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Zweisimmen to Lausanne

15/20Michael wends his way in style down mountainsides from Interlaken to the Swiss Riviera.

14/20Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the steepest cog railways in the world.

13/20In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists.

12/20Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam.

11/20Michael Portillo visits the tiny village home of Switzerland’s most famous child, Heidi.

10/20Michael Portillo concludes his epic rail journey, crossing an 18-kilometre bridge.

9/20Michael Portillo’s Scandinavian rail adventure reaches Denmark’s second city, Aarhus.

8/20Michael is in Larvik in southern Norway, famed for the blue rock larvikite.

7/20Michael Portillo’s rail journey continues towards the Norwegian capital of Oslo.

6/20Michael Portillo embarks on a Scandinavian railway adventure from Bergen to Copenhagen.