Great Continental Railway Journeys Series 8 Episodes Available now
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Rennes to Mont Saint-Michel
18/20 Michael Portillo鈥檚 railway adventure reaches Rennes, capital of Brittany.
Brest to St Brieuc
17/20 Michael's journey reaches the naval port of Brest, home to France鈥檚 oceanographic fleet.
Nantes to Lorient
16/20 Michael Portillo鈥檚 rail travels take him to the north west corner of France.
Lisieux to Giverny
20/20 Michael discovers how Calvados has been distilled since 1865 at the Pierre Huet estate.
Bayeux to Argentan
19/20 In Bayeux, Michael Portillo admires the 70-metre-long Bayeux Tapestry.
Sedrun to Schwyz
12/20 Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam.
Maienfeld to the Rhine Gorge
11/20 Michael Portillo visits the tiny village home of Switzerland鈥檚 most famous child, Heidi.
Zweisimmen to Lausanne
15/20 Michael wends his way in style down mountainsides from Interlaken to the Swiss Riviera.
Rotkreuz to Brienz
14/20 Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the steepest cog railways in the world.
Zurich
13/20 In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists.
