Have you ever been on an allegedly organized whirlwind tour of Europe that goes only to the most obvious and insanely crowded ‘attractions’, where you spend most of your days on a barely roadworthy bus on less-than-scenic motorways, trying to sleep in your seat or in sagging beds in rundown hotels where they steal your towel instead of vice versa – and thought, “Well, one day we’ll look back at this and laugh”?

No, me neither (except for the bit about the towel). But thanks to Andrew McClelland’s ‘A Seating Walking Tour of Western Europe’, you can now have all of the laughs without actually having to endure the tour – all in the pleasant surrounds of His Majesty’s Theatre, at a tiny fraction of the cost, without needing to wait for your long service leave, and where the greatest discomfort you’re likely to suffer is catching a rail replacement bus home. It doesn't even involve any actual walking, though there are a few running gags.

McClelland presents this amusingly unreliable travelogue with gusto, engaging the crowd from the moment he walks onstage. He demands a moderate amount of audience participation both from those in the front rows and those cowering in the back but mostly concentrates on delivering good jokes and Dad jokes at an unflagging pace to the accompaniment of Google street view images of the places he’s mentioning.

If you want accurate travel information, you’d be much better off reading a guidebook or even an Asterix comic. And obviously, the show is no substitute for actually visiting the places you want to see. But it’s much cheaper, and you’ll get a lot of the fun without enduring any of the jet lag, dealing with cancelled flights, foreign languages, currency conversion rates, or wondering what you just ordered (or ate). And it’s just as easy to look back at and laugh.