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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,200 I'm rejoining the rails for another epic adventure. 2 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:09,720 Are you excited? Who wouldn't be? 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:13,240 I'm travelling around the globe again, riding some of the most 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,120 legendary trains in the world... 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,280 ..to experience more spectacular railways. 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,200 Look at this place. 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,280 From the Arctic Circle... 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:26,600 ..to the glorious Andes... 9 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,280 ..and the half of Europe... 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:32,640 Isn't it fantastic? 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,000 It's just a ticket hall. 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,200 ..to the edge of America. 13 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,960 Oh, oh, oh. This is amazing! 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,640 And I'll venture off the tracks to discover awe-inspiring places... 15 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:46,920 England! 16 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:48,960 ..extraordinary people... 17 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,640 Hey. Oh. 18 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,800 ..and unforgettable experiences. 19 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,560 Staggering, isn't it? 20 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,360 This time my journey starts in Scandinavia, a place I've always 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,400 been fascinated by. 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,680 It feels like they've got the best of everything - the food, 23 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,080 the clean living, the social care. 24 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,840 But do they really get it right all the time? 25 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,240 There's got to be more to it than flat-packed furniture 26 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:29,640 and open sandwiches. 27 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,600 I'm on my way to Narvik now, which is in the Arctic Circle. 28 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,200 It's the furthest north I'm going to go on this entire journey. 29 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,120 I wonder what it's like... 30 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,320 I wonder how people deal with the cold. 31 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:47,600 I wonder what the animals are like. 32 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,760 HORN BLOWS 33 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:51,760 Oh. 34 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,960 After Narvik, I'll be travelling down the length of Scandinavia 35 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,520 to Denmark and continue on into continental Europe, 36 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,520 where I'll end my journey in Hamburg. 37 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,080 Due to Norway's spectacular scenery, 38 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,840 which is not exactly an easy landscape to build railways, 39 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:16,560 the first line's construction began in 1851, which is relatively late 40 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,080 compared to the rest of Europe. 41 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,360 Now there's well over 4,000 kilometres of track 42 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:23,720 across the country. 43 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,760 The Arctic Circle. 44 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,400 I'm not sure if this is quite what I'd imagined - a bit colder maybe, 45 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,920 couple of penguins on the platform with suitcases. 46 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,760 In fact, the most remarkable thing so far is that they've got 47 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,600 a banana-coloured station. 48 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,640 Apparently, this is actually the most populated Arctic region 49 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:57,640 in the world. 50 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:04,240 Well, it doesn't feel that populated, especially 51 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,600 when you get out of town. 52 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,560 WOLF HOWLS 53 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,480 These forests are home to some of the Arctic Circle's 54 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,720 fiercest predators. 55 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,920 And I'm on a mission to find them. 56 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:20,320 But it's not really advised to wander off looking for them 57 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:21,600 by yourself. 58 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,560 In this series, 59 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,400 I've spent an awful lot of my time surrounded by people, but now 60 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,560 the last station is way behind me. 61 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,880 I really feel like I'm in the wild. 62 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,480 And things are about to get even wilder. 63 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:40,800 We're going to meet wolves. 64 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,240 So first of all, when we walk in, we will have our hands 65 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,120 up like this to protect ourselves, because the wolves 66 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,800 really want to say hello. They'll jump up? Yeah. 67 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,640 And then we sit down with one knee on the ground like this. 68 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,360 Will they bite me? Eh, they can. 69 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,960 If they bite, you just have to sit completely still. 70 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,720 Me or Anita will come and help you. 71 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,120 Can I say "Ow"? No. No? 72 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,080 If you say "ouch", you're like a squeaking toy 73 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,240 and then they will only push even harder. 74 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,440 Just take the pain. 75 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:16,920 So I have to put on this. 76 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,720 Ramona is a wolf expert here at Polar Park, where they specialise 77 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,480 in familiarising wolves with humans. 78 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,640 Now you're wolf-proof. 79 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,320 Ready to see the wolves? 80 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,920 There's a Norwegian word... 81 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,720 I don't know if I'm pronouncing this right. Is it "gruglede"? 82 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,480 Yeah. It's how I feel now. 83 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,280 It's like a combination of terror and excitement. 84 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:39,440 I think the wolves are just excited. 85 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:40,840 Yeah, great. 86 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:42,320 As long as they're not hungry. 87 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:43,520 LAUGHTER 88 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,440 Wolves can weigh up to 70 kilos and can take 89 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,160 down and kill adult moose. 90 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,960 It's very important from now on that we have slow movements 91 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,560 and we stay calm all the time. 92 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,280 HOWLING 93 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,120 Just stay completely still. 94 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:03,240 The wolves are coming. 