Great Continental Railway Journeys
Linz to Bratislava
Season 7 Episode 5 of 10
Michael Portillo travels by train through Austria and the Czech Republic, beginning in the northern Austrian city of Linz, where Adolf Hitler lived as a young boy. From here, Michael travels onto Prague Central Station, where he meets 87-year-old Zuzana Maresova, who, as a seven-year-old girl climbed aboard a train to travel to safety in London with hundreds of other Jewish children. Eventually crossing the Czech border into Slovakia, Michael reaches his final destination, one of Europe's youngest capital cities, Bratislava
Great Continental Railway Journeys airs on RTE2 at 3:50 PM, Saturday 16 November. (Subtitles, repeat.)
Topics
Leisure hobbies
Tourism ➝ Travel
Michael Portillo
Presenter
Alison Kreps
Series Editor
John Comerford
Executive Producer
Cassie Farrell
Director