William L Shirers' Vienna
Shirer came to Vienna for the first time in February 1929 after a long stint in Paris and then summers in London and the French Riviera....
William L Shirer's Paris
Historian William L Shirer was born in 1904 in Chicago Illinois. He grew up in Cedar Rapids Iowa during the Coolidge years in a rural,...
Bird Song
Earlier this month I visited former SS training school Vogelsang about 60 west of Aachen Germany. The scale of the site is enormous and...
Take a bath !
The Imperial Baths in Trier are just one of the many attractions you will see on a 'Walking Through Time' tour. The baths are roughly...
Outbreak! September 1st 1939.
Today marks the outbreak of World War Two when Germany invaded Poland 77 years ago. War was not officially declared until the 3rd...
Cabaret Voltaire & Dada
Dadaism was an avant-guard art movement of the early 20th Century. It began in earnest during 1916 in Switzerland and was centred upon a...
Happy Birthday
Today is my birthday. I was thinking of some of the gifts I have received over the years which triggered off a memory of Haus Kehlstein -...
President George H W Bush 1981-1988?
Last week I read an article about the release from prison of John Hinkley Jr, the man responsible for an assassination attempt on Ronald...
Documentary - Berlin 1990 Techno Sound of Transition - review
https://youtu.be/Vv3a6G4ypoA Just finished watching a fantastic ZDF documentary on the Berlin techno music scene that flourished after...
Schloss Wewelsburg Review
Just got back from my first visit to Schloss Wewelsburg. I had first seen the Schloss in a 1997 BBC documentary - so my visit had been a...