95 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:05,560 Oh. 96 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:11,680 You want to sit down. 97 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,000 Wolves greet each other by licking, 98 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,480 so that's what this is. 99 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,960 An extended, drawn-out, wet hello. 100 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,520 One of the wolves has just bounced up to the director. 101 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,280 They're trying to chew the various bits of the camera 102 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:36,080 and the sound equipment. 103 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,200 Oh, you have a good smell. 104 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,080 The wolf's spit's all right, is it? 105 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,040 Yeah, I think so. 106 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,040 People come from all over the world to meet this wolf pack. 107 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:59,280 What's the point of this, from their point of view? 108 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:03,520 The reason we do the socialising is so the wolves can be here 109 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,360 in a park and not be afraid of people. 110 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,280 Right now, they're a little bit scared of the cameras. 111 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,600 I'll tell you what, the camera is more scared of them. 112 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,360 LAUGHTER 113 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,040 Yeah, we can see that. You all right, Sam? 114 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,840 You don't often nowadays get that feeling - 115 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:32,680 that kind of red, raw, amazing feeling of a wild, dangerous 116 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,840 and yet wonderful animal, do you? 117 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:37,320 But I did. 118 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,400 There are still a few hours left before my train leaves - enough time 119 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,080 for a quick face wash and to continue my adventure in the wild. 120 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,560 Among this amazing wilderness, 121 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,040 one thing seems perfectly clear to me. 122 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,360 If you're a man, woman or beast, 123 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:01,240 life up here is completely dictated by the weather and the landscape. 124 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,360 I'm about to meet someone who has a lifetime of experience 125 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,480 living here in fjord country. 126 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:18,040 These fjords were made in the last ice age. As the glaciers retreated, 127 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,600 they carved out huge U-shaped valleys, which was subsequently 128 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,080 filled with sea water. 129 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,200 There are over 1,000 fjords in Norway. 130 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:29,600 And my boat captain for the day, 131 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,680 Gunnar, has lived on them for most of his life. 132 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,280 Have you always been a seaman? 133 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,520 I've been in the military and the coastal artillery, and that's 134 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,000 very close to the sea and that's why I'm very interested 135 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,280 in going out and fishing. 136 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,480 For me, living on a small place by the fjords is better 137 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,360 than the big city. 138 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,680 What kind of person do you have to be to be a fjordsman or woman? 139 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,720 I think you can be a normal person. 140 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,320 It feels a little bit cold now, 141 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,320 but it's only around zero. 142 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,080 Zero degrees? 143 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,840 I can barely feel my face. 144 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,200 Norway is situated on the same northern latitudes as northern 145 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:14,520 Siberia, but it's the Gulf Stream that makes it so temperate. 146 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:17,600 Well, temperate for some. 147 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,520 It's off the boat and onto land because Gunnar has got something 148 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,280 very special to show me. 149 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:28,280 Oh, perfect 150 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:39,040 Which way now? 151 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,520 Oh, we will find the track up here. 152 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,600 It feels like we're following a Norwegian mountain goat. 153 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,160 Come on, crew. Keep up. 154 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,640 Finally, after an hour's uphill trek, we find what we're after. 155 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:55,200 I can't see much here. 156 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,080 Let's go and have a look. 157 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,760 Is it on here somewhere? It's here. 158 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:11,000 See the lines here? 159 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Here's one line. 160 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,680 I'm starting to see it now. 161 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:20,440 Let's see if we can reveal the whole thing. 162 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,520 You can see it's ears! Yes. That's amazing. 163 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:34,960 This sort of prehistoric rock art is called a petroglyph 164 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,800 and has been found all across Scandinavia. 165 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,200 The drawings in this area are the oldest ever discovered. 166 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:42,800 How old do they reckon this is? 167 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,640 This is about 11th or near so. 168 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,920 How amazing that has stayed there all this time. 169 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,440 This is an incredibly dramatic time, because this is the time 170 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,120 when the glaciers are starting to melt 171 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,760 and what had been totally uninhabitable land was land 172 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,320 that was rich enough to support animals like this. 173 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,560 And not only that, but there were people here. 174 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:11,200 Suddenly, they're able to carve out a living on this landscape. 175 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,440 It does feel like we've seen the very beginnings of the people 176 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,960 who made Norway. Yes. 177 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,560 I'm glad we did that. 178 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:21,160 Next time, you come in summertime, OK? 179 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,880 Could you get me a skimobile or something to get me back? 180 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,200 Coming up, I'll be riding the real life Polar Express.... 181 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,040 Look a that. 182 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,000 ..which crosses the border and takes me into Sweden... 183 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,760 Imagine how difficult it must have been to build. 184 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,480 ..where I sweat is out with a bunch of Swedes. 