Product Description

The fast-growing short-break travel market has been fuelled by the "Eurostar experience", making regular trips to the continent a delight. This new Bradt travel guide to Paris, Brussels and Lille by rail is a compact manual to the best each city can offer the short-stay visitor, covering landmark attractions, gourmet restaurants, shopping and many little-explored and even bizarre corners. Additional information is provided on Waterloo station and its surrounding attractions for travellers passing through London. The multitude of tips on making the most of Eurostar services will save the traveller far more than the cover price of this chock-full-of-facts guide and Laurence Phillips' highly personal angle on each city makes for an original and entertaining handbook.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #368462 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'Laurence Phillips guides you round a city with the infectious enthusiasm of a best friend sharing his closest secrets' Peter Nunn, BBC Radio Five Live

Independent on Sunday
'Smart Guide ... Essential Reading'

The Canada Post, December 2001
'Ever varied, sometimes surreal and always unexpected ... informal anecdotal style.'

Customer Reviews

This book is my new best friend
Just returned from road testing this book in Paris and found it to be absoutely spot on. We found ourself visiting bars and cafaes and even museums that we must have passed a dozen times before, and discoverting a genuinely local welcome in the big city. The hotel listings are fabulous, the food reports astute and the insiders' perspective is invaluable. I lent my copy to a fellow passenegr on the TGV train home, who told me that the Lille pages were just as accurate. All I have to do now, is plan my next trip at my leisure. Buy this book. You will save the over price on your first day's eating, shopping or partying.

I laughed out loud
It is a long time since I have enjoyed a travel book so much that I laughed out loud. However, I have found myself smiling and chuckling on the metro each day since I picked up this hugely enjoyable read. The author provides us with plenty of invaluable tips on where to go and how to get there, with hundreds of restaurant and site reviews. But the great thing about this book is that everything has been tried and tested by one man, and he is a man with a top sense of humour and a fund of hilarious annecdotes about his fellow diners and visitors. I have worked in Paris for many years and I recognise so many of my favourite places in his stories and listings. Yet this fellow Englishman seems to know of many absolute treasures that have been hidden under my nose for years. I cannot wait to try more of them. I might even treat myself to a visit to Brussels, on the strength of his suggestions. An enjoyable read and a genuine key to any city.

An Excellent Guide
I haven't used this guide in Brussels, but in both Paris and Lille it came up trumps and saved itself the cover price on the first day in each city -- don't even consider taking the Eurostar without it. Practical, informative, detailed and listings which are mind-bogglingly comprehensive: all in all an excellent guide.