Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1913

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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. A digitalised version of the 1866 edition of Bradshaw's handbook for tourists in Great Britain & Ireland Austria-Hungary, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Salzburg, Salzkammergut and Lehár Villa at Bad Ischl. Bradshaw's continental [afterw.] monthly continental railway, steam navigation & conveyance guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939. Special ed , Issue 222 1865 [LeatherBound]

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Portillo begins his journey in Palermo, capital of the Italian island of Sicily. Whilst visiting the Palazzo delle Poste government building he learns of its connection to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Portillo travels to the southern city of Agrigento, here he explores the ancient Greek Temple of Juno, the gateway to the Valley of the Temples. He then travels inland to Enna to visit the former Mafia stronghold of Gangi. In Syracuse, Portillo visits the controversial monolith - Monumento ai Caduti italiani d'Africa (Monument to the Italian Fallen of Africa). The final leg of the journey is to Mascali, to visit Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna. Portillo travels the Ferrovia Circumetnea narrow-gauge railway to take in the magnificent vistas around the volcano, before taking the Funivia dell'Etna cablecar to the summit. 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, 6ème

The Italian Job, Italian cars, fashion in Milan, Lake Como, Verona, the 'House of the Capulets', and the Venice Biennale art exhibition. 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. The planned destruction of Warsaw during the Second World War, Poland's national icon Frederic Chopin, the polonaise dance; Łódź - Poland's film industry; Poznań - the last steam-powered commuter train at Wolsztyn; Wrocław - Market Square, Wrocław's dwarfs, the National Rail Carriage Factory; Kraków - milk bar and the Trabant car. A pre- Cold War spy, the ' scandal concert' that caused a riot in 1913, the Habsburg imperial line across the Semmering Pass, Graz, the Lurgrotte Caves, Slovenia, an earthquake in Ljubljana, and cafe culture in Italy. 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.

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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] Fitzgerald, Percy (1890). The Story of "Bradshaw's Guide". London: The Leadenhall Press– via Google Books. Warning: include(ressources//NLG-ressources.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/snippets/runNLG.php on line 25 One of the world's oldest roller-coasters in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, the Øresund Bridge linking Denmark to Sweden, Vladimir Lenin, Lund, a smörgåsbord, a Highland Fling in Gothenburg, the Volvo, and Norway's heritage of plays, paintings and polar exploration. Bradshaw's Continental [afterw.] Monthly Continental Railway, Steam Navigation & Conveyance Guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939 [Hardcover ]

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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. 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.

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. 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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The third series had six journeys, in one of which Portillo went further afield to travel on the railways in modern-day Israel. Bradshaw's Continental [afterw.] Monthly Continental Railway, Steam Navigation & Conveyance Guide. June 1847 - July/oct. 1939 [Soft Cover ] Warning: include(): Failed opening 'ressources//NLG-ressources.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/snippets/runNLG.php on line 25 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. The fourth series aired in 2015. It took Portillo to Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, and Spain.

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. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference 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. Kay, Rost. D. (10 January 1874). "Who Invented Bradshaw?". The Athenæum Journal. No.2412. London: John Adams. p.95 – via Internet Archive. Chief Minister is Interviewed for Popular BBC Show" (PDF). HM Government of Gibraltar. 31 May 2013.