BY ALEX STORY Standing at the top of Salzburg’s thousand‑year‑old fortress on a sunny day, facing south into the heart of the Alps, one sees the Nonntal below, nearly at one’s feet. In spring, it is lusciously green. There, in fact, sang the nuns of The Sound of Music, their chanting still echoing enchantingly across the landscape. The Nonntal is split in two by the AlmKanal, a … Continue reading A Fresh and a Ripe Pair
BY ALEX STORY Austria is beautiful, Vienna magnificent. The Habsburg dynasty’s signature is everywhere: elegant, impressive and yet humble and welcoming. It is no surprise then that every January there takes place the Technical Ball, one of the world’s most elegant. In the grand halls of the Hofburg, the former imperial residence, nearly four thousand guests meet to dance as couples. She will wear a … Continue reading Dancing in Austria
BY ALEX STORY Sicily, Goethe once wrote, is the key to everything. Italy, then, is the door which that key opens. The country is peppered with towns and cities filled with historic treasures. Amazingly, given her tumultuous history, much of Italy’s inheritance, artistic, architectural and civic, lives and breathes. In Trieste a two-millennium old theatre sits comfortably next to a Mussolini era municipal building. Turn … Continue reading Travelling in Italy
