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Cirque Arlette Gruss
By Englishman - Last updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
While their demise continues almost everywhere else in the western world Circuses still live on in France. Nowhere could this be more evident than in Strasbourg this week under the Big Top (“The Cathedral”) of the Cirque Arlette Gruss. Indeed, their giant installation sitting just adjacent to the N4, on the fringes of the Jardin des Deux Rives, is hard… Read more…
Strasbourg Philharmonic sports concert
By Englishman - Last updated: Monday, March 26, 2012
Yesterday was the first time, in the six years that I have been living around the corner from Strasbourg’s Palais de la Musique, that I had the opportunity to attend a performance by the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Arguably it was possibly not the most ideal way to gauge the talents of the hundred or so musicians, that make up Strasbourg’s… Read more…
Round the houses with CAF and The Council
By Englishman - Last updated: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
I have in my hand a piece of paper. An attestation. Again. My heart sinks just thinking about it, not just because we went through the same thing last year, but because this attestation, that is supposed to be the end of the story I know will be far from that. This piece of paper is just the latest shot… Read more…
What’s in a knack?
By Englishman - Last updated: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Beef and Pork apparently – though exactly which bits remains a mystery. The Vienoise sausage on the other hand (or Wiener if you prefer) contains Veal and Pork – though exactly which bits also remains a mystery.
Brutalist or Minimalist?
By Englishman - Last updated: Thursday, October 27, 2011
The recently published plans for Strasbourg’s Place du Chateau have caused some discontent among the locals. Set between the southern facade of the Cathedral and the main entrance to the Palais Rohan, the Place du Chateau occupies an area bigger than the Cathedral itself. Until recently this not insignificant public space was, unbelievably, a pay and display carpark; notable only… Read more…
A new home for Strasbourg’s International Tennis Tournament
By Englishman - Last updated: Friday, May 20, 2011
The organisers of Strasbourg’s International Tennis tournament have finally seen sense and moved the event to an iconic location in the heart of the the city’s Euro-district. Previously, the WTA clay-court competition, intended as a warm-event to the French Open at Roland Garros, was hosted on a site on the outskirts of the city in the lamentable and inaccessible suburb… Read more…
