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- Michael travels to Havana, Cuba to visit two museums: Room #511 at Ambos Mundos Hotel and his house. He interviews a 101 year old man who knew Hemingway. Finally, Palin goes to a Dude Ranch in Montana to do some Cattle punching and visit Hemingway's last home in Ketchum, Idaho where Hemingway commits suicide.
- 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 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 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.}
- Michael Palin travels Gibraltar; Morocco; Algeria/Western Sahara; then Mauritania: Gibraltar; Tangier (Euro-Arabic city), Fez (perfect Islamic City, 1200 yr old garment/skin dye industry), Marrakech, Aran (Berber village in Atlas Mts.), Ait Benhaddou (Town as movie set); Smara refugee camp in Tindouf; Zouerat (iron ore mining), Chinguetti (French Legion fort).
- Michael Palin continues in Mali to Timbuktu visiting the ancient Mosque of mud. He follows a camel caravan of Wodaabe nomads to Ingal in Niger for the annual Sahara Cure Salée festival, to an oasis at Tabelot, then across the Tenere Desert to the border of Algeria.
- Michael Palin crosses the Sénégal River from Rosso, Mauritania to Saint-Louis "French port", Gorée Island "Slavery port", to Dakar "capital" in Senegal. He takes the Bamako Express train to Bamako "capital", then along Niger River to Tirelli "Bandiagara Escarpment for Dogons", Djenne, Mopti, to Timbuktu.
- He travels Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, coastal Algeria, Morocco, then Gibraltar: In-Guezzam (border) and Hassi Messauoud (Oil town) in Algeria; Tobruk, Benghazi, and the ruins of Apollonia (Greek) and Leptis Magna (Roman) in Libya; Djerba island, Caves at El Haddej, Sousse, Tunis (Carthage) in Tunisia; along Algeria-Morocco coast to Algiers, Oran, Ceuta; then Gibraltar.