Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1913

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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.

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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. 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.

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 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. Memoirs – Mr. George Bradshaw". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 13: 145–149. 1854. doi: 10.1680/imotp.1854.23931.

Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide (full edition)

Basel, Zurich, the Alps, Lake Lucerne, and Europe's highest railway station at the top of Jungfraujoch. Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W. J. Adams of London. George Bradshaw initiated the series in 1839. The Bradshaw's range of titles continued after his death in 1853 until 1961. [11] [12] Television series [ edit ] Adams, Henry J. (17 January 1874). "Who Invented Bradshaw?". The Athenæum Journal. No.2413. London: John Adams. pp.126–127 – via Internet Archive. Literary Gossip". The Athenæum Journal. No.2409. London: John Adams. 27 December 1873. p.872 – via HathiTrust. 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 was born at Windsor Bridge, Pendleton, in Salford, Lancashire. On leaving school he was apprenticed to an engraver named Beale in Manchester, and in 1820 he set up his own engraving business in Belfast, returning to Manchester in 1822 to set up as an engraver and printer, principally of maps. [2] 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. 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. It is his belief as a Quaker that is quoted as causing the early editions of Bradshaw's guides to have avoided using the names of months based upon Roman deities which was seen as "pagan" usage. Quaker usage was, and sometimes still is, "First month" for January, "Second month" for February and so on. Days of the week were "First day" for Sunday and so on. 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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Milligan, Edward H. (2007). British Quakers in Commerce & Industry 1775-1920. York: Sessions Book Trust. p.61. ISBN 9781850723677. Lomax, E S, "Bradshaw, the Timetable Man", The Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol II, N° 9 and 10 (Sept-Oct 1975), pp.2–10 and 13–16, ill (extremely well-researched, contains the fullest list of Brashaw publications) Bradshaw's continental [afterw.] monthly continental railway, steam navigation & conveyance guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939. Special ed , Issue 222 1865 [LeatherBound] Chief Minister is Interviewed for Popular BBC Show" (PDF). HM Government of Gibraltar. 31 May 2013. Kerr, Michael (9 November 2012). "Bradshaw: the man behind the guide". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 2 December 2013.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 Bradshaw's Continental [afterw.] Monthly Continental Railway, Steam Navigation & Conveyance Guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939 [Hardcover ] Leighton, John (1906). "Early Railway Guides: A Retrospective". Chambers's Journal. Vol.9 (6th Series). London: W. & R. Chambers. pp.774–777 – via Google Books (access restricted outside United States). A digitalised version of the 1866 edition of Bradshaw's handbook for tourists in Great Britain & Ireland The Acropolis, moussaka, baklava, Greek financial crises, the 1896 Summer Olympics, a boat trip through the Corinth Canal, Delphi, the Oracle, the Little Train of Pelion, the village of Milies, the Greek Orthodox Church, and the 1913 assassination of George I of Greece