Category: Music

• Vienna – let’s waltz!

  

  A museum of the waltz king Vienna invites you to dance into a museum dedicated to Johann Strauss, creator of the Blue Danube Waltz, and his family. But there are also plenty of other places for fans of the waltz king to visit, from his apartment to his final resting place. Only Vienna could do…

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  July 25, 2019

  Architecture, Austria, Culture, History, Music, Vienna

• USA – Red Rocks and a Mile High City

  

  Denver has been the subject of many songs by famous artists especially native son, the late John Denver, but my fave is by Jimmy Buffet: I’m about a mile high in Denver Where the rock meets timberline  I’ve walked this ground from town to town  Just to finally call it mine Dating back to the…

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  July 16, 2019

  Accommodation, Beer, Beverages, City sights, City stays, Coffee, Culture, Heritage, marijuana, Music, National Parks, Rural and regional Australia, Short stays, Travel, USA

• The State I’m in!

  Or how I love old cinemas, eccentric architecture and overwrought decor. Shame on you 1960s through to 1980s in Sydney. Just tore down old buildings willynilly to ‘modernise’ the city. And as the bricks tumbled, down came more than 20 old-style, elegant cinemas in Sydney including the Roma, Lido, Lyceum, Regent, Palace and sadly on…

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  October 16, 2018

  Architecture, Australia, City sights, Culture, Heritage, History, Music, Vintage views