What might be fun about travelling back to the 1830's?

I think what would probably be really enjoyable about it would be the fact that you'd have such a range of - if you like - worlds to look at.

We're all one kind of homogenised world - even if you go to the top of a mountain in Thailand, you still find people with Coca Cola tee shirts. Whereas the world [then] would have been so vastly different.

If you travelled to Africa it would have been truly African, it would have been truly a mysterious continent, or if you'd gone to India you would have found incredible things which you would not have seen in the West.

That would have been the greatest thing I think, travelling and seeing what was there. What I would have missed would probably be things like the Game Cube, which is my favourite toy. I think I would have missed that.