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I'm rejoining the rails
for another epic adventure.

Are you excited? Who wouldn't be?

I'm travelling around the globe
again, riding some of the most

legendary trains in the world...

..to experience more
spectacular railways.

Look at this place.

From the Arctic Circle...

..to the glorious Andes...

..and the half of Europe...

Isn't it fantastic?

It's just a ticket hall.

..to the edge of America.

Oh, oh, oh. This is amazing!

And I'll venture off the tracks to
discover awe-inspiring places...

England!

..extraordinary people...

Hey. Oh.

..and unforgettable experiences.

Staggering, isn't it?

This time my journey starts in
Scandinavia, a place I've always

been fascinated by.

It feels like they've got the
best of everything - the food,

the clean living, the social care.

But do they really get it
right all the time?

There's got to be more to it
than flat-packed furniture

and open sandwiches.

I'm on my way to Narvik now,
which is in the Arctic Circle.

It's the furthest north I'm going
to go on this entire journey.

I wonder what it's like...

I wonder how people
deal with the cold.

I wonder what the animals are like.

HORN BLOWS

Oh.

After Narvik, I'll be travelling
down the length of Scandinavia

to Denmark and continue
on into continental Europe,

where I'll end my journey
in Hamburg.

Due to Norway's spectacular scenery,

which is not exactly an easy
landscape to build railways,

the first line's construction began
in 1851, which is relatively late

compared to the rest of Europe.

Now there's well over
4,000 kilometres of track

across the country.

The Arctic Circle.

I'm not sure if this is quite what
I'd imagined - a bit colder maybe,

couple of penguins on the
platform with suitcases.

In fact, the most remarkable thing
so far is that they've got

a banana-coloured station.

Apparently, this is actually
the most populated Arctic region

in the world.

Well, it doesn't feel
that populated, especially

when you get out of town.

WOLF HOWLS

These forests are home to
some of the Arctic Circle's

fiercest predators.

And I'm on a mission to find them.

But it's not really advised
to wander off looking for them

by yourself.

In this series,

I've spent an awful lot of my time
surrounded by people, but now

the last station is way behind me.

I really feel like I'm in the wild.

And things are about to
get even wilder.

We're going to meet wolves.

So first of all, when we walk in,
we will have our hands

up like this to protect
ourselves, because the wolves

really want to say hello.
They'll jump up? Yeah.

And then we sit down with one knee
on the ground like this.

Will they bite me? Eh, they can.

If they bite, you just have to
sit completely still.

Me or Anita will come
and help you.

Can I say "Ow"? No. No?

If you say "ouch",
you're like a squeaking toy

and then they will only
push even harder.

Just take the pain.

So I have to put on this.

Ramona is a wolf expert here at
Polar Park, where they specialise

in familiarising wolves with humans.

Now you're wolf-proof.

Ready to see the wolves?

There's a Norwegian word...

I don't know if I'm pronouncing
this right. Is it "gruglede"?

Yeah. It's how I feel now.

It's like a combination
of terror and excitement.

I think the wolves are just excited.

Yeah, great.

As long as they're not hungry.

LAUGHTER

Wolves can weigh up to
70 kilos and can take

down and kill adult moose.

It's very important from now
on that we have slow movements

and we stay calm all the time.

HOWLING

Just stay completely still.

The wolves are coming.

Oh.

You want to sit down.

Wolves greet each other by licking,

so that's what this is.

An extended, drawn-out, wet hello.

One of the wolves has just
bounced up to the director.

They're trying to chew the
various bits of the camera

and the sound equipment.

Oh, you have a good smell.

The wolf's spit's all right, is it?

Yeah, I think so.

People come from all over the
world to meet this wolf pack.

What's the point of this,
from their point of view?

The reason we do the socialising
is so the wolves can be here

in a park and not be
afraid of people.

Right now, they're a little bit
scared of the cameras.

I'll tell you what, the camera is
more scared of them.

LAUGHTER

Yeah, we can see that.
You all right, Sam?

