by Zum Goldenen Ochsen Aschaffenburg
72 EUR
4
Flyctory.com Pros
- Nice location
- Very traditional stay
- Awarded restaurant for dinner
- Nice breakfast
As I needed an overnight after Eric Paslay’s show in Aschaffenburg, I was looking for a stay in rail station proximity. In October 2018, I already checked out the local branch of the B&B Hotel Group. As there were no other suitable branch hotels available, I opted for the Zum Goldenen Ochsen (Golden Ox) hotel, based on the reviews, location and price. Here is my review.
Zum Goldenen Ochsen Aschaffenburg – Location
The hotel is located South of the railway station. From the station exit to the hotel, it is a some five minute walk. The central bus station is next to the rail station and thus offers a lot of additional connections. From the hotel to the Coloss-Saal, where the concert took place, it was less than ten minutes as well.
Around the hotel, there is a lot of infrastructure, including shopping opportunities, bars/restaurants and most other travel needs, not only in the station building. The location itself is comparably quiet, though.
Zum Goldenen Ochsen Aschaffenburg – Rooms
The room I booked was a single room, which was 72 Euro including breakfast. The room was sufficiently spacious for a daytrip and even with a bit more luggage. The workdesk was quite nice, the TV set comparably small, but sufficient. The room also featured a minibar.
The bathroom with shower was quite spacious, though. The hotel provides the necessary amenities. The bathroom as well as the whole room was very clean and quiet.
Zum Goldenen Ochsen Aschaffenburg – Breakfast / Food
Food is definitely one of the strong disciplines of the Zum Goldenen Ochsen hotel. The hotel features an awarded restaurant. Due to the concert, I could not test it out. Breakfast is served in a traditional, but very cozy room opposite the restaurant.. Warm dishes were boiled and scrambled eggs as well as crispy bacon. The selection of items was very nice, I especially liked the variety of breads.
Zum Goldenen Ochsen Aschaffenburg – Services
The hotel staff was very nice and welcoming from the very beginning. They were also very helpful for a few questions. The WiFi in the room was absolutely fine as well. The hotel does not feature a gym or similar facilities.
Zum Goldenen Ochsen Aschaffenburg – My View
I really had a good time in Aschaffenburg this time. The hotel staff was very nice, location and breakfast were definitely on the postive side. The place had all I was expecting for a reasonable price. Good stay!
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Country Music Picks (New Songs) September 2024
The country music September 2024 is in the books. At least in regards of my Country Music Picks, which feature ...
Blackberry Smoke (29th September 2024, Cologne)
Just the evening after the Visions of Atlantis show in Essen, I headed to the E-Werk in Cologne. On 29th ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Frances Darling (September 2024)
Last week, Frances Darling had a big day in her young career. With the song Flight Risk, the US-American-German artist released ...
Visions of Atlantis (28th September 2024, Essen)
Finally, I made it - after featuring so many concerts of different genres, I headed to Essen in the German ...
Bell Book & Candle – L.O.V.E.
I loved Bell Book & Candle in the late 1990's. The German band from Berlin especially stroke with their debut ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 27th September 2024)
I had a very tough business trip to Paris this week. Nonetheless, I somehow managed to compile this list of ...
Rock of Ages – 2025 International Dates of the Musical
Another year, another time for Rock of Ages. Similar to the previous years, I disclose some of the international dates I ...
SSF Dragons Bonn II – Lilienthaler Wölfe 4-7 (1-1, 3-4, 0-2)
After I already featured the Dresden vs. Weißenfels match at the first match day of the German Floorball Bundesliga, 22nd ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 20th September 2024)
My Songs of the Week fascinate me not too rarely by myself. I collect potential candidates for the playlist and release ...
Steigenberger Hotel Cologne (Köln)
From time to time, I simply enjoy having a night in Cologne, between two office days close to the office ...
Sebastian Krumbiegel – Aufstehen – Weitermachen!
"Stand Up! Keep going!" is the (translated) title of the new album by Sebastian Krumbiegel. The featured singles of the ...
Food I Had Onboard XVIII (end July to mid September 2024)
I did not have that much traveling during the last weeks - but as some major trips are ahead, I ...
Digital Carbs – Floods EP
Maybe it is because I had to do some long evenings to prepare my Media Review coverage for the weekend of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 13th September 2024)
Damn, I miss the Faroe Islands. I had a lovely weekend there last week. In the meantime, the weather and ...
Percival (Song of My Life Show, Erftstadt, 12th September 2024)
I absolutely loved the intimate, personal, but also very professional atmosphere of the Jessica Lynn show at the Muxx.tv grounds ...
In Extremo – Wolkenschieber
Medieval music, metal style - the German band In Extremo is really successful with this rather rare blending of genres ...
DB (German Rail) Lounge Dresden Main Station
Being the only guest in a lounge almost demands me having a lounge review. This happened to me in Dresden ...
Sophie Chassee – Attachment Theory
I does not happen too often that I set up a new edition for my Songs of the Week and decide ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 6th September 2024)
Quite a short list this time - as a couple of releases I got simply did not meet my criteria ...
Premier Inn Wolfsburg City Centre
After I covered the Muxx.tv show by Jessica Lynn in Erftstadt, I felt that I should also just visit one ...
“Goldenes Oval” Opening Meeting – Opening Ceremony (Dresden, 30th August 2024)
After I already introduced you to the track events and the field events of the athletics meeting of the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion ...
Unihockey Igels Dresden – UHC Sparkasse Weißenfels 3-10 (0-6, 1-2, 2-2)
As Floorball Deutschland typically releases the match schedules for the German Bundesliga rather late (even significantly later than the clubs ...
“Goldenes Oval” Opening Meeting – Field Events (Dresden, 30th August 2024)
After I featured the "Goldenes Oval" Opening Meeting track events in my first posting, it is time to have a ...
“Goldenes Oval” Opening Meeting – Track Events (Dresden, 30th August 2024)
Dresden is back on the list of major venues for athletics events. On 30th August 2024, the capital of Saxony ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 30th August 2024)
I still don't really manage creating a proper backlog of already prepared posting. Thus, the last weeks have been very ...
Stanovsky – Grünlich
Stanovsky is "greenish" - at least if you base that statement on the title his new album Grünlich. On 30th ...
Rezet – Rezet
After I had a country and country rock block the weekend before, it is time to add some harder tunes ...
Songs Of My Life: PUR – Wenn sie diesen Tango hört
In my Songs of my Life postings, I love to share songs with you, which you might not have in ...
Dear Robin – Timebound
With Dear Robin, I am having a look at a German rock band in this review. On 30th August 2024, ...
Dresden Funicular (Standseilbahn)
After I already introduced you to the Dresden Suspension Cable Railroad (Schwebebahn), it is urgently time to share my other ...
Sound of Nashville Open Air 2024 (25th August 2024, Day 2, Cologne)
After a one day break, the Sound of Nashville Open Air2024 was back in Cologne. Sunday, 25th August 2024, featured ...
Ray.An – Hey You!
Country-rock made in Germany - there are not too many acts in my home country who are able to deliver ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23rd August 2024)
Time for another episode of my Songs of the Week. This time, there is a fine mix of different genres again, ...
Meg Pfeiffer – Perspective
Meg Pfeiffer popped up here and there in my Flyctory.com postings. On 23rd August 2024, the German singer-songwriter, who is ...
Biggesee Cruise with Personenschiffahrt Biggesee
The Sauerland in the Western part of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) is very popular as a ...
Wildpark Poing (near Munich)
Having a nice walk in the (somewhat) nature and meeting some animals out there - the weather was just too ...
Premier Inn Braunschweig City Centre
In order to cover the German Athletics Nationals 2024, I needed to have a three night stay in Braunschweig. I ...
Anna-Carina Woitschack – Meine Zeit
The final straight of the promotion campaign for Anna-Carina Woitschack's 2024 album kicked off with a very explicit event. You ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16th August 2024)
This week is in focus of Jessica Lynn. I saw her show near Cologne on Monday and visited another concert ...
Jessica Lynn (Song of My Life Show, Erftstadt, 12th August 2024)
After featuring the Giovanni Zarrella concert the week before, another very special show was on my list on 12th August ...
Paris 2024 Olympics – My Tops and Flops
After I did a review by sports of the 2020/21 Toyko Summer Olympic Games, I have been at the 2024 ...
The Flyctory.com-Style Medal Count of the 2024 Paris Olympics
I did this kind of posting for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games as well as for the 2020/21 Tokyo Summer ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 9th August 2024)
This edition of my Songs of the Week feels like a ballad edition. There are a lot of gentle and emotional song ...
Giovanni Zarrella (6th August 2024, Cologne)
After I had quite an intense series of concerts in May 2024, there has been quite a break in my ...
Int. German U14 Tennis Nationals – Girls Doubles Final: V. Cesonyte (GER) / M.V. Pop (ROM) – P. Nualsri (THA) / S. Zhang (CHN) 5-7 2-6
You cannot over-estimate the performance of German Viktorija Cesonyte. After she won the almost three hour girls singles final at ...
