Visiting the Floorball Champions Cup in Gävle in early January 2019, I selected the Scandic hotel group outpost at the edge of the host city as the stay for my reporting. The hotel is located quite nicely if you need a stop on a longer trip – but I never had it before for a longer stay. Here is a review.



Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst – Location
Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst is located right at Trafikplats Gävle Väst, where the motorways E4 (Stockholm – Northern Sweden) and E16 (to Falun) meet. Thus, it is very popular amongst transit travellers.
Despite this location, there are not too many services around. A gas station is close to the next E16 exit. Typical motorway facilities like a MAX burger store are rather at the Southwestern edge of the city.
Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst – Rooms
The single room I booked via Expedia was about 2,800 SEK for three nights, which is equivalent to 265 Euro. Breakfast was included in the rate.
The room was comparably small, but very clean. At least, you had plenty of storage and power plugs. The bed was quite spacious and there was a reasonably sized TV. A very funny item was the map of the Scandinavia.

The bathroom with shower had a reasonable size. The shower is at the same level as toilet and sink, which is a typical Scandinavian design. However, the floor was not too wet after showering. The vanity mirror was a bit too oddly placed, though.


Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst – Breakfast / Restaurant
Breakfast times are very important for my plannings – and the ones at Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst feel to be really weird: during all days of my stay, breakfast was served from 6:30to 9:30. This is the time from Wednesday to Sunday. However, on Monday, this is shifted by half an hour – 7:00 to 10:00 Really weird, Tuesday breakfast is from 8:00 to 11:00 – so if you are on a transit, this can really lead to trouble.

Breakfast had a nice selection, though. The hotel states that you can select of 150 different items – this may be less than it reads, but really gives some nice variety. As warm dishes, there was rice pudding and oatmeal, scrambled eggs, bacon, beans and sausage. The hotel also offers a nice selection of different kinds of breads. There is a separate buffet of gluten-free, vegan and other special dietary products. For a drink, there is the hotel bar, which I did not test.



Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst – Services
The WiFi in the room was very good. The only somehow questonable feature was that you had to re-login every 12 hours. At least you did not need to re-enter any credentials. The room service was fine However, after the first night, I had a single instead of a double blanket without asking for it. The reception staff was very helpful as well.
Next to the reception, there is a small shop where you can buy some snacks, sandwiches, drinks and travel items. You can also grab cutlery there and make use of a mcrowave oven. The hotel also features a gym and a pool with sauna. The gym is compact and could be very crowded in case sports teams are around. During my stay, the hotel was full of sports teams. The pool is comparably tiny, but charming and the whole pool and sauna area is very reasonable and clean. There is also a ladies sauna on request.






Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst – My View
I have to be honest: Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst might not be I would favor to stay in for a intensive-workload sports tournament like the Champions Cup. It is a bit too cozy and uncomfortable for that. But on the other hand, it is clean, has a nice breakfast and even the small pool and sauna area. Thus, at least for transiting (this is where I used the place for in the past), it is definitely a good option. And if you get a rate similar to the one I paid, you definitely have a good deal and a very fair value for money.
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A lonely place with North Sea view (or, at least, a bit of that) - doesn't sound too bad, does ...
Apart from several stays around the terminals, Frankfurt Airport nowadays features four airport hotels with direct walk-in connection to Terminal ...
Located right at the River Rhine, the Hyatt Regency is one of the most iconic and also one of the ...
I had the first night of my June 2021 trip to the Emilia-Romagna region right in the South of Lombardy, ...
At the end of an interesting trip in June 2021, I stayed at the Mercure Hotel Hannover (Hanover) City. I ...
In mid June 2021, I again had a night in Hamburg. As I was aiming to come back late from ...
The reason why I decided to go to Graz in July 2021 was a hotel. Or to be more precisely: ...
The hotel situation at Cologne / Bonn Airport used to be quite bothering. There used to be a single hotel ...
There are these moments in my traveler's life where I just feel I have to go for a certain thing ...
An attack into enemy grounds? You simply see that I am not a Mallorca expert at all based on this ...
For a trip to Lower Saxony in early June 2021, I needed a stay in Hanover / Hannover close to ...
Most of the flights from Germany to Dubai lead to an arrival time in the United Arab Emirates at about ...
