【3】 Crowds of twenty thousand traveled to watch. It was so exciting. And the Oxford was clear winners. Later on, not only did the students from the two universities take part, but also some social groups attended the event. By 1845, with the small town becoming too crowded,the boat ...
Mozart died when he was still a young man. During his short life he studied music, taught music, played music and wrote music. Even by working so hard, he couldn't make much money. Often he had to borrow money from his friends. But his music made him happy, and for more than two...
Now I am in Salzburg,Austria.The quiet hills of Austria are great places to relax.The movie The Sound of Music was filmed around this area.I can enjoy the view of the mountains and the river from my hotel window.Mozart,the famous musician,was from here.So there ...
My vacation to Hawaii was simply incredible for so many reasons! While I have traveled safely all over the world I found that my visit to the Hawaiian islands was idyllic due to the friendly residents and simplicity of the accommodations. While I arrived in my vacation to the six islands in...
Mike Mozart // Flickr 1987: Chiquita frozen juice bars Chiquita monkeyed around withparlaying its popular fruit—bananas—into frozen juice bars. The company went so far as to invest $30 million in the project, which was quickly shelved. ...
Austria Highlights:Listen to choirs in Vienna’s Imperial Palace Chapel • Discover the houses where the world’s greatest composers, such as Schubert, Strauss, and Haydn, lived and worked • Experience the opera in Mozart’s Salzburg • Visit the house where Beethoven composed during a tou...
Once upon a summer, my son—who was four at the time—and I traveled to the beautiful City of Light. Paris! It was magical by day. Jumping up and down on the second level of the Eiffel Tower as we tried to count the moving spots that were people, 115 meters down (377 feet). Th...
A free bus takes me one-third of the distance back to Portorose and I walk the rest of the way, along the glorious waterfront, to the station where I wait for the bus (flixbus.com) that will bring me back along much of the route I first traveled, back to Marco Polo International Ai...
Roger W. Smith's writings: personal essays and reminiscences; views; literature; culture; day to day jottings; people and places.