As we drive through the streets at the start of our five-hour journey - at almost every stop - beggars come up to the windows.

Travelers have to transfer and make the rest of the trip by riverboat down the Río Escondido-a five-hour journey.

After lunch depart by boat for a five-hour journey down the Kok river, passing tiny hilltribe villages, bamboo huts and jungle.

The five-hour journey seemed to flash past, and suddenly they were drawing up outside a cottage just off the main street in Longnor.

Another five-hour journey from Darwin to Brisbane left them only one training session before facing Queensland, which was hardly an ideal preparation.

Another five-hour journey from Brisbane to Hobart gave the players a sense of the extremes of Australian weather.

Reluctantly, we get into the car for the five-hour journey back down the lake to Mvuu Lodge in Liwonde national park.

"I had 24 players that were waiting for me," he said after a hellish day and a five-hour journey.

The theater is about nine miles from Penzance, which can be reached by train from Paddington Station, London, a 305-mile, five-hour journey.

Some went straight on to St. Petersburg and Moscow, and some just stopped at Narva, about a five-hour journey.