Paris - Lille - Brussels: The Bradt Guide to Eurostar Destinations [Paperback]

Laurence Phillips (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2002 | Series: Bradt Travel Guide

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'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

From the Back Cover

This book contains almost 1,000 reviews and listings: hotels, from chateaux to cozy attics; restaurants, cafes and bars loved by the locals; museums and sights, from the classic to the offbeat to the bizarre; bargains! journey upgrades, half-price hotel rooms and some serious shopping; nightlife - with gentle suggestions for the morning after; Waterloo and the Thames; the best hotels, restaurants, sights and attractions, just a short walk from the Eurostar terminal; Eurostar travelers' guide: the low-down on bargain tickets, services and facilities - on board, en route and on arrival; fast-track directions from the station to all addresses. All this plus learn to tango in a chocolate shop, sleep in Gothic splendor under the flying buttresses of a 16th-century church or sip green tea and have a Turkish bath in the mosque where a Hollywood goddess married her prince. (5 1/4 x 8 1/2, 384 pages, illustrations, maps)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides; 1st edition (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841620459
• ISBN-13: 978-1841620459
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,937,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #66 in Books > Travel > Europe > Belgium > Brussels

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, a great read!, February 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Paris - Lille - Brussels: The Bradt Guide to Eurostar Destinations (Paperback)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is my new best friend, December 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Paris - Lille - Brussels: The Bradt Guide to Eurostar Destinations (Paperback)

Just returned from road testing this book in Paris and found it to be absoutely spot on. We found ourself visiting bars and cafes 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 must have a dozen guide books to France, but this is, without doubt, the most candid and passionate. I never felt as thougb I was being prushed or processed through the tourist traps.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where has this guy been hiding, April 10, 2003

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This review is from: Paris - Lille - Brussels: The Bradt Guide to Eurostar Destinations (Paperback)

Having spent a busy weekend sightseeing, shopping and eating in Lille thanks to this amusing and shrewd guidebook, I have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone else travelling in France and Belgium. The book had all the information we needed for using public transport, getting to know the locals and seeing the sights without ever making us feel like hicks or gawping visitors. We will be in Paris this Easter and have already chosen our hotels and at least two restaurants from the same book. Does this guy write about anywhere else? If he knows other cities like he knows this one, I want to read about it.