William Shakespeare is arguably the world’s greatest writer, but he is also literature’s great man of mystery. We know almost all of his plays and poems, but little of the man himself. Unusually for a man of letters, we do not know his “philosophy” and where he stood on the great issues of the day…
Paris, as we have documented many times, has practically everything that makes a city worthwhile visiting: great art, great food, great history, even – believe it or not – great one-day hikes. More than enough of the latter, in fact, to fill nearly a whole website. Considering all that, it feels almost rude to voice…
Our final word from last month’s Slow Travel Fest in Tuscany, and we have deliberately set today’s walk apart from the other posts. For two reasons: firstly because the Sentiere Elsa is only incidentally linked to the festival’s central themes (of drilling deep into your holiday destination instead of merely skipping over its surface), through…
After last week’s long, hard slough through Vienna’s musical history, today we will be offering you something completely different. A short Vienna walk which is as short as it is sweet – in the spirit of 19th century concerts where it was not at all frowned upon to round up the performance of a serious…
In this week’s trip around Vienna City of Music, we shall leave the Austrian capital’s city centre and stay on its periphery before we branch out, encountering different faces of residential Vienna. As always on these city walks, you should keep your eyes open – there is much to discover. All large cities – not…
If Paris is the City of Light, then Vienna must be the City of Music. Every day, the Austrian capital hosts music performances for 10,000 people – and a grand total of 15,000 musical events per year. But Vienna is the City of Music in another way, too. There is no other place on earth…
Slow Travel, as we told you last week, may involve a lot of hiking, but there is more to it than that. Another key imperative is to take not only your physical self on the journey you are undertaking, but also your mind. Translated into every-day terms this means that the challenge is to take…
“Slow Travel”, above all, means to explore your destination at a speed which is natural to the human species. The human mind did not evolve to process impressions when hurled along at the speed of a car or a coach. So if you want to give your travel experiences a chance to penetrate the mere…
You probably have heard about the concept of slow travel. If so, you will have a broad understanding of its principles. After all, up to a point, the movement’s name is self-explanatory: if you intend to “travel slowly”, don’t rush. Take your time and take it easy. So far for general principles. It is a…
Budapest and Vienna have a lot in common. The two cities share a lot of (Imperial) history and architectural influences … … but there is one big difference: the Danube, which is said to bypass Vienna rather than “flow through it”, lies very much at the heart of the Hungarian capital. The Danube also divides…