--- product_id: 51661457 title: "Long Way Round" price: "£8.00" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/51661457-long-way-round store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Long Way Round **Price:** £8.00 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Long Way Round - **How much does it cost?** £8.00 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/51661457-long-way-round) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Long Way Round documents the adventures of film stars Ewan McGregor ( Trainspotting , Moulin Rouge , Star Wars ) and Charley Boorman on their 20,000 mile motor bike trip around the world. Departing from London on 14th April 2004 the pair travelled through Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada arriving in the USA just over 3 months later. Along the way the intrepid pair encountered Kalashnikov-toting gangsters and extreme cuisine, survived numerous motorised scrapes often whilst traversing non existent roads days from the nearest hospital and found themselves alarmingly close to a hungry grizzly bear. They arrived at their final destination, New York, on 29th July and this DVD release with companion soundtrack tells the story from the eyes of the two film stars. Review: Marvelous - This is the kind of series you can watch over and over again (and I have). I bought the original 'normal version' when it first came out and wanted to instantly ride around the world. It's a travel programme of a different kind with humour and 'boys own' adventures as Ewan McGregor would say. His relationship with Charley Boorman is fantastic and the two, along with the support crew,have a great time travelling around the globe. The enormity of the task really comes home to both of them when they get to Mongolia and the tarmac road dissapear and are replaced by rough tracks, filled with holes or the rivers on the road of bones. With the support vehicles not too far away the pair are never that far away from danger but they are clearly miles ahead at times and in dodgy parts of the world. The scenes where they stay at the 'electrical salesmans' house is Russia is really funny especially after they have been tolt about the Russian Mafia! Ewan McGregors face is a picture as he realises where he is and who his host really is especially when he starts appearing with AK47's and other machine guns. Long Way Round is a top, top series carried out by two very likeable characters and on motorbikes, what more could you ask for? The Special Edition does have more scenes in and gives a grearter insight and if you enjoyed the first installment, you'll love this 10/10! Review: Unmissable - It's not often that a DVD is worth the money in terms of quality and quantity. However, the Long Way Round is a fabulous DVD containing all 7 episodes together with some intriguing extras. The series is well produced and compulsive viewing, even when watching all 7 episodes at one sitting. Ewan comes across as a very modest, down to earth person and Charlie has a wicked sense of humour. Together they make a great double act and play off against each other to great affect. Sure, the 2 guys have a full back up team and there is a third biker with them at all times, but this doesn't diminish the achievement of what they did. In some respects the other people add an extra dimension to the programme. The majority of the episodes focus on Ewan and Charlie and their travels. Most of the extras are fairly bog standard. However, there are 2 extras worth looking out for. Firstly there is a more in-depth mini-episode covering the first 5 days. These days were pretty much ignored in the original series so it's great so see some more footage from Western Europe. The second extra of note is the post trip interview. Ewan and Charlie are obviously great friends and guide us through some high and lows from the trip. All in all, an inspirational DVD. Especially to the wannabe world traveller. Watching this makes you just want to get out there and go to it. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B0006B3UE6 | | Actors | Various Artists | | Aspect Ratio | 16:9 - 1.78:1 | | Best Sellers Rank | 15,469 in Electronics & Photo ( See Top 100 in Electronics & Photo ) 62 in Portable DVD Players | | Country of origin | Poland | | Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,757) | | Is discontinued by manufacturer | No | | Language | English | | Media Format | Compilation | | Number of discs | 2 | | Product Dimensions | 30 x 1 x 30 cm; 95 g | | Rated | Exempt | | Release date | 6 Dec. 2004 | | Run time | 7 hours | | Studio | EMI | ## Product Details - **Contributor:** Various Artists - **Format:** Compilation - **Language:** English - **Number of discs:** 2 - **Runtime:** 7 hours ## Images ![Long Way Round - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81yA1e2WsbL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Marvelous *by J***R on 2 March 2010* This is the kind of series you can watch over and over again (and I have). I bought the original 'normal version' when it first came out and wanted to instantly ride around the world. It's a travel programme of a different kind with humour and 'boys own' adventures as Ewan McGregor would say. His relationship with Charley Boorman is fantastic and the two, along with the support crew,have a great time travelling around the globe. The enormity of the task really comes home to both of them when they get to Mongolia and the tarmac road dissapear and are replaced by rough tracks, filled with holes or the rivers on the road of bones. With the support vehicles not too far away the pair are never that far away from danger but they are clearly miles ahead at times and in dodgy parts of the world. The scenes where they stay at the 'electrical salesmans' house is Russia is really funny especially after they have been tolt about the Russian Mafia! Ewan McGregors face is a picture as he realises where he is and who his host really is especially when he starts appearing with AK47's and other machine guns. Long Way Round is a top, top series carried out by two very likeable characters and on motorbikes, what more could you ask for? The Special Edition does have more scenes in and gives a grearter insight and if you enjoyed the first installment, you'll love this 10/10! