Naturally, Day 1 of my trip to Nashville lead me to the airport. The first stage of my trip was Washington, which is one of the most beautiful cities in the United States to me. However, I flew into Washington Dulles instead of the city center Ronald Reagan Airport after some rebooking. On the positive side, there were no more short connections and a significantly earlier expected arrival in the US capital. Here is my Day 1 towards the big Honky Tonk.

CMA Fest Trip Day 1 – Flying to the States
31st May was majorly transfer day: the alarm clock rang short before 4:00 German time (22:00 Washington, still on 30th…) to be at the airport around 5:30. The flight to Dusseldorf was nothing special. My ticket to Washington was just a World Traveller Plus / Premium Economy ticket, so that I sat in the front row of Economy Class to Heathrow. There were two highlights of about the flight: first of all, the plane had a nice BEA retro livery. And finally, I spent most of the time falling in love with Thomas Rhett’s new album.


I had breakfast at the First Class Lounge, where I got a new boarding pass. 14F, op-up to Club World / Business Class, yay! I am not too much a fan of the Club World Cabin, but I am even less a fan of the Club World one… So it was a nice treat in the Boeing 747-400. Washington welcomed me with lovely weather, 30°C and sunshine. Here is a detailed review of the flight.




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CMA Fest Trip Day 1 – Immigration and Transfer
The transfer from the plane to the immigration was weird. At a designated gate, they had something between a bus and a rolling container, which took quite a lot of people at once. Thereafter, I was quite surprised that Washington-Dulles did not have immigration kiosks (apart from Global Entry passengers) at the Immigration.


Nevertheless, the processes were quite efficient. I went for a Super Shuttle, a shared shuttle, from Washington-Dulles to my hotels. The price is significantly lower than taking a cab – nevertheless, I would just leave a mixed review here. You pay a gratuity before the shuttle even started, for example. The driving was rather mixed, so that I was quite happy that my hotel was first on the list. Doubletree Crystal City in Arlington, VA, close to Reagan Airport – here is the detailed review of the hotel.


CMA Fest Trip Day 1 – Exploring Pentagon City
There was a lot to do the last days. Thus, I downsized my plans. I just explored the neighborhood around the hotel a bit. Originally, I wanted to head to Gravelly Point Park, from where you can do planespotting for Reagan airport, but my German account did not work at the car2go car sharing network. Thus, I just went for the nice Fashion Centre at Pentagon City mall, having a snack, before going back to the hotel. Just too exhausted, fighting against the jetlack.


A Musical Trip to CMA Fest 2019 – Day by Day
Here are the links to the daily postings (link will be added once posting is published):
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Due to my passion for Weird Al Yankovic, I know Jim "Kimo" West for a couple of years now. Kimo ...
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In contrast to the significantly more fancy Flagship Lounges (here is my review of the JFK one), the American Airlines ...
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December - Christmas time! Especially after I had so many postings about Christmas markets in here, I felt to add ...
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During my trip to Chicago and Indianapolis, I spent the first night as a transfer in Schererville in Northwest Indiana, ...
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After I visited a couple of Sound of Nashville shows in Cologne and surroundings, I felt lucky to do my ...
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If you ask people in the country music business about Jenn Bostic, I almost guarantee that you get a very ...
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There were a couple of key songs which made me more and more get into country music. One them was ...
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Just in the week when Luke Combs left his top position in the album charts with This One's For You and ...
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One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
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Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...
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Miranda Lambert is one of the big names in the female country music. Thus, it is an event in focus ...
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Fans of the legendary band Hootie & The Blowfish had to wait for fourteen years, until the quartet around Darius ...
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An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
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Typically, after I finished the album reviews I planned to do on a Friday, I scan the new releases if ...
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Just a few weeks after Old Dominion toured Germany and the rest of Europe, they released a new album. I ...
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I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
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In many countries, a good placement at The Voice almost feels like a guarantee to have some steps on the ...
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Maddie & Tae released another EP on 18th October 2018. After their career started with a blast, Everywhere I'm Going should ...
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The superb live entertainer Chris Janson is back - though he feels like quite a young artist to me, he ...
