Great Continental Railway Journeys

By: Michael Portillo

Narrated by: Michael Portillo, Nicky Henson

A must-have purchase for any armchair fan of unique and award-winning travel programming.

Great Continental Railway Journeys is now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor - Great British Railway Journeys. Both series are fronted by ex-politician Michael Portillo, and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe using George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

Now coming up for its fourth instalment this autumn, Portillo guides the train-travelling fan across Europe, arriving at a myriad of magical and historically fascinating cities we all dream of travelling to by train. From London to Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Copenhagen, Oslo, Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Prague, Munich, Zurich, Rome, Budapest, and St Petersburg all the way down to Constantinople, Haifa and Jerusalem, Portillo describes the great feats of engineering that built the various railway lines connecting Europe and further afield and the men and women who made these journeys famous through their deeds and words.

This audiobook covers every single journey Portillo has undertaken across Europe, capturing all the colour, beauty, excitement and fervour of journeying across this historic continent can muster.

©2015 FremantleMedia Ltd 2015. First published in great Britain in 2015 by Simon & Schuster UK (P)2016 Bolinda

Boring Michael is much better on TV

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Less history, better narrator.

Would you ever listen to anything by Michael Portillo again?

Probably not will watch his TV shows

Any additional comments?

Not a travel book more an old history book that is very dry