BBC - Great Continental Railway Journeys Series 5 (2016) Part 1 Transylvania to the Black Sea
Great Continental Railway Journeys Series 5
Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.
Part 1 Transylvania to the Black Sea
Michael Portillo ventures east through Romania to the shores of the Black Sea. Along the way he encounters a bloodsucking vampire in Transylvania and brown bears in the Carpathian forest, before visiting a fairytale castle with modern conveniences in Sinaia, striking oil in Ploiesti, tapping into the nation's musical soul in Bucharest and loading cargo from a crane in Constantans. This leg of his journey ends at Constanta, where Michael explores what is now emerging as Europe's largest grain port.
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