Int. German U14 Tennis Nationals – Boys Singles Final: M. Vukovic (FRA) – D. Kim (KOR) 3-6 6-0 4-6
After the epic girls singles final, the boys went to decide their singles winner in Düren. At the Internationa German ...
Int. German U14 Tennis Nationals – Boys Doubles Final: R. Krizian (SVK) / J. Nagel-Heyer (GER) – D. Kim (KOR) / D. Pantaratorn (THA) 2-6 6-4 1-x(12-10)
After the dramatic girls singles final, the second match I present you from the Tennis Europe Super Category tournament in ...
Int. German U14 Tennis Nationals – Girls Singles Final: V. Cesonyte (GER) – Anastasia Nikolaieva (UKR) 7-6(1) 6-3
On 3rd August 2024, I headed to Düren, some 50 kilometers West of Cologne. My aim was to cover the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 2nd August 2024)
Summer vacation season in Germany, national holiday in Switzerland - the music industry obviously felt (or was right) that this ...
Country Music Picks (New Songs) July 2024
My Country Music Picks are back! I just felt that there is so much more music I want to cover ...
ibis budget Düsseldorf Willich
Getting a hotel in or around Mönchengladbach should typically be not too much of an issue. However, when I wanted ...
Team D Fan Zone at the Paris Olympic Games 2024
The German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund) hired a complete stadium for their events during the Paris 2024 Olympic ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26th July 2024)
What a week - I returned from my tennis coverage in Newport, now I am at the Olympic Games in ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Ben Moske (July 2024)
Ben / Benjamin Moske is a quite well-known artist in the Northern German singer-songwriter scene. His songs are influenced by ...
Food I Had Onboard XVII (mid-May to mid-July 2024)
Oh, I traveled too much the last weeks again. Time for another Food I Had Onboard posting - this time also featuring ...
Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Ratingen
I have stayed at the Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Ratingen a couple of times before my night in June 2024. However, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 19th July 2024)
I am loaded with tennis work this week. The time in Newport, Rhode Island, featuring Indian tennis and the induction ...
Marc Albrecht – Zeit
On 14th June 2024, I featured Marc Albrecht for the first time in the episode of my Songs of the Week ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 12th July 2024)
My bags and cameras are packed, I am ready to head to Newport for the Infosys Tennis Hall of Fame ...
German Athletics Nationals U18/U23 2024 – Day 3 Track Events (7th July 2024)
The fifth and last posting from Mönchengladbach features the Sunday track events of the German Under 18 / Under 23 ...
German Athletics Nationals U18/U23 2024 – Day 3 Field Events (7th July 2024)
Sunday 7th July 2024 was the last day of the German Under 18 / Under 23 Athletics Nationals in Mönchengladbach ...
German Athletics Nationals U18/U23 2024 – Day 2 Track Events (6th July 2024)
Saturday 6th July 2024 came with the longest schedule of the German Under 18 / Under 23 Athletics Nationals. There ...
German Athletics Nationals U18/U23 2024 – Day 2 Field Events (6th July 2024)
After I had a combined report of all events of the first day 2024 German Under 18 / Under 23 ...
German Athletics Nationals U18/U23 2024 – Day 1 (5th July 2024)
The weekend I traveled to the German Athletics Nationals 2024 in Braunschweig, Mönchengladbach hosted the next national top athletics event ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 5th July 2024)
This week, my Songs of the Week are full of pop tracks. There is a lot of sports coverage on Flyctory.com ...
Jonas Green – Neue Wege EP
Rather early before the release date of 5th July 2024, I ran into the EP Neue Wege by German artist Jonas Green ...
T.G. Copperfield – Steppenwolf
On the weekend of 5th July 2024, I feature some interesting releases by German artists. One of them is T.G ...
Bad Temper Joe – At The Villa EP
Bad Temper Joe is one of the finest German blues artists. I have covered his releases twice already, One Can Wreck ...
German Athletics Nationals 2024 – Day 2 Field (30th June 2024)
After my field event coverage of the first day in Braunschweig was rather limited, I hoped that especially the Sunday ...
German Athletics Nationals 2024 – Day 2 Track (30th June 2024)
After the first day of the German Athletics Nationals 2024 in Braunschweig had been really warm and sunny, there were ...
German Athletics Nationals 2024 – Day 1 Field (29th June 2024)
Compared to the outfield positions in Kassel the year before, the German Athletics Nationals 2024 were a bit of tricky ...
German Athletics Nationals 2024 – Day 1 Track (29th June 2024)
The week after the Mehrkampf Meeting Ratingen 2024, I was back in athletics already. Braunschweig was calling for the German ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 28th June 2024)
I feature athletics events three weeks in a row before I head to Newport in Rhode Island for tennis coverage ...
Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart
Germany is famous for its car manufacturers. With Porsche and Mercedes, Stuttgart is likely one of the key cities car ...
Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf Meeting 2024 – Decathlon (Day 2, 23rd June 2024)
German Till Steinforth lead the competition after the first day of the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf Meeting 2024 decathlon. However, there ...
Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf Meeting 2024 – Heptathlon (Day 2, 23rd June 2024)
Three events left until Ratingen would be able to crown their queen of athletics. There were still three events left ...
Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf Meeting 2024 – Decathlon (Day 1, 22nd June 2024)
The Decathlon in Ratingen was held in parallel to the Heptathlon event. Of course, the male athletes were competing to ...
Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf Meeting 2024 – Heptathlon (Day 1, 22nd June 2024)
I have really been looking forward to the weekend of 22nd and 23rd June 2024 for a while. Even though ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 21st June 2024)
Somehow, I can never now if the upcoming week is a "good one" or "bad one" regarding new releases. While ...
Love Command0 – Integration
The press kit to the debut album Integration describes the music of Command0 as an exploration of spacey synths, big beats and ...
Veigh Malow – Why EP
Why is already the second EP release by the German artist and band Veigh Malow. The release of their debut EP ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14th June 2024)
Quality over quantity: I indeed had quite a bunch of candidates for this week's Songs of the Week. However, there are ...
Human Zoo – Echoes Beyond
Doing hard rock with a saxophone? Human Zoo simply do it! On 14th June 2024, some eight years after their ...
German American Heritage Museum (Washington D.C.)
As I am traveling to the United States rather frequently and also love to follow Feli from Germany (formerly German Girl in ...
Atlantis Drive – Atlantis Drive
Atlantis Drive is a brand new hard rock band. The roots are from Germany, but the band features international band ...
Car Rental Review – Hertz Munich Airport (MUC) – Toyota C-HR
A rail strike destroyed our travel plans in and around Munich in March 2024. Thus, on a rather short notice, ...
Best Western Raphael Hotel Altona (Hamburg)
For Charles Esten's show in Hamburg in May 2024, I needed a hotel in the Northern German city. I chose ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 7th June 2024)
Publishing my Songs of the Week right between two Rock of Ages tour legs would suggest that the song is full of energetic ...
Deafcon5 – Exit To Insight
On a promotion platform, I ran into the album Exit To Insight by the German band Deafcon5. The album is already ...
Marianne Rosenberg – Bunter Planet
Marianne Rosenberg is truly a legend in the German schlager and pop scene. Her career is impressing. However, I never ...
On Tour With Rock of Ages 2024 (Episode 5 – Munich, 28th May to 1st June 2024)
Munich is always a special place to me. As parts of my family roots are from there, I always feel ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 31st May 2024)
This week, I am in Munich, watching a couple of Rock of Ages shows. The week is more busy and demanding ...
Lena – Loyal To Myself
In 2010, Germany fell in love with a 19-year old lady. Lena managed to do what somehow felt impossible for ...
Andreas Dorau (25th May 2024, Essen)
I follow Andreas Dorau and his music since the mid-1990's. The more I was happy to be able to cover ...
#TrueAthletes Classics Leverkusen 2024 – Field Events
After the 2023 edition of the #TrueAthletes Classics took place at the end of July, TSV Bayer Leverkusen hosted their ...
Sasha (24th May 2024, Düsseldorf)
I so far featured the German pop artist Sasha only once, with his children album Toto und der Mann im Mond ...
Ron Spielman – Lifeboat
When scanning new releases as of 24th May 2024, I was running into a very interesting release by a German ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24th May 2024)
This time, selecting the leading track of my Songs of the Week was really troublesome. Three candidates have already been released ...
49 Winchester (21st May 2024, Cologne)
Right after I returned from a weekend trip to Norway, my home town Cologne hosted another really interesting country music ...
Jack McBannon – Tennessee
Three years ago, I introduced you to the album True Stories by Jack McBannon. Despite his artist name, the country ...
Food I Had Onboard XVI (mid-April to mid-May 2024)
I had quite a lot of travel in recent times - so there is time for a new Food I Had ...
Ochmoneks – In Schwarzer Tinte
I already featured the band Ochmoneks twice in my Songs of the Week, on 9th June and on 7th July 2023 ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17th May 2024)
Returning from the World Floorball Championships in Finland, heading directly to a business trip to Paris - this week was ...
WFC 2024 in Lahti – Splitter, Stats, & 3×3 Thoughts
Wow, what an intense week. Flyctory.com felt like my former sports project, sport-live.net, the last ten days. So many match ...
