond of her. That I’ve travelled as much as I have is a dream come true for the younger me. I was 45 when the BBC offered me Around the World in 80 Days. It came out of the blue at a time when I thought I would be simply doing more films and scripts. Michael with his wife Helen Credit: ZUMA/REX Shutterstock If my younger self could see me embodying everything he ever wanted but never expected, he’d have to pinch himself very hard. The fact I’ve stood on both Poles would give him a mild heart attack of joy. He would also be pleased I am still friends with the Pythons. I’ve always stayed friends with people I’ve worked with. It’s partly due to the fact my father was quite contrarian at times. It made me averse to confrontation for the sake of it. When I look at pictures of the young me, there’s a certain look in the eyes and mouth of someone on the point of laughter and I think he’d be pleased I am still the same. If he saw me, aged 73, off on another adventure, I think he’d say; “Please, can I come with you?” Michael Palin will be in conversation at the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival on April 7 |