Where the hills were alive with the sound of my coughing

Tuesday to Friday morning last week I was in Salzburg. It was good. We hit a couple of the Christmas markets in the dark, going to the Residenzplatz one evening and to Hellbrunn the next, where H bought me a star decoration for our tree, a musical carousel, hot apple juice that burned my tongue [...]

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Linz Europe Harbour Festival, Day 3

It was the last day of the festival and we were now well into our groove: a bit of a lie-in, a quick update on the site and then down to the harbour on the bus, boarding through the middle doors so the driver didn’t see we didn’t have tickets. Off the bus and through [...]

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Linz Europe Harbour Festival, Day 2

It was Saturday and the festival started at 2.30pm, rather than 5pm – lots more music to fit in today! Like the day before we had mostly hot sunshine with some rain and while the sun shone I tried to stand in people’s shadows to give my sunburned shoulder a bit of relief. The trouble [...]

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Linz Europe Harbour Festival, Day 1

The first thing I did when I woke up the next morning was do a little update for the site with some photos from the street concerts. Like the obsessive good webmistress I am. About midday, when we’d had a bit of rest, gathered our thoughts and spread our belongings around the room and told [...]

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The Linz trip: in the right direction

We were stranded in Hallstatt. Suzy hurried back down the way we’d come in case any of the technical crew were still around with the equipment van. I waited where I was in the hope that someone might realise that two seats that were previously filled were now mysteriously empty and come back to get [...]

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The Linz trip: Hallstatt

Safely on board the bus with the band and a number of the forthcoming harbour festival’s guest musicians we travelled through the beautiful Austrian countryside to the next street concert location: Hallstatt. As we passed through Goisern, Hubert’s hometown, the girls sang a few apt local traditional gstanzls – just in case he’d missed where [...]

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The Linz trip: the first ten hours

So, Linz. On Thursday 2nd we got up at seriously? o’clock and flew from Stansted to Salzburg. I’ve done the trip a few times and was able to point out various landmarks to Suzy. Then when we landed I was able to show her the Gaisberg and Untersberg mountains. Which isn’t a great skill when [...]

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A good moment

Although most of you guys reading don’t really know who he is, I tend to be a bit coy when talking about my musician – no names, just pronouns perhaps – so that it’s more difficult for a personal anecdote I want to tell to be picked up by random Googlers. But this little story [...]

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