WFC 3×3 Floorball 2024 – Day 2 Men’s Finals (12th May 2024)
On the men's finals side, I concentrated on two matches of the final 3x3 World Floorball Championships match day. From ...
WFC 3×3 Floorball 2024 – Day 2 Women’s Finals (12th May 2024)
A German team competing for the medal - the effort of the German national team at the 3x3 Floorball WFC ...
WFC 3×3 Floorball 2024 – Day 1 Men’s Competition (11th May 2024)
After my first posting about the debut event of the 3x3 World Floorball Championships was about the first day of ...
WFC 3×3 Floorball 2024 – Day 1 Women’s Competition (11th May 2024)
In my introductory posting, I already introduced you to the concept of 3x3 Floorball and the first World Floorball Championships ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10th May 2024)
Despite the World Floorball Championships coverage, I of course want to keep my Songs of the Week updated. Due to the ...
WFC U19 Girls 2024: Germany – Singapore 9-1 (2-1, 5-0, 2-0)
By beating New Zealand and Australia, Singapore had already practically saved the spot as the best placed Asian / Oceanian ...
WFC U19 Girls 2024: Australia – Germany 1-12 (1-5, 0-4, 0-3)
I over-estimated the travel time from Helsinki, so that I indeed made it to the first Under 19 WFC match ...
Berlin Tempelhof (THF) Former Terminal Tour
The history of Berlin nowadays is also a story of two airports which have been closed down in the meantime ...
Kacey Musgraves (5th May 2024, Cologne)
End of April and beginning of May 2024 featured a couple of very interesting country music gigs in Germany. For ...
Charles Esten (3rd May 2024, Hamburg)
End of April and beginning of May 2024 came with quite some photographic dates for me. Right after the Carrie ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 3rd May 2024)
There is a lot of traveling around during the next weeks. Unfortunately, I could not cover some concerts, which I ...
On Tour With Rock of Ages 2024 (Episode 4 – Duisburg, 1st May 2024)
After I had a one show stay in Vienna, it was already some three weeks since I had seen Rock of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26th April 2024)
Snow in April! After I had some snowfall after the Swiss Floorball Superfinals (my coverage of the women's match / ...
A Walk Through Wangerooge (Pictured Story)
Especially in summer, East Frisia and the East Frisian Islands on the German North Sea coast are very popular tourist ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 19th April 2024)
Taylor Swift, Pearl Jam and many more - this weekend is packed with great new album releases. Nonetheless, the week ...
Darius Rucker (19th April 2024, Cologne)
What an honor - Darius Rucker kicked off his Starting Fires Tour World Tour in my home tome Cologne. The Live Music ...
Holiday Inn Express Cologne – Troisdorf
Meeting with friends in Troisdorf between Bonn and Cologne in the evening and relaxing at the Wellnest private spa Bonn ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 12th April 2024)
It's been quite tough for me this week to keep Flyctory.com up and running. I had a stronger cold this ...
Food I Had Onboard XV (March 2024 – early April 2024)
In my fifteenth edition of my Food I Had Onboard posting series, I have a quhttps://flyctory.com/tag/deutschebahn/ite nice range of flight and ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 5th April 2024)
This week, I am returning from a really cool Pittsburgh Penguins ice hockey trip along the East Coast. Maybe that's ...
Kettcar – Gute Laune ungerecht verteilt
The German rock band is already active since more than two decades. Not too surprisingly, the band is having quite ...
Wellnest Bonn
After having visited their outlets in Essen and Cologne already, my wife and I made use of Good Friday 2024 ...
ibis Bochum Zentrum
12th March 2024 brought me to Bochum in the German Ruhrgebiet. The city hosted my very first Rock of Ages ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29th March 2024)
That's all? That's roughly I thought when I finally had a rather short long list of candidates for my Songs of ...
Lautstärke – Ruhe vor dem Sturm EP
Lautstärke is a German band, which is doing German lyrics rock songs with a touch of punk. On 29th March ...
On Tour With Rock of Ages 2024 (Episode 2 – Cologne, 22nd to 27th March 2024)
This year, I take you on my tour-chasing of the German Rock of Ages musical. The first trip report episode ...
My 15 Favorite Hotels I Have Stayed in… So Far
At the time when I started writing this posting in early March 2024, Flyctory.com already featured reviews of over 320 ...
Being Anne – Thank You For Ruining My Summer EP
I am closing my reviews as of 22nd March 2024 with a German artist. Being Anne (typically written in small ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22nd March 2024)
After I shared my Bochum Rock of Ages thoughts with you already, I am just about to have eight show streak ...
Futurium Berlin
For the second part of my "review battle" of museums dealing with visions around the future, we leave the Museum ...
The Cumberland River Project – Vain Regrets
Frank Renfordt is back - and this time he is wearing his cowboy hat again! The Cumberland River Project releases ...
On Tour With Rock of Ages 2024 (Episode 1 – Bochum, 12th/13th March 2024)
Typically, my trip reports are about one travel. Sometimes, there are one-day stories like the 24 hour train ride through ...
Brokof – Blind Spot On The Bright Side Of Life
The German band Brokof is active since 2007. They established in the German music scene and already released five studio ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15th March 2024)
A lot of traveling is ahead of me. I just returned from a trip to Bochum, watching my first two ...
Sandie Wollasch – Women’s Choice
I typically receive quite a lot of jazz promotion. However, I rarely find albums and EPs which I really enjoy ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Frank Renfordt / The Cumberland River Project (March 2024)
The Cumberland River Project is on the final straight towards a new release. On 22nd March 2023, Frank Renfordt and ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 8th March 2024)
Germany is sunk in strikes of different kinds, mainly in transportation business. I have been impacted this week by that ...
Pawn Painters – pawn painters 1
The name is already suggesting: this one is the debut album of a band named Pawn Painters. The German act ...
Restless Road, Redferrin & Carter Faith (6th March 2024, Frankfurt)
Right the day after the Sound of Nashville show in Cologne on 5th March 2024, I headed to Frankfurt. Again, ...
Food I Had Onboard XIV (January 2024 – early March 2024)
France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia - I am just coming back from a massive aviation trip, which is the ...
Uli Sailor – Für immer jung EP
Which genre are you thinking about when the arrangement solely consists of a piano, a cello and a vocalist? If ...
Dümptener Füchse – UHC Sparkasse Weissenfels 1-6 (0-3, 0-1, 1-2)
Just two weeks after I featured the Dümptener Füchse women's team at Erlensee, I had them on my schedule again ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 1st March 2024)
I struggled a bit compiling the Songs of the Week this time. The partial flight miles for my current trip ...
Anchors & Hearts – Deathlist
In June 2021, I shared the album Guns Against Liberty. The band behind that album is the Hamburg-based melodic hardcore act ...
Germany’s Westernmost Point near Selfkant-Isenbruch (Pictured Story)
The Selfkant is truly a remarkable municipality in the very West of the Federal Republic of Germany. The border to ...
B&B Hotel Frankfurt-Niederrad
As I knew it would be rather late after I visited the TSV Erlensee Floorball Bundesliga home matches vs. Dümptener ...
Would – Be Okay To Not Be Okay
With Be Okay To Not Be Okay, I present you another debut album from Germany. While you might not know the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23rd February 2024)
February 2024 is quite an intense month for me. Even though the trips I have planned and done are comparably ...
TSG Erlensee – TSV Calw Lions 8-7 SD (1-3, 4-2, 2-2, 1-x)
The second match in the Großsporthalle Erlensee on 17th February 2024 was a match in the South-West division of the 2nd ...
TSG Erlensee – Dümptener Füchse 0-11 (0-5, 0-5, 0-1)
As part of my initiative to have more sports coverage in 2024, I traveled to Erlensee on 17th February 2024 ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16th February 2024)
Coming back from the United Arab Emirates and about to head to Malaysia soon - thus, some really interesting experiences ...
Merlin Hydes – In Plain Sight
I always enjoy sharing some new German artists with you. This time, I listened to a debut album by the ...
SIKU / WIKING Modellwelt
When I introduced you to the Audi & Siku Museum Höing about three years ago, you already saw that the ...
Car Rental Review – Sixt Leverkusen
My trip to the handball matches at the EHF Euro 2024 preliminary round matches in Berlin did not feel being ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 9th February 2024)
Carnvial in Cologne - and I am in he United Arab Emirates this weekend. It is rather party season, no ...
Kerstin Bogensee – Sonne & Zweifel
I am always a bit of extra-flattered when my most frequently used promotion platform shows an album by a German ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Kerstin Bogensee (February 2024)
I am always flattered when there are new, interesting German acts who are releasing country music. This week on Flyctory.com ...
Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt City Centre East
Having dinner with some frequent traveler friends in Frankfurt lead to a one night stay in the German city, famous ...
ISTAF Indoor 2024 Duesseldorf (4th February 2024)
With the ISTAF Indoor 2023, I kicked off my campaign to intensify my athletics coverage in 2023. The more, I ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 2nd February 2024)
January 2024 has already passed and we are running into the first February 2024 edition of my weekly release radar ...