You don't often nowadays
get that feeling -

that kind of red, raw, amazing
feeling of a wild, dangerous

and yet wonderful animal, do you?

But I did.

There are still a few hours left
before my train leaves - enough time

for a quick face wash and to
continue my adventure in the wild.

Among this amazing wilderness,

one thing seems
perfectly clear to me.

If you're a man, woman or beast,

life up here is completely dictated
by the weather and the landscape.

I'm about to meet someone
who has a lifetime of experience

living here in fjord country.

These fjords were made in the last
ice age. As the glaciers retreated,

they carved out huge U-shaped
valleys, which was subsequently

filled with sea water.

There are over
1,000 fjords in Norway.

And my boat captain for the day,

Gunnar, has lived on them
for most of his life.

Have you always been a seaman?

I've been in the military and the
coastal artillery, and that's

very close to the sea and
that's why I'm very interested

in going out and fishing.

For me, living on a small place
by the fjords is better

than the big city.

What kind of person do you have
to be to be a fjordsman or woman?

I think you can be a normal person.

It feels a little bit cold now,

but it's only around zero.

Zero degrees?

I can barely feel my face.

Norway is situated on the same
northern latitudes as northern

Siberia, but it's the Gulf Stream
that makes it so temperate.

Well, temperate for some.

It's off the boat and onto land
because Gunnar has got something

very special to show me.

Oh, perfect

Which way now?

Oh, we will find the track up here.

It feels like we're following
a Norwegian mountain goat.

Come on, crew. Keep up.

Finally, after an hour's uphill
trek, we find what we're after.

I can't see much here.

Let's go and have a look.

Is it on here somewhere? It's here.

See the lines here?

Here's one line.

I'm starting to see it now.

Let's see if we can reveal
the whole thing.

You can see it's ears! Yes.
That's amazing.

This sort of prehistoric rock
art is called a petroglyph

and has been found
all across Scandinavia.

The drawings in this area
are the oldest ever discovered.

How old do they reckon this is?

This is about 11th or near so.

How amazing that has stayed
there all this time.

This is an incredibly dramatic time,
because this is the time

when the glaciers are
starting to melt

and what had been totally
uninhabitable land was land

that was rich enough to support
animals like this.

And not only that,
but there were people here.

Suddenly, they're able to carve out
a living on this landscape.

It does feel like we've seen
the very beginnings of the people

who made Norway. Yes.

I'm glad we did that.

Next time, you come in
summertime, OK?

Could you get me a skimobile or
something to get me back?

Coming up, I'll be riding the real
life Polar Express....

Look a that.

..which crosses the border
and takes me into Sweden...

Imagine how difficult it
must have been to build.

..where I sweat is out with
a bunch of Swedes.

In England, my exposure to sauna is,
there's a load of guys together,

you all put your hands
on your genitals.

And I don't know what
happens after that

cos I'm always the first
to stagger out.

I'm rejoining the railway, setting
off on one of the most spectacular

train journeys possible.

It's the start with the
Arctic Circle train -

a three-hour journey past fjords,
frozen waterfalls

and Swedish mountains.

I can't bloody wait.

The route takes me
from the Norwegian coast

across the Swedish border
to a town called Kiruna.

So this is the first station
just outside Narvik.

And as you can see, the line's
winding up the side of a fjord,

whose name I can't remember, but the
man over there can pronounce it.

O... Ofotfjord. Ofotfjord.

CAMERA RESTARTS

Up the side of this fjord...

CAMERA RESTARTS

Ofotfjord. Ofotfjord.

Ofotfj... Ofotfjord. Ofot.

CAMERA RESTARTS

Winding its way up Ofotfjord.

It's a great way to get
up to the top of a fjord

without hiking, isn't it?

An hour into the trip,
and it's time for a sandwich.

I didn't think I'd like
this kind of bread.

It's a bit sort of dry and rye
for me, but I'm actually

really developing quite
a taste for it.

Enough about sandwiches.

I'm on the Arctic Circle train.