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Right after I returned from a vacation trip to Tenerife, I headed from Frankfurt Airport to Das Bett (literally: The Bed), a Frankfurt ...
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Seven years after his last album, Chris Knight released his new album Almost Daylight. Being successful as a songwriter in parallel, I ...
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Blanco Brown gave us The Git Up, which even made it to the German charts. After that fun and party hit ...
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In addition to the Country Music Playlists, I still want to focus on certain songs in the Country Music Picks ...
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While I am typically more of a Hilton Hotels person, I chose a Marriott Group hotel for my stay in ...
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You may easily agree that there are more beautiful and less beautiful musicians in the worldl of country music. Nevertheless, ...
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Will Brantley Gilbert do the Billboard-Hattrick after his last two albums topped the US Billboard Charts? I was really looking ...
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After I tested their A330 Premium Economy Class on a flight to Philadelphia before, I was really flattered to check ...
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Whether somebody believes that David Hasselhoff had any impact on the Fall of the Berlin Wall, I honestly don't care. Knight ...
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If you won a Grammy Award for the Best Country Album of the Year, you are big in the country ...
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If you record songs like Death to All But Metal or Bukkake Tears and you do it good, you may make it big ...
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Halls of Fame are very popular in the United States. Finally, there are likely Halls of Fame for almost every ...
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On the third day of my Weird Al Yankovic & Grass Court Tennis trip in July 2019, I had time ...
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Typically, I plan the albums and EPs I am going to review some one to two weeks ahead and also ...
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It does not happen too often that I sleep in a hotel which has a detailed Wikipedia entry. This did ...
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Two years after their last release, the Georgia Zac Brown Band is back in the record stores with their new ...
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At the very latest when I decided to select two songs in parallel for my current edition of the latest ...
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Just one week after I had seen Lauren Jenkins together with Jilian Jacqueline and Gary Quinn at the YUCA in ...
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Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
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Spontaneously after I visited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway & Museum, I went to Lucas Oil Stadium to do a stadium ...
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The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
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I saw the Black Star Rides some years ago as a support act of Def Leppard and Whitesnake on their ...
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September 2019 is a country music concert months full of highlights. Just one day after I returned from my Aschaffenburg ...
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The city of Tarpon Springs on the Nothern edge of the Tampa Bay area is famous for sponge fishing. Gamers ...
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Eric Paslay and his song Friday Night was one of the first songs, which really made me get in touch with ...
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30th August had quite a couple of album releases. While I published my view on Sheryl Crow's Threads and Tarja's In The Raw ...
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I originally booked a Home 2 Suites close to one of the Premium Outlets, but a very competitive rate made ...
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One amazing feature of Washington D.C. is the massive number of museums driven by the Smithsonian Institution: they are typically ...
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Trisha Yearwood - definitely one of the very big names in country music business. Nowadays the wife of Garth Brooks, ...
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As part of my Weird Al and Grass Court Tennis 2019 trip, I already visited two concerts of Weird Al ...
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Time to say good bye? Strong rumors stated that Threads might be Sheryl Crow's farewell album. Crow has done so much for ...
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Taylor Swift is back! On 23rd August 2019, the music superstar with country roots released her seventh album, Lover. As she ...
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The harbor city of Mystic, Connecticut, is well know as a tourist destination. Especially the Mystic Aquarium and the Seaport ...
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While Tanya Tucker was a country music hit machine in the 1970s and 1980s, she significantly decreased the frequency of ...
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Can Midland top their rock-like rise to the line of fine country music acts? After a massive success of their ...
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Right after visiting the Tennis Hall of Fame Open, I spent the fourth night of my Weird Al Yankovic & ...
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After having this category of postings since quite some time, I decided to have more regular country music picks in ...
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Holy Land Experience is a theme park in Orlando, which you typically find quite quickly when you google for something ...
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If someone is publishing his/her 16th studio album, you must already be quite a constant in the music business. Country ...
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The Memphis Recording Service, Sun Studio or Sun Records (however you like to call it) is one of the most ...
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During my visit at the 2019 CMA Fest, I was just overwhelmed of the sheer mass of young talented musicians ...
