Great Continental Railway Journeys

  • Premiered: Nov 2012
  • Episodes: 39
  • Followers: 11
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Tuesday at 21
  • Documentary Travel

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Season 5
5x1
Transylvania to the Black Sea
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Air date
Sep 20, 2016
With Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide in hand, Michael Portillo ventures east through Romania. Transylvania, the Carpathian Mountains, Peleș Castle in Sinaia, the oil .. show full overview
5x2
Zermatt to Geneva
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Air date
Sep 27, 2016
Armed with his 1913 railway guide, Michael Portillo travels from the Swiss Alps to the shores of Lake Geneva. From the Swiss Alps to the shores of Lake Geneva caught up in a war zone .. show full overview
5x3
Tangier to Marrakech
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Oct 04, 2016
Michael Portillo leaves Europe behind to take in the sights, smells and tastes of north Africa as he travels from the Mediterranean port of Tangier to the Berber city of Marrakech. With .. show full overview
5x4
Genoa to the Brenner Pass
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Oct 11, 2016
From the from the Italian Riviera to the Austrian Alps Michael visits remote villages of the Cinque Terre he then heads to Parma next up is the Alps stopping off in Rovereto he ends his .. show full overview
5x5
Riga to Tampere
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Oct 18, 2016
Michael Portillo braves the freezing temperatures of the Baltic Sea and finds peace paddling a canoe on the Lakes of Finland.
5x6 Season finale
Rotterdam to Utrecht
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Oct 25, 2016
Michael Portillo heads for the Netherlands, where he roots around the world's largest flower auction in Haarlem, operates a crane in Europe's largest container port, Rotterdam, and investigates Amsterdam's famous red-light district.

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