Port Soller or Port de Soller is named to be one of the most beautiful places on Mallorca. The trip from ...
There is always (mostly?) a second chance at Flyctory.com: After I haven't been too pleased with my first ever IntercityHotel ...
At the beginning of June 2021, I had a trip to Northern Germany. Apart from two nights in Hanover, I ...
When people visit the United Arab Emirates, they typically think about Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The more I got into ...
Trying to get (a bit) back to normal. The Covid-19 regulations at that time allowed me to have a (relatively) ...
At the end of my December 2020 trip to Dubai, I indulged myself with a very special overnight: for two ...
Just before I boarded the Nightjet Single Deluxe compartment from Rome to Munich in summer 2020, I had a night ...
Visiting some places around Utrecht and aiming for a relaxing weekend in the Netherlands, my wife and I had a ...
There are just a few hotel stay reviews left which I haven't covered on Flyctory.com yet after overnights became practically ...
For my two day summer stage to Venice, I had one night at the Hotel Abbazia in the heart of ...
The limited travel intensity during summer and fall 2020 lead to some interesting budget travel opportunities. During a trip to ...
A historic style hotel, driven by Hilton and located in the heart of a heritage district of Dubai? The idea ...
In late September 2020, I felt to explore the region of Arnhem, majorly in order to explore some of the ...
Even though my first night of my December 2020 trip to Dubai has been significantly shorter than expected due to ...
Hard to believe - but when I selected the Santa Catalina, a Royal Hideaway Hotel, in Las Palmas for my ...
I had a couple of overnights in Frankfurt during 2020, some of them motivated by rail trip connections. In October ...
During August 2020, my wife and I took a trip to Rotterdam and The Hague / Den Haag. Due to ...
Due to a late rail arrival at Munich Central Station, I looked for an overnight opportunity around the central travel ...
I haven't been to too many hotels which are featured in own wikipedia articles in my life. One stay, at ...
Due to the early departure of an ECE 451 ride from Frankfurt to Milan in September 2020, I looked for ...
I arrived in Salzburg late before I had the Alpen-Sylt-Express night train ride from Salzburg to Sylt the day after ...
Doing some local attractions in the Papenburg region like the huge Meyer Werft shipyard, the Dat Otto Huus in Emden or ...
After I had a lovely stay on my Four Countries, Four Trains trip in the Hilton Milan and this was ...
Before Germany went to a lock-down of touristic travel in November 2020, I had a short trip to Munich. For ...
For a stay in September 2020, I tested the Hilton Garden Inn Munich City West for two nights, Friday to ...
After having a couple of hotel reviews from nearby cities Dusseldorf and Bonn already, I felt it was a huge ...
Spending the weekend in a hotel dedicated to chocolate? Does not sound too bad, doesn't it? When my wife spotted ...
The first "real" night of my Four Countries, Four Trains trip to Italy in summer 2020 lead me to Milan. As ...
I would say that the opening of the Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Terminal 2/3 has been one of the ...
On a trip from Cologne to Northwest Germany in early October 2020, I was looking for an overnight in the ...
After we visited a couple of hotels in Bonn, we finally wanted to check out the only five star one ...
As I delayed some reviews after I saw that Covid-19 will have a significant impact on us and our travel ...
Right before I departed in Frankfurt on day 1 of my Four Countries, Four Trains trip in summer 2020, I ...
Holidays close to home? Not just due to Covid-19, I felt it to be more and more attractive to have ...
In order to have a more comfortable (and longer) sleep, I decided to go for a night at the ibis ...
I could not react any more when finally the C2C Country to Country in London 2020 had been cancelled. Thus, ...
As I had couple of Spain and Portugal trips planned for summer 2020 and all have been cancelled due to ...
During a July 2020 trip through the Netherlands, I had two nights at the NH Collection Hotel Eindhoven Centre, right ...
IntercityHotels are a quite interesting joined venture of the German Rail System (Deutsche Bundesbahn, which was a fully state-driven company ...
Arriving at Munich Main Station by rail at 22:00, grabbing a rental car there at 8:00 (earliest possible time during ...
After my wife and I stayed at the wonderful beautiful Vliegtuigsuite, we visited the safari park Beekse Bergen near Tilburg ...
