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Denise and Nela sat down at a coffee place on the St Stephens Square in Vienna, they spent a good hour or more plotting our next day of the Great European Adventure.  I wondered around and found this young gentleman playing an especially nice rendition of ‘Hallelujah’ by Leonard Cohen. He was very good, but…

Entry 19 The father of written history was Herodotus.  When the author Ryszard Kapuscinski wrote his definitive work Travels with Herodotus, he said: “Everyone colors after his fashion, brews up his own melange of reminiscences.  Therefore, getting through to the past itself, the past as it really was, is impossible.  What are available to us are…

Some street musicians work really hard but still can’t attract a crowd.  Took this shot in the St Stephen’s City Center in Vienna.  He was pretty good, maybe his selection of music wasn’t that great and no one stopped to listen.  Vienna, Austria.

I will continue my writing on the story of Flanders Music soon. It is not that I am tired of it or that I am experiencing a block of some kind. It is more that I need to compose a section on how I felt when my grandpa died. I want to dig into what…

Some street musicians have a harder time carrying around their instrument. Photo taken in the busy and beautiful city center in Prague Czech Republic. There was so much to see and do in the city center and then you hear a piano playing. We enjoyed Prague immensely.

On a guided walking tour of Belgrade we came upon this gentlemen.  We were at the Beograd Fort, sitting on a defensible cliff on the Danube, and we were in the tunnel leading out of the fort.  This musician was playing classical music on a nylon stringed guitar in the tunnel.  He was very good…

Some Street Musicians start when they are only 12 years old.  She was an excellent violinist.  Both Mom and Dad were standing just out of the pictures.  She would beg them to take her to this famous lookout just before sunset because she liked to practice in front of people.  I talked with her parents…

This one reminds me of how proud I am of my sister Bonnie for teaching in one of the most diverse schools in Michigan.  Hooray for my alma mater.

Some street musicians play a Czech brand of bluegrass on a bridge completed in 1402 crossing the Vltava River in Prague.  Prague, Czech Republic.  A famous place to see while in the ancient city of Prague.  These musicians were set up almost at the end of the bridge.  They were pretty good and it always…