Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1913

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The first series was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 2012. Portillo made five separate journeys across France, Germany, the Low Countries, Switzerland, and the countries whose land made up the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bradshaw Legacy". Bradshaw's Guides. UK: Old House Books & Maps. Archived from the original on 17 September 2013 . Retrieved 24 August 2013. 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.

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The Mediterranean coast, Meres Lyonnaises, the omelette, the Palais de la Bourse, the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot, tandem cycling, the Tour de France, light aircraft, Avignon, the lavender fields of Provence, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Arles, the mistral and supertankers. 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. From the Mediterranean port of Tangier to the Berber city of Marrakech. Michael visits Fez, and then heads to Casablanca and the desert city of the Berbers; he then travels to a souk, finally arriving in Marrakech. From the Italian Riviera to the Austrian Alps. Michael visits remote villages of the Cinque Terre, then heads to Parma. Next up is the Alps, stopping off in Rovereto and ending at the Brenner Pass, home to one of the world's longest rail tunnels. 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 and Conveyance Guide. June 1847 - July/oct. 1939 The third series had six journeys, in one of which Portillo went further afield to travel on the railways in modern-day Israel. The Vespa, the Spanish Steps, Naples, Portici, Mount Vesuvius, pizza, the island of Capri, Reggio Calabria, Messina, the ancient hilltop town of Taormina, and Mount Etna. 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.

Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide (full edition) Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide (full edition)

The fourth series aired in 2015. It took Portillo to Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, and Spain.Gadsby, John (1885). "Bradshaw". Notes and Queries. London: John C. Francis. 11 (6th Series) (262): 15–16. ISSN 0029-3970– via Internet Archive. Rivington, John (1883). "Bradshaw's Railway Guide". Notes and Queries. London: John C. Francis. 8 (6th Series) (186): 45–46. ISSN 0029-3970– via Internet Archive. Grand Hotel du Louvre (Paris). This is Paris’s original “Grand Hotel,” the first large luxury hotel in France, the Grand Hotel du Louvre opened in 1855–just in time for the International Exhibition. It boasted some 300 richly decorated rooms, but in 1888 it had just been renovated, so guests were treated to an updated look. Coincidentally, the hotel is temporarily closed from January 2023 till some point this spring for yet another renovation. Maybe it’ll be a bit different to the hotel experienced by a Bradshaw traveller, but hey, it seems renovation and change was a thing even then. Kerr, Michael (9 November 2012). "Bradshaw: the man behind the guide". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 2 December 2013.

Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide (full edition)

Basel, Zurich, the Alps, Lake Lucerne, and Europe's highest railway station at the top of Jungfraujoch. Adams, Henry J. (17 January 1874). "Who Invented Bradshaw?". The Athenæum Journal. No.2413. London: John Adams. pp.126–127 – via Internet Archive. Guilcher, G. (2001), "Les guides Bradshaw (Londres et Manchester 1844-1939), notes bibliographiques", Lettre du Marché du livre (in French), Paris, no.79, pp.6–9 This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Former British politician Michael Portillo used a copy of what was described as a Bradshaw's guide (the 1863 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland) for Great British Railway Journeys, a BBC Two television series in which he travelled across Britain, visiting recommended points of interest noted in Bradshaw's guide book, and where possible staying in recommended hotels.The port of Rotterdam, the windmills of Kinderdijk, pottery in Delft, The Hague, plant auctions in Haarlem, cycling in Amsterdam, and the main hub of the Dutch railway network in Utrecht. Wagner, 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. He married Martha Derbyshire on 15 May 1839 and they had six children. While touring Norway in 1853, he contracted cholera and died in Kristiana (now Oslo) on 6 September, a mere 8 hours after first showing symptoms of the disease. [5] As a local law prohibited the return of his body to England, he was interred in the Gamlebyen cemetery, about a mile from Oslo Cathedral. His gravestone is on the left by the gate near Oslo hospital. [6] [7] [8] [9]