With the Covid-19 situation easing and travel restrictions more and more lifted, I was happy to have a trip to ...
For my June 2020 stay in the Salzburger Land / Berchtesgadener Land area, I decided to go for two nights ...
Fancy a round of golf in the Lake Constance area? The reason why I chose the Golfhotel Bodensee ("Golf Hotel ...
The last night of my Lake Constance trip in May/June 2020 was at Constance. I did not went for one ...
On my Whitsun 2020 trip to Lake Constance, I made a stop en route - due to the Covid-19 regulations ...
Some of my hobbies are travelling, civil aviation incl. historic planes and hotels - so having a plane which has ...
During my 2020 tour following the Pittsburgh Penguins on their West Coast away matches, the only hotel I had multiple ...
A business trip to the Northwestern tip of Paris' central area lead me to the 17th Arrondissement. I had never ...
On the last full day in America on my trip following the Pittsburgh Penguins on their 2019/20 West Coast away ...
Visiting Brett Eldredge's and Lauren Jenkins' final show of their January 2020 European tour (here are reviews of their Amsterdam ...
Visit my Finnish favorite SB-Pro Nurmijärvi for two home matches in January 2020, I was looking for a reasonable priced ...
As I had a really good experience at Motel One Glasgow, apart from severe internet problems, I was really looking ...
In early January 2020, I had a British Airways Mileage Run, flying from Cologne/Bonn to Gatwick and then spending a ...
Helsinki Airport is nicely staffed with airport hotels: the GLO Hotel is located right inside the terminal building, two more ...
After one night in Homestead, I had three additional nights at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Green Tree during my ...
New Year's Eve at Abu Dhabi - as we could not really decide whether we should go for a city ...
Why not doing it at home? Though Bonn is just some 40 kilometers away from our flat, my wife and ...
On my December 2019 trip to Pittsburgh, I had to book an additional night as I had to reschedule my ...
During a November 2019 stay in London, I opted for the DoubleTree right at Victoria Station. Especially as we were ...
After I had some stays at Hilton Munich Airport in the past, I was happy to be back in this ...
In late November 2019, I had a short stay in Madrid. Due to a recommendation of a friend and due ...
As part of a business trip to Zurich in November (during which I also featured the James Barker Band show), ...
During my trip to Chicago and Indianapolis, I spent the first night as a transfer in Schererville in Northwest Indiana, ...
For my November 2019 stay in Dubai, I decided to also gain some more experience on the Northern and Eastern ...
As an overnight stay after the Mrs Greenbird concert in Frankfurt, I decided to opt for a hotel chain, which ...
As I needed an overnight after Eric Paslay's show in Aschaffenburg, I was looking for a stay in rail station ...
In order to see one edition of the "Introducing Nashville" show (I have been on Tenerife during the German ones), ...
In early October 2019, I had six nights on Tenerife with my wife. We chose the Melia Adults Only Hotel ...
The Johanniter Gästehaus in Münster in Northern Northrhine-Westfalia is likely one of the most unusual places I stayed in the last ...
As my flight to Barra, which gave my a great day on the Outer Hebrides island, departed (and arrived) in ...
While I am typically more of a Hilton Hotels person, I chose a Marriott Group hotel for my stay in ...
It does not happen too often that I sleep in a hotel which has a detailed Wikipedia entry. This did ...
I was visiting Belfast in later June 2019 in order to watch some shows of my favorite musical, Rock of ...
I originally booked a Home 2 Suites close to one of the Premium Outlets, but a very competitive rate made ...
Right after visiting the Tennis Hall of Fame Open, I spent the fourth night of my Weird Al Yankovic & ...
The grand final of the Rock of Ages 2018/19 tour through Great Britain, Ireland and Berlin was a bit of ...
Thousands of people pass Hatton Cross every day without ever getting an impression of the area. The Piccadilly Line London ...
As staying at the Foxwood Casinos in Mashantucket, Conneticut, was more on the pricey side, I I chose a hotel ...
In April 2019, I had another LATAM flight weekend to Madrid, staying in the city to see a concert and ...
Premier Inn is a branch of budget hotels which is especially active in the United Kingdom. There are, however, also ...