Alex Diehl (2nd February 2024, Cologne)
Especially after I reviewed the amazing album Das ist keine Übung in October 2023, I was really looking forward to see Alex ...
Slope – Freak Dreams
Slope are doing a quite rare mix of metal, hip hop and electronic sounds. The band developed their style during ...
Skuppin – Reliquen
Quite early before the release of Reliquien, I receved the first press information about the debut album by German artist ...
TerraZoo Rheinberg (Germany)
There are a lot of zoos and animal parks in the Rheinland and Ruhrgebiet region of Germany. The TerraZoo in ...
Fabian Kuhn – Constellations EP
This review is about some singer-songwriter pop from Germany - more precisely: quite from the Rheinland area I grew up ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26th January 2024)
In the relations of my home town Cologne, we are celebrating a big Songs of the Week anniversary with this edition. My ...
Wuppertaler Hochsprungmeeting (Wuppertal High Jump Meeting) 2024
I still feel that in many athletics meetings, the track events are somehow still more in focus than the field ...
Kerle Fornia – Ist das der Weg nach Colorado?
After a few mentions in my Songs of the Week, I was really looking forward to listen to the new album ...
Aerotask Boeing B747 Simulator in Cologne
After I had already flown the Airbus A320 simulator by Aerotask in Essen, I was really looking forward to my ...
Wernigerode Aviation Museum (Luftfahrtmuseum)
Wernigerode being located right North of the Harz mountains might not be the most obvious location for an aviation museum ...
Best Western Dreiländerbrücke Weil am Rhein
On 6th January 2024, I have been in Switzerland to cover two floorball matches, Zulgtal Eagles vs. Visper Lions and ...
ASV Cologne – Floor Fighters Chemnitz 3-13 (0-3, 1-5. 2-5)
Getting into the FInal4, the semifinal and final event of the German Floorball Cup, is likely one of the most ...
Sparkassen Indoor Meeting Dortmund 2024 (Indoor Athletics) – Track Events
After I gave you my report of the field and side events of the 2004 Sparkassen Indoor Meeting in Dortmund, ...
Sparkassen Indoor Meeting Dortmund 2024 (Indoor Athletics) – Field & Side Events
In general, I plan to increase the frequency of my athletics coverage during 2024. The first event of that sports ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 19th January 2024)
This week, I published how I feel to concentrate on one Country Music Playlist - at least until I found ...
Dead Eyed Creek – Out of Phase
This week, I am dealing with quite a lot of music postings during the week. There are two reasons for ...
Andreas Dorau – Im Gebüsch
There is hardly any more controversial topic between my wife and I than music by Andreas Dorau: while I feel ...
EHF Euro 2024 (Handball) at the Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin
Seeing one of the very first appearances of the Faroe Islands at a EHF Euro in handball just felt too ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 12th January 2024)
This time, my Songs Of The Week consist of 14 new releases as of this week. The Christmas break is definitely ...
Andreas Dorau – My Most Favorite Songs and Lines
Andreas Dorau is one of the artists I follow for the longest time in my life. In 1997, just when ...
Food I Had Onboard XIII (End November 2023 – early January 2024)
Happy New Onbaord-Food Year! At least, there is one flight experience from 2024 in this posting already, a Lufthansa Business ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 5th January 2024)
While I still had a rather short list of album releases, there was already quite a lot of stuff for ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29th December 2023)
The Christmas weeks are typically the ones with the lowest number of releases. Unfortunately, quite the majority of the songs ...
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2023
Is it really New Year's Eve already again? The last day of the year? I am posting this one in ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2023
Yeah, I am still more of an album person. I feel that a long-play is still able to tell stories ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2023
It's time to look back to . After I shared my new format My Year in Travel with you the first time, ...
Fiddler’s Green – The Green Machine
Irish folk rock made in Franconia, Germany? Fiddler's Green proof that this can be quite a success. With The Green ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22nd December 2023)
It's Christmas Eve, the main day of the Christmas celebrations in Germany. However, all the holiday songs seem having been ...
Strife 85 – Memories Kill Butterflies
I already featured the Nuremberg-based band Strife 85 twice in my Songs of the Week this year. Right before the holiday, ...
Bettina Meske – Paradise Is Now
Typically, there are two sorts of album reviews at Flyctory.com: I received the vast majority of reviews as a promo ...
The Ruhr.Topcard – Exploring the Ruhrgebiet in Germany
I already introduced you to the Museumkaart in the Netherlands, which may be a very profitable (but a bit of ...
ibis Budget Aachen Raeren Grenze
Staying at the ibis Budget Aachen Raeren Grenze has been a hotel night I have been looking forward to do ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15th December 2023)
The Christmas countdown is steadily running to zero - which more and more means that new releases get sparse. I ...
Dritte Wahl – Urlaub in der Bredouille
A vacation album? The title Urlaub in der Bredouille sounds like a road trip album to some French region... But ...
Andreas Martin – Hier in dem Moment
A big name in the schlager business: 41 years after Andreas Martin releases his very first studio album, he is ...
Ticket To Happiness – Aufbruch EP
Aufbruch is a very interesting EP release from Germany as of 15th December 2023. The band recording it, Ticket To Happiness ...
Lidia Streifling – Kölsche Klassiker Vol. 1 – För zo dräume
Not only during the carnival season, music is a core part of the identify of my home town Cologne. Thus, ...
Dresden Suspension Cable Railroad (Schwebebahn)
As you know, I am very interested in iconic public transport systems. Thus, I had to visit the Schwebebahn, the suspension ...
Eric Paslay (13th December 2023, Cologne)
His show in Aschaffenburg 2019, the main stage appearance at the C2C Berlin 2020 and now Cologne 2023: Eric Paslay ...
John Garner – Together
John Garner - this musical act name sounds like a solo artist, but is in fact a quintet. The German ...
Santa’s Soundtrack 2023? Some Christmas Releases This Season
Unfortunately, I could not complete the Country Christmas Playlist this year due to technical issues. However, since the days become ...
Weihnachts-Wunderwelt Castle Benrath
Chinese lantern shows and other illuminations have become more and more popular in Europe during the recent winter seasons. In ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 8th December 2023)
I am a bit of angry as the tool I loved to use to scan for new country releases does ...
Nicole Heartseeker & Mulo Francel – Moon River
December, when the frequency of album releases significantly decreases, is also a time for me to have some more outside-of-the-box ...
Ben Zucker – Heute Nicht!
Even though the soil in Monheim was quite muddy, the Ben Zucker concert I had there in July was definitely ...
Hafenmann – Wundersame Welt
Especially during the last months, I felt again how much interesting music is coming from Hamburg. The city in the ...
Willow Parlo – See U Whenever EP
Willow Parlo's Facebook profile states With the window open, Willow Parlo turns the backdrop of the depressing and monotonous city ...
Gregor McEwan (6th December 2023, Cologne)
Afrer his very interesting album release Going Solo, I was really curious about how Gergor McEwan would be alike live on ...
Lufthansa Senator Lounge Frankfurt Airport (FRA) B-Gates
Typically when I fly from the B Gates at Frankfurt Airport (FRA), I love opting for the Air Canada Maple ...
NH Collection Hamburg City
Before I have just been close to the NH Collection Hamburg City, I knew that this hotel will give me ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 1st December 2023)
After my previous Songs of the Week editions were rather pop-alike, I was rather surprised that my release radar this time is ...
Jules Atlas – Postcards From Sophia
The clumsy yet unswerving attempts of being an artist - that's how Jules Atlas describes himself on his Facebook profile ...
Hilton Dresden
The Nacht der Gitarren concert series with Jim Kimo West took me to quite some nice places in late 2023. I had ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24th November 2023)
London, Faroe Islands, another trip tp England, Sweden, USA - the last weeks of 2023 involve quite a bit of ...
Michael Lane – Memories
After his 2019 album Traveling Son and the 2022 Take it Slow, Memories is already the third Michael Lane album I cover ...
Untamed – Untamed
I am typically glad to run into new bands and interesting acts. A few weeks before the release, I received ...
Electric Horseman – Lies to Love for
For the music review weekend of 24th November 2023, I picked a bunch of rather new German acts in my ...
A Walk Around the Grounds of Wacken
Wacken could be just a normal village on the countryside of the German state of Schleswig-Hostein. However, when you mention the ...
Museum of the Everyday Culture (Museum der Alltagskultur, Waldenbuch)
There are so many art museums and technical museums out there. However, do we really care sufficiently about the items ...
Maelfoy – Failures, Fears and Forgiveness
After their debut album Hollow Throne has already been successful, the German melodic post hardcore band Maelfoy is releasing their sophomore album ...
ibis Styles Hamburg Barmbek
In order to cover the Home Free concert in Hamburg in September 2023, I had a night at the ibis ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17th November 2023)
Oh, Christmas is approaching quickly now. A huge number of songs I scanned for my Songs of the Week this time ...
Frollein Motte – UWE
When I started listening to the album UWE of the German band Frollein Motte, I liked their cheeky and straight sound. You ...
