Time Out Shortlist Barcelona

Features gastronomic goldmines from five-star restaurants like Ferran Adrià's El Bulli to hole-in-the-wall tapas bars. Highlights the best wineries, hiking, beaches, and skiing outside the city.

Time Out Great Train Journeys is a selection of forty of the world's best train journeys, from nostalgic steam lines to state of the art high-speed locomotives. Beautifully illustrated and written with passion, it will appeal to dyed-in-the-wool enthusiasts, but also reaches out to a new generation of train travellers, both actual and armchair.

Features gastronomic goldmines from five-star restaurants like Ferran Adrià's El Bulli to hole-in-the-wall tapas bars. Highlights the best wineries, hiking, beaches, and skiing outside the city.

Annotation Madrid emerges from several years under wraps to reveal its new facelift. Streets have been prettified, boulevards swept through and transport untangled. This in addition to its perennial attractions, whether your interests lie in spectacular opera productions or chirpy folkloric zarzuela; in cutting-edge cuisine or ancient, tiled tabernas; in designer-shoe shopping or mooching around flea markets. Put together by journalists resident in the city, Time Out Madrid also covers the artistic jewels housed in the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia, as well as the etiquette of watching a bullfight or joining in with a flamenco performance, plus where to stay and how to escape the city heat.

Our expert local authors introduce Barcelona's past and present with their trademark appreciation of contemporary culture and in-depth coverage of the city's architectural and artistic treasures. The guide provides insight into the most compelling attractions and listings that are bang up to date with cafes, restaurants, shops and the pick of venues to visit after dark.The book's easy to use format, suggested itineraries, selected listings, coverage of main sights and detailed mapping make it the perfect pocket-sized companion for a visit to the city.

Following on from the bestselling "1000 things to do in London," "1000 Things to do in Britain" roams far and wide beyond the capital to bring you a unique guidebook to this incomparably unique island. The features include castles and kayaking, sculpture gardens and snorkelling hotspots, white sand beaches and white-knuckle rides, cider orchards and stately homes. Covering the length and breadth of Britain, it takes in both life-changing experiences and simple pleasures, with ideas for every budget. You can go wild camping on Dartmoor, or be pampered in a luxury spa; forage for your supper, or take afternoon tea in Park Lane; ride along a deserted beach, or go wild in the crowd at a festival. Packed with ideas from unusual takes on well-known attractions to once-in-a-lifetime experiences to everyday pleasures - many of them absolutely free.

Time Out's resident team helps you get the best out of the capital of carnival, giving you the inside track on local culture plus hundreds of independent venue reviews. As well as covering visitor essentials, Time Out Rio de Janeiro shows you the best places to sunbath e, shop, samba and (if you really have to) sleep.

Time Out's Shortlist guides offer all the usual visitor information, presented in a way designed to take you straight to what you're looking for: reviews of the classic sights and venues in area-by-area chapters, maps with all the entries pinpointed, customised itineraries and visitor basics, all illustrated with inspiring photography. To help you make city-wide choices, they include critical and useful venue selections in a variety of fields u our Shortlists.