As a first overnight before heading to the United States to see Weird Al Yankovic and tennis in Newport, I ...
As part of a business trip to Singapore, I chose to have a longer stay in the So/ Sofitel in ...
After I stayed at the ibis Styles London ExCeL during the Country 2 Country 2018 already, I chose the hotel ...
On most of my travels, I am rather a chain hotel nerd. Branches of Accor Hotels or Hilton Hotels guarantee ...
In May 2019, I had another weekend trip to London. As my wife and I flew into London City Airport, ...
I originally planned to visit Kuala Lumpur on a daytrip from Singapore. As the Malaysian hotel prices significantly beat the ...
After an ICE high speed train ride from Cologne, I chose the ibis Amsterdam Zentrum as my overnight during my ...
After I made my trip to Nashville, my stay during the CMA Fest 2019 was the Hampton Inn Nashville-Airport. I ...
In order to be able to visit Graceland and many other attractions in Memphis on my trip to CMA Fest ...
After flying from Washington (DCA) to Chattanooga (CHA), my first night on my trip to Nashville in 2019 was in ...
To me, Paris is toughest destination world-wide to find a reasonable hotel accommodation for an affordable price. Spacious rooms with ...
The first stage of my trip to Nashville in 2019 brought me to Washington. As I had a flight connection ...
After some searching and looking for reviews in different sources, I finally opted for the One Farrer Hotel for my ...
During my February 2019 visit to Philadelphia featuring the NHL Stadium Series match and my round trip with Southern Airways ...
For our Easter 2019 trip to Abu Dhabi, we decided to stay at Yas Island for the first time. We ...
I chose the ibis Canning Town just North of the River Thames as my stay for the Country 2 Country ...
Due to a career event of my wife, we had to travel to the trade fair area of Hanover in ...
For my floorball trip to the the Swiss Women matches between the Floorball Riders and Appelnzell and Frauenfeld vs. Jets, ...
Watching the amazing "Mike & the Mechanics" in Sheffield's beautiful City Hall, I chose the Novotel Sheffield Centre as my ...
I love having some warm days and sunshine in the cold fall and winter season. For that reason, I love ...
Glasgow is becoming a more and more frequent destination for me. Very often, my visits are linked to music. For ...
During a business-related trip to Switzerland's economic capital, I stayed at Novotel Zurich Airport Messe (Trade Fair). Apart from attractive ...
During our visit of the Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin, we chose the Hampton by Hilton Berlin East Side ...
Cooking facilities are much more popular in North American hotels than in European ones. Even quite lousy motel rooms typically ...
Due to a Eurowings flight cancellation on a London daytrip in early January, I got stuck at Stansted Airport. The ...
There is a huge variety of airport hotels around Madrid-Barajas. In early December, I chose the ibis option, which is ...
As we were aiming to visit Busch Gardens on our December 2018 trip, my wife and I chose the Hampton ...
As my boss is located in the Irish capital, Dublin is one of my most frequent trips for my actuarial ...
Visiting the concert of the US country band "Midland", I had the opportunity to stay in the quite central Alexander ...
One of my favorite places on Tenerife is definitely its historic capital, San Cristobal de La Laguna. Gran Hotel La ...
As my favourite flight, LA 705 from Frankfurt to Madrid, is quite late in the evening, I know quite many ...
I had quite a packed weekend at Thessaloniki in October 2018. Thereby, the central Hotel Olympia has been my travel ...
After having visited the Novotel Suites Mall of the Emirates on my last Dubai visit in May, I went for ...
The B&B Hotels group, mainly operating in Germany, operates in the quite strongly growing of budget hotels. When you book ...
There are three Hilton hotels in greater Helsinki: while the airport hotel is mainly focussing on flying guests, the two ...
With my favourte musical, Rock of Ages, touring again through the UK, just a week after I saw Catherine McGrath ...
During the Serbia-India Davis Cup tie in Kraljevo, I stayed in Garni Hotel Crystal. It is just a Garni / ...
After I had to book another hotel right across the street for the first night to get a low airfare, ...
Just being a short walk away from Toronto Union Station, which perfectly connects to Pearson airport, the Novotel Toronto Center felt ...
For my one-week stay on Curacao I chose the Blue Bay Lodges. The serviced apartments had excellent reviews on different travel sites ...