185 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,840 In England, my exposure to sauna is, there's a load of guys together, 186 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:49,400 you all put your hands on your genitals. 187 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,080 And I don't know what happens after that 188 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,200 cos I'm always the first to stagger out. 189 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:06,320 I'm rejoining the railway, setting off on one of the most spectacular 190 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,040 train journeys possible. 191 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,480 It's the start with the Arctic Circle train - 192 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,960 a three-hour journey past fjords, frozen waterfalls 193 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,360 and Swedish mountains. 194 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:19,920 I can't bloody wait. 195 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,720 The route takes me from the Norwegian coast 196 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,280 across the Swedish border to a town called Kiruna. 197 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,360 So this is the first station just outside Narvik. 198 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:42,200 And as you can see, the line's winding up the side of a fjord, 199 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,800 whose name I can't remember, but the man over there can pronounce it. 200 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:47,600 O... Ofotfjord. Ofotfjord. 201 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:48,640 CAMERA RESTARTS 202 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,000 Up the side of this fjord... 203 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:53,160 CAMERA RESTARTS 204 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,320 Ofotfjord. Ofotfjord. 205 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,360 Ofotfj... Ofotfjord. Ofot. 206 00:11:58,360 --> 00:11:59,520 CAMERA RESTARTS 207 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,760 Winding its way up Ofotfjord. 208 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,040 It's a great way to get up to the top of a fjord 209 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:06,840 without hiking, isn't it? 210 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,880 An hour into the trip, and it's time for a sandwich. 211 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,080 I didn't think I'd like this kind of bread. 212 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,360 It's a bit sort of dry and rye for me, but I'm actually 213 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,120 really developing quite a taste for it. 214 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,440 Enough about sandwiches. 215 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,640 I'm on the Arctic Circle train. 216 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,240 This particular train may be full of passengers heading to Sweden, 217 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,720 but the line was originally built for transporting 218 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,120 something entirely different - iron ore. 219 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,640 The line was built in 1902, had 100 miles of track. 220 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,760 Imagine how difficult it must've been to build it. 221 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,080 In the late 1800s, 222 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:53,480 itinerant workers, or navvies, came from all over the Nordic countries 223 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,800 to help build this railway. 224 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,280 Small settlements grew along the route and there was 225 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,600 a Klondike-like boom. 226 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,880 Today, it's still providing jobs for people on this frozen 227 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,080 stretch of wilderness. 228 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,120 We're now in Sweden. 229 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:09,560 How do I know? 230 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:11,120 My phone just told me. 231 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,320 The amount of iron ore that makes its way along 232 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,960 these tracks is astonishing. 233 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:26,280 Ten of these trains a day carry enough iron ore to make 70,000 cars. 234 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,120 Behind them is that iron ore mine there. 235 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:42,560 It produces something like 90% of all Europe's iron ore. 236 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:46,240 So the chances are that wherever you are, you're sitting next 237 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,720 to something made of metal that originally came from that mine. 238 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,840 The mine is 1,500 metres deep and has 80km of roads. 239 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,840 In fact, it's so big that it's starting to encroach 240 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,520 on the local town, causing subsidence on the houses. 241 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,560 I was born here in 1958. 242 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,280 Lars is a resident here in Kiruna. 243 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,800 We have the best iron in the world. 244 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:24,000 The problem is that the people living in the centre of the town 245 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,240 had to move. Why is that? 246 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,760 Because the ground was falling down. 247 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,360 It started to crack because of the mining. 248 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,160 So you've got this iron ore mine... That goes... 249 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:36,760 It's going under the city. 250 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,720 ..and then the city goes "blah" and collapses. Yes. 251 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,720 This has sparked a massive engineering project to move some 252 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,560 parts of the town 3km east. 253 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,640 Now they start to figure out how they're going to move the church, 254 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,200 this one, because they have to move. 255 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,400 That is a beautiful building. 256 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,400 Yeah. Wow, that's lovely. 257 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,480 They've just got to move that, haven't they? 258 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,720 The town move is a hot topic of conversation here in Kiruna. 259 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,120 But it didn't feel right talking about it in a freezing car. 260 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,320 STEAM BLOWS 261 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,920 So, will you guys take a sauna together when you finish work? 262 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,880 Every day. Every day?! Yes. 263 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,160 In England, my exposure to the sauna is, 264 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,120 if there's a load of guys together, 265 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,400 you all put your hands on your genitals, you all look 266 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,000 forwards, and then the biggest, burliest one will come with a ladle 267 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,280 and they'll whack it on there. 268 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:41,960 And I don't know what happens after that 269 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,720 cos I'm always the first to stagger out. 270 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,360 I always wondered about Swede's obsession with saunas, 271 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,600 but it's as common here as going down the pub 272 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:50,960 is with your mates back home. 273 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:52,600 It doesn't do that much for me, 274 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,600 but you've had two saunas already today, haven't you? 275 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:56,680 Yeah, I had two. 276 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,320 You know, you just never stop. 277 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,640 He's a little.... Yeah, you know. 278 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,840 LAUGHTER 279 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:08,520 But here, you just gossip basically, don't you? 280 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,240 Yes. We sit and gossip in the sauna. 