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The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
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As staying at the Foxwood Casinos in Mashantucket, Conneticut, was more on the pricey side, I I chose a hotel ...
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Not just on stage in Germany, but also due to a significant number of studio releases, the upcoming months from ...
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On my very final stage on the road to the 2019 CMA Fest in Nashville, visiting the West Tennessee Heritage ...
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Memphis and the surrounding area is so full of music history - it is not that surprising that there are ...
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On the fourth day of my Weird Al & Grass Court Tennis trip in July 2019, I visited the Tennis ...
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After two days of Weird Al Yankovic concerts and a memorable Day 4 with my sports idol Leander Paes and ...
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After having two Weird Al Yankovic concerts on the second and third day of my trip, tennis was in focus ...
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After the transfer Day 1 was haunted by terrible weather and Day 2 the expected long road trip to New ...
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String Attached - the 2019 tour of Weird Al Yankovic is backed up by (local) symphonic orchestras. I traveled into Gilford, ...
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After transferring to Connecticut on the first day, the second day of my "Weird Al & Grass Court Tennis" trip ...
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The first entry of a trip report is typically full of stories about airports, airlines and flying. My trip to ...
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The sheer number of talents in US country music is massive. Some even make it to Europe quite early in ...
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Even if Elvis was born in Tupelo and there are so many other great musicians (which you can for example ...
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During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
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Runaway June are a US country music trio. I saw them for the first time at the Country 2 Country ...
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The capital area of Washington D.C. is full of federal agencies and services. Thus, there are also some very specific ...
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Just after I left Chattanooga Airport on Day 3 of my CMA Fest Trip, I went to the Lookout Mountain ...
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Though I finally did not manage to touch down there, flying from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) was definitely ...
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Nashville is the dominating super-city of music in Tennessee, despite there is so much musical history in Memphis as well ...
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June 2019 is Nelson family time: just one week after his son Lukas published the album Turn Off The New ...
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After I made my trip to Nashville, my stay during the CMA Fest 2019 was the Hampton Inn Nashville-Airport. I ...
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The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
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CMA Fest 2019 was just massive to me. So many artists, so many new people - I was just overwhelmed! ...
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Even more than 80 years after Elvis Presley's birth, Tupelo in Mississippi is still dominated by memories of its most ...
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In order to be able to visit Graceland and many other attractions in Memphis on my trip to CMA Fest ...
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While I posted my review about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real's new album on 14th June 2019, most ...
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Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
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Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real are back - while Nelson is regarded as a great songwriter, his band ...
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After my first Chattanooga experience was already part of my trip following the Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2018, I made ...
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The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
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After flying from Washington to Chattanooga, my first night on my trip to Nashville in 2019 was in Tupelo Mississippi ...
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Getting more and more into country music, I more and more love songwriters rounds. Several singers or songwriters are on ...
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If you drive the US-61 between Tunica, Mississippi, and Memphis, you just cannot miss the iconic wooden building called Gateway To ...
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Wonderland is the fifth studio album of US country singer and songwriter Sarah Darling. Sarah released it on 7th June ...
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The final day of my trip report to Nashville. The tour is coming to an end, the next days, I ...
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After driving quite a bunch of miles the two days before, 4th June was planned to be a sightseeing day ...
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3rd June 2019 on my trip to Nashville was "Elvis Presley Day". Waking up less than a mile away from ...
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The first stage of my trip to Nashville in 2019 brought me to Washington. As I had a flight connection ...
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While most of the trip to Nashville was accompanied by magical places of music history, the first highlights of the ...
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Just around all the National Historic sites in Philadelphia, there is a load of additional museums, which are more or ...
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The second day on my trip to Nashville was a comparably easy one: waking up in Washington D.C., sleeping in ...
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Thomas Rhett, who has become one of Nashville finest artists the last years, released his fourth album Center Point Road on ...
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Already months ahead, I was looking forward to visiting the CMA Fest in Nashville. Not just that I fell in ...
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While country music feels to have a first boom in Germany, the Netherlands are slightly ahead and have a quite ...
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On Friday, 10th May 2019, the Arts Club in Liverpool hosted the 2019 stage of the CMT Next Women of ...
