Category — music

When saying “Würzburg”, I had absolutely no image forming in my head. Nothin. Emptyness. Grey spot. Not even blank, grey – no idea why.

Well, it was a very pleasant surprise. The first sight after emerging from the underground parking lot was this church

in this square

from where I randomly walked along this road

and then this road,

all very cozy, very colorful, but laid back, just like these people must feel enjoying a sunny day.

Stolen by the atmosphere, I got lost. Time for a map – asked for one at the first hotel I saw, and a kind gentleman gave it to me for free – getting a grip, I soon found the Residenz, apparently the largest palace in Germany, a UNESCO monument.

Monumental indeed, with a nice garden around it.

That being ticked, on to the next objective, fortress Marienberg – but on the way, time for a quick look inside the dome, where this interesting… candled ornament was posted at the entrance. To me it looks Hannukah-like.

Moving on, got to the river (Main), and to the fortress

which I admired only from downstairs, from the impressive Alte Mainbrueke – it was already too late to climb up.

On the way back

there was still time to discover some randomly spectacular church

and the famous university

The town impressed me a lot. It is accidentally beautiful in the sense that no matter where you go, you can accidentally find something to please your eye. Speaking of which, I found a suspect agglomeration of aesthetically pleasing-looking young ladies. Felt like in Romania. Probably the huge University is the key.

What stands for sure is that the grey spot for “Würzburg” is gone from my mind, with plenty of things on stock to replace it.

With that, on to the next planned stop, Leipzig.

The Romanian construction worker Costel Busuioc went to Spain as a guest worker 2 years ago. His colleagues on the construction site encouraged him to participate to a “Spanish Idol” type show, Hijos de Babel, made for members of international communities in Spain.

How it went you see below.

He is still in contest, after winning the first 6 shows he participated at. The last one below.

Contest is still running…

[later edit: he won.]

Guggenmusik is street music people play in the Carnival period in germanic areas of Europe. Bands have colorful costumes and masks; they play the songs just over the edge of being “right to the tune”, but skillful, so it doesn’t go astray. It is quite an entertaining sight. This one was in the Zurich railway station:

just found out about the marillion version of the song “wish you were here”. check it out and see what makes it special. i loved the idea.

my friend Nick pointed this out to me the other day. whether you close your eyes when listening or not, your choice. the video is nice too. i would try both variants. let nothing else matter, at least for a few minutes.

i found this song by chance, and it followed me through the last days of 2007. couldnt have enough listening. like a charm, it gets under your skin and then takes you off your feet:

[trilu-audio]http://www.trilulilu.ro/petreradu1/92cd6b2b7aa55a[\trilu-audio]

this is how i found TerniPe, a hungarian gypsy music band aiming to find and restore original gypsy music, “unaltered”. there are plenty of such songs - i found them on trilulilu.ro, the romanian version of youtube. search under “ternipe” in audio.

you find stuff like, for example, this:

[trilu-audio]http://www.trilulilu.ro/madimmc/d8e0ea9665c6bc[\trilu-audio]

here - check this out.

(http://romerican.com/2006/09/26/tariff-day-high-dukes/)

funny thing is… i kinda like this miauing dude’s song