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I placed my pack in the corner, sat on a stool, dripped sweat on the bar and drooled as I eyed up the beers on offer. The barmaid smiled, …
KOGOJ MUSEUM Marij Kogoj, a pupil of Franz Schreker and Arnold Schoenberg, was the leading representative of Expressionism in Slovenia. By ancestry half Italian, he was born in Trieste, …
Your Personal Online Reputation There’s plenty at stake when it’s a company that gets bad reviews or suffers something of a social media meltdown, but how about an individual? …
MELNGAILIS MUSEUM On the road between Limbazsi and Vidrizsi, some 60 km north-east of Riga, lies the village of Igate, where the parish school in which Emilis Melngailis was …
A few pilgrims sit on the banks, dipping their feet in the crystal waters shaded by trees. I have booked in at the Albergue Los Caminantes, a few paces …
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN MUSEUM Abbess, visionary, mystic, writer: Hildegard of Bingen was a composer but always as an adjunct to her religious vocation. She was born in Bermersheim, about …
HERSCHEL MUSEUM William Herschel may be best remembered as the astronomer who in 1781 discovered the planet Uranus, but by profession he was a musician. For more than 30 …
JEZEK MUSEUM A stone’s throw from the Charles Bridge, on the right bank of the Vltava river in the Prague Old Town (Stare Misto), is Kaprova Street. The composer …