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During my February 2019 visit to Philadelphia featuring the NHL Stadium Series match and my round trip with Southern Airways ...
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P!nk is one of the music megastars of our current generation. Many people looked forward to th 26th April, when the ...
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Running out of Road is not only a song of Lauren Jenkin's first album No Saint, it is also a short ...
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On 8th March 2019, just when the Country 2 Country festival in London was about to start, Maren Morris released ...
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The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
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Flying Southern Airways Express was not my only debut aviation experience on route to Philadelphia for the NHL Stadium Series ...
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Lauren Jenkins was one of three artists, who opened the 2019 Country 2 Country debut in Berlin with a traditional ...
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Cooking facilities are much more popular in North American hotels than in European ones. Even quite lousy motel rooms typically ...
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Travelling to the NHL Stadium Series match of the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Philadelphia Flyers in late February 2019, I ...
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The Pittsburgh Penguins versus the Philadelphia Flyers - the Keystone State Rivalry was taken to its second stage in February ...
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While I posted album reviews from time to time so far, there were two albums on 15th February 2019 I ...
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Florida is full of amazing water attractions and aquariums. Installing a Sea Life in the limited space of the ICON ...
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In parallel to the Floorball World Cup Qualifications in Trencin, Slovakia, there was also some special moment for my country ...
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Just some three years after the complex opened in 2015, the former "I-Drive 360" district next to Orlando International Drive ...
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In 2018, the former Coca Cola Orlando Eye ferris wheel rebranded to ICON Orlando as part of the rebranding of ...
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I have to admit, I am not the biggest fan of wax museums. I stick with Lonely Planet's comment on ...
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Flyctory.com is neither a food-blog nor an advertisement platform for fast food. However, visiting the McDonald's at International Drive, Orlando, ...
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The Tampa Bay area is full of top attractions for animal lovers. After we visited Busch Gardens, we decided to ...
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As we were aiming to visit Busch Gardens on our December 2018 trip, my wife and I chose the Hampton ...
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Visiting Orlando, I have to admit that I prefer Universal Studios parks in Florida much more to Disney ones. One ...
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When you think about a great Christmas time in one of the Orlando theme parks, you likely first think about ...
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Brett Young's 2017 debut album Brett Young was a lovely piece of country music. I especially loved his successful single "In ...
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Can you imagine what the highest-rated attraction in Germany, according to Tripadvisor, is? Cologne Cathedral? Wrong! Neuschwanstein Castle! No! And ...
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After I had to book another hotel right across the street for the first night to get a low airfare, ...
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Many of you might watch the Tennis US Open at Flushing Meadows on TV. Some take-outs like interviews on the ...
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I was looking forward to my second day of visit at the US Open. Divij Sharan's match was of course ...
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My fifth visit at the tennis US Open is the shortest one - arriving on Thursday afternoon by British Airways ...
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British Airways flight BA 1 has always been on my bucket list. The very special connection between London and New ...
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It is some two months since I posted my latest top country songs - thus, I felt to update you ...
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It is Atlanta's finest attraction, regarding Tripadvisor. Just across the park from "World of Coca Cola", Georgia Aquarium is home ...
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On my Weird Al Yankovic Tour trip, I also visited some of the major Atlanta sights. The "World of Coca ...
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There have been so many discussions about Rio 2016. Not just about whether the country itself is able to stand ...
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16th April, time to leave Atlanta again. At least, there has been plenty of time before to do some sightseeing ...
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Day 4, back to Atlanta, heading to where the trip started... and to my final concert of this trip. The ...
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Saturday, 14th April, has not been regarded as the most thrilling day of this trip anyway. Travelling from the very ...
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Day 1 of the trip to Weird Al Yankovic. It has been already some 14 years since I saw this ...
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Heading back home. As said in the Day 3 coverage, I did not expect too much going on on that ...
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A Day in Rome - for this Day 3 part of the Four Country Train Trip report, I decided to ...
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Being in Milan until the early afternoon, checking out an Italian rail lounge for the first time - and then ...
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So excited to travel again and do a proper. I did my first day of the rail rides through Germany, ...
