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Great Continental Railway Journeys

Name: 1:00am - Series 5 Episode 1
Start: 2022-05-19T00:00:00Z
End: 2022-05-19T01:00:00Z
Location: Yesterday +1

Series 5 Episode 1: Transylvania to The Black Sea

With his Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide in hand, Michael Portillo ventures east through Romania. He encounters a bloodsucking vampire in Transylvania and brown bears in the Carpathian forest before visiting a fairy tale castle with modern conveniences in Sinaia, striking oil in Ploesti, tapping into the nation's musical soul in Bucharest and loading cargo from a 100 foot crane in Constanta.

Category: Documentary / Travel
Original air date: 2016-09-20

Cast and crew

Michael PortilloHost