281 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,240 All three of you work for the mine. 282 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,400 How do you feel about it? You've got to move. 283 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,840 Yeah. I don't have any choice. 284 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,360 It's sad for a lot of people. 285 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:26,680 They feel scared. 286 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,440 What's going to happen in ten years? Nobody knows. 287 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,880 If we don't have the mine, we don't have the town. 288 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,800 And most people are philosophical about that? 289 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,960 They accept the need for it? 290 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,520 Not everybody. No. 291 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,120 But what can you do? 292 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,160 If you stay, you have to do that. 293 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:43,720 You have to accept it. Yeah. 294 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,960 No matter how people feel about moving to the new town, 295 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,400 I'm not sure how much choice they have. 296 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,320 In this sparsely populated area, it's hard to see what other options 297 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,560 there are unless you're prepared to move much further afield. 298 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,880 The next morning, I'm on my way to see what opportunities 299 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,880 are being created with what they have got loads of - ice. 300 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,680 So I've swapped my towel for two jackets, a hat, gloves and some 301 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,840 rather toasty thermal leggings. 302 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:21,160 It's really nippy now. 303 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:22,720 It's minus 15 degrees. 304 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,080 If you don't believe me, have a look at that. 305 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:30,680 6% of Sweden's population live in the Arctic Circle. 306 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,480 I'm not sure I'd want to, but I'm learning that constantly 307 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,600 dealing with the cold is just part of life up here. 308 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,080 Here at the Icehotel in Jukkasjarvi, 309 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,960 they're using the freezing temperatures to their advantage. 310 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,640 It's down the road from Kiruna and about 70,000 people 311 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:47,840 visit every year. 312 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,960 Wow. Fairy land. 313 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,200 Look at these. 314 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,280 It's like a Disney dream, isn't it? 315 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,600 Each year, artists from all over the world are selected to 316 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,240 design and create rooms here at the permanent Icehotel... 317 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,480 Oh, it's gorgeous. 318 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,840 ..where you can sleep in sub-zero temperatures all-year round. 319 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,360 This one is called Oh Deer. 320 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:14,240 Oh, that's stunning, isn't it? 321 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,600 But I'm not binning down just yet, because there's something else 322 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,080 I really want to see. 323 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:27,040 This is the area around the back - the unglamorous bit of the hotel 324 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:28,880 where all the work goes on. 325 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,680 I know it doesn't look like it now, but believe me, it's a hive 326 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,520 of activity most of the time because they have to build a brand-new 327 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,240 hotel every year. 328 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:39,240 That's a lot of graft. 329 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,320 Welcome inside. 330 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:49,280 Julia's agreed to take me behind the scenes into a factory 331 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,000 that's full of ice. 332 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,480 Oh, this is amazing! 333 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,520 It's used to build a temporary winter extension to the permanent 334 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:56,960 Icehotel each year. 335 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:00,360 Can I touch one? 336 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:01,400 Yes, you can. 337 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,320 Oh, they're weird, aren't they? It's very dry. 338 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,400 It's almost like metal. 339 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,120 Can I lick it? SHE LAUGHS 340 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:12,400 Yes, you can lick it. My tongue won't get stuck? 341 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:13,400 We fix it. 342 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,560 I don't know why I wanted to do that. 343 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:20,680 It was quite nice. 344 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:21,680 LAUGHTER 345 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,680 How many of these blocks do you reckon you have? 346 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,280 We have around 1,500 blocks inside here. 347 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,400 So it's a...it's a lot of ice. 348 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,680 How much do these weigh? Around two tonnes. 349 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,320 This is all ice from the river? 350 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,600 Exactly. It's all from the Torne River. 351 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,520 The Torne River is the mother of the Icehotel, as it provides 352 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,360 the raw material for its construction. 353 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:51,120 Every year in March, when the ice is at its thickest, the blocks 354 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:54,840 are cut out of the frozen river and stored here in this massive 355 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,160 freezer until it's cold enough outside to start 356 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,600 building the extension. 357 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,680 Eight hardy souls work in this freezing factory 358 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:04,760 all-year round. 359 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,400 I'm so fascinated that they're absolutely transparent. 360 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,600 You could see right through to the bottom. 361 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,040 Do you ever find stuff inside these blocks? 362 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,440 Yes, we do. 363 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,560 We find leaves and natural things. 364 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:27,040 But not dead dogs and tin cans? No, not dead dogs. No. 365 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,120 We found a fish one. 366 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:32,600 Aw. When you melted the ice, could it just swim away? 367 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,960 No, it was dead. 368 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:35,960 I'm sorry. 