MUSIC – The significance of Leipzig is so much more than the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Here in the mid-18th century, as Cantor of the Thomaskirche, Bach composed most of his music. We enjoy listening to the students of the University playing the Bach organ (newly constructed to replicate the identical musical tones as …
You might say that we are privileged to receive keys of the city during our special sightseeing tour in Dresden today. My old friend, Fr Frank introduces us to another of his ‘colleagues’ from his years in the seminary. Fr Christian is a local man, not only well-versed and ready to explain all about this …
apoleon was defeated here in 1813, but Eddy and I march on! I first met long-time Swiss friend Eddy in 1972. We were in a seaplane flying to an Amex meeting at Kawau Island on the North Island of New Zealand. Now, forty-six years later, we are meeting-up with other Amex friends in Leipzig, Germany. …
Thessaloniki is the second city of Greece. We all ask ourselves how this very lively spot on the Aegean Sea seemed to be off our radars for so long. What brought us here to northern Greece were two archaeological sites not far from Thessaloniki, at Vergina and at Pella. As we soon discover, …
n a region of almost inaccessible sandstone peaks, monks settled on these ‘columns of the sky’ from the 11th century onwards. We left the cruise this morning. After getting through the morning traffic of Athens, we headed straight up Highway 1 to the east coast town of Lamia, on the Aegean Sea where we stopped …