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For some people, they love wine, and some like mixed drinks, and for others, it’s all about the beer. With the addition of craft beer becoming popular, many people …
GOLDMARK MUSEUM Deutschkreutz is a small town in Burgenland, in that border region (to which Liszt’s birthplace at Raiding also belongs) that has never been quite sure whether it …
GOLDENWEISER MUSEUM The Moscow flat once belonging to Aleksandr Goldenweiser (or Gol’den-veyzer) is very much a time capsule documenting an era in Soviet musical life: one that centred on …
CLOTHING Gone are the days when you could hike the hills in a tweed jacket and matching trousers, with socks that came up to your armpits. These days, never …
GRETRY MUSEUM Tucked away in a quiet little street in a quiet part of the Outremeuse district of Liege is the timber-framed brick house in which the Belgian maestro …
LENNON MUSEUM It is impossible to visit Liverpool without being reminded of its connection with the Beatles. Arriving by air, you land at John Lennon Airport (so named in …
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 …
GRUBER MUSEUM The best-loved composer in the Salzburg region? To judge by the number of museums, there can be only one possible answer: Franz Xaver Gruber. On Christmas Eve …
NATIONAL GRID This has nothing to do with walking underneath electricity pylons, but is a system of identifying a specific location on a map to within 100m (328ft). It …
ERKEL MUSEUM Gyula, in the south-eastern corner of Hungary, close to the Romanian border, makes the most of the accident of birth that led to its being the native …