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7 Episodes 2007 - 2007
Episode 1
54 mins
Palin begins his tour of formerly off-limits Eastern European countries in the former Yugoslavian republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia. He ends this episode in the previously secretive country of Albania, which one interviewee states was a better place to live before all the traffic. Other visits include one to a new Catholic pilgrimage site, an idyllic island in the Adriatic, to Belgrade where Serbs seem to feel unjustly condemned for their actions against their neighbors and Sarajevo, which is recovering from years of war when just going to the market was a life-threatening act.
Episode 2
55 mins
Michael takes us through Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. Notable stops being Göreme in Turkeywhere "fairy chimney" rock formations house families and early Christian churches.
Episode 3
54 mins
Michael Palin travels thru Transnistria, Moldova, and Romania. He celebrated Transnistrian National Day (unrecognized country in Ukraine/Moldava). He traveled thru poorest country of Europe, Moldova, although quite splendid. In Romania, he passed Carpathia with lumberjacks, visited Transylvania, home of Dracula, then the capital Bucharest with its Palace of the Parliament.
Episode 4
55 mins
Michael Palin travels Hungary and Ukraine. He tours thru Hungary's Capital, Budapest, incl'd cathedral, old headquarters of Nazi and Communist, and Zwarck Unicum winery; then Tokaji Aszú winery in Maad. He arrives in Lviv, the home of Ukrainian nationalism/intellectualism, then to Kiev, its capital, and Simferopol and Yalta in Crimea.
Episode 5
55 mins
Michael Palin travels thru Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, to Kaliningrad, the only Russia oblast (state) in the European Sea. From Estonia capital, Tallinn to Latvia capital Riga to Lithuania capital Vilnius, he joins in the ancient Neopagan festivities and tours the Communist headquarters in each city as well as Resistance movements called "Singing Revolution". He tours the largest Radio Telescope in Northern Europe.
Episode 6
54 mins
Michael Palin tours Poland only: From seaport Gdansk where Lech Walesa and his Solidarity movement in 1989 lead to the Fall of USSR; to the capital Warsaw; to the Renaissance Old Town and Ostrow Tumski Cathedral in Poznan; to Krokow, a center of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life and various Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz.
Episode 7
55 mins
Michael Palin tours Slovakia, Czech Republic, and former East Germany. From rural areas of Slovakia, he tours Czechia industrial city Brno, capital Prague, then luxurious Karlovy Vary. Continuing along the Elbe River, he enters Dresden, Meissen, Berlin, then Rugen Island in Germany. {NOTE: Only country not traveled thru in this series is Belarus.}