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- Michael visits the magnificent stained-glass windows of the Cathedral of Sainte-Croix.
- Michael Portillo sports a modern edition of his Bradshaw's Handbook as he heads for Spain.
- Michael hears how new rail lines transported spectators to the Nazi Olympic Games of 1936.
- In Palermo, Michael takes in the art and architecture of the futurists.
- Michael travels through Austria and the Czech Republic, exploring a dark era in history.
- 2012–7.5 (10)TV EpisodeMichael celebrates Midsummer in Marielund and learns to decorate a Dala horse in Mora.
- Michael Portillo, a former member of the British Parliament guides us through the European rail network and compares today with his 1913 edition of the Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide.
- Michael Portillo travels by rail throughout Continental Europe. This episode offers beautiful views along the Rhine and also shows various cities in the area including Colonge and Koblenz. He carries with him the Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide book from 1913 and compares photos of then versus the reality of today.
- 2012–8.8 (14)TV EpisodeMichael travels from Amsterdam to Brussels, Mons and Amiens in Picardy France and he meets guides who explain the historic significance of the rail network and these places.
- Michael Portillo travels to Spain, the country his father fled during the bloody civil war. He starts in the centrally located capital Madrid, Europe's highest and until a century ago uneasily accessed, focusing on the monument for a Spanish king's tragically bombed wedding to an English princess. Then he takes the super fast train to Andalusia, first stop Moorish marvel Cordoba. Next Seville, where he bought a house, and Jerez, which gave its name to the region's white wine sherry, and mountain citadel city Ronda. Finally to Alegeciras, port gateway to Morocco, and British enclave Gibraltar.
- Michael Portillo starts his train trip trough northern Italy in Turin, capital of Piedmont and the first years of its king's newly united realm, Italy minus Rome, and home of Fiat. Next Milan, capital of Lombardy and fashion. Then lake Como, the most touristic and idyllic stop on the early British traveler's grand tour. Finally splendid Venice, home to unique monuments and the modern Biennale.
- Michael starts a journey across Germany in Dresden, before the bombing a major European cultural center with star composer including Wagner, but also and the home of the back to nature, open air gym and general health movement. Still in Saxony, Leipzig, Germany's great industrial powerhouse, but also musical, with Bach and Mendelshon's foundations, conservatory and Gewandthaus orchestra. Next Brunswick, where Michael visits a beer brewery while a Hanoverian king George accepted bride Caroline from the ducal dynasty to ensure a fat allowance from parliament. Finally to Germany's major ports, first commercial giant Hamburg at the North Sea, ultimately Kiel, home at the Baltic of the imperial war fleet, both meant to rival Britannia to rule the seas and colonies.
- Michael travels to Scandinavia, the former Vikings home countries, once controlled by mighty Danish kings, now divided in three modest, pacific nation realms, yet tied by dynastic alliances with each-other, Britain and other European great powers. He starts in the Danish capital Copenhagen, also home of fairy tale champion Hans Christian Anderson i the grand old Tivoli amusement park, a well-preserved continental pioneer. By monumental bridge to Malmö, in Sweden, and the grand cathedral of Lund, once the Northern European archiepiscopal see, and the great port of Göteborg, also a major industrial center, home of companies like Volvo and great immigrant communities, firstly Scots like Michael's mother, whose traditional dances he partakes in. Past falls turned into a pioneer hydro-electricity plant and picnic-ideal countryside to the Norwegian capital Oslo, enjoying a ski jump-akin slide ride.
- Restoration of Warsaw, Poland, following WW2, the story of Frédéric Chopin and Polish pronounciation.
- The roots of the Galician people, sardine cannery, Britain's long alliance with the Portuguese, Lisbon Portugal, Palace Square.
- The capital of cuisine, Lyon, France, and the early 20 th century Meres Lyonnaises; making an omelet, lavender fields of Avignon, the city of Arles and Marseille.
- Michael Portillo tours Bulgaria and then travels east through the Balkans along the most exotic section of the Orient Express, headed for Istanbul.
- Michael takes the first railroad build I the huge Austro-Hungarian empire, from imperial capital Vienna to Adriatic main port Trieste. In Vienna he indulges in grandeur and spy (hi)story, then passes the greatest Alpine tunnel of its age to Graz, rural Styria's capital and Austria proper's second city then, now remarkably modern in harmony with its Baroque heritage. Then to Lublijana, capital of Slovenia (Catholic ex-Yugoslavia) and finally Trieste, then Italian jewel in the crown of Habsburg's Veneto-provinces.