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