"Stylish", "Surprising" or "Modern design" might not really be the attributes which you combine with ibis hotels. The more I ...
As I had to join two workshops in the Zurich offices of the company I am working for, I chose ...
A five star stay in the lovely islands in the Azores capital, Ponta Delgada? Sounded like a nice sleep for ...
More than 1,100 rooms in the German capital - the Estrel Hotel in Germany's capital Berlin is just a massive ...
The only hotel I stayed two nights in during my Six-Intercontinental-Flights weekend was the Sercotel Malaga. Here is the review ...
As a homebase for my trip to the Dubai Parks, I decided to go for a hotel location in Southern ...
I typically prefer Accor oder Hilton hotels when I am abroad. To me, it is a matter of reliability - ...
Flyctory.com in Sweden
Here are all Flyctory.com postings about Sweden:
I had a rather mixed week this week - and that's somehow my new Songs of the Week edition is like ...
An intense week lays behind me. I started a new job on Tuesday and I am thus full of new ...
Coming back from a trip to Krakow, I more or less immediately ran into the new releases as of 28th ...
The 2025 Country To Country in Berlin took quite a lot of energy from me. On top of that, there ...
It is quite a while ago since there have been major releases by Swedish artist Albert af Ekenstam. His last ...
Quite an intense time is lying ahead. As you see in my preview post about it, I am already preparing ...
In exactly two weeks, on 6th March 2025, Country To Country (C2C) Berlin is kicking off with the The Bluebird ...
There have been five Fridays in January 2025. Thus, my Country Music Picks presenting new songs of the month (which did ...
Going back from two floorball matches in Gothenburg by train, I had an overnight rail transfer in Malmö. I looked ...
I am on a trip through several European countries this weekend. Nonetheless, of course, it is time to have a ...
Car lovers might know Trollhättan as the home place of the Saab Car Museum. However, the city some 75km North ...
Vilhelm Buchaus just received quite some popularity in Sweden, as he is joining the Melodifestivalen 2025, one of the best-reputed ...
After my previous edition of the Songs of the Week more or less covering two weeks, this one is first full ...
has come to an end - and my Best of posting is the one which is "traditionally" concluding the year. The ...
Time to look back to the Flyctory.com year of music, part 2. In my 30th December 2024 posting, I am ...
Just about a year after I have been to Wallenstam Arena the last time, it was time for another floorball ...
the After Pixbo's ladies match vs. Falun, Wallenstam Arena hosted another game of the Gothenburg floorball team. In the Men's ...
My list of new song releases is really short this week again. There were not that few new releases, but ...
Halloween in North America and a public holiday in the rather catholic parts of Europe - the music industry has ...
Just two months until Christmas. Times are getting colder (at least on the Northern hemisphere), people spend more time inside ...
I am writing this post from Abu Dhabi Airport (AUH), I will likely publish it from Doha (DOH). A cool ...
Despite Cemetery Skyline is a brand-new international band, they already have made some 10k followers on platforms like Facebook or ...
My Songs of the Week fascinate me not too rarely by myself. I collect potential candidates for the playlist and release ...
For my album reviews as of 20th September 2024, I ran into a couple of really interesting rock and hard ...
For my coverage of the Swedish Floorball Finals 2024 in the Friends Arena in Solna, I originally had a booking ...
I still don't really manage creating a proper backlog of already prepared posting. Thus, the last weeks have been very ...
Time for another episode of my Songs of the Week. This time, there is a fine mix of different genres again, ...
After seven years, the band Dream Evil is back with a new album. On 26th July 2024, they released Metal ...
The last Indian player to kick off duties at Newport was Ramkumar Ramathan. Getting into the men's doubles main draw ...
I recently completed the 100th show of the musical Rock of Ages, while traveling to Munich for that reason. The musical ...
After their first steps did not really work out, the hard rock band Nestor boosted their career in very recent ...
This week, I am in Munich, watching a couple of Rock of Ages shows. The week is more busy and demanding ...
This time, selecting the leading track of my Songs of the Week was really troublesome. Three candidates have already been released ...
I had quite a lot of travel in recent times - so there is time for a new Food I Had ...
The history of the band Universe III is indeed a bit of bumpy. However, the band, which is originally from ...
