Henry Root sets out for France with his wife uneasily in tow, confident of backing for his travelogue from the BBC and Richard Branson.

Root leaves France for Belgium, to seek a grant for his plans for a 'cultural festival' from the highest levels in Brussels.

Root and his wife travel to Spain to sample the bull run and flamenco, but finds more than he bargained at the beaches in Ibiza.

Crossing into Italy, Root inevitable assumes the Mafia and political corruption to be everywhere, but finds a very different environment when he visits La Cicciolina - who he imagines to be a singer of protest songs - in her club.

The Roots finish their whistlestop tour of Europe by passing through Germany where Henry experiences the unsettling experiences of communal bathing and the Beate Uhse sex shop; then finishing in Holland, where he unexpectedly tastes the 'special cake' in Amsterdam.