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TRAVELLER
Austria
Dialling Code
+43
Currency
¤
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Belgium
Dialling Code
+32
Currency
¤
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Czech Republic
Dialling Code
+420
Currency
CZK
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Germany
Dialling Code
+49
Currency
¤
:
Hungary
Dialling code
+36
Currency
HUF
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Poland
Dialling Code
+48
Currency
PLN
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Slovenia
Dialling Code
+386
Currency
¤
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Switzerland
Dialling Code
+41
Currency
CHF
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All
Time Zone
GMT+1
Brussels
Belgium
Fly From
Berlin, Geneva, Liverpool, Lyon,
Milan (MXP), Nice, Toulouse
From the Airport
Taxi
A local taxi costs €45.
Train
Trains depart every 15 minutes. Tickets:
€5 single; €10 return.
Shop
Rose de Damas
Minutes from the
Grand Place, the Rose de Damas has delicious
sweetmeats, cakes and oriental patisseries
on sale. Sample your choice in the elegant
tearoom before taking home a packet or
two of pistachio cakes or almond chocolate
(19 Rue du Marché aux Herbes, tel: 02503
18 00, rosededamas.be).
Nick Haslam
Budapest
Hungary
Fly From
Berlin, Dortmund, Geneva, London
(LGW, LTN), Paris (CDG)
From the Airport
Taxi
A local taxi costs
HUF5,100–HUF5,400;
Train
Trains leave
Terminal 1 forWestern station.Tickets: HUF455.
Do
Buda Hills
Cool off by heading up into the
cool Buda hills. Hop on the Children’s Railway
(a train actually operated by children!), which
treks through the forest where there are
plenty of hiking trails. The best way to get
back down is via the chairlift on János Hill.
Carolyn Bánfalvi
Cologne
Germany
Fly From
London (LGW)
From the Airport
Taxi
The fare to Cologne is
around €27 and €40 to Bonn;
Train
S-bahn
trains leave for Cologne every 20 minutes.
Tickets: €2.60;
Bus
For Bonn, the bus leaves
every 30 minutes to one hour. Tickets: €7.10.
Eat
4 Cani della Citta
(61 Benesisstrasse, tel:
0221 257 40 85) Lively from breakfast until
late, 4 Cani della Citta is one of the city’s prime
alfresco grazing spots, with a grandstand
view of the passing shoppers, pizza and pasta
staples for less than €10 and a cosmopolitan
selection of daily specials.
NevilleWalker
Dortmund
Germany
Fly From
Barcelona, Budapest, London
(LTN), Majorca, Thessaloniki, Zagreb
From the Airport
Taxi
A local taxi costs
€22;
Bus
The AirportExpress leaves every
hour. Tickets: €6.
Drink
Eiscafe Losego
(33 Rheinische Strasse)
Delicious, home-made Italian ice cream that’s
worth the short walk west of the Dortmunder
U. The Losego family has invented many
special flavours over the years; try the chilli-
chocolate or the poppy seed with marzipan ice
creams.
Jeroen van Marle
Dresden
Germany
Fly From
Basel-Mulhouse
From the Airport
Taxi
A local taxi costs €20;
Train
Catch the S-Bahn to Dresden, which runs
every 30 minutes. Tickets: €2 single.
Shop
Sachsenmarkt
Every Friday,
local farmers and tradesmen set up the
Sachsenmarkt in Lingnerallee from 8am to
5pm to sell everything from vegetables to
baked goods, spices, fish and snacks to eat
while you take in the atmosphere.
Toby Crowley
Düsseldorf
Germany
Fly From
Basel-Mulhouse, London
(LGW), Rome
From the Airport
Taxi
A local taxi costs €20;
Train
Trains to Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof leave
every 10–15 minutes. Tickets: €2.40.
Do
K21
Düsseldorf’s former parliament
building is a stunning space for large-scale
contemporary art and until January 2013,
the exhibition Big Picture II is a chance to
see some of the K21 museum’s biggest
installations, focusing on roles, identity and
the self (K21 Ständehaus, kunstsammlung.de).
NevilleWalker
Hamburg
Germany
Fly From
Basel-Mulhouse, Manchester,
London (LGW, LTN)
From the Airport
Taxi
The journey to the
city centre takes 20 minutes and costs €22;
Train
S1 S-Bahn trains run from 4.29am until
midnight; and from 7.30am at the weekend.
Eat
Ono
(17 Lehmweg, tel. 040 8817 1842)
Having made his mark along the Elbe with his
eponymous eatery, noted local chef Steffen
Henssler has now branched out with another
Nippon-centric outpost, this time along the
willow-flanked Isebek Canal in Hoheluft.
NevilleWalker
Krakow
Poland
Fly From
Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Liverpool,
London (LGW), Paris (CDG)
From the Airport
Taxi
A local taxi costs
PLN80;
Train
Trains leave every 30 minutes for
Austria
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Belgium
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Czech
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Germany
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Hungary
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Poland
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Slovenia
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Switzerland
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