This particular train may be full
of passengers heading to Sweden,

but the line was originally
built for transporting

something entirely different -
iron ore.

The line was built in 1902,
had 100 miles of track.

Imagine how difficult it
must've been to build it.

In the late 1800s,

itinerant workers, or navvies, came
from all over the Nordic countries

to help build this railway.

Small settlements grew along
the route and there was

a Klondike-like boom.

Today, it's still providing jobs
for people on this frozen

stretch of wilderness.

We're now in Sweden.

How do I know?

My phone just told me.

The amount of iron ore
that makes its way along

these tracks is astonishing.

Ten of these trains a day carry
enough iron ore to make 70,000 cars.

Behind them is that iron ore
mine there.

It produces something like 90%
of all Europe's iron ore.

So the chances are that wherever
you are, you're sitting next

to something made of metal that
originally came from that mine.

The mine is 1,500 metres deep
and has 80km of roads.

In fact, it's so big that
it's starting to encroach

on the local town, causing
subsidence on the houses.

I was born here in 1958.

Lars is a resident here in Kiruna.

We have the best iron in the world.

The problem is that the people
living in the centre of the town

had to move. Why is that?

Because the ground was falling down.

It started to crack
because of the mining.

So you've got this
iron ore mine... That goes...

It's going under the city.

..and then the city goes "blah"
and collapses. Yes.

This has sparked a massive
engineering project to move some

parts of the town
3km east.

Now they start to figure out how
they're going to move the church,

this one, because they have to move.

That is a beautiful building.

Yeah. Wow, that's lovely.

They've just got to move that,
haven't they?

The town move is a hot topic
of conversation here in Kiruna.

But it didn't feel right
talking about it in a freezing car.

STEAM BLOWS

So, will you guys take a sauna
together when you finish work?

Every day. Every day?! Yes.

In England, my exposure
to the sauna is,

if there's a load of guys together,

you all put your hands on
your genitals, you all look

forwards, and then the biggest,
burliest one will come with a ladle

and they'll whack it on there.

And I don't know what happens
after that

cos I'm always the first
to stagger out.

I always wondered about Swede's
obsession with saunas,

but it's as common here
as going down the pub

is with your mates back home.

It doesn't do that much for me,

but you've had two saunas
already today, haven't you?

Yeah, I had two.

You know, you just never stop.

He's a little.... Yeah, you know.

LAUGHTER

But here, you just gossip
basically, don't you?

Yes. We sit and gossip in the sauna.

All three of you work for the mine.

How do you feel about it?
You've got to move.

Yeah. I don't have any choice.

It's sad for a lot of people.

They feel scared.

What's going to happen in ten years?
Nobody knows.

If we don't have the mine,
we don't have the town.

And most people are
philosophical about that?

They accept the need for it?

Not everybody. No.

But what can you do?

If you stay, you have to do that.

You have to accept it. Yeah.

No matter how people feel about
moving to the new town,

I'm not sure how much
choice they have.

In this sparsely populated area,
it's hard to see what other options

there are unless you're prepared
to move much further afield.

The next morning, I'm on my way
to see what opportunities

are being created with what
they have got loads of - ice.

So I've swapped my towel for two
jackets, a hat, gloves and some

rather toasty thermal leggings.

It's really nippy now.

It's minus 15 degrees.

If you don't believe me,
have a look at that.

6% of Sweden's population
live in the Arctic Circle.

I'm not sure I'd want to,
but I'm learning that constantly

dealing with the cold is
just part of life up here.

Here at the Icehotel
in Jukkasjarvi,

they're using the freezing
temperatures to their advantage.

It's down the road from Kiruna
and about 70,000 people

visit every year.

Wow. Fairy land.

Look at these.

It's like a Disney dream, isn't it?

Each year, artists from all over
the world are selected to

design and create rooms here
at the permanent Icehotel...

Oh, it's gorgeous.

..where you can sleep in sub-zero
temperatures all-year round.

This one is called Oh Deer.

Oh, that's stunning, isn't it?

But I'm not binning down just yet,
because there's something else

I really want to see.

