Travel Man: 48 Hours in... - 8 ª Season

In this Christmas special, Richard takes comedian and children's author, David Baddiel, on a four-day trip to Jordan. They visit Jordan's capital, Amman, reenact a train raid in Hollywood's favorite desert, feast with the Bedouins, fly a gyrocopter, stay at the smallest hotel in the world, visit the ancient city of Petra, learn how to cook the local Christmas specialty, and buy the three things gifted to baby Jesus by the three Wise Man.

Comedy goddess Dawn French joins Richard in Athens for some ancient history, doughnuts, molecular food, ouzo, and a radical pedicure involving a toothless fish.

Nish Kumar joins Richard for a potter around Porto, Portugal's second largest city. Their stuffed mini-break includes a tipple or two, a fat sandwich, Potter library, a bridge climb, a 5d movie, confection, soaps, and beeswax body parts.

Richard and Alice Levine - DJ, broadcaster and podcaster - do the Estonian capital in 48 hours - including the city's most see-able sights, some nosh at its top restaurant, and a stroke of Sean Connery's face.

In Hamburg, Germany's largest port, Richard and comedian Bob Mortimer take the Beatles historical tour, have the traditional sailors lunch, enjoy custom-made drinks bar, visit the food additives museum, and try a pickled herring sandwich.