Archives for 2011

Piracy Museum

Located in the Castillo de Santa Barbara overlooking Teguise, the Piracy Museum (Museo de la Piratería) is not an easy place to visit.

For a start, the advertised opening times are either inaccurate or just plain wrong. When we visited in October, they were advertised for Sundays as until 3pm in winter and 2pm in summer. As it happened, the castle was open until 2.30pm, with the last entry about 15 minutes before that.

Castillo de Santa Barbara near Teguise, Lanzarote
Castillo de Santa Barbara near Teguise

The road up to the castle closes 30 minutes after the museum itself. And care should be taken when driving along that road as it is narrow, with a sharp drop either on one or both sides. Especially just before the museum closes, drivers tend to race up it to try and get in – only to find that the time advertised at the bottom of the hill is the closing time of the road, and that they are too late.

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Victorian Christmas – Konzert in München

Am 22. Dezember 2011 findet um 19Uhr ein Konzert im Schloß Nymphenburg in München mit dem Titel “Victorian Christmas” statt.

Das Ensemble “Passion des Cuivres” wird traditionelle Weihnachtsmusik aus der victorianischen Epoche auf historischen Blechblasinstrumenten spielen, sogar in Kostümen des 19. Jahrhundert und mit Kerzenbeleuchtung.

Zusätzlich werden die englischen Weihnachtstraditionen erklärt, zum Beispiel wie der Weihnachtsbaum in England eingeführt wurde und warum erst am 25. gefeiert wird, anstatt am 24.12. wie in Deutschland.

Die Musiker sind Ross Clarke (Kornett), Chris Seddon (Kornett), Steffen Launer (F-Horn, Althorn), Bernhard Meier (Posaune), Erhard Schwartz (Ophicleide) und als Gastsängerin Ursula Schulze (Sopran).

Eine Hörprobe finden Sie online unter: http://bit.ly/vaOq8m

Für alle, die sich für englische Traditionen interessieren, wird das sicherlich ein einzigartiges Erlebnis.

Passion des Cuivres - Foto © Passion des Cuivres

Passion des Cuivres (Foto © Passion des Cuivres)

Violence in the Taunus area

Oberursel's town hallSeveral weeks ago a visitor to the town hall (Rathaus) in Oberursel attacked the people working there with a knife.  Only a day later I read that it was believed an attack  might take place at a grammar school in Frankfurt.

It’s not that these things don’t happen in Germany, but these two were too close for comfort – I even had a meeting the very next day at the town hall to attend!

It made me wonder if this sort of violence was on the increase.  Were these one-off attacks or threats?  I often read the local news and even the police press releases and can’t remember anything on quite this scale for a long time.

And yes, it worries me. [Read more…]

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