LAND OF QUEENS, KINGS AND KAISERS
"MARIA-THERESIA dominates the museum square"
"KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM - The most fabulous collection of paintings from Brueghel, the Oldest, one of my favourites painters"
"PARLIAMENT - Not so relevant in Theresia's times"
"DAS RATHAUS - Definitely a nice place for a Mayor to work"
"BURGTHEATER - From an unused dance-parlour to a National Theater"
"VOTIVKIRCHE - Up to the Sky"
"HOFBURG - Emperor's Home"
"BURGGARTEN - Just a small part of the Kaiser's garden"
"STAATSOPER - Home to great conductors: Mahler, R.Strauss, Walter, Furtwangler, Böhm, Karajan..."
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Monday, May 29, 2006
AUSTRIA - TIROL - AUGUST 1975
STROLLING AND SINGING
LIECHTENSTEIN - Crossing the Swiss border - Schengen "avant la lettre"
ARLBERG - Before the building of the tunnel
ST.CRISTOPH - Singing in the rain
INNSBRUCK - Goldener Adler Hotel - Home to celebrities
INNSBRUCK - "Goldenes Dachl" - The lodge of Maximilian the 1st
INNSBRUCK - Mariatheresienstrasse with a view of the northern mountains
LIECHTENSTEIN - Crossing the Swiss border - Schengen "avant la lettre"
ARLBERG - Before the building of the tunnel
ST.CRISTOPH - Singing in the rain
INNSBRUCK - Goldener Adler Hotel - Home to celebrities
INNSBRUCK - "Goldenes Dachl" - The lodge of Maximilian the 1st
INNSBRUCK - Mariatheresienstrasse with a view of the northern mountains
Saturday, May 27, 2006
MORE SWITZERLAND - AUGUST 1975
CONTINUING THE DISCOVERY
LUZERN - The bridge before the great fire
LUZERN - Enjoying the pleasures of the lake
INTERLAKEN - Land of the Jungfrau
LAKE THUN - Another beautiful lake
MONTREUX and LAKE LEMAN - Beautiful Promenade
GENEVA - The Memorial and the Lake
GENEVA - The beach is on the left, from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m.
LUZERN - The bridge before the great fire
LUZERN - Enjoying the pleasures of the lake
INTERLAKEN - Land of the Jungfrau
LAKE THUN - Another beautiful lake
MONTREUX and LAKE LEMAN - Beautiful Promenade
GENEVA - The Memorial and the Lake
GENEVA - The beach is on the left, from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m.
Labels:
Geneva,
Interlaken,
Lake Leman,
Lake Thun,
Luzern,
Switzerland
Friday, May 26, 2006
SWITZERLAND - AUGUST 1975
Thursday, May 25, 2006
NORTHERN PORTUGAL - AUGUST 1975
JUST MARRIED!
"VIANA DO CASTELO - SANTA LUZIA"
"BRAGA - BOM JESUS"
"DOURO - The vineyards of THE GENUINE PORT wine"
"VISEU - Home of Grão Vasco and the Dão wine"
"VISEU - This was a TRAIN!?"
"COIMBRA - University - Law school"
"COIMBRA -This was also a TRAIN, crossing a main avenue"
"VIANA DO CASTELO - SANTA LUZIA"
"BRAGA - BOM JESUS"
"DOURO - The vineyards of THE GENUINE PORT wine"
"VISEU - Home of Grão Vasco and the Dão wine"
"VISEU - This was a TRAIN!?"
"COIMBRA - University - Law school"
"COIMBRA -This was also a TRAIN, crossing a main avenue"
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
LONDON SUBURBIA - AUGUST 1974
"OXFORD - With hundreds of years of history, you call it «suburbia» ?"
"OXFORD - Choose your College: from the outside, all look alike"
"STRATFORD-UPON-AVON - Too much ado about nothing"
"GREENWICH - Margot's follower, on a Pina Bausch choreography..."
"GREENWICH - Always on time"
"Portuguese M/S FERREIRA/MARIA DO AMPARO, aka Cutty Sark"
"KEW GARDENS - Nice place to rest"
"HAMPTON COURT - Said to be the greatest palace in Britain. That's probably the reason why Henry 8th took it from the original owner - Archbishop of York"
Labels:
Cutty Sark,
Greenwich,
Hampton Court,
Kew Gardens,
London,
Oxford,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
United Kingdom
Monday, May 22, 2006
LONDON - AUGUST 1974
THEY ALWAYS RETURN...
"HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT - Difficult equilibrium!"
"TRAFALGAR SQUARE - Contemplated by Lord Nelson, despite his well known Nelsonian Blindness"
"PORTOBELLO ROAD - Saturday market"
"PORTOBELLO ROAD- one man show"
"NOTTING HILL - Many years before JULIA ROBERTS, but it would have been much better with her"
"BUCKINGHAM PALACE - Changing of the Guard - Sunday morning tourist trap"
"HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT - Difficult equilibrium!"
"TRAFALGAR SQUARE - Contemplated by Lord Nelson, despite his well known Nelsonian Blindness"
"PORTOBELLO ROAD - Saturday market"
"PORTOBELLO ROAD- one man show"
"NOTTING HILL - Many years before JULIA ROBERTS, but it would have been much better with her"
"BUCKINGHAM PALACE - Changing of the Guard - Sunday morning tourist trap"
Saturday, May 20, 2006
LONDON - OCTOBER 1973
THE START OF ALMOST FOUR THOUSAND HOURS FLOWN
"Penta Hotel entrance. Departure for discovery"
"Oxford Street - It's always rush hour"
"Strolling through Regent, Picadilly and Trafalgar"
"Tourists and Shoppers, no comments"
"King's Road - thirty-two years before José Mourinho and Chelsea F.C. win the Premier League"
"Care for some speech? Hyde Park, Speaker's corner - John..."
"Penta Hotel entrance. Departure for discovery"
"Oxford Street - It's always rush hour"
"Strolling through Regent, Picadilly and Trafalgar"
"Tourists and Shoppers, no comments"
"King's Road - thirty-two years before José Mourinho and Chelsea F.C. win the Premier League"
"Care for some speech? Hyde Park, Speaker's corner - John..."
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