Paul Merton in Europe

Paul Merton journeys across Europe on a discovery adventure. Beginning in Germany, he meets the leader of a political movement known as `The Apple Front', before enjoying a `chess boxing' match in a Berlin sports hall. Next, he meets a specialist in the dying art of giant bunny breeding, and samp...

Paul visits an American Indian Club in the former GDR before exploring the Wunderland miniature railway in the affluent city of Hamburg. The next leg of the journey is the Republic of Ireland, starting in the `rebel' county of Cork. Paul meets a solicitor called Colin who dreams of competing as a...

Paul resumes his journey in Ireland with a stop to witness the unusual sport of road bowling. Near the lunar landscape of the Burren, he drops in on Father Ted's house, before visiting a remarkable Brazilian enclave. In Dublin, Paul meets an enterprising pair who are selling Irish dirt to America...

Paul heads to Milan to see how the city's twin loves of football and fashion have fused together with the notion of a footballer living in a department store. He also watches a violent game of medieval football before meeting a group of men who have shed their macho image by learning housework. I...

In France, Paul meets show jumpers who perform without horses, hears from a playwright who lived in a zoo with a panda and learns the bittersweet story of a heartbroken graffiti artist. In the region of Champagne, Paul discovers that boundary changes could make some locals very rich indeed.

Paul travels to Spain, where he encounters a former monk who has spent the last half-century building a gigantic church single-handedly. At a bullfight, he witness a spectacular display of acrobatics that leaves the animal in one piece, before crossing paths with a fearless adrenaline junkie. Els...