From the Swiss Alps to the shores of Lake Geneva. Caught up in a war zone with the Red Cross and rescued from an avalanche by a St Bernard puppy. Takes to the skies in a vintage biplane and tries watchmaking James Bond style. The Latvian capital, Riga, the Singing Revolution at a ruined 13th century cathedral in Tallinn, ice swimming, the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in Helsinki, and one of Finland's 180,000 lakes in Tampere. Basel, Zurich, the Alps, Lake Lucerne, and Europe's highest railway station at the top of Jungfraujoch.

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Bradshaw's continental [afterw.] monthly continental railway, steam navigation & conveyance guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939 , Volume 3 1859 [LeatherBound] Adams, Henry J. (17 January 1874). "Who Invented Bradshaw?". The Athenæum Journal. No.2413. London: John Adams. pp.126–127 – via Internet Archive. At the end of 2012, a new series, Great Continental Railway Journeys, was broadcast with Portillo using the 1913 edition of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide to make journeys through various European countries and territories, prompting two publishers to produce facsimiles of the handbook. A second series was broadcast in 2013. [13] Further series covered Asia, Australia and India.Bradshaw's continental [afterw.] monthly continental railway, steam navigation & conveyance guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939 , Volume 1 1847 [LeatherBound] The Spanish Civil War, the Balearic island of Mallorca, a 1912 vintage railway and a 1913 tram, a Catalan people tower, how to make paella, Antoni Gaudí, the Sagrada Família, and the art nouveau Palace of Catalan Music.

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And, just like the second Mrs de Winter says in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, “Some people have the vice of reading Bradshaws. They plan innumerable journeys across country for the fun of linking up impossible connections.” Guilty as charged.

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The fourth series aired in 2015. It took Portillo to Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, and Spain. They’re open seven days a week everyday of the year from 11h30 am to midnight –Covid was probably the first time Bouillon Chartier had closed since the war. You’ll find mainstays on the menu that would have been on the menu in Napoleon times; it’s not gastronomy that will blow you away, we just enjoy their towering plates of fries, the cheese, a massive dessert and the great people-watching. A Russian Orthodox choir, the country estate of Yasnaya Polyana (where Tolstoy wrote his masterpieces), Caspian Sea, Moscow, how to make pelmeni, Belorussky railway terminal in Moscow, the Romanov royal family, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Sanduny Baths, the high-speed Sapsan to St Petersburg, the Grand Hotel Europe, St Petersburg, the Nevsky Prospect, the Winter Palace, the Hermitage Museum, the first railway ever built in Russia, the village of Tsarskoye Selo and the Russian Revolution. Bradshaw's continental [afterw.] monthly continental railway, steam navigation & conveyance guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939 , Volume 1 1852 [LeatherBound] As of 2021, series 1-6 of Great Continental Railway Journeys have been released on DVD by FremantleMedia under licence from Boundless and the BBC.

Kay, Rost. D. (10 January 1874). "Who Invented Bradshaw?". The Athenæum Journal. No.2412. London: John Adams. p.95 – via Internet Archive. Fitzgerald, Percy (1890). The Story of "Bradshaw's Guide". London: The Leadenhall Press– via Google Books. Bradshaw's continental [afterw.] monthly continental railway, steam navigation & conveyance guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939 , Volume 3 1861 [LeatherBound] Great Continental Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo. [1] In the early series, Portillo explores the railway networks of continental Europe, but in later series he also ventured further afield. He refers to a 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, as he describes how the places he visits have changed since Edwardian times. The first series was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 2012, and the seventh series was first aired in 2020. Reach, Angus B. & Hine, H. G. (1848). The Comic Bradshaw: or, Bubbles from the Boiler. London: D. Bogue – via Google Books. (A satirical period view of Bradshaw's Guide).

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Lee, Charles E. (1961). "Farewell to "Bradshaw" ". The Railway Magazine. Vol.107, no.721. London: Tothill Press. pp.308–312. The Maserati sports car, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Carrara marble used by Michelangelo, Bologna, spaghetti bolognese, tagliatelle al ragu, and a high-speed boat trip across Lake Garda. Memoirs – Mr. George Bradshaw". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 13: 145–149. 1854. doi: 10.1680/imotp.1854.23931. The Italian Job, Italian cars, fashion in Milan, Lake Como, Verona, the 'House of the Capulets', and the Venice Biennale art exhibition. Now a lot has changed since 1888 and if you’re travelling from the UK for example, you won’t be catching a steamer from Newhaven to Dieppe anymore, but more likely, you’d get the Channel Tunnel over (although you can go somewhat old school by taking the Dover to Calais ferry). The trains around Europe won’t be old-world sleeper cars (unless you’re in Switzerland or you’re prepared to fork out for the Orient Express) but rather high-speed trains that cut the need for overnight journeys down to a matter of hours. You can however, still use your copy of Bradshaw’s to trace a historic route across the Continent because there are many historic places recommended in the 1888 guide still operating. Let’s highlight a few… La Crèmerie in Paris, 6èmeWagner, Leipzig, Braunschweig, beer, Hamburg, the model railway at Miniatur Wunderland, the rivalry between Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and his uncle King Edward VII at the Kiel Week yacht races, and how British yachtsmen spied on the German navy.