He quarries highly-prized Wallace sandstone for a 150-year-old family firm.In the Acadian fishing village of Neguac, New Brunswick, Michael discovers sea farmers are producing up to 15 million oysters a year. Synopsis Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. In Amherst, Michael investigates the history of an ambitious ship railway designed to ferry ships by rail over the isthmus between the Bay of Fundy and the Northumberland Strait. Program Info Michael Portillo begins a new journey on the tracks of the Ocean line to explore Canada’s maritime provinces, en route to Quebec City. Along the … Along the way he investigates the world's biggest tide at Hopewell Rocks and admires its dramatic rock formations and caves. Once Michael Portillo has arrived in the Nova Scotian city of Halifax, he stays put to explore the area on foot or on water.
Clutching his 1899 copy of Appleton’s Guide to Canada, Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Along the way, he investigates the world’s biggest tide at Hopewell Rocks and admires its rock formations and caves.Clutching his 1899 copy of Appleton’s Guide to Canada, Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Michael takes to the water to investigate how it is done and is rewarded with a taste of the freshest mollusc he has ever sampled. Summary Michael Portillo continues his journey to Quebec City, beginning by boarding the train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Using an 1879 copy of Appleton's Guidebook to the railroads of the United States and Canada, Portillo travels across the United States and Canada primarily by train, though at times using other forms of transportation where necessary. He apparently defies gravity on a magnetic hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville. Clutching his 1899 copy of Appleton's Guide to Canada, Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick.
North of Moncton in Miramichi, he joins the Elsipogtog First Nation in a pow wow, where he learns about quilting and traditional dress. Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Along the way, he investigates the world’s biggest tide at Hopewell … He apparently defies gravity on Magnetic Hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville. Along the way, he investigates the world’s biggest tide at Hopewell Rocks and admires its dramatic rock formations and caves.Michael apparently defies gravity on a magnetic hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville. As always it’s a cheery experience.
Michael's guidebook leads him to Miramichi, where he reads that French-speaking Acadians settled after they were expelled by the British from lands they had occupied further south. Along the way he investigates the world’s biggest tide at Hopewell Rocks and admires its dramatic rock formations and caves. Great American Railroad Journeys is a BBC travel documentary series presented by Michael Portillo and broadcast on BBC Two. With its narrow streets and flights of steps and a hotel modelled on a 16th-century chateau, Quebec City was the heart of New France and reminds Michael of Paris - yet the Quebecois national dish leaves him cold.Shows from the BBC archives celebrating the beauty of locomotives.Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Intrigued by a tale of 18th-century ethnic cleansing, Michael visits an historic village to find out about these people and why Britain took such drastic action against them.Boarding the night sleeper for the next 400 miles of his journey, Michael heads for Quebec City, where old Europe survives in the New World.