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quippeThe Blurb On The Back:
Time Out’s resident team helps you get the best from Europe’s quirky capital in this comprehensive guide. Along with detailed coverage of the Grand Place, the stunning new Magritte Museum and all the other major attractions. Time Out Brussels gives you the inside track on local culture, with illuminating features and independent reviews throwing the spotlight on everything from Belgian beer to Flemish rock.
Published in 2010, this is the 7th edition of the Time Out guide to Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges. I bought it for a weekend in Brussels and on the whole found it a fairly useful guide albeit not a great one. The book’s divided into different sections – one for each city – with each section divided into subsections for tourist attractions, restaurants, clubs and bars. There are also handy maps of each city that are easy to use and a Metro map for Brussels.
The Brussels guide is the largest section in the book and comprehensive in terms of things to see and places to eat. The suggestions of things to do were helpful and I found a number of places that I otherwise wouldn’t have gone to (including a comics museum). I also found the restaurants section helpful with plenty of choice to suit different budgets.
However the cinema section, despite offering up a lot of options, didn’t explain how to tell a subtitled English language film from a dubbed one and there wasn’t much information on navigating the Brussels tram network (which left me lost and confused more than once).
That said, it was helpful and I enjoyed reading the potted history of each city. For those thinking of a break to the area, it’s worth checking out.
The Verdict:
Although published in 2010, this was a useful guidebook with plenty of suggestions of things to see and places to visit although I wish there’d been a little more practical information on how to do certain things, e.g. if you want to see an English language film in the cinema. Still, it’s useful for those thinking of a break to the area and as such worth checking out.
Time Out’s resident team helps you get the best from Europe’s quirky capital in this comprehensive guide. Along with detailed coverage of the Grand Place, the stunning new Magritte Museum and all the other major attractions. Time Out Brussels gives you the inside track on local culture, with illuminating features and independent reviews throwing the spotlight on everything from Belgian beer to Flemish rock.
Published in 2010, this is the 7th edition of the Time Out guide to Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges. I bought it for a weekend in Brussels and on the whole found it a fairly useful guide albeit not a great one. The book’s divided into different sections – one for each city – with each section divided into subsections for tourist attractions, restaurants, clubs and bars. There are also handy maps of each city that are easy to use and a Metro map for Brussels.
The Brussels guide is the largest section in the book and comprehensive in terms of things to see and places to eat. The suggestions of things to do were helpful and I found a number of places that I otherwise wouldn’t have gone to (including a comics museum). I also found the restaurants section helpful with plenty of choice to suit different budgets.
However the cinema section, despite offering up a lot of options, didn’t explain how to tell a subtitled English language film from a dubbed one and there wasn’t much information on navigating the Brussels tram network (which left me lost and confused more than once).
That said, it was helpful and I enjoyed reading the potted history of each city. For those thinking of a break to the area, it’s worth checking out.
The Verdict:
Although published in 2010, this was a useful guidebook with plenty of suggestions of things to see and places to visit although I wish there’d been a little more practical information on how to do certain things, e.g. if you want to see an English language film in the cinema. Still, it’s useful for those thinking of a break to the area and as such worth checking out.