On the men's finals side, I concentrated on two matches of the final 3x3 World Floorball Championships match day. From ...
A German team competing for the medal - the effort of the German national team at the 3x3 Floorball WFC ...
After my first posting about the debut event of the 3x3 World Floorball Championships was about the first day of ...
In my introductory posting, I already introduced you to the concept of 3x3 Floorball and the first World Floorball Championships ...
In the world of floorball, running into Sweden is typically the toughest faith you can have. The Swiss Under 19 ...
Right after the Czechia vs. Switzerland match, the Under 19 Girls World Floorball Championships hosted the Classico in that sports ...
The first match of Arena B was the Scandinavian battle between Norway and Sweden. Of course, the yellow and blue ...
After the women's final already had a duel of two big names of the Swedish floorball scene, the men's final ...
World record attendance matches in late April 2024. The Swedish Floorball Federation invited to nothing but that in order to ...
Snow in April! After I had some snowfall after the Swiss Floorball Superfinals (my coverage of the women's match / ...
The Öresund Bridge connecting Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden revolutionized did not only revolutionize travel and transport between ...
The Swedish band Leach has released their fourth album overall on 19th April 2024. On that date, the melodic death ...
It's been quite tough for me this week to keep Flyctory.com up and running. I had a stronger cold this ...
This week, I am returning from a really cool Pittsburgh Penguins ice hockey trip along the East Coast. Maybe that's ...
Germany is sunk in strikes of different kinds, mainly in transportation business. I have been impacted this week by that ...
Staying in Gothenburg for one night to handle the Pixbo IBK vs. Malmö FFC Floorball Women SSL match, I had ...
A Symphony Orchestra Composers from the World of Metal A Wild Conductor A truly unique Solist Attitude and Talent This ...
In the relations of my home town Cologne, we are celebrating a big Songs of the Week anniversary with this edition. My ...
After I gave you my report of the field and side events of the 2004 Sparkassen Indoor Meeting in Dortmund, ...
The press kit to that album has been rather impressing. Each and every track of The Carousel comes with an individual ...
While I still had a rather short list of album releases, there was already quite a lot of stuff for ...
It's time to look back to . After I shared my new format My Year in Travel with you the first time, ...
Yeah, I have to give in, it is really a bit of weird to travel to Sweden for a single ...
Unfortunately, I could not complete the Country Christmas Playlist this year due to technical issues. However, since the days become ...
New week - new releases. It's already December 2023 and I just shared one Christmas release with you so far, ...
London, Faroe Islands, another trip tp England, Sweden, USA - the last weeks of 2023 involve quite a bit of ...
Oh, Christmas is approaching quickly now. A huge number of songs I scanned for my Songs of the Week this time ...
Every week, I receive several hundred music releases (albums, EPs and singles together) through various platforms. I can't really explain ...
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
Unfortunately, I had to kick out quite a lot of songs from my list, which I really liked. They just ...
Wow - I had so many albums this week. Even if I skipped all travel posts and do the regular ...
Definitely, the band Marduk are an established act in the Swedish and international music scene. One obvious proof for that ...
The story behind the album title The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons is a bit of weird and macabre. The Hives are a ...
I never know what is really happening when I compose a new episode of my Songs of the Week. Until Friday, ...
Not a preview, but an actual Wednesday release: When I have been preparing for the releases of the week of ...
Due to my recent illness, I have to reduce my travel activity in June significantly. Nonetheless, there will be ten Rock ...
I have struggled quite much with health issues this week - which also prevented me to travel to some British Rock ...
Due to a rather late cancellation of the Condor connection between Frankfurt Airport (FRA) and Akureyri Airport (AEY) made me ...
I did a bit of an ESC week this week, featuring Guildo Horn's Guildo hat Euch lieb! in my Songs of the Week and ...
I am quite surprised about a rather short list of new songs today. Might be because of Labour Day on ...
As I told you in previous postings, I initially gather candidates for my Songs of the Week, before I narrow the ...
Rawk by the Swedish band Grand Design is already their sixth album. The rock / hard rock band will release ...
After some rather intense traveling, I am glad that there is just a short trip this week. I concentrated on ...
Happy Easter with some death metal (what would be a better vibe for that?)! Right on Good Friday, 7th April ...