This is the area around the back -
the unglamorous bit of the hotel

where all the work goes on.

I know it doesn't look like it now,
but believe me, it's a hive

of activity most of the time because
they have to build a brand-new

hotel every year.

That's a lot of graft.

Welcome inside.

Julia's agreed to take me
behind the scenes into a factory

that's full of ice.

Oh, this is amazing!

It's used to build a temporary
winter extension to the permanent

Icehotel each year.

Can I touch one?

Yes, you can.

Oh, they're weird, aren't they?
It's very dry.

It's almost like metal.

Can I lick it?
SHE LAUGHS

Yes, you can lick it.
My tongue won't get stuck?

We fix it.

I don't know why
I wanted to do that.

It was quite nice.

LAUGHTER

How many of these blocks do
you reckon you have?

We have around 1,500 blocks
inside here.

So it's a...it's a lot of ice.

How much do these weigh?
Around two tonnes.

This is all ice from the river?

Exactly. It's all from
the Torne River.

The Torne River is the mother of
the Icehotel, as it provides

the raw material for
its construction.

Every year in March, when the ice
is at its thickest, the blocks

are cut out of the frozen river
and stored here in this massive

freezer until it's cold
enough outside to start

building the extension.

Eight hardy souls work
in this freezing factory

all-year round.

I'm so fascinated that
they're absolutely transparent.

You could see right
through to the bottom.

Do you ever find stuff
inside these blocks?

Yes, we do.

We find leaves and natural things.

But not dead dogs and tin cans?
No, not dead dogs. No.

We found a fish one.

Aw. When you melted the ice,
could it just swim away?

No, it was dead.

I'm sorry.

This is where the Icehotel
will eventually be.

This weird structure is the template
for what will eventually be a long

ice tunnel, which will be
incorporated into the hotel.

It seems unbelievable that all
this hard work melts back

into the river when the temperature
increases in the spring,

and then they have to start working
on the extension all over again.

Not sure I'd have the patience
to build something

that disappears every year.

Time for bed and to really test
out those thermals.

All right. This is me.

It's a very dramatic walk in.

Ah.

I suppose I'll have to take
my boots off.

I don't really want to,
to tell you the truth.

It's hard to express quite
how cold this is.

It's five degrees in here,
which is why I'm hardly taking

any clothes off.

I'll let you in on a secret.

I got another coat underneath that.

Goodnight.

I hope I don't need a wee.

You can't tell,
but I'm dreaming of home,

which is a whole 20 degrees
warmer moment.

Still to come...

..I board a sleeper train...

Three berther.

Can invite some friends in,
couldn't I?

..and cross the border from
Sweden to Denmark

on an incredible bridge.

I discover the secret of happiness
in Copenhagen and summon

my inner Viking.

I'm back at the station in
Kiruna, which is actually

a fairly new station.

The old one used to be closer
to the town but was demolished

in 2017 as part of the
town move project.

All that's left is this statue.

Gah.

It really gives you a sense of
how hard it must have been

to build this line, doesn't it?

I'm on the same line as I was on
from Narvik to Kiruna,

the old iron ore line.

The difference with this train,
though, is that this one's

got some beds.

And quite a lot of doors.

I love this thing that you have
to smack to open the door.

This one doesn't got on.

Here we go.

37-39.

Huh.

Quite cosy, isn't it?

It's lovely and warm.

The first time I've been warm
for two days.

MAN WHISTLES

Let's see what we've got here.

Oh.

Three berther. I could invite
some friends in, couldn't I?

I came to Norway and Sweden to
try and understand what life

was like up here in the
Arctic Circle.

And one thing I've definitely
learned is that to live

in the frozen north,
you have to work with nature,

not against it.

Time to thaw out, because there's
so much more of Scandinavia

to discover.

From Kiruna,

the train hurtles south
pretty much the entire length

of the country to Stockholm,

where you have to change trains
to continue the journey.

Over the last two years, almost
double the amount of Swedes

have opted for train travel
over planes.