Dennis Durant – Fragile
How could I ignore am album starting with a (for me) very special song released on a (for me) very ...
Food I Had Onboard XII (Late October 2023 – Mid-November 2023)
After my eleventh Food I Had Onboard posting majorly concentrated on two Lufthansa First Class legs between Frankfurt (FRA) and ...
EuroNight EN 40476 Night Train from Budapest to Berlin
TraMy trip in late October / early November 2023 involved a lot of traveling. Once I made it back to ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10th November 2023)
I had a short trip to Hamburg this weekend, watching my last Nacht der Gitarren show (see my Reutlingen show report) ...
Sonia Liebing – Liebe ist für alle da
Sonia Liebing established in the wider range of well-known German schlager artists the last years. On her homepage, she is ...
Finn & Jonas – Kiosk
Finn & Jonas are twins. They are doing German indie-pop songs. After they grew regionally and have a national fan ...
ibis Hotel Cologne Frechen
Just as it felt convenient to stay somewhere closer to the office where I work, I had a night at ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 3rd November 2023)
I had a quite intensive week, exploring several interesting rail trips as well as being back in Pittsburgh and in ...
Alphawezen – Source
Source is the fourth album by the German band Alphawezen. However, the most recent album release has happened fourteen years before ...
Bad Rain – Born To Breathe EP
I always love being able to look into new names, new sounds, new bands. This one is about the rock ...
The Joni Project – Shades of Blue
Roberta John Joni Mitchell is a Canadian-US-American singer-songwriter, who majorly did folk and pop music in her career. She has won ...
German Pharmacy Museum Heidelberg
A very interesting part of visiting Heidelberg Castle is the Deutsches Apothekenmuseum, the German Pharmacy Museum. It is giving an illustrative ...
Luke – Strange Boy in Town
Luke is a German artist and band, who are doing blues rock and Americana rock music. After two EP releases, ...
Schnoor – Bremen’s Oldest Borough (Pictured Story)
The two world wars have caused significant damage to most German cities - especially those with a somehow-strategical meaning. Thus, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 27th October 2023)
Halloween is not that much of a big deal in Germany - but some parts of my home country have ...
Doro – Conqueress – Forever Strong and Proud
40 years of Doro Pesch on stage - I really feel a bit of bad that I am not in ...
Mercure Hotel Frankfurt City Messe
Having a cheap hotel close to the main station after the Kelvin Jones concert in October 2023. My aim, when ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 20th October 2023)
Just two months until Christmas. You feel that in my this week's edition of the Songs of the Week definitely. First ...
Myle – Songs To Scream In The Car
Myle is a rather new artist from Southern Germany. On 20th October 2023, the pop artist is releasing his debut ...
Loi (19th October 2023, Cologne)
Just about a month after I saw Randall King at the Cologne Club Volta, I was back there again on ...
RiKu Hotel Reutlingen
In order to to cover the local Nacht der Gitarren show, I headed to Reutlingen in mid-October 2023. As the weeks before ...
Moxy Cologne Muelheim
Before we checked out the new Wellnest private spa in Cologne, my wife and I felt it is a good ...
Country To Country is back in Central Europe – Here are the Main Acts
At the end of September, some miraculous things were happening on the Instagram accounts of the Country To Country Festivals ...
Food I Had Onboard XI (Mid September 2023 – October 2023)
I felt it is a good time to publish my next episode of Food I Had Onboard in this week in ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 13th October 2023)
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Nacht der Gitarren (14th October 2023, Reutlingen)
Finally, he is in Germany! I was so excited to see Jim Kimo West at the Nacht der Gitarren ("Night of the ...
Sebastian Schaffer – Collections
Despite the album Collections being his debut one, the Southwest German Sebastian Schaffer is not a "newbie" at all. He ...
FRAUPAUL – Was, wenn wir dann durchdrehen… ?! EP
FRAUPAUL is a rather new band from Hamburg. Recently, I ran into some of their songs of the second EP ...
Wellnest Cologne
After my wife and I overall had a nice stay at the Wellnest Private Spa in Essen, we were curious ...
Kelvin Jones (8th October 2023, Frankfurt)
After I had the opportunity to see Kelvin Jones at the Heart To Heart show in Dusseldorf and the preparing ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 6th October 2023)
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
Alexandra Hofmann – Grün
The Geschwister Hofmann (namely: "Hofman Siblings") have been a German schlager duo of two sisters. From their first stage appearances ...
Antje Schomaker – Snacks
It's already five years ago since Antje Schomaker released her debut album Von Helden und Halunken. The feature singles to her ...
Alex Diehl – Das ist keine Übung
In 2021, I introduced you to Alex Diehl the first time. That year, he released the amazing EP Die Songs, die ...
Topgolf Oberhausen
Golf? In Germany, the sport is rather regarded to be elite entertainment, a free time activity for the rich. Our ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29 September 2023)
Unfortunately, I had to kick out quite a lot of songs from my list, which I really liked. They just ...
Sacropolis – Dormir Au Soleil EP
Sacropolis is a German-French indie-pop project. However, the members are not coming from the Saarland or any similar close-to-the border ...
Collapse Unter The Empire – Recurring
Big release day for Collapse Under The Empire: with Recurring, they don't just publish their tenth studio album overall, the German ...
They Called Me Phoebe – Overthinking EP
I recently ran into the music of German artist They Called Me Phoebe for the first time. The more I ...
Joe Leila – Breathing EP
Schrobenhausen North of Munich is typically known for as one of the German centers of asparagus farming. The city is ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22 September 2023)
There is somehow always some sort of "topic" behind each and every Songs of the Week episode. If I would pick one ...
Ron Pope (23rd September 2023, Cologne)
Busy times: just three days after I saw Home Free in Hamburg and eight days after the Randall King show ...
Rising Wings – Reach
The story of the hard rock project Rising Wings is indeed a rather unique one: the band was already active ...
Car Rental Review – Europcar Stuttgart Main Station – Fiat 500X
Getting to the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf required a rental car from Stuttgart Main Station to the town ...
Home Free (20th September 2023, Hamburg)
Home Free - the a capella country band has built a fan base all over the world nowadays. I was ...
The Privilege of the Loo – On Bathroom Distribution in Airplanes
When Swiss International Air Line recently released the seat map of their new Airbus A350 fleet, a real advantage of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15 September 2023)
The Songs Of The Week is one of my favorite categories of posts on my blog. Even I don't know how the ...
Rock of Ages – 2024 International Dates of the Musical
It is just mid-year 2023 and I already start working on my 2024 Rock of Ages International Tour list. I am sure ...
Flying with FLN Frisia-Luftverkehr from Harle (EDXP) to Wangerooge (AGE)
I love small regional air service like the Essential Air Service in the USA or flights to small and rather ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 08 September 2023)
Wow - I had so many albums this week. Even if I skipped all travel posts and do the regular ...
The Blackwhitecolorful – Brace for Impact
The Blackwhitecolorful is a band from my home town Cologne. After a 2020 album release, Brace for Impact is their sophomore ...
Bellucci Boi – Lost in Berlin EP
If you regularly follow my Songs of the Week, you already know the upcoming German artist Bellucci Boi. I introduced you ...
Food I Had Onboard X (July 2023 til early September 2023)
Are we really in the double digits now? I am really happy about my "new" category Food I had Onboard. Also, ...
SkyTrain Dusseldorf Airport
The public transport situation of Dusseldorf Airport (DUS) is a bit more complex than it might feel at first sight ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 01 September 2023)
September 2023 will be a quite busy monh. If I finally receive all press passes I envisage to get, there ...
Melanie Wiegmann & Carl Carlton – Glory of Love
In March 2020, just at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Melanie Wiegmann went to the Maltese island of Gozo ...
ibis Kassel
While covering the German Athletics Nationals 2023 in Kassel, I was looking for an accommodation near the hosting venue Auestadion. I ...
Heart To Heart Event (29th August 2023, Düsseldorf)
One evening with six different artists? The opening night of the Heart To Heart concert series definitely came with high ...
Gregor McEwan – Going Solo
When I prepared for the review of this album, I read in one magazine article that Gregor McEwen is a ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 August 2023)
I have quite intense weeks at work, not too many thrills on the Flyctory.com side. The next weeks will have ...
Philipp Artmann – Guten Morgen schönes Leben
The title of the album Guten Morgen, schönes Leben translates to "Good morning, beautiful life". The artist who wrote it is German ...
RiKu Hotel Pfullendorf
Looking for a hotel to cover the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf did not give me too many options ...
Duisburg Harbor Cruise with Weisse Flotte
If you think about famous German harbor cities, you might initially think of places like Hamburg or Kiel. However, Duisburg ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 18 August 2023)
This weekend, I have been traveling through England, doing some musical-chasing. As mixed as the stuff I have been doing ...
Sleazy – Back on Track
Actually, we never stopped playing are the first words to the press notes to Back on Track, the comeback album of ...
Madsen – Hollywood
Madsen is indeed a German family rock band. Three of the six band members are brothers, the band name is ...
Songs Of My Life: Doro – The Fortuneteller
Very often, a song I feature as a Song Of My Life is also a track which made me listen ...