369 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,640 This is where the Icehotel will eventually be. 370 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:49,120 This weird structure is the template for what will eventually be a long 371 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:53,360 ice tunnel, which will be incorporated into the hotel. 372 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:56,800 It seems unbelievable that all this hard work melts back 373 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,160 into the river when the temperature increases in the spring, 374 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,760 and then they have to start working on the extension all over again. 375 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,920 Not sure I'd have the patience to build something 376 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,720 that disappears every year. 377 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,520 Time for bed and to really test out those thermals. 378 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,680 All right. This is me. 379 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,120 It's a very dramatic walk in. 380 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,040 Ah. 381 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,680 I suppose I'll have to take my boots off. 382 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,280 I don't really want to, to tell you the truth. 383 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,280 It's hard to express quite how cold this is. 384 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,680 It's five degrees in here, which is why I'm hardly taking 385 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:38,840 any clothes off. 386 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,240 I'll let you in on a secret. 387 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,600 I got another coat underneath that. 388 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:47,240 Goodnight. 389 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,000 I hope I don't need a wee. 390 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,240 You can't tell, but I'm dreaming of home, 391 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,040 which is a whole 20 degrees warmer moment. 392 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,480 Still to come... 393 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,200 ..I board a sleeper train... 394 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,760 Three berther. 395 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,720 Can invite some friends in, couldn't I? 396 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,000 ..and cross the border from Sweden to Denmark 397 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,600 on an incredible bridge. 398 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,240 I discover the secret of happiness in Copenhagen and summon 399 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,360 my inner Viking. 400 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,360 I'm back at the station in Kiruna, which is actually 401 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:39,280 a fairly new station. 402 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,440 The old one used to be closer to the town but was demolished 403 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,400 in 2017 as part of the town move project. 404 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,680 All that's left is this statue. 405 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:49,680 Gah. 406 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,280 It really gives you a sense of how hard it must have been 407 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,840 to build this line, doesn't it? 408 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:07,600 I'm on the same line as I was on from Narvik to Kiruna, 409 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,440 the old iron ore line. 410 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,640 The difference with this train, though, is that this one's 411 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,160 got some beds. 412 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,280 And quite a lot of doors. 413 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:30,840 I love this thing that you have to smack to open the door. 414 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:35,920 This one doesn't got on. 415 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,880 Here we go. 416 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,160 37-39. 417 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:43,440 Huh. 418 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,680 Quite cosy, isn't it? 419 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:48,800 It's lovely and warm. 420 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,080 The first time I've been warm for two days. 421 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,480 MAN WHISTLES 422 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,080 Let's see what we've got here. 423 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,800 Oh. 424 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,240 Three berther. I could invite some friends in, couldn't I? 425 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,720 I came to Norway and Sweden to try and understand what life 426 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,200 was like up here in the Arctic Circle. 427 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,760 And one thing I've definitely learned is that to live 428 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,560 in the frozen north, you have to work with nature, 429 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,000 not against it. 430 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,920 Time to thaw out, because there's so much more of Scandinavia 431 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,560 to discover. 432 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,640 From Kiruna, 433 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,600 the train hurtles south pretty much the entire length 434 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,840 of the country to Stockholm, 435 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,960 where you have to change trains to continue the journey. 436 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,760 Over the last two years, almost double the amount of Swedes 437 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,480 have opted for train travel over planes. 438 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,720 And I'm all for it. 439 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,040 The final leg of the journey takes you across the Oresund Bridge. 440 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:00,280 It's the longest road and rail bridge in Europe, with five miles 441 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,160 of bridge shooting out from the Swedish coast, 442 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,720 then disappearing into a two and a half mile long tunnel. 443 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,800 Once you're through that, you're in Denmark. 444 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,720 1,000 years ago, Copenhagen was a small fishing village. 445 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,800 It's now the largest city in Denmark. 446 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,720 The station is slap bang in the centre of town, 447 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,200 and we should be going straight to our hotel. 448 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,640 But here's the thing - 449 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:30,400 station here, amusement park there, amusement park there, station here. 450 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,040 I might be pretty wiped out, but I've got to go, haven't I? 451 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,240 Tivoli is the world's second oldest amusement park. 452 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,720 It was founded in 1843. 453 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,160 We've barely stepped off the platform and already the crew 454 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,840 and I are having a great time. 455 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,000 Hey! 456 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,240 But we can't muck about all night, 457 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,280 because I'm here to discover what makes Copenhagen one 458 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,680 of the happiest places to live on the planet. 459 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,000 Ooh! My legs are all wobbly. 