Pop, rock, schlager and much more - I feel that this week's Songs of the Week is a really nice mix of ...
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
I am kicking off the most stressful part of the year, quite likely. This week, I headed off to Peterborough ...
This weekend was really difficult for me to plan ahead. With the ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf, I had a fixed ...
I was quite surprised that finally 15 songs made it into my Songs of the Week as of 16th November 2022 ...
The music of Shaam Larein is somewhere between post punk, doom metal and gothic rock. On 9th December 2022, the ...
Very interesting weekend this time: with the shows of Milky Chance and Brett Young, both in Cologne, I had quite ...
The 7th November 2022 is one of these days I will hardly forget so quickly. In a Weird Al fan ...
Just two months until Christmas - but I still refused to have an according song in my Songs of the Week ...
The Wikipedia entry of the Swedish band Fireside states that they are not active any more. However, the rockers are ...
Roxette is back - somehow. I already featured Per Gessle's follow-up project PG Roxette in the 3rd June 2022 edition ...
The last three months of the year are about to start. Traditionally, the focus is rather on well-known artists, their ...
Intense weeks lay ahead of me. My very last shows of my favorite musical Rock of Ages this year are ...
I typically just select the song, which is leading my Songs of the Week. This week, my favorites of the week ...
Okay, I have to admit: when I think about Lugnet, I intiially think about the sports complex in Falun, Sweden, ...
The most rocking girls of Sweden are back - Thundermother are releasing their 2022 album Black And Gold on 19th August ...
Rock and harder rock styles have been a bit of under-represented in here the last weeks. The more I am ...
That's a dozen for Amon Amarth: the Scandinavian metal band is releasing The Great Heathen Army on 5th August 2022. The album ...
Hard rock with a touch of glam metal: the Swedish band H.E.A.T. is rocking our souls since 2007. On 5th ...
Weird times: my list of candidates for my Songs of the Week this time was much longer, but a lot of ...
Okay, this week, my Songs Of The Week listeners need to stay strong: I started my list with schlager (with a touch ...
I am really glad to present you a new artist in my Spotlight interview section. Tomas Rimeika became quite famous ...
Home town Cologne instead of Nashville: after my trip to CMA Fest in Nashville had to be cancelled due to ...
I am still in the process of recovering from illness - not sure if that had any influence on my ...
A week full of music: my Weird Al Yankovic Tour Trip was of course the key event of my last ...
The week after the 2022 Easter Bunny features some really interesting music. The heading song comes with a touch of ...
Oh, I feel that the Songs Of The Week are really a tradition on Flyctory.com now. More than three months since I ...
While the last week's edition solely covered a few songs, my 25th March 2022 version of the Songs Of The Week ...
Not really sure whether it is my March 2022 trip with the Pittsburgh Penguins or other influences, but this time, ...
In 2009, a former Pan Am Boeing 747-212B has started its (likely) final operation: based on the initiative and business ...
I feel that this week, there is really a nice range of songs in my Songs Of My Life. There is ...
I recently ran into the single Heart on A String, when Emma Elisabeth published the song as a single. The more ...
When I flew Finnair from Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN) to Helsinki (HEL) the last time in 2019, the Finnish airline has been ...
Definitely my toughest edition of the Songs of the Week so far. It is very hard for me to concentrate knowing what ...
Indie rock with a touch of dark wave from Sweden: The Search are releasing a new album on 25th February ...
A new week, a new edition of the Songs Of The Week. This time, I ran into a lot of rocking ...
I am still evaluating whether the Songs Of The Week are an interesting format for you. While the first postings got ...
Releasing fourteen studio albums with Last Autumns Dream since 2003 and being one of the members of Secret Service - ...
The international music scene is slowly coming back from Christmas break. I listened to a couple of really remarkable releases ...
Year-end is the time to look back to all the stuff what happened to you. Ideally you rather remind the ...
Every week, I am scanning hundreds of new releases, albums and singles, to pick the right (and sometimes: the wrong) ...
Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also ...
Even though I do have a couple of airport reviews on Flyctory.com, I so far missed a lot of the ...
Lisa Wanloo is doing an interesting blend of Americana and grunge songs. On 3rd December 2021, she is releasing her ...
