Great Continental Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.
Great Continental Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.
Great Continental Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.
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Episode 1: London to Monte Carlo
Leaving London behind, armed with his 1913 railway guide, Michael Portillo follows the most popular...
Episode 2: Hungary to Austria
Steered by his 1913 railway guide, on this journey Michael Portillo explores the once-great empire o...
Episode 3: Berlin to the Rhein
Michael begins this journey in Berlin, the capital of Germany, which at the beginning of the 20th ce...
Episode 4: Switzerland
Michael Portillo uses George Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide to explore Switzerland, whose rema...
Episode 5: Amsterdam to Northern France
Michael Portillo uses George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide to explore the dazzling citie...
Episode 1: Madrid to Gibraltar
Episode 2: Turin to Venice
Episode 3: Dresden to Kiel
Episode 4: Copenhagen to Oslo
Episode 5: Prague to Munich
Episode 6: Bordeaux to Bilbao
Episode 1: Tula to St Petersburg
Episode 2: Rome to Taormina
Episode 3: Warsaw to Krakow
Episode 4: La Coruña to Lisbon
Episode 5: Haifa to the Negev
Episode 6: Lyon to Marseille
Episode 1: Sofia to Istanbul
Armed with his trusty 1913 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo travels east throu...
Episode 2: Vienna to Trieste
In Vienna, Michael Portillo encounters a pre-Cold War spy and learns about the concert that caused a...
Episode 3: Pisa to Lake Garda
Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide in hand, Michael Portillo visits Italy, where he experienc...
Episode 4: Athens to Thessaloniki
Armed with his 1913 Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo embarks on a Greek odyssey from Athe...
Episode 5: The Black Forest to Hannover
Armed with his 1913 Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo ventures deep into the Black Forest...
Episode 6: Barcelona to Mallorca
Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw's Guide, Michael Portillo returns to Spain to trace the early 20th-cent...
Episode 1: Transylvania to the Black Sea
Episode 2: Zermatt to Geneva
Episode 3: Tangier to Marrakech
Episode 4: Genoa to the Brenner Pass
Episode 5: Riga to Tampere
Episode 6: Rotterdam to Utrecht
Episode 1: Kiev to Odessa
Episode 2: Batumi to Baku
Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.
Episode 1: Salamanca to Canfranc
Michael Portillo sports a strikingly modern edition of his Bradshaw’s Continental Handbook, dated 19...
Episode 2: Orleans to Reims
Michael Portillo travels from the chateaux of the Loire Valley to the heart of the Champagne region...
Episode 3: Berlin to Stuttgart
Michael Portillo embarks on a rail journey through Germany, steered by a Bradshaw’s Continental Rail...
Episode 4: Palermo to Mt Etna
Michael Portillo’s 1936 Bradshaw’s Guide brings him to the Italian 'treasure island' of Sicily, full...
Episode 5: Linz to Bratislava
Michael Portillo travels by train through Austria and the Czech Republic, following his Bradshaw’s C...
Episode 6: Stockholm to the Arctic Circle
Michael Portillo embarks on a scenic, thousand-mile rail journey from the Swedish capital, Stockholm...
Bradshaw's 1913 Guide in hand, Michael Portillo embarks on another rail journey.
Episode 1: Pula to Pazin
Michael Portillo mounts a valiant defence against fierce latter-day Roman gladiators in Pula's amphi...
Episode 2: Buzet to Pag
Ably assisted by Lila, an expert labrador, Michael Portillo hunts for truffles in the Istrian countr...
Episode 3: Knin to Split
Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches the Dalmatian coastal city of Zadar, once an important...
Episode 4: Sarajevo
In Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, Michael Portillo traces the fateful last journey in 1914 of the Arch...
Episode 5: Mostar to Dubrovnik
Michael Portillo enjoys a journey on the historic line from Sarajevo to Mostar, descending 600 metre...
Episode 6: Bergen to Flåm
Michael Portillo embarks on a Scandinavian railway adventure from the Norwegian port of Bergen to th...
Episode 7: Myrdal to Heddal
Michael Portillo’s rail journey continues on the Bergen Line, heading towards the Norwegian capital...
Episode 8: Larvik to Holstebro
Michael’s saga resumes in Larvik on Norway’s southern coast, where he investigates the city’s prized...
Episode 9: Aarhus to Odense
Michael Portillo’s Scandinavian rail adventure reaches Denmark’s second city, Aarhus, an architectur...
Episode 10: Roskilde to Copenhagen
Michael Portillo concludes his epic rail journey across Norway and Denmark, crossing an 18-kilometre...
Episode 11: Maienfeld to the Rhine Gorge
Michael Portillo is transported 150 years back in time to the tiny Alpine village home of Switzerlan...
Episode 12: Sedrun to Schwyz
Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam to learn how the Swiss use...
Episode 13: Zurich
In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists and visits...
Episode 14: Rotkreuz to Brienz
Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the the steepest cog railways in the world and visi...
Episode 15: Zweisimmen to Lausanne
Aboard the Golden Pass Express, Michael Portillo wends his way in style down steep mountainsides fro...
Episode 16: Nantes to Lorient
Michael Portillo’s rail travels take him to the north west corner of France, where he explores the b...
Episode 17: Brest to St Brieuc
Michael Portillo’s railway journey reaches the naval port of Brest, home to France’s oceanographic f...
Episode 18: Rennes to Mont Saint-Michel
Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches Rennes, capital of Brittany. At the Lycee Emile Zola, h...
Episode 19: Bayeux to Argentan
In Bayeux, Michael Portillo admires the Bayeux Tapestry, the 70-metre-long work of art commissioned...
Episode 20: Lisieux to Giverny
In the apple orchards of the Calvados region, Michael Portillo discovers how the classic digestif ha...
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