460 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,840 Denmark has regularly topped the World Happiness Report. 461 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,160 They actually take happiness so seriously, 462 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,200 there's a research institute dedicated to its study. 463 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,000 Alex and Diana are Happiness Analysts. 464 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,440 Explain to me what it is that you actually do. 465 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,400 Basically, we try to answer three questions - 466 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,760 How can we actually measure happiness? 467 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,000 Why are some people happier than others? 468 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,760 And how can we improve life for most people possible? 469 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,920 According to Alex, a key criterion of a happy population 470 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,920 is having a high level of trust, and there's an interesting experiment 471 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,240 we can do to test that, apparently. 472 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:57,600 We are dropping wallets. Dropping wallets? Dropping wallets, 473 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,840 trying to figure out if people are actually returning them. 474 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,840 So we write our phone number down and put it in the wallet 475 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,520 with a small amount of cash and then just wait and see 476 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:08,800 if people call us. 477 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,720 Seems pretty genius to me. 478 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,320 Where do you think I should put it? 479 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,760 I think do it like so people don't see it. No, no. 480 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:16,760 LAUGHTER 481 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,600 Should we walk down there and drop another? Yeah. 482 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:33,600 In a recent wallet study, 82% were returned in Denmark. 483 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,840 That's higher than anywhere else in the world. 484 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,080 LAUGHTER 485 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,400 CAR BEEPS 486 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,520 THEY LAUGH 487 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,240 Thank you. 488 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:50,760 Thank you very much. 489 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,400 We dropped the wallet, and within three seconds, 490 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,640 somebody went "Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep", 491 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,080 and rolled down his window. 492 00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,600 "You've dropped your wallet." 493 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,120 Definitely a high level of trust on this street. 494 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,680 There's no secret to the health benefits you get from cycling, 495 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,840 but apparently commuting on a bicycle 496 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,240 increases your happiness as well. 497 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,120 And boy, are there some bicycle's in Copenhagen. 498 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:18,320 It's like Holland on steroids. 499 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,320 There are five times as many bikes as cars in Copenhagen. 500 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,720 This is actually my bike. I don't own a car. 501 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,360 I live here in the centre of Copenhagen. 502 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,760 And I have two small kids and I just transport them 503 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,040 in this cargo bike. 504 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,960 I don't think I'd want to put my kids in that. 505 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,520 It doesn't look very robust. 506 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,840 No, no, no. It's perfect. It even takes an adult. 507 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,200 Challenge accepted. 508 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,680 Do you want to try it? Yes. Hold on. Hold on. 509 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,160 I'm not... 510 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,840 Oh, God. 511 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,240 Nearly shot right up to the air. 512 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,720 Well, this is quite a good way to end an interview on happiness. 513 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,040 It's not so bad, is it? 514 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,640 We never did get called about those wallets we dropped. 515 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,120 They were probably picked up by some untrustworthy British tourists. 516 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,960 Oh, well, I still say Copenhagen is my happy place, 517 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,720 unless this ticket machine doesn't start playing ball. 518 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,320 All right. Which platform? Let's have a look. 519 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:24,400 I'm leaving the capital and taking a short intercity train to Roskilde. 520 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,040 I love being on the top deck of the train. 521 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,240 Feels like you see so much more. 522 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,360 A bit like being on the top deck of the bus when you're a kid. 523 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:39,040 This route is along the oldest train line in Denmark, opened in 1847. 524 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,880 It's come a long way since then - all the mod cons. 525 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:43,880 Cappuccino. 526 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,200 Caffeine free, I journey on. 527 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,720 More bikes. 528 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,840 Big vases. 529 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,120 Everyone knows that the capital of Denmark is Copenhagen, 530 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,280 but 1,000 years ago, it wasn't. 531 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,720 It was this place, Roskilde. 532 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,600 And that was the Viking era. 533 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,800 It's also the site of a significant Viking discovery. 534 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,600 In 1962, 535 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,600 five Viking ships were excavated from the fjord. 536 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,520 They've been carefully reconstructed piece by piece. 537 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,200 Martin? Hi, Tony. 538 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,640 What's going on here? 539 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,000 I'm making beams for this small cargo ship right here. 540 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,440 Small cargo ship. 541 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,960 It looks pretty big to me. 542 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,800 It's a 14-metre replica of one of the five ships found out 543 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,360 in the fjord. 544 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,800 Archaeologists and ship builders like Martin can work out 545 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,720 how the boats were constructed. 546 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,760 I just think it's incredible how you can find something 547 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,280 that is so wrecked and work out exactly how the people who 548 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,440 originally built it created it. 549 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,320 It's a huge jigsaw puzzle. 550 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,200 It's kind of reverse engineering, you can see. