“If we don't end war, war will end us.” -  H. G. Wells Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and showcase your creat...

“I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, ...

“As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attaina...

“If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.” ― Katy Elizabeth Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and ...

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” - Oliver Goldsmith Welcome to the Travel Tuesday...

“Wer rastet, der rostet. Literal translation: “He who rests grows rusty.” - German Proverb Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every...

“There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university, a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who p...

“If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.” - Johan Huizinga Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday an...

“In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in ...

“You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.” - Donald Rumsfeld Welcome to the Travel T...

“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when ...

“Berlin, the greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine.” — David Bowie Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tu...

“Germany’s fascinating. It’s a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.” - ClaireDanes   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join m...

“We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have a...

“April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances” ― Matsuo Bashō   Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (c.1656 – Augu...

“Graupner is one of those unfortunate victims of fate and circumstance - a contemporary of Bach, Handel, Telemann, etc., who has remained...