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I've caught up with blogging about the last seven years of my European adventures.
I’ve been catching up with the blogs on my website, sadly neglected for over a year, but now back in action. In fact, I’ve neglected it for longer than that, considering I hadn’t posted anything about my foreign travels since 2015, when I went on a trips to Italy https://wolfiewolfgang.com/it-was-all-mistake-my-three-inspiring/ and Portugal…
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Back to Lahti in September 2023
It was like coming home when I looked out of the window of the apartment in Lahti, just as it felt like leaving home when I said goodbye to the cottage in Virtaa, near the little town of Sysmä, after a week’s break in Finnish rural paradise (see previous blog). I’m a bit like that, I’m afraid. Like the old song, home is where you hang your hat. I’m exaggerating, of course, I have hung my hat in a…
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#Adrien M & Claire B#Alvar Aalto#Dalia Stasevska#holidays#Jari Litmanen#kung-fu#Lahti#Lahti FC#Lahti Symphony Orchestra#MALVA Lahti#Maria Dueñas#Ristinkirkko#Sibelius#Sibelius Festival#tai-chi
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Away from it all at the centre of all things in rural Finland.
It is early September in 2023, I am sitting in a rocking chair in a cottage, a converted 19th century log house, in a little village called Virtaa, 7.7 kilometres from a small town called Sysmä. The cottage is in the grounds of an old manor house, Virtaan Kartano, owned by Juhani and Tiina Stjernvall. It is a working farm for Juhani and Tiina, but for me, left to my own devices, just here to find…
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#common crane#Finland#Finland holidays#Forests in Finland#holidays#Juhani and Tiina Stjernvall#Juhani Stjernvall#Kymärintie#Lake Päijänne#lakes#Lakes in Finland#reindeer#reindeer cheese#River Tainionvirta Finland#rural Finland#sauna#Sibelius#Sysmä#Sysmä holidays#Tapio the forest god#Tapiola#Virtaan kartano#White Crane Kung Fu#wild swimming
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I'm a Berliner now
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#Alfred Döblin#Berlin#Berlin Alexanderplatz#Berlin art galleries#Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra#Berlin Wall#Berliner Philharmonie#Caspar David friedrich#CPE Bach#Elena Firsova#Frederick the great#Gerhard Richter#German artists#German Democratic republic#German holidays#German painters#Germany#holidays#JS Bach#Kreuzberg#Luftwaffe building#Martial arts#Potsdam#Prussia#Sanssouci#Shostakovich#Unification of Germany#Vladimir Jurowski#World War 2#Yefim Bronfman
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An Easter Meeting in Leipzig with JS Bach - 300 years on.
Even people who don’t think they like classical music know and even like at least some of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750). Those who love classical music are mostly in consensus that he was probably the greatest of all the classical composers. I certainly feel that he stands tall not just in the world of music, but in the world of human creativity too. I believe that we are all a…
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#architecture#Auerbach Cellar#Bach Haus#BachChor Leipzig#Buxtedude#Collegium Vocale Leipzig#Germany#Gewandhaus#Gewandhaus Orchestra#Goethe#JS Bach#Leipzig#Leipzig Opera House#Markus Kaufmann#Max Klinger#Mendelssohn#Mendelssohn Haus#Merseburger Hofmusik#Michael Schöheit#Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig#Nikolaikirche#Schumann#Schumann Haus#St John Passion#Thomaskirche
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Going to Georgia
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#best man speech#Caucasus Mountains#foreign holidays#Georgian Orthodox church#Georgian singing#Republic of Georgia#Soviet Union#stray dogs#Svetitskhoveli Cathedral#Tbilisi#Ukraine war#weddings
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Day Trip to Tallinn in Estonia
On the 7th September 2022, during the second week of my trip to Finland, I got a ferry across the Gulf of Finland, in the Baltic Sea, from Helsinki to Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia. From one country bordering Russia to another, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, another of its ex-Soviet neighbours. Not that long ago, if I’d been visiting Finland, I would have been tempted…
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#Baltic nations#Baltic Way protest#Estonia#Estonian independence#Estonian wine#freedom#Hanseatic League#Helsinki to Tallinn ferries#Jaan Kross#Russian borders#Singing Revolution#Soviet era Estonia#Tallinn#Ukraine
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Ainola, Finland - Jean and Aino Sibelius' place.
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#Ainola#classical music#Finland#Jean and Aino SIbelius marriage#music#Sibelius#sibelius 5th Symphony.
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