Kurt of Gerolstein

- It is three years now since Jack and I started our ‘Eurokiwi’ adventure in New Zealand, by breeding both my trotting mares, Gwen and her d...

. Spring gives place to summer, and Gerolstein is a blaze of colour ... the gardens which Wendy tended during the winter are now bursting wi...

In forty years of attending musicals all round the world, I have been to the theatre in Christchurch just five times. Last night was the f...

. A month now I’ve been back at Gerolstein… A whole springtime month, filled with the usual kind of spring cleaning, and of course the sprin...

Silent scream. I have flown from Berlin, Germany, to Christchurch, New Zealand. It took me 42 hours from door to door. It was (with occasion...

. The Berlin season rose to its utmost height on Sunday. The occasion? ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Kurt!’, a banquet hosted by those celebrated Berli...

‘LIVIA DEGEROLSTEIN (2) sat behind the leader at Ballarat last start and didn’t finish too far from Bettor Give It, which followed a close u...

Last night, PGB and I visited the Deutsche Oper where I was covering the performance for Opera Magazine and Place de l'Opera . My revie...

. Even since my wonderful night out at the young musicians’ festival at the Konzerthaus, far too many weeks ago, I have been trying to find ...

. It’s taken me a whole ten days to brave entering another German theatre, after having witnessed the despicable murder of Die Blume von Haw...

. I haven’t been to more than three or four weddings in my life. And all few of them of the male-female variety. So it was quite sailing in ...

. Not my birthday. I’m not ready for another of those, just yet. My friend Ollie’s. And we celebrated with a nice wander around the heart of...

6 September, and out again on the racetracks of Australia goes little Livia, for her first race as a just-turned-three-year-old! And, goodne...

If Halle has turned out to be my own particular theatrical disaster area, my trip there was – prior to curtain time -- anything but a disast...

Last season, I made a trip to the town of Halle, to view and review a new musical entitled Poe . It turned out to be one of the few dozen mo...

Eleven o’clock on an autumnal Berlin night, and I’ve thrown off my shoes and am curled up with a pile of smoked salmon, an ice-cold bottle o...