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unmissable *by S***D on 17 January 2005* It's not often that a DVD is worth the money in terms of quality and quantity. However, the Long Way Round is a fabulous DVD containing all 7 episodes together with some intriguing extras. The series is well produced and compulsive viewing, even when watching all 7 episodes at one sitting. Ewan comes across as a very modest, down to earth person and Charlie has a wicked sense of humour. Together they make a great double act and play off against each other to great affect. Sure, the 2 guys have a full back up team and there is a third biker with them at all times, but this doesn't diminish the achievement of what they did. In some respects the other people add an extra dimension to the programme. The majority of the episodes focus on Ewan and Charlie and their travels. Most of the extras are fairly bog standard. However, there are 2 extras worth looking out for. Firstly there is a more in-depth mini-episode covering the first 5 days. These days were pretty much ignored in the original series so it's great so see some more footage from Western Europe. The second extra of note is the post trip interview. Ewan and Charlie are obviously great friends and guide us through some high and lows from the trip. All in all, an inspirational DVD. Especially to the wannabe world traveller. Watching this makes you just want to get out there and go to it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Never Heard of Them *by A***Y on 17 March 2017* I live in a bubble without TV, newspapers or telephone, and little interest in celebrities, so I had absolutely no idea who Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman were, but they were riding around the world on Beemer GS’, so they had to be worth watching, especially as I have been toying with buying one recently and doing some decent distances on it. I have some experience of riding bikes reasonable distances, but only within the UK, whether it was riding my KLR650 from Sussex to see my then girlfriend in York every other weekend or riding my heavily laden trailer-towing Goldwing around the UK attending events every other weekend. None of this was in any way as challenging as what these guys took on. My greatest strain was stretching out to reach the can of drink suspended in its gimbal from the bars of the Goldwing, and deciding whether to stretch out my feet onto the cruiser boards. I had comfortable tarmac all the way until I reached a well rolled field somewhere up north where I could park up the bike, throw up the Khyam tent and drop into the bar for a drink and food. Firstly buy the special edition DVD set as advised by the other reviews. Spoilers from here….It has all of the set up of the expedition, which is hugely interesting. For a long time the garage for the bikes sits empty of bikes and equipment, and you think that they will be going nowhere, but things slot into place. KTM decide that they are not worthy of their bikes. You must be kicking yourself now guys! BMW got such great advertising out of this, and it might be part of the reason that whenever you see a group of bikers, especially European bikers, out there in the wilds of north west Scotland, they are all riding BMW GS bikes, and look like they are thoroughly enjoying the experience. Ewan and Charley are obviously great mates and they are tougher than you might imagine. They go through situations that most of us would have thrown in the towel. How many times can you lift a fully laden GS out of the deep and sucking mud before it starts getting a bit old? I was expecting them to be a bit precious, but as Claudio the cameraman said in one of the extra pieces, he was allowed to film when and what he wanted, so if Ewan was having a bad hair day, he wasn’t about to be a prima donna over it. So you get a warts and all view of it, even when they are trying new “recipes” with differing successes! They are just two really down to earth guys with no airs and graces, who obviously have no time for pretentiousness. In the places where the road ran out and there was no way around, they, and the support crew, if they were around, would come up with solutions to the problems, sometimes with the locals playing a part. There is a bit of everything in this documentary from male bonding and boys toys, to disasters, tears and joy, through discomfort, pre-packed camping meals and pain. The only negative was that Harley Davidsons were included! Well worth taking the time to watch this if you are interested in adventure travel especially centring around motorbikes. Don’t be surprised though if after watching it you start to look sidelong at the GS and wonder if you might just re-mortgage the house and go on your own little adventure, after all, Europe does look nice at this time of year. How about riding around Bavaria, then across to Vienna for a few days before going through the former Soviet states in Eastern Europe: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, keeping the Adriatic on your right until you roll into Greece? Then make your way across to Italy, someone has to sail across that gap surely, through France and Belgium then back home? Take 3 months to do it. Enjoy yourself. Just remember that you are a long time dead and why would you want to spend any more of your life stuck in the traffic on that hideous commute when you could be having a beer and a great meal in a restaurant alongside the Med? 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