New Europe

- Season 1

(2007)

Michael Palin is our guide through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Albania.

Michael takes us through Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. Notable stops being Göreme in Turkeywhere "fairy chimney" rock formations house families and early Christian churches.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.}