MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Hi Jung,
thanks for your great travelogue of S-Korea ( as I suggested: publish your travel memoirs and they will be read ????).
In Korea’s major cities, are the street and building signs actually bilingual, meaning Korean and English (or at least Latin characters)? If I would ever travel there (maybe in combination with Japan), would I have a chance to find my way around there? A friend of mine travels to Japan (Tokyo) frequently for work and told me that as a European it is not so easy to get oriented there (because of the own fonts).
Yes, high-speed trains have sophisticated pressure systems on board so that passengers’ ears don’t ring when they pass through tunnels. Italy’s version of the FRECCIAROSSA (“RED ARROW”) automatically hermetically closes all ventilation openings and door seals shortly before the tunnel passage, then generates a slight overpressure and the passengers hardly feel a thing during the tunnel crossing.
By the way, you wrote: “They have quite the music scene in Seoul these days”. Can’t you introduce a nice piece of Korean music here? Maybe folklore or something modern. I like Asian music (well, maybe not everything, but most of it). I would be very interested in what you particularly like and it fits wonderfully here to the topic Wanderlust.
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The Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti was even inspired to write a sonata by his cat’s walk on the harpsichord. At the beginning of his „Cats fugue” you can hear every step.
PS: Mozart also composed a duet in 1790 in which he let a cat have its say: “Nun liebes Weibchen, ziehst mit mir”, roughly translated: „Now dear female (young lady), move with me“.
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Oh boy Jung, three things immediately come to mind:
1st: the record cover scares me
2nd: never heard of that
3rd: Ted Nugent who’s that guy?
PS: a little-known fact is that cats are extremely gifted piano players. Here, for example, Nora The Piano Cat at one of her concerts
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Supposedly, the song by Pink Floyd refers to Syd Barrett’s Siamese cat Sam. But it is only a rumor I read. JP if you read this, maybe you are better informed, thanks.
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Hi Jung,
I apologise for my late reply. There are delays not only on the train, but also in real life… 🙂
I feel the same way as you: I have many fond memories of my childhood when it comes to trains (and model trains). If you are really going to travel through Canada by train in the foreseeable future: don’t forget to send us photos. Or better, still a short video clip. Thanks also for the nice steam locomotive video (“I’ve been working on the railroad”). Steam locomotives are bursting with raw power.
By the way: Have you ever travelled through Korea by train? I imagine it would be very impressive. Are there actually high-speed trains in South Korea, like the Shinkansen in Japan? Unfortunately, I haven’t found any useful railway videos of South Korea, but I would like to present some beautiful impressions of this enchanting country (that is definitely worth a trip) and its capital Seoul. So sit back and enjoy.
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Maybe not one of the best Kinks songs and what does the song want to tell us (?), well… Big cat-secret
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I haven’t listened to “The Cure” for a long time. So it’s a good reason to let the Love Cats out.
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This type of cat is not quite as cute, but it can sing beautifully:
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Hi Jung,
these swinging cats can’t be missing on International Cat Day ????:
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Hi Jung,
I’ve been thinking for a while what I can think of specifically about August (and what it means to me). Surprisingly very little (that rarely happens to me 🙂 ). Except maybe that the weather is fine, oh yes and the following song:
PS: I better not bore you with the summer holidays in Germany. 16 federal states and 16 different dates that change every year. When can I drive where without getting stuck in a holiday traffic jam? Yes, our bureaucracy makes even August exciting.
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Hi David,
thanks for the wonderful song by The Seekers. I listened to some of their songs in all the years and all the time without ever knowing who wrote this music, so I wanted to get a CD. Can you recommend me an album of the band? Otherwise I would just order „The Very Best“ of now. I especially like this song:
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Hi Jung,
I saw the musical Cats many years ago in Hamburg. The song „Memory“ is wonderful and also the idea to dress the actors as cats is very original. The dance performances were good as always, but I think Cats is maybe not the best musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. I personally found The „Phantom of the Opera“ more impressive.
And of course we should not forget the XXL-Cats (or do they have their own National Day?):
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Hi Diana,
you were definitely faster than me. I first thought of Love Cats and then I thought: Well next can follow the Stray Cats…????
…how about this?…
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Hi Michael,
thank you for your feedback. Country Road is a timeless and beautiful song. A little longing, a little wanderlust and a lot of feeling.
I became aware of Chad & Jeremy’s music by chance. I liked the song “A Summer Song”. Do you know the musicians better and can you recommend an album by them?