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 551 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,400 So would there have been a deck here? 552 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,240 These bits sit across the boat like this. 553 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:18,320 Yeah. 554 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,880 There'll be a frame here too. 555 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,520 And then you put the deck in between the beams here. 556 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,880 Chit-chat over, Martin's keen to put me to work. 557 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,880 We want to split out this one. This? Yeah. 558 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,680 It looks a ropey old bit of wood, doesn't it? It is. 559 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,880 I mean, I hope that, but it's nice. 560 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,240 We use small wedges like this to start out with and then we go 561 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,840 about bigger wedges. 562 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,640 Like a true Viking gentleman, 563 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,320 he gets it going for me. 564 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:52,640 Then it's my turn. 565 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:55,760 Give it a wack. 566 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,000 I'll admit my hammer works quite delicate, 567 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,080 so I thought it best to let Martin take over. 568 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,400 Oh, can you hear that? 569 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,120 WOOD CRACKS 570 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,200 WHISPERS: You can actually hear it cracking, can't you? Yeah. 571 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,800 Vikings were skilled craftsmen. 572 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,400 All the tools Martin uses are replicas of Viking tools 573 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,240 that have been found. 574 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,560 It's harder work watching you, believe me. 575 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:20,760 THEY LAUGH 576 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,480 It's brilliant to think that the work that you're doing now 577 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,960 is just duplicating work that went on here to build boats 578 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,240 over 1,000 years ago. 579 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 580 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,120 So it's a lot of man hours that goes into making a Viking boat, 581 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,440 aren't there? Yeah. 582 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,120 You work on it in a time where you couldn't go travelling. 583 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,200 Travelling. 584 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:42,440 You call it travelling. 585 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:47,280 We call it plunder, destruction. Travelling. 586 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,440 Now that's not fair, is it, 587 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,040 because you were great traders. 588 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,480 Things are starting to get serious. 589 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,640 I think you should come on this side. 590 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,520 I must summon "Thor Robinson". 591 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,480 Oh, hey! Hey! 592 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,120 There you go. Awesome. 593 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,160 That was great. 594 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,880 That's it, that's it. 595 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,320 It simply just comes apart. 596 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,120 It looks beautiful, doesn't it? Yeah, it really does. 597 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,240 I think what'll stay in my head 598 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,480 is the notion that 1,000 years ago there would have been a couple 599 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:33,120 of blokes like us who found a piece of wood like this, 600 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:38,040 split it in half, transformed it into a piece of wood like that, 601 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:43,040 and maybe two days later, they had a crossbeam to put 602 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,640 in their boat. 603 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,440 But I can only do that one, mate. 604 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,720 I'm knackered now. 605 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:54,040 Coming up, my train sets sail for Germany... 606 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,440 You don't to see this very often on a ferry, do you? 607 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,480 ..I visit a record breaking railway... 608 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,240 It would be so much easier if the world was this big. 609 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,400 ..and go behind the scenes of a miniature wonderland. 610 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,000 I want to be in there. 611 00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:22,260 After a brief interlude with the Vikings, 612 00:34:22,260 --> 00:34:23,780 I'm back on the track south. 613 00:34:25,460 --> 00:34:27,980 The thing I'll remember most about the Scandinavian leg 614 00:34:27,980 --> 00:34:30,460 of my journey is the weather. 615 00:34:30,460 --> 00:34:33,380 It was either "wear everything you've got for the entire journey 616 00:34:33,380 --> 00:34:36,020 at the same time" weather, or it was 617 00:34:36,020 --> 00:34:39,220 "shirt, jacket and thermals just to be on the safe side" weather. 618 00:34:39,220 --> 00:34:41,540 Always different, always cold. 619 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:46,740 Maybe that's their secret to a happy life - the weather. 620 00:34:46,740 --> 00:34:47,900 Nah, can't be. 621 00:34:50,020 --> 00:34:56,140 I'm ICE 3, an intercity train heading down to the Danish coast. 622 00:34:56,140 --> 00:34:59,660 Before I set off on my journeys around the world by train, 623 00:34:59,660 --> 00:35:03,900 I don't think I've given any thought at all to train seats, but now 624 00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:06,780 they've become a central part of my life. 625 00:35:06,780 --> 00:35:08,420 Take this one, for instance. 626 00:35:08,420 --> 00:35:10,820 Just looks pretty straightforward, isn't it? 627 00:35:10,820 --> 00:35:13,340 Nice grey, leafy motif. 628 00:35:13,340 --> 00:35:17,860 A splash of... What would you call that? Red. Red. 629 00:35:17,860 --> 00:35:20,060 It's got plenty of support for the back. 630 00:35:20,060 --> 00:35:22,580 Very nice, if understated. 631 00:35:22,580 --> 00:35:24,180 9.5 out of 10. 632 00:35:28,940 --> 00:35:32,020 I think this train's got something against me. 633 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:43,460 We're going on this green line down here, heading towards Hamburg, 634 00:35:43,460 --> 00:35:47,660 but the line seems to stop before we get there, here. 635 00:35:47,660 --> 00:35:49,180 And then there's water. 636 00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:57,140 Yep, you heard that right. 637 00:35:57,140 --> 00:35:59,300 The train has boarded a ferry. 638 00:36:00,660 --> 00:36:03,340 It's big enough to fit a three-carriage train in the 639 00:36:03,340 --> 00:36:05,060 parking area below deck. 640 00:36:05,060 --> 00:36:06,060 Amazing! 641 00:36:08,780 --> 00:36:11,020 I feel like I'm on a booze cruise to Calais. 642 00:36:17,820 --> 00:36:20,540 If you've just turned on the telly and are expecting to see a show 643 00:36:20,540 --> 00:36:22,300 called Around the World by Train, 644 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:27,060 well, you are on the right channel, it's just that the train in question 645 00:36:27,060 --> 00:36:31,260 is under my feet, somewhere between the deck and the sea. 646 00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:37,700 I'm leaving Denmark and Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia behind me 647 00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:42,060 over there, and we're heading towards Hamburg and Germany. 