Showing posts with label Habsburgs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Habsburgs. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

BOOKS OF MY LIFE: "If you have ever wondered why marrying your uncle is inadvisable, the Habsburgs can enlighten you."

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I'll be purchasing this one. Indeed, it sometimes seems as if my entire motivation for traveling in Europe has been to track down t...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

12 Days of Slovenia & Trieste (Part 12): A free state of Trieste?

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Photo credit: "The Free Territory of Trieste." We look at all these lines on a map and forget how ephemeral they can be. The ...
Monday, December 02, 2019

12 Days of Slovenia & Trieste (Part 9): Chasing the ghost of Maximilian in Trieste.

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It's not hard getting from Lake Bled to Trieste using public transportation, but the schedules don't quite measure up to optimal ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

ON THE AVENUES: My Franz Ferdinand heritage trail, 30 years ago in Sarajevo.

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ON THE AVENUES: My Franz Ferdinand heritage trail, 30 years ago in Sarajevo. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. Today's column is...
Monday, August 14, 2017

30 years ago today: (April 30) A return to Vienna.

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At  Schönbrunn Palace . Previously: 30 years ago today: An April interlude in Interlaken and the Swiss road to Vienna. --- Day 15 ....
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Make that 102 years.

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History. It just refuses to end. "Sophie, Sophie, don't die! Stay alive for the children."
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Author Frederic Morton has died. I recommend these two books written by him.

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The 11-year history of this blog contains numerous references to Vienna, and also to my fixation with the 19th- and 20th-century history ...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

"Sophie, Sophie, don't die! Stay alive for the children."

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This is the image that started it all for me. It shows the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and his wife, exiting the town hall in S...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Zweig ... again.

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In January, I reviewed Stefan Zweig's three lives in a three-part review of "The World of Yesterday." 1. January 25 2. Ja...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Part 3: The World of Yesterday, by Stefan Zweig; three lives in a three-part review.

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3. With the Great War passed, Austria fatally diminished, and the postwar inflationary period finally behind him, Stefan Zweig is in the p...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Part 2: The World of Yesterday, by Stefan Zweig; three lives in a three-part review.

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2. The onset of World War I provides the first challenging transition in Stefan Zweig’s comfortable, predictable Viennese world. One lifet...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Part 1: The World of Yesterday, by Stefan Zweig; three lives in a three-part review.

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1. These days, Stefan Zweig’s name seldom appears in lists of important 20th-century writers, and yet between the two world wars, he was p...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

The European Union, the Habsburg Monarchy and my nightstand.

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"Downton Abbey's" okay, but quite unexpectedly in 2012, the history and legacy of the Habsburg dynasty again became a theme wi...