What Fills My Plate

Greetings, and Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to you! Another short blog posting! We visited Vienna a weekend ago, took in the Christmas market, and walked to find some interesting sites.  I wanted to show you something that many people miss, as they either do not follow classical music or know that in the Vienna cemetery the people of Vienna have placed the burial sites of all of their famous composers,  Beethoven to Brahms to the Strauss family and more , they are all there together in once place.  What I did notice and want to mention is that when you are in Vienna you will find that the tourist industry and the city really push Mozart's  name.  You can buy t shirts, mugs, pens, napkins, chocolates, etc., all with Mozart's  name on them.  Mozart's house is a big item to see.  Beethoven lived in several different places in Vienna, but you won't see much about this.  What I did see was a big difference in people's actions towards the two...

Sad news for Starbucks fans!  Another year will pass before the lines grow outside of the new Starbucks in Milano.   The latest information is that it will open in 2018.   If my calculations are correct, this will be a total of two years of renovating a building and furnishing it with the usual Starbucks furniture.   Devotees must be getting very uptight about the delay.   Collectors of those countrified coffee cups have dusted their shelf in anticipation.   Do you know that those cups grow in value and are traded on Ebay?   This whole trading thing began with baseball cards decades ago.   A minor exageration. When we were in Spain we noticed that they used toilets which are the same in America.   Nothing like making things look “corporate style”.   How can it take so long to refurbish an old building?  I think it was previously the post office in Milano.   Whoever owns the franchise to that Starbucks must be beating h...