Bergischer HC (Handball) at Uni-Halle Wuppertal
The Bergischer HC is a handball club in the German Bundesliga. Visiting one of their home matches requires a bit ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 11 August 2023)
I am still relaxing from all the trips I had during the last weeks. Nonetheless, things are just busy and ...
Mo-Torres – Heute war alles Besser
Rap and pop music - Mo-Torres is one of the more modern style musicians of the Cologne music scene. On ...
Heart to Heart – Semmel Concerts Introduces the Songwriters Round to Germany
I am surprised that it has never been there before, stated Jackson Dean, one of the four artists, who will ...
Home is where the heart is – My Twelve Favorite Cities of the World
Home is where the heart is - I had the idea to this posting about my favorite cities of the ...
The FC St. Pauli Museum (Kiezbeben)
The website of the FC St. Pauli Museum states that a club like no other deserves a museum as no other. Indeed, ...
Pullman Cologne
As part of my overnights bridging the night between two mandatory days at the office in Cologne, my last stay ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 04 August 2023)
After some rather intense week of traveling, I feel rather happy to spend the next two weekends in and around ...
Ludwig Wright – Turn of Tides or Where the Waves Come From
Turn of Tides or Where the Waves Come From - that's quite an album title, ain't it? The artist behind ...
X-Perience – We Travel The World
It is some three years ago since I reviewed the album 555 by the German synth-pop project X-Perience. I was ...
Hanna Sikasa – Sequel
Why not doing some jazz-pop in summer? Quite early before the release, I had the opportunity to listen to Sequel by ...
Air France / KLM Lounge Frankfurt Airport (FRA)
The first day of our Iceland Ring Road trip brought my wife and I to the Air France / KLM ...
Mercure Hotel Severinshof Cologne City
Just a week after I stayed at the Mercure Cologne City Friesenstrasse, I tried out another hotel of the Accor ...
#TrueAthletes Classics Leverkusen 2023 – Track Events
My first posting from the Manforter Stadion at the #TrueAthletes Classics 2023 in Leverkusen has been about the field events. Now, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 28 July 2023)
I never know what is really happening when I compose a new episode of my Songs of the Week. Until Friday, ...
#TrueAthletes Classics Leverkusen 2023 – Field Events
World class athletics in walking distance to my home? The #TrueAthletes Classics in Leverkusen has been on my bucket list ...
Sasha – Toto und der Mann im Mond (music album)
Sasha did so many genres already. He is majorly known as a pop artist, but also did rockabilly records with ...
Ben Zucker (28th July 2023, Monheim)
The Monheimer Sommer is a small series of open air concerts, driven by the city in the Rheinland region. Apart from ...
Santans – Koi Boi EP
Some interesting indie-pop from Germany: I already featured Santans in my Song of the Week postings. However, on 28th July 2028, ...
Fury in the Slaughterhouse – Hope
When I reviewed the album now by the German rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse in April 2021, it has been their ...
Hampton by Hilton Dortmund Phoenix See
Being on a five-day seminar in Lünen North of Dortmund lead to a comparably long stay at the Hampton by ...
Mercure Cologne City Friesenstrasse
What are you doing as a hobby travel blogger when your company (the professional work...) is requesting you to meet ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 21 July 2023)
While I had quite an intense week in regards of scanning country music new releases, the German and international music ...
Cygnotic – Mortal Dreamers
Electronic music is typically neither the genre I listen to personally nor the type of music which frequently represented in ...
Later Sons – Rise Up
Some classic hard rock by a new German band project? I got curious when I ran into Rise Up, the debut ...
Hamburg Coffee Museum Burg
Due to its harbor, Hamburg is a very important place for trading goods of all kinds. Not too surprisingly, there ...
nhow Frankfurt
NH Hotels are rolling out a new brand of hotels in Europe: nhow (pronounced as "now") is a group of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14 July 2023)
Newcomers and established artists, rock and schlager, party songs and deep messages - I feel that this edition of my ...
Tom Astor – Wieder da!
Tom Astor is likely the most important living artist of the German country music scene. In 2023, he did not ...
German Athletics Nationals 2023 – Day 2 Track (9th July 2023)
With this fourth posting, I am closing my coverage of the German Athletics Nationals 2023. The Auestadion in Kassel hosted ...
German Athletics Nationals 2023 – Day 2 Field (9th July 2023)
I start my coverage of the second day of the German Athletics Nationals 2023 in Kassel with the field events ...
German Athletics Nationals 2023 – Day 1 Field (8th July 2023)
I am a huge fan of the field events in athletics - and thus, I am really glad to also ...
German Athletics Nationals 2023 – Day 1 Track (8th July 2023)
The German Athletics Nationals (or German Athletics Championships... or Deutsche Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften) 2023 in Kassel were truly one of the events I ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 07 July 2023)
Some surprise in this week's posting: I selected a very special instrumental track to lead my Songs of the Week ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Atmosphere & Impressions
After I gave you three postings about the music at the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf already, it is ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Day 3 Concerts (2nd July)
Closing day in Pfulllendorf - after Saturday came with a long line-up and a lot of acts, the musical side ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 30 June 2023)
Motorbikes and good music - I am having a really good time in Pfullendorf at the Lake Constance region in ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Day 2 Concerts (1st July)
After the great musical warm-up on the first day of the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf, Saturday was something ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Day 1 Concerts (30th June)
My first full festival coverage with Flyctory.com - I was really nervous while sitting on the train to Stuttgart and ...
Crown of Things – Louder Love
The closer you get to summer and vacation time, the easier it is for comparably minor acts to have a ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – A Preview
I am not a Harley rider and I will travel to Pfullendorf by rental car. But I am really looking ...
There is a single Büchting Street in Germany – and I take you there
I have to give in, that is not a normal posting. I felt that with any major anniversary for Flyctory.com, ...
Food I Had Onboard IX (Mid-May 2023 til June 2023)
One more Food I had onboard until I have a full set of ten postings. Hope you also enjoy reading ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23 June 2023)
Traveling out of nowehere: I compiled this set of songs in Swansea in Whales, watching the very last Rock of ...
Mental Cruelty – Zwielicht
Time to add some more death metal to the Media Reviews of Flyctory.com: after the May 2021 release A Hill To Die Upon, ...
Pascal Blenke – Gedankenspiele
I always enjoy introducing you to emerging artists. One of the reviews I feature about a rather less known artist ...
Hilton Dusseldorf
Right before my wife and I visited the Wellnest Private Spa in Essen during the Christmas holidays of 2022, we ...
Wuppertaler Schwebebahn (Wuppertal Suspension Railroad)
The name of the German city of Wuppertal in the Bergische Land region near Cologne is indeed a perfect fit ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16 June 2023)
I typically rather focus presenting new and emerging act in my Song of the Week, but this time, the list of ...
Sea Life Munich
My visit at the Sea Life in Munich has still been under Covid-19 regulations. However, I feel that most of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 09 June 2023)
I received so many great albums this week - no chance to process a fair fraction of them. However, the ...
Rock of Ages (9th June 2023, Solingen)
After there was some confusion about my coverage of the German debut of the Rock of Ages musical in Munich, I was ...
Melia Berlin
Sad and touching moments just need to have a good hotel stay for your soul. For the very last leg ...
The Deslondes (6th June 2023, Cologne)
Back to the Kantine in Cologne: just less than a month after I saw Kip Moore in their major and ...
Milky Chance – Living In A Haze
In November 2022, right after my birthday, a German world-class band was in focus of my Flyctory.com coverage. One day ...
Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp Memorial
The former concentration camp site at Bergen-Belsen might not be as prominent as Dachau, but it is nonetheless one of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 02 June 2023)
Due to my recent illness, I have to reduce my travel activity in June significantly. Nonetheless, there will be ten Rock ...
Silbermond – Auf Auf
It's already some four years ago since Silbermond released their last album Schritte. Even though the chart placements were fine, it ...
Saturn Oil Open 2023: R. Ramanathan (IND) / N. Zimonjic (SRB) – D. Brown (JAM) / T. Sandkaulen (GER) 4-6 7-6(4) x-1(9-11))
A 75k ATP Challenger right next to the city where I grew up? Troisdorf near Bonn and their tennis club ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26 May 2023)
I have struggled quite much with health issues this week - which also prevented me to travel to some British Rock ...
Grenzenlos – AntiXtrem
Some harder rock from Southern Germany: Grenzenlos have been growing their fan base during the last years significantly. The have ...
Everette & Austin Jenckes (23rd May 2023, Cologne)
On 23rd May 2023, the Sound of Nashville concert series had a very special even in Cologne's Helios37. Despite being ...
Sören Vogelsang – Optimismus Prime
I love to have a look to German artists, which might not be in key focus of the media. Sören ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 19 May 2023)
A public holiday in (parts of) Germany gave me the opportunity to collect some status Tier Points for my British ...
Palila – Mind My Mind
When I first googled of "Palila", I ran into a cute yellow-white bird. Palila from Hamburg, however, are less cute ...
Marathonmann – Maniac
I received the album Maniac by the Munich post-hardcore band Marathonmann way before its release on 19th May 2023. Short message: I ...