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After having so many trip reports involving flights and road trips, this trip report will completely leave me on the ...
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Coming back from London from the (finally cancelled) Country To Country Festival 2020 was the last trip I took before ...
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Four ice hockey matches, Rock of Ages #32 in Hollywood, two new airlines and many more impressions - this trip ...
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Last stage: Las Vegas! My duties supporting my Pittsburgh Penguins were done, time to enjoy... some more hockey. This stage ...
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After four nights in Greater Los Angeles, it was time to follow my team and fly to San Jose with ...
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Let's play hockey - again! The fourth day of my trip through California (with a detour to Nevada) had the ...
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No hockey on Day 3 of my California trip 2020 - the day after the first match of the Pittsburgh ...
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Waking up in Anaheim, cheering fpr the Penguins in Staples center - that was roughly the plan for Day 2 ...
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Day 1 of my trip to the Penguins. The travel days to the US are typically not too thrilling. Leaving ...
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California, here I come. The first trip report of 2020 will bring me to California, where my ice hockey team, ...
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Flying to Barra - an aviation nerd's dream came true on 7th September 2019, when I visited the Scottish Island ...
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After two days of Weird Al Yankovic concerts and a memorable Day 4 with my sports idol Leander Paes and ...
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After having two Weird Al Yankovic concerts on the second and third day of my trip, tennis was in focus ...
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After the transfer Day 1 was haunted by terrible weather and Day 2 the expected long road trip to New ...
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After transferring to Connecticut on the first day, the second day of my "Weird Al & Grass Court Tennis" trip ...
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The first entry of a trip report is typically full of stories about airports, airlines and flying. My trip to ...
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After I did my very first trip report on Flyctory.com about following Weird Al Yankovic on his "Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised ...
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The final day of my trip report to Nashville. The tour is coming to an end, the next days, I ...
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After driving quite a bunch of miles the two days before, 4th June was planned to be a sightseeing day ...
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3rd June 2019 on my trip to Nashville was "Elvis Presley Day". Waking up less than a mile away from ...
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While most of the trip to Nashville was accompanied by magical places of music history, the first highlights of the ...
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The second day on my trip to Nashville was a comparably easy one: waking up in Washington D.C., sleeping in ...
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Already months ahead, I was looking forward to visiting the CMA Fest in Nashville. Not just that I fell in ...
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Wuppertal in the Bergisches Land region Northeast of Cologne hosts a very special attraction for train and rail enthusiasts: the ...
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Travelling to the NHL Stadium Series match of the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Philadelphia Flyers in late February 2019, I ...
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The ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) are more and more becoming of the Carribean's top destinations. Staying a full week ...
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This is the second part of my report on exploring the largest island of the Azores with a scooter in ...
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After having some scooter experience in Spain, I felt that a good way to get a first view of the ...
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Sunday, 27th May 2018 - time to slowly head home. After quite a lot of flying, this has really been ...
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After the helicopter adventure on Day 3, travelling to the other major Spanish exclave in Spain, Melilla, was on the ...
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After having arrived in Gibraltar and Algeciras the day before, the remaining trip would not stay in the European Union, ...
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While Day 1 has been a "transfer day" with the flight from Cologne to Tangier after work, Day 2 was ...
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There are a lot of factors which made me look forward to the first destination of my trip, Tangier in ...
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No, I am not going to travel between Europe and Asia or America like a madman or do some extreme ...
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16th April, time to leave Atlanta again. At least, there has been plenty of time before to do some sightseeing ...
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Day 4, back to Atlanta, heading to where the trip started... and to my final concert of this trip. The ...
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Saturday, 14th April, has not been regarded as the most thrilling day of this trip anyway. Travelling from the very ...
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So long awaited... Time for the first concert of my trip to the Weird Al Tour 2018! Tried to start ...
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Day 1 of the trip to Weird Al Yankovic. It has been already some 14 years since I saw this ...
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My first flyctory.com Trip Report leads me to Georgia and Tennessee. Starting from Cologne airport, my key aim of that ...
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As part of my February travels, I also made a daytrip to the island of Kinmen, which precisely contains the ...
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