Deluxe Versions, special additions and other re-releases of albums are typically not part of my Flyctory.com coverage. For the 30th ...
The Sustainability district, which is marked in green on the Expo 2020 map, featured some really interesting pavilions during our ...
After so many rumors and record-high bids, they really do it: ABBA is back: the most fabulous four ever from ...
It is hard to describe the sound of Hulkoff, which is the solo project of songwriter and composer Pär Hulkoff ...
When I scanned the Falling From Fame, the new album by Takida (or: tAKiDA, how they name themselves on their ...
Some music from California: Grizfolk in fact has Scandinavian roots, but are now based on the US West Coast. On ...
Seven songs, but 54 minutes - one stat which illustrates what metal and gothic tracks typically differs from mainstream music ...
The Swedish band Black River Delta is doing a very interesting mix of genres between rock and blues. They already ...
Some music from Scandinavia: Anders Enda Barnet is a Swedish singer-songwriter, who is doing alternative pop songs. On 21st May ...
Zugzwang (which literally means "being forced to move") sounds like a German album. But in fact, the band Barbarisms, who ...
I love metal operas. Avantasia, for example, are one of my absolute favorite acts over all genres. Thus, I was ...
More Australian music on Flyctory.com. Down under became more and more popular (and frequent) in my media review section. On ...
A new album by Swedish pop supergirl Zara Larsson. Four years after her last long-play, the Scandinavian is back in ...
This edition of the Songs Of My Life is a bit of special. Typically, I try to share my personal connection ...
292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
I love A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Though I am especially favoring the Muppets movie version, I was absolutely fond ...
What would Per Gessle be without Marie Fredriksson, who joined for the Swedish rock music export Roxette for so many ...
In my Spotlight category, I am dealing with another interesting artist. Sandra North is originally from Trosa South of Stockholm ...
Four girls and hard rock? Thundermother is definitely a cool bunch of ladies. On 31st July 2020, they released the ...
Borlänge - I will always combine that city with the 1993 German Tennis Davis Cup semifinal defeat against Sweden. Michael ...
Due to my cooperation with the Greywood Records Label, I ran into another interesting album, which might be out of ...
Due to my collaboration with Greywood Records, I received a quite interesting CD from the folk song genre: An Ounce of ...
While my Lufthansa Senator Status typically grants me access to the SAS Gold Lounge next door, a Eurowings BizClass flight ...
There are quite many museums about civil emergency services. After I visited the amazing National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield ...
Flying from Stockholm to Helsinki with Finnair in early August 2019 gave me the opportunity to visit a lounge I ...
Sometimes, Flyctory.com is covering quite a range of topics within one day: while I started the day with the review ...
If you want to travel from Stockholm's major airport Arlanda to city center, you have multiple options. Undoubtedly, the strongest ...
Video Gaming and arcade machines have been a significant part of my life. I grew up with an Atari 800XL, ...
The last match of my January floorball trip to Sweden lead me to Täby in Northern Stockholm. It was the ...
A day after the Floorball Club Champions have been determined without any German competitor, I went from Scandic Hotel Gävle ...
After IKSU did what they expected to do (and stayed unbeaten), it was up to Storvreta to complete the Swedish ...
IKSU have been beaten the last time in a compulsory match in December 2017. How you include that in Vitkovice's ...
After both teams had no chance against their Scandinavian opponents in the semis, the Place 3 Match felt to have ...
The semifinal day of the 2019 Floorball Champions Cup concluded with the 2nd Men Semifinal. Swedish Champion Storvreta IBK faced ...
The matchup for the Women Bronze Medal match was quite unexpected, but also very interesting. After SB-Pro did not manage ...
Playing the Swedish champion and reigning Floorball Champions Cup holder IKSU from Umea was likely the most unfortunate task Swiss ...
Two days, two matches for each team to win the title - I already summed up the compressed route to ...
Finnish Champion SC Classic from Tampere and Top-of-Switzerland Floorball Köniz opened the Men Tournament of the 2019 Floorball Champions Cup ...
No floorball competition is changing that frequently like the Champions Cup. While previous season, six men and women teams each ...
Writing that match report as one of the start-up (and testing) article entries on flyctory.com felt so easy to me: ...