Moor – Heavy Heart
Catharsis by pain - that's a quote I read frequently about the Hamburg doom metal bnd Moor. For their debut ...
Food I Had Onboard VIII (April 2023 til Mid-May 2023)
Oops, I did it again. Just within about a month, I feel that I had a nice volume of flights, ...
Kip Moore (14th May 2023, Cologne)
Sound of Nashville time again. Right after I returned from a brief trip through the Nordics, Semmel Concerts and their ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 12 May 2023)
After the volume of songs in the last two weeks has been rather thin, this week's Songs of the Week comes with ...
Rahel – Blessed EP
At the German version of The Voice Kids, a ten year old girl quickly persuaded the coaches in the blind auditions ...
Drielandenpunt Vaalserberg – Where Netherlands meet Belgium and Germany
Germany meets Belgium and Belgium meets the Netherlands. Needless to say that also Germany and the Netherlands touch each other ...
My Favorite Eurovision Song Contest Songs
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 ...
Adagio Hotel Bremen
Even though Accor is likely the second-most frequented hotel group in my bookings, a night in Bremen in April 2023 ...
Indecent Behavior – Therapy In Melody
The album Therapy In Melody was definitely one I was looking forward to. Two of the featured singles by the band Indecent ...
Songs Of My Life: Guildo Horn – Guildo Hat Euch Lieb!
There are these days in life which you remember. The days you exactly remember what you did on that day ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 05 May 2023)
I am quite surprised about a rather short list of new songs today. Might be because of Labour Day on ...
Andreas Diehlmann Band – Long Way To Go
There is quite some blues focus on the releases I opted to share with you released as of 5th May ...
Sebel – Der Boxer
The artist name Sebel is a short form for the civil name of the artist, Sebastian Niehoff. He is a ...
Tino Z – Bluesman
From the Highwayman to the Bluesman: about a year ago, I reviewed the album Highwayman by Tino Z.On 5th May 2023, the German is back ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 28 April 2023)
As I told you in previous postings, I initially gather candidates for my Songs of the Week, before I narrow the ...
Traveling on Iceland’s Ring Road (Day 1 – 29th April 2023) – Germany to Hella
Let's take you on a trip to Iceland. This is the first proper entry to my Trip Report, which takes on ...
Philip Bradatsch – Philip Bradatsch
I am always glad to present you German artists, who have a touch of international-style Americana and country music influences ...
Storm Seeker – Nautic Force
Just at the end of the week in which I covered the concert of the Wellerman band The Longest Johns, I ran ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Martina (27th April 2023)
This April 2023 episode of my Spotlight interviews is one I have been a bit of nervous about, indeed. After ...
Nature Museum (Naturmuseum) Dortmund
Visiting Dortmund, my wife and I also headed to the Naturmuseum (Nature Museum) in the city of the German Ruhrgebiet. After the ...
Travel all Germany for 49 EUR a Month? The New Deutschland Ticket
Using public transport all over Germany for 49 Euro? Sounds like the perfect deal, especially if you are a visitor ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 21 April 2023)
As I am having some quite intense travels ahead of me, I currently try to prepare as much contents for ...
Kati von Schwerin – Welcome Back Home
Reading sessions, artsexhibitions... and concerts - if you look at the tour dates of Kati von Schwerin, you already see ...
The Longest Johns (21st April 2023, Cologne)
In 2018, four Bristol guys recorded an old New Zealand shanty, which was about 150 years old at that time ...
Riding the Heidelberg Funiculars
Even though Heidelberg is a tourist magnet for many reasons, the Heidelberger Bergbahnen (Heidelberg Funiculars) are part of it. They offer you ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14 April 2023)
After some rather intense traveling, I am glad that there is just a short trip this week. I concentrated on ...
Musa Dagh – No Future
While I struggled with their self-titled debut album Musa Dagh, some other critics had a completely different view about the first ...
German Rail (Deutsche Bahn) Lounge Hamburg – Premium Area
In January 2023, I took a rail trip hitting all 16 German states in one day. Apart from that geographic ...
IntercityHotel Hannover Hauptbahnhof Ost
For a night after a photo trip to the Harz mountains in January 2023, I had a one night stay ...
North West – Hamburg
Despite the album name Hamburg, the German indie-pop band North West is in fact from the very North West of Germany, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 07 April 2023)
Not too many releases due to the Easter week. The week was dominated by my Rock of Ages coverage. First of all, ...
Zartbitter – Hier und Jetzt
I had quite a lot of rock music recently on Flyctory.com. Especially German artists made it quite frequently into my ...
Rock of Ages Opening Night – Red Carpet Impressions
I have to give in: the red carpet is not my favorite location. Nonetheless, I felt very thankful that after ...
Rock of Ages (German Tour Opening Night in Munich, 5th April 2023)
I had seen the musical Rock of Ages 73 times before this show - but show #74 made me kind of extra-nervous ...
Zoo Zajac (Duisburg) – The World Largest Pet Store
Duisburg in the Ruhrgebiet might not be on the top of your list when you plan a trip though Germany ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 31 March 2023)
Pop, rock, schlager and much more - I feel that this week's Songs of the Week is a really nice mix of ...
Wolkenfrei – Hotel Tropicana
Vanessa Mai is back with a new album. However, the German artist with Croatian roots is going back to her ...
VIVA – Das ist die Wahrheit
Das ist die Wahrheit - "That's the Truth" is the title of the 2023 album of the rock band VIVA ...
Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Airport
Attending a frequent traveler meeting nearby, I had the opportunity to visit the Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Airport towards the ...
Food I Had Onboard VII (mid-February 2023 til March 2023)
The last legs of the 2023 Weird Al Yankovic European Tour, Rock of Ages shows, the Pittsburgh Penguins and many ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 March 2023)
I have to give in: the song leading this week's Songs of the Week might also be a candidate for the ...
SSF Dragons Bonn – Red Devils Wernigerode 5-4 (2-2, 0-2, 3-0)
Floorball playoff time in Bonn: on 26th March 2023, the SSF Dragons Bonn hosted the first best of three match ...
Black Hawk – Soulkeeper
Four decades of guitar riffs - the hard rockers / metalheads Black Hawk already have quite a long history. The ...
Matthias Reim (24th March 2023, Oberhausen)
After a lot of tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins, the first weekend home after quite a ...
Sophia – Niemals Allein
Technically, I had already closed the list of potential reviews as of 24th March 2023. But then came Sophia and ...
Leony – Somewhere in Between
Leony is one of the most interesting emerging artists in the German pop music market. She is currently part of ...
Premier Inn Hamburg St. Pauli
In order to explore Hamburg and upgrade my contents about the Northern German city, I had a two night stay ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 March 2023)
I am always impressed where the Songs of the Week each weekend finally end of. This time, for example, i have been ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10 March 2023)
Sometimes, it is easy to select the leading track of my Songs of the Week: I had two hot candidates, but ...
Mael & Jonas – Rocket Science
On 10th February 2023, I ran into the single release All my Songs by the German duo Mael & Jonas (in fact, ...
Car Rental Review – Sixt Goslar – Audi A6 Quattro
Back to my former home, the Harz mountains: watching two matches of the Red Devils Wernigerode, visiting my student residence ...
H+ Hotel Köln Brühl
Even though Brühl right South of Cologne is just home of 45,000 inhabitant, there are mutiple major attractions in the ...
Weird Al Yankovic tours Europe 2023 – My Reprise
Ten shows within three weeks - I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 03 March 2023)
After my most recent edition of my Songs of the Week majorly featured German artists and a lot of pop, my song ...
Wolfgang Petry – Stark wie wir
Wolfgang Petry is back: just about one and a half years after Auf das Leben and half a year after Crosswalk to ...
Lina – 24/1
After I have been quite impressed by her recent development, I was quite curious about 24-1, the new album by German ...
Mitchell Tenpenny & Morgan Evans (3rd March 2023, Hamburg)
Heading to Hamburg for a day just in the middle of Weird Al Yankovic tour-chasing for country music? February and ...
AnnenMayKantereit – Es ist Abend und wir sitzen bei mir
They started as a school band in my home town and gained global reputation: AnnenMayKantereit released their fourth album Es ist ...
Helge Schneider – Torero
He is having the unofficial nickname The singing Gentleman's Cake and had a huge song about a cat's toilet - Helge Schneider ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 February 2023)
I love gathering songs for Songs of the Week, as the result is so unpredictable, even for me, until short before ...
Endlevel – Weekend War
Endlevel are a German band, who mix thrash and death metal elements. On 24th February 2023, they released a new ...
Antonia Kubas – Liebe und Musik EP
I was quite surprised when I received the press kit for Antonia Kubas' debut EP: Liebe und Musik ("Love and music") ...
Five Years of Flyctory.com – My 20 Most Popular Travel Posts (so far…)
Damn, it is already four years... And it is more than 2,750 postings since then. On 25th February 2018, I ...
OH FYO! – Level 3: Discovery
The music of OH FYO! is described as a mixture of pop and hip hop elements. I received their album Level ...