And I'm all for it.

The final leg of the journey takes
you across the Oresund Bridge.

It's the longest road and rail
bridge in Europe, with five miles

of bridge shooting out
from the Swedish coast,

then disappearing into a
two and a half mile long tunnel.

Once you're through that,
you're in Denmark.

1,000 years ago, Copenhagen was
a small fishing village.

It's now the largest city
in Denmark.

The station is slap bang
in the centre of town,

and we should be going
straight to our hotel.

But here's the thing -

station here, amusement park there,
amusement park there, station here.

I might be pretty wiped out,
but I've got to go, haven't I?

Tivoli is the world's second
oldest amusement park.

It was founded in 1843.

We've barely stepped off
the platform and already the crew

and I are having a great time.

Hey!

But we can't muck about all night,

because I'm here to discover
what makes Copenhagen one

of the happiest places to
live on the planet.

Ooh! My legs are all wobbly.

Denmark has regularly topped
the World Happiness Report.

They actually take
happiness so seriously,

there's a research institute
dedicated to its study.

Alex and Diana are
Happiness Analysts.

Explain to me what it is
that you actually do.

Basically, we try to
answer three questions -

How can we actually
measure happiness?

Why are some people
happier than others?

And how can we improve life
for most people possible?

According to Alex, a key criterion
of a happy population

is having a high level of trust, and
there's an interesting experiment

we can do to test that, apparently.

We are dropping wallets.
Dropping wallets? Dropping wallets,

trying to figure out if people
are actually returning them.

So we write our phone number
down and put it in the wallet

with a small amount of cash
and then just wait and see

if people call us.

Seems pretty genius to me.

Where do you think I should put it?

I think do it like so people
don't see it. No, no.

LAUGHTER

Should we walk down there
and drop another? Yeah.

In a recent wallet study,
82% were returned in Denmark.

That's higher than anywhere
else in the world.

LAUGHTER

CAR BEEPS

THEY LAUGH

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

We dropped the wallet,
and within three seconds,

somebody went "Beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep",

and rolled down his window.

"You've dropped your wallet."

Definitely a high level
of trust on this street.

There's no secret to the health
benefits you get from cycling,

but apparently commuting
on a bicycle

increases your happiness as well.

And boy, are there some
bicycle's in Copenhagen.

It's like Holland on steroids.

There are five times as many
bikes as cars in Copenhagen.

This is actually my bike.
I don't own a car.

I live here in the
centre of Copenhagen.

And I have two small kids
and I just transport them

in this cargo bike.

I don't think I'd want to
put my kids in that.

It doesn't look very robust.

No, no, no. It's perfect.
It even takes an adult.

Challenge accepted.

Do you want to try it? Yes.
Hold on. Hold on.

I'm not...

Oh, God.

Nearly shot right up to the air.

Well, this is quite a good way to
end an interview on happiness.

It's not so bad, is it?

We never did get called about
those wallets we dropped.

They were probably picked up by some
untrustworthy British tourists.

Oh, well, I still say Copenhagen
is my happy place,

unless this ticket machine
doesn't start playing ball.

All right. Which platform?
Let's have a look.

I'm leaving the capital and taking
a short intercity train to Roskilde.

I love being on the top
deck of the train.

Feels like you see so much more.

A bit like being on the top deck
of the bus when you're a kid.

This route is along the oldest train
line in Denmark, opened in 1847.

It's come a long way since then -
all the mod cons.

Cappuccino.

Caffeine free, I journey on.

More bikes.

Big vases.

Everyone knows that the capital
of Denmark is Copenhagen,

but 1,000 years ago, it wasn't.

It was this place, Roskilde.

And that was the Viking era.

It's also the site of a
significant Viking discovery.

In 1962,

five Viking ships were
excavated from the fjord.

They've been carefully reconstructed
piece by piece.

Martin? Hi, Tony.

What's going on here?

I'm making beams for this
small cargo ship right here.

Small cargo ship.

It looks pretty big to me.

It's a 14-metre replica of
one of the five ships found out

in the fjord.

