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HANGING UP YOUR BOOTS There comes a point in every hiker’s journey when it’s time to hang up your walking boots and shuffle off to the even bigger hills …
JORA MUSEUM In the Rosetti family museum at Tescani-Bacaeu, best known for its connections with George Enescu, one small room is devoted to the memory of the Romanian composer …
KIENZL MUSEUM The Austrian opera composer Wilhelm Kienzl was born on 17 January 1857 in a first-floor room of a 16th-century inn in the small market town of Waizenkirchen, …
Grunts and mutterings echoed about. I asked for the GPS. I do have one of these units, which over the past two years I have used for a total …
HASSE MUSEUM The most successful composer of mid-18th-century opera seria, Johann Adolf Hasse, was born in 1699 in Bergedorf, a small town 18 km south of Hamburg. His father …
KEISER MUSEUM The quiet little village of Teuchern, about 50 km south of Halle and 45 south-west of Leipzig (the nearest town is Weissenfels, 12 km away off the …
HANDEL MUSEUM The large middle-class house at the sign of the Yellow Stag’ in Halle, behind the Liebfrauenkirche, close to where George Frideric Handel was born on 23 February …
Oh, you re here! That’s Great Wood and that’s Bignor Farm! Crossing the road, within minutes I was back in secret woods I pretended no-one else knew about. Sometimes …