648 00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:45,180 And the boat's just starting to wobble a little bit now. 649 00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:47,700 Well, I'm glad I brought my sea legs with me. 650 00:36:50,340 --> 00:36:54,420 It's only a 45-minute crossing, so no time to settle in. 651 00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:57,300 You don't see this very often on a ferry, do you? 652 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:02,300 To the cars, to the buses, to the train, down this lift. 653 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:05,500 Yes, here we are. 654 00:37:10,740 --> 00:37:15,060 I bet you've never seen a ferry give birth to a train before. 655 00:37:17,780 --> 00:37:21,180 As we fly through the German countryside, I realise I've lost 656 00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:24,380 the ability to make interesting smalltalk with fellow passengers. 657 00:37:24,380 --> 00:37:27,060 Are you a fan of these seats? 658 00:37:27,060 --> 00:37:28,900 Um... 659 00:37:30,340 --> 00:37:33,340 I don't know. Are they special in some way? 660 00:37:33,340 --> 00:37:36,900 They're great. They're so comfy. I think it's just a normal seat, no? 661 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:39,140 "Just a normal seat." 662 00:37:39,140 --> 00:37:42,300 I found that's what's great about Scandinavians in general, 663 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:46,700 they're so polite and usually happy to let me bore them rigid. 664 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,540 I've done a lot of journeys through Europe on the train now, 665 00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:52,220 but it's amazing how many times it just looks 666 00:37:52,220 --> 00:37:53,940 like I'm going through Kent. 667 00:37:53,940 --> 00:37:55,660 Ooh, Ashford next stop. 668 00:37:56,980 --> 00:37:58,460 It's not. It's Hamburg. 669 00:38:02,740 --> 00:38:06,180 The moment we crossed the water, I felt like I was in a different 670 00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:07,380 part of Europe. 671 00:38:07,380 --> 00:38:08,580 It's just busier. 672 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:16,060 The greater Hamburg region actually has the same population 673 00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:20,300 as the whole of Norway, which I can hardly compute. 674 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:25,020 This station, for a long time, was Europe's second-most busy station, 675 00:38:25,020 --> 00:38:26,860 and its crowning glory 676 00:38:26,860 --> 00:38:32,540 is this glass roof - 140 metres long, 70 metres wide. 677 00:38:32,540 --> 00:38:34,700 As you can imagine, in the Second World War, 678 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:37,900 the Allies smashed it to pieces. 679 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:41,100 But because the uprights were made of iron, 680 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:45,540 when the war was over, they were able to put all the glass back in. 681 00:38:45,540 --> 00:38:50,300 And so, today, it looks just like it did over 100 years ago. 682 00:38:53,020 --> 00:38:57,780 It's not the only place where my train comes into either. 683 00:38:57,780 --> 00:39:00,500 Hamburg is home to Miniatur Wunderland, 684 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:02,620 the world's largest model railway. 685 00:39:05,340 --> 00:39:06,900 It's like a dream. 686 00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:10,780 Here's the fjord in northern Norway, which we zoomed 687 00:39:10,780 --> 00:39:12,660 up in our little boat. 688 00:39:12,660 --> 00:39:14,980 There's the Icehotel, with lots of people bopping 689 00:39:14,980 --> 00:39:18,140 around and having loads of freezing fun. 690 00:39:18,140 --> 00:39:19,700 Here's Kiruna Mine. 691 00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:24,220 And here's Kiruna Station, and that's the statue 692 00:39:24,220 --> 00:39:25,300 that I love so much. 693 00:39:26,980 --> 00:39:30,460 It's even got the train ferry leg of our journey. 694 00:39:30,460 --> 00:39:33,180 I've been around the world twice now. 695 00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:34,420 It's tough, 696 00:39:34,420 --> 00:39:35,980 it's often boring, 697 00:39:35,980 --> 00:39:38,700 it's arduous, it's long - 698 00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:42,940 it would be so much easier if the world was this big. 699 00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:49,220 They've got about 1,000 trains, 260,000 figurines and so much track 700 00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:51,180 that even Sebastian, the man in charge, 701 00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:53,420 doesn't know the exact figure. 702 00:39:53,420 --> 00:39:56,940 We have about 14.5... 703 00:39:56,940 --> 00:40:00,060 Now I need to think. Is it 14.5? 704 00:40:00,060 --> 00:40:01,420 14.6... 705 00:40:01,420 --> 00:40:06,220 15... It's 15.8 of kilometres? 706 00:40:06,220 --> 00:40:07,260 15.4? 707 00:40:08,620 --> 00:40:12,300 So we have nearly 16km of track. What about cleaning it? 708 00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:13,380 That must be difficult. 709 00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:16,580 So we have two people doing nothing else than cleaning. 710 00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:18,340 So it's a very, very special job. 711 00:40:18,340 --> 00:40:21,300 They start at two in the morning and it takes them three months from 712 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:22,860 one end to the other. 713 00:40:22,860 --> 00:40:24,420 And then they start again. 714 00:40:24,420 --> 00:40:26,380 How many people do you employ? 715 00:40:26,380 --> 00:40:31,100 So we have about 360 people working at Wunderland. 360?! 716 00:40:33,220 --> 00:40:35,820 There's even a control room to monitor which trains 717 00:40:35,820 --> 00:40:36,980 are going where. 718 00:40:38,020 --> 00:40:42,460 And a huge Hamburg airport with planes that actually take off. 719 00:40:42,460 --> 00:40:44,780 We can have a look over there. 720 00:40:44,780 --> 00:40:47,740 Felix and Christian are building small figurines. 721 00:40:49,660 --> 00:40:51,700 I love this over here. What's this? 722 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,180 Michalis has a plan out of our new funfair. 723 00:40:54,180 --> 00:40:56,780 Look at the elephant cycling. 724 00:40:56,780 --> 00:40:58,260 What's this guy do this thing? 725 00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:06,260 How wonderful to be able to think of something like that 726 00:41:06,260 --> 00:41:08,420 and then make it miniature. 727 00:41:08,420 --> 00:41:09,820 I want to be in there. 728 00:41:09,820 --> 00:41:11,540 LAUGHTER 729 00:41:11,540 --> 00:41:14,060 But even I can't fit on that Penny Farthing. 730 00:41:14,060 --> 00:41:15,380 ELEPHANT ROARS 731 00:41:17,620 --> 00:41:19,180 What are you making right now? 732 00:41:19,180 --> 00:41:23,540 I build female figures... 733 00:41:23,540 --> 00:41:26,980 Figures, yeah. ..figures with huge boobs. 734 00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:32,340 Yes, the tiny, tiny, tiny, huge boobs. Yeah. 735 00:41:32,340 --> 00:41:34,620 WHISPERS: I think I'll step away. 736 00:41:34,620 --> 00:41:36,380 Time for me to have a go. 737 00:41:38,020 --> 00:41:42,620 Right. So I've got to try not to get any black on the jeans. 738 00:41:42,620 --> 00:41:44,940 I'm not succeeding too well, 739 00:41:44,940 --> 00:41:49,140 but at least I can over paint the jeans afterwards. 740 00:41:49,140 --> 00:41:51,500 It's so delicate, this bit. 741 00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:54,460 That's nice. That's lovely. 742 00:41:54,460 --> 00:41:57,820 And now to become a part of this wonderland. 743 00:41:57,820 --> 00:42:02,140 This is the building that we're in right now. 744 00:42:02,140 --> 00:42:06,540 And if we lift the lid off, there's our crew, 745 00:42:06,540 --> 00:42:07,860 and this is me. 746 00:42:11,060 --> 00:42:15,460 I found myself in some amazing places this series. 747 00:42:15,460 --> 00:42:18,180 I've travelled thousands of miles... 748 00:42:18,180 --> 00:42:21,220 It's one of those beautiful railway stations I've ever seen. 749 00:42:21,220 --> 00:42:22,660 ..through 18 countries... 750 00:42:22,660 --> 00:42:24,100 Muchas gracias. 751 00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:27,220 ..on some of the world's most incredible train routes. 752 00:42:30,580 --> 00:42:34,740 From Europe's high-speed rail to the Canadian wilderness... 753 00:42:36,820 --> 00:42:40,100 ..I've seen the best the planet has to offer. 754 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:42,060 I've met some incredible people... 755 00:42:42,060 --> 00:42:43,700 LAUGHTER 756 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:45,380 CHEERING 757 00:42:45,380 --> 00:42:47,020 ..and everywhere I've been, 758 00:42:47,020 --> 00:42:50,700 they've welcomed me with open arms and big smiles. 759 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:53,900 It's been one hell of a journey. 760 00:42:53,900 --> 00:42:56,220 But now it's time to head home. 761 00:42:56,220 --> 00:42:58,220 See you on a train sometime. 59952

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