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…
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…
Today, we will provide you with more suggestions for easy walks in the Lahn area of central Germany. Towns in this part of the country tend to be small, and their green spaces quickly blend into the surrounding countryside. Which is why even in town centres, you will never have to look long and hard…
If you have been in Nizza at any time during the past three years, you will have noticed that large sections of the city appear to be under construction. The various building sites across the town centre are all part of the Nice Tramway Line 2 project, the east-to-west line designed to complement the T1…
There is no longer any such thing as an “undiscovered” bit of Italy. Entire libraries have been written on the major sights and places, while even small villages produce thousands of hits on a Google search. There are still, however, parts of Italy that do not get the attention they appear to deserve, that are…
Scars, as a rule, do not make human faces prettier but can make them more interesting. The same mechanism is at work in towns and cities. Many modern cities with long histories bear the scars of old catastrophes in their townscapes: we can still see where the structure of London was altered following the Great…
In certain – generally rather expensive – restaurants, they offer you what they call a menu de degustation: which means that rather than feeding you properly with meat and two veg, they show you a little of their art, teasing your taste buds with one bite of this and two bites of that and indicating…
Ready for more “Cologne through the prism of its Romanesque architecture”? All right then, here we go. This week, we shall visit six more early medieval churches, now turning our attention to the southern half of Cologne’s Old Town. We will walk through some pretty and picturesque streets with much local atmosphere, making sure that…