Use the HTML below.Michael's 1913 Bradshaw's Handbook to the Chief Cities of the World sends him to Australia. The Waverley Council did not allow bathing on Bondi Beach during daylight hours until 1905, when bathing suits had to be neck-to-knee for both men and women.The Spirit of Queensland continues on to Townsville. Taking a balloon ride over Canberra, he exclaims, “I’m in a large picnic basket. Rivalry in the nineteenth century between New South Wales (the mother colony) and Victoria (recently rich from gold) prevented either from accepting the other as the natural site for a capital, so a new city was formed. It is not my decision and I don’t know what might be the complications.” He added he thought it likely they would shoot here one day.Michael Portillo said: “Australia is a wonderful country to explore by train, offering epic journeys across the continent on the Indian-Pacific and Ghan railways. Portillo’s genius lies in his ability to get to the heart of what makes each destination unique, as he presents a fresh look at often unseen parts of Australian culture. At the halfway mark lies Alice Springs, an urban oasis in the heart of the outback, and a jumping-off point for Uluru – the sandstone monolith formally known as Ayers Rock. As Michael Portillo’s new TV show sees him head down under for his latest return to the rails, Luke Rix-Standing reveals Australia’s most intriguing train trips. Portillo travels two hours into the Blue Mountains to Katoomba, where he rides the Scenic Railway, previously built as a coal train, and now converted for tourists. Tourists first started coming in 1891 for the “wellness air”.In episode three we continue on the Indian Pacific, travelling from Adelaide to Perth. Armed with Bradshaw's variety of railway guides, Portillo explores beautiful countries through the eyes of the eponymous man, who wrote his guides well over 100 years ago. Michael Portillo has been captivating audiences, not only with his marvellous taste in clothing, but also thanks to his fantastic and informative railway programmes. It is the steepest railway in the world. The route spans 3,000 kilometres, three days, and three different climates – the temperate countryside of the south, the tropical splendour of the north, and the vast expanse of rust-coloured emptiness in between. Portillo believes that global warming threatens the reef, as rising water temperature encourages the spread of a creature which is destroying it: the crown-of-thorns starfish. Originally, politicians argued over the pronunciation: CAN-berra or Can-BERRA, but they agreed that whatever pronunciation Lady Gertrude Mary Denman, the British feminist and wife of Lord Denman, the Governor-General, used at the 1913 official launch would be the one. Running between Sydney and Perth, this luxurious train takes you from ocean to ocean with a well-catered, well-choreographed itinerary. Armed with his 1913 Bradshaw’s Handbook to the Chief Cities of the World, Michael will embark on six new railway journeys across spectacular Australia. Back in Sydney, he boards the Indian Pacific bound for Perth. The train stopped running in 1953 after a landslide blocked a section of the track, but the Belgrave section was reopened in 1962 by the Puffing Billy Preservation Society.He takes us to the Great Barrier Reef, “the only living thing on earth visible from space, extending 1400 miles, and made up of 3000 separate reefs; the whole being as large as Germany”. Silver miners suffered from lung diseases from the mica in the earth, and were prescribed opium to relax the lungs and advised to “drink large amounts of whisky”.
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