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BOATS BOATs are not the sections of footpaths that cross water. They are Byways Open to All Traffic, more simply referred to as ‘byways’. In other words, it’s every …
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LIVADlC MUSEUM
LIVADlC MUSEUM You can’t easily miss the composer Ferdo Livadic if you visit the Croatian town of Samobor, just a dozen kilometres west of Zagreb, close to the Slovenian …
PREJAC MUSEUM
PREJAC MUSEUM Gjuro Prejac (1870-1936) was not just a composer but also a singer, choreographer, scene designer, librettist, actor and mime. One of 16 children of a schoolteacher in …
Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail Map
GEAR UP AND GO THE OUTDOOR GEAR SHOP Welcome to the place where even dedicated hikers find themselves bluffing at times. Outdoor gear shop assistants fall into two categories: …
OBRETENOV MUSEUM
OBRETENOV MUSEUM As a well-known composer of Bulgarian choral songs and the founder and conductor of the first Bulgarian professional mixed a cappella choir, Svetoslav Obretenov (1909-55) occupies a …
TOSCANINI MUSEUM
TOSCANINI MUSEUM Toscanini? It is as a conductor, of course, that he is remembered. But as a young man he composed too, and the sites in his native Parma …
LUNDSTEN MUSEUM
LUNDSTEN MUSEUM The houses of Ralph Lundsten, the Swedish electronic music pioneer, are museums in the making. Born in 1936 in the small northern village of Ersnas, 15 km …
LYUDKEVYCH MUSEUM
LYUDKEVYCH MUSEUM The widow of the Ukrainian composer Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych (1879-1979) still lives in their house in L’viv, near the border with Poland. A leading figure of his …
MARINKOVIC MUSEUM
MARINKOVIC MUSEUM Novi Becej is in the Vojvodina region of Serbia, some 120 km north of Belgrade. Just outside it, in the pleasant village of Vranjevo, the composer Josif …
LIVADlC MUSEUM
LIVADlC MUSEUM You can’t easily miss the composer Ferdo Livadic if you visit the Croatian town of Samobor, just a dozen kilometres west of Zagreb, close to the Slovenian …