A railway train from San Francisco to New York, and a transatlantic steamer from New York to Liverpool, would doubtless bring them to the end of this impossible journey round the world within the period agreed upon.
Today we're going to travel round the world together and you're going to learn how we celebrate the holidays, Christmas and New Year, in the US, in England, where I come from, and in Australia.
Drake sailed back to Plymouth in 1581, after his three-year journey round the world, but we were still in Stratford. We made lots of plans, but nothing ever came of them.