Travels with Palin

Season 5 Episode 2: Hemingway Adventure: Hemingway's Birthplace

In Chicago, Palin spends a bit of time exploring the city before going to Hemingway's birthplace, Oak Park. After strolling through Hemingway's first home and singing some of his childhood songs, he goes back to Chicago and enters a local shooting range, hoping to be like Hemingway. Mostly, Palin just jumps at the recoil. On to Michigan, where Palin visits the area where Hemingway first learned to fish, and attempts to catch a few himself. He catches none and ends up hooking the cameraman's ear. Going to the local grocer, Palin asks for things that might have been on Hemingway's shopping list to see if the modern grocer would still carry it. In the process of asking for canned meat, ("We have Spam," the grocer says,) he ends up singing the Spam song from the famous Monty Python sketch. Then it's off to Italy. In Italy, Palin goes to the area where Hemingway was wounded during World War I and supposedly buried a ten pound note in the ground.

Genre:

Comedy, Documentary

Seasons:

9

Episodes:

52

Actor:

Michael Palin

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1980

IMDb:

9.0