Archaeologists and ship builders
like Martin can work out

how the boats were constructed.

I just think it's incredible
how you can find something

that is so wrecked and work out
exactly how the people who

originally built it created it.

It's a huge jigsaw puzzle.

It's kind of reverse engineering,
you can see. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

So would there have been
a deck here?

These bits sit across the
boat like this.

Yeah.

There'll be a frame here too.

And then you put the deck in
between the beams here.

Chit-chat over, Martin's keen
to put me to work.

We want to split out this one.
This? Yeah.

It looks a ropey old bit of wood,
doesn't it? It is.

I mean, I hope that, but it's nice.

We use small wedges like this to
start out with and then we go

about bigger wedges.

Like a true Viking gentleman,

he gets it going for me.

Then it's my turn.

Give it a wack.

I'll admit my hammer
works quite delicate,

so I thought it best to let
Martin take over.

Oh, can you hear that?

WOOD CRACKS

WHISPERS: You can actually hear
it cracking, can't you? Yeah.

Vikings were skilled craftsmen.

All the tools Martin uses
are replicas of Viking tools

that have been found.

It's harder work watching you,
believe me.

THEY LAUGH

It's brilliant to think that the
work that you're doing now

is just duplicating work
that went on here to build boats

over 1,000 years ago.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's a lot of man hours that
goes into making a Viking boat,

aren't there? Yeah.

You work on it in a time where
you couldn't go travelling.

Travelling.

You call it travelling.

We call it plunder, destruction.
Travelling.

Now that's not fair, is it,

because you were great traders.

Things are starting to get serious.

I think you should come
on this side.

I must summon "Thor Robinson".

Oh, hey! Hey!

There you go. Awesome.

That was great.

That's it, that's it.

It simply just comes apart.

It looks beautiful, doesn't it?
Yeah, it really does.

I think what'll stay in my head

is the notion that 1,000 years ago
there would have been a couple

of blokes like us who found
a piece of wood like this,

split it in half, transformed it
into a piece of wood like that,

and maybe two days later,
they had a crossbeam to put

in their boat.

But I can only do that one, mate.

I'm knackered now.

Coming up, my train sets
sail for Germany...

You don't to see this very often
on a ferry, do you?

..I visit a record
breaking railway...

It would be so much easier
if the world was this big.

..and go behind the scenes
of a miniature wonderland.

I want to be in there.

After a brief interlude
with the Vikings,

I'm back on the track south.

The thing I'll remember most
about the Scandinavian leg

of my journey is the weather.

It was either "wear everything
you've got for the entire journey

at the same time" weather,
or it was

"shirt, jacket and thermals just
to be on the safe side" weather.

Always different, always cold.

Maybe that's their secret
to a happy life - the weather.

Nah, can't be.

I'm ICE 3, an intercity train
heading down to the Danish coast.

Before I set off on my journeys
around the world by train,

I don't think I've given any thought
at all to train seats, but now

they've become a
central part of my life.

Take this one, for instance.

Just looks pretty straightforward,
isn't it?

Nice grey, leafy motif.

A splash of... What would
you call that? Red. Red.

It's got plenty of support
for the back.

Very nice, if understated.

9.5 out of 10.

I think this train's got
something against me.

We're going on this green line
down here, heading towards Hamburg,

but the line seems to stop
before we get there, here.

And then there's water.

Yep, you heard that right.

The train has boarded a ferry.

It's big enough to fit a
three-carriage train in the

parking area below deck.

Amazing!

I feel like I'm on a
booze cruise to Calais.

If you've just turned on the telly
and are expecting to see a show

called Around the World by Train,

well, you are on the right channel,
it's just that the train in question

is under my feet, somewhere
between the deck and the sea.

I'm leaving Denmark and Sweden and
the rest of Scandinavia behind me

over there, and we're heading
towards Hamburg and Germany.

And the boat's just starting
to wobble a little bit now.

Well, I'm glad I brought my
sea legs with me.

It's only a 45-minute crossing,
so no time to settle in.

You don't see this very often
on a ferry, do you?

To the cars, to the buses,
to the train, down this lift.

Yes, here we are.

I bet you've never seen a ferry
give birth to a train before.

As we fly through the German
countryside, I realise I've lost

the ability to make interesting
smalltalk with fellow passengers.

Are you a fan of these seats?

Um...

I don't know. Are they
special in some way?

They're great. They're so comfy.
I think it's just a normal seat, no?

"Just a normal seat."

I found that's what's great
about Scandinavians in general,

they're so polite and usually happy
to let me bore them rigid.

I've done a lot of journeys
through Europe on the train now,

but it's amazing how many
times it just looks

like I'm going through Kent.

Ooh, Ashford next stop.

It's not. It's Hamburg.

The moment we crossed the water,
I felt like I was in a different

part of Europe.

It's just busier.

The greater Hamburg region
actually has the same population

as the whole of Norway,
which I can hardly compute.

This station, for a long time, was
Europe's second-most busy station,

and its crowning glory

is this glass roof -
140 metres long, 70 metres wide.

As you can imagine,
in the Second World War,

the Allies smashed it to pieces.

But because the uprights
were made of iron,

when the war was over, they were
able to put all the glass back in.

And so, today, it looks just like it
did over 100 years ago.

It's not the only place where my
train comes into either.

Hamburg is home to
Miniatur Wunderland,

the world's largest model railway.

It's like a dream.

Here's the fjord in northern
Norway, which we zoomed

up in our little boat.

There's the Icehotel,
with lots of people bopping

around and having loads
of freezing fun.

Here's Kiruna Mine.

And here's Kiruna Station,
and that's the statue

that I love so much.

It's even got the train
ferry leg of our journey.

I've been around the
world twice now.

It's tough,

it's often boring,

it's arduous, it's long -

it would be so much easier
if the world was this big.

They've got about 1,000 trains,
260,000 figurines and so much track

that even Sebastian,
the man in charge,

doesn't know the exact figure.

We have about 14.5...

Now I need to think. Is it 14.5?

14.6...

15... It's 15.8 of kilometres?

15.4?

So we have nearly 16km of track.
What about cleaning it?

That must be difficult.

So we have two people doing
nothing else than cleaning.

So it's a very, very special job.

They start at two in the morning and
it takes them three months from

one end to the other.

And then they start again.

How many people do you employ?

So we have about 360 people
working at Wunderland. 360?!

There's even a control room
to monitor which trains

are going where.

And a huge Hamburg airport with
planes that actually take off.

We can have a look over there.

Felix and Christian are
building small figurines.

I love this over here. What's this?

Michalis has a plan out
of our new funfair.

Look at the elephant cycling.

What's this guy do this thing?

How wonderful to be able to
think of something like that

and then make it miniature.

I want to be in there.

LAUGHTER

But even I can't fit on
that Penny Farthing.

ELEPHANT ROARS

What are you making right now?

I build female figures...

Figures, yeah.
..figures with huge boobs.

Yes, the tiny, tiny, tiny,
huge boobs. Yeah.

WHISPERS: I think I'll step away.

Time for me to have a go.

Right. So I've got to try not
to get any black on the jeans.

I'm not succeeding too well,

but at least I can over paint
the jeans afterwards.

It's so delicate, this bit.

That's nice. That's lovely.

And now to become a part
of this wonderland.

This is the building
that we're in right now.

And if we lift the lid off,
there's our crew,

and this is me.

I found myself in some
amazing places this series.

I've travelled thousands of miles...

It's one of those beautiful
railway stations I've ever seen.

..through 18 countries...

Muchas gracias.

..on some of the world's most
incredible train routes.

From Europe's high-speed rail
to the Canadian wilderness...

..I've seen the best the
planet has to offer.

I've met some incredible people...

LAUGHTER

CHEERING

..and everywhere I've been,

they've welcomed me with
open arms and big smiles.

It's been one hell of a journey.

But now it's time to head home.

See you on a train sometime.