Tanzwut – Silberne Hochzeit
Medieval hard rock, Gothic, dance music? Tanzwut is definitely one of these bands in the German music scene, which are ...
Jim “Kimo” West is playing the very first German Weird Al Show tonight – he is back with “Nacht der Gitarren” in Fall
Today is a very special day to me: Weird Al Yankovic is playing is first-ever concert in Germany tonight, at ...
Food I Had Onboard VI (December 2022 til mid-February 2023)
Wow, it's already half a dozen of episodes. This time, I start my Food I Had Onboard posting with two ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 February 2023)
Damn - just when I had a massive travel volume, the number of new releases of all genres went up ...
Julian Taylor (15th February 2023, Cologne)
February and early March 2023 held a couple of concerts and shows for me. Thus, right after returning from the ...
Malte Vief und Malte Viefs Kammer – Kammer III
I can't really you explain you my sympathy... But I ran into Kammer III, the latest album by Malte Vief ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10 February 2023)
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
The Legendary – Warlord
An album with a bunny - how could I not give a review of Warlord, the album by the stoner rock band ...
Hilton Munich City
For some reviews, I just need much longer than expected to find a good slot in my publication planning. One ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 03 February 2023)
I am kicking off the most stressful part of the year, quite likely. This week, I headed off to Peterborough ...
Donots – Heut ist ein guter Tag
The Donots have steadily grown and became an established part of the German rock music scene. They also had quite ...
The Rehats – Heart & Mind
Time to present you some music from Germany this weekend: The Rehats are doing folk-pop and already exist since over ...
Premier Inn Saarbruecken City Centre
After my - a bit of weird - trip of passing all 16 German states and eleven largest cities of ...
Robert Forster – The Candle and the Flame
The story of the album The Candle and the Flame is really dramatic and touching. Australian artist Robert Forster recorded the nine ...
Bitburger Brewery World
Bitburg is a comparably small town in the German Eifel region in West Germany, not too far away from the ...
ISTAF Indoor Duesseldorf (29th January 2023)
The ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf was truly an sports event I was looking forward to very much. First of all, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 27 January 2023)
This weekend was really difficult for me to plan ahead. With the ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf, I had a fixed ...
IUMA – Genug EP
I felt that genug, the debut EP by German singer IUMA, is a nice addition to the release reviews as of ...
Umme Block – State Of Limbo
Despite the project name sounds rather Ruhrgebiet-alike, Umme Block are an electronic pop duo from Munich. The German artists release ...
Kane Brown (27th January 2023, Cologne)
27th January 2023, the first Flyctory.com concert coverage of the new year. I will feature a couple of really cool ...
German Rail (Deutsche Bahn) Premium Lounge Berlin Main Station
What a day - on 14th January 2023, I traveled through all 16 German states in a 24 hour train ...
Mono Inc. – Ravenblack
Despite the band is "just" existing since 2000, Ravenblack is already the twelfth studio album by the German dark rock band Mono ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 20 January 2023)
Oh wow, I really have to limit myself this week. There is so much good music being released this week ...
Alexander Liebe – Spielautomat
Reviewing German artist Alexander Liebe and his album Spielautomat has been a typical Flyctory.com story. I received the album through a ...
Keimzeit Akustik Quintett – Schon gar nicht Proust
The band name Keimzeit Akustik Quintett roughly translates to "Sprout Time Acoustic Quintet". The band, which is located Southwest of ...
Sonic Wildhearts – Get It On
The 19th August 2022 edition of my Songs of the Week was lead by a Norwegian-origin band: Hey Rosie by ...
Regiohotel Schanzenhaus Wernigerode
The night before the two floorball matches of the Red Devils Wernigerode against UHC Weißenfels (women) and the Berlin Rockets ...
Wellnest Private Spa Essen
How could the Christmas days end better than with some warmth, sauna, whirlpool and... wait... It will be damn full ...
All German States (and the Eleven Biggest Cities) on one Rail Ticket – Part 2
AIthough has just been a day trip, but I just felt it is too long to tell the story of ...
All German States (and the eleven biggest Cities) on one Rail Ticket – Part 1
Okay, I give in: this trip is weird. While people typically feel that I am "just" a die hard aviation ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 13 January 2023)
Wow, that's massive! After I had a quite thin list of new releases since mid-December 2022, Christmas break is officially ...
Ski Holiday – Ski Holadiy
Ski Holiday sounds like a perfect band name for a winter release, doesn't it? The band has British and German ...
Groenalund – #lovestorm
The band name Groenalund feels quite Swedish. In fact, there are references to Sweden in the band history. First of ...
Hambach Surface Mining – The Largest Man-Made Hole in the World
I felt that the current discussions about the closing down of the village of Lützerrath in Germany are a good ...
Red Devils Wernigerode – Berlin Rockets 8-11 (1-2, 2-6, 5-3)
Especially when I wrote my Best Ones 2022 posting recently, I absolutely felt that I should increase the coverage of sports events ...
Red Devils Wernigerode – UHC Weissenfels 6-5 (2-3, 3-1, 1-1)
Back in the Harz region: I loved to be in the area where I used to live for some seven ...
Hotel Fürst Bismarck (Hamburg)
For a trip to Pinneberg just outside Hamburg, I needed a stay close to one of Hamburg's regional train stations ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 06 January 2023)
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week posting in 2023! Despite the music industry is slowly getting back to business, I ...
Singapore Airlines A380 Premium Economy
Even though one of my early Flyctory.com posts was about my B777 Singapore Airlines First Class experience, it took me ...
Wasserturm Hotel Cologne (Curio Collection by Hilton)
The Wasserturm in my home town Cologne is indeed one of the most iconic hotels of the city. Literally, the ...
Frankfurt Airport (Fraport) Visitors’ Center
Dud you ever feel like learning more about the current operations and future plans of Germany's largest airport? Frankfurt Airport ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 30 December 2022)
I guess that the next weeks will be more intense. Depending if you look at the publishing or the cut-off ...
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2022
The last posting of the year - Best Ones 2022 is introducing you to my best experience last years (as ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2022
While the music market is more and more focusing on singles and even writes weird stories like Taylor Swift's "Top ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2022
Since I started working with Flyctory.com, I present you a list of my favorite songs at the end of every ...
ICE 3neo High-Speed Rail First Class (Pictured Story)
A trip to a Frequent Flyer meeting lead to a post about train rides: Less than two weeks after the ...
Phantasialand Wintertraum on the Evening (Pictured Story)
The German amusement park Phantasialand is regularly rated to be one of the best and especially most atmospheric spots of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23 December 2022)
Christmas weekend - Marry Christmas to everybody who is celebrating. I guess that this week and the following one will ...
Asam Chruch Munich (Pictured Story)
Asam Church in Munich is regarded to be the most beautiful church in the Bavarian capital. Thus, on one of ...
ibis Hamburg St. Pauli Messe
I like Hamburg - and especially in recent times, I have been very frequently around the Reeperbahn region. There are ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16 December 2022)
I was quite surprised that finally 15 songs made it into my Songs of the Week as of 16th November 2022 ...
Nicole Scholz – Nur Du
Now that Christmas is getting closer, it is also a great opportunity for less known artists to receive some additional ...
King LX – Broken Crown
Music from Hamburg: King LX is a rather new collaboration from the Northern German city. On 16th December 2022, they ...
Covid-19, Strikes and more – My Flight Rebooking Experience
March 2020 changed my life. Covid-19 temporarily took me quite a bunch of habits, which I felt to be essential ...
Riding Flixtrain trains in Germany
Even in the United States, you nowadays run into the green coaches of Flixbus. The company turned out to dominate ...
Some 2022 new Christmas Song Releases – Good Ones and Weird Ones
Just some ten days left until Christmas. Instead of my typical album preview, I this time go for a preview ...
Panorama Pergamonmuseum Berlin
The Pergamonmuseum is one of the key touristic places in Berlin. The museum features over 250,000 objects of German-lead excavations ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 09 December 2022)
I was quite amazed that there were quite a lot of interesting single releases this week. At least artists from ...
Sündflut – Basta! EP
Basta by the German band Sündflut is one of these records, which I just had a short listen to and just ...
Nina Hagen – Unity
Nina Hagen is one of the most iconic entertainers in the German cultural scene. The German "Godmother of Punk" wrote ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 02 December 2022)
A lot of Christmas songs, a lot of covers and best of albums are the new releases in the - ...
Neufundland – Grind
The Christmas business is more and more turning towards TVs, toys and other stuff, while the music industry is doing ...
Myle – Sad Boy Summer EP
Myle has definitely been a raising artist in Germany during the last to years. He played the important SWR3 New ...
German Rail Museum (DB Museum) Nuremberg
Especially when I visit large places for Flyctory.com, which give me a lot of memories - and pictures - I ...
Boppin’ B – Saxbomb
Almost four decades of music, 13 albums, more than 6,000 shows - even though Boppin' B are no chart-busters, they ...
Food I Had Onboard V (September 2022 til November 2022)
Time for another episode of Food I had onboard. Between September and November 2022, I had some really interesting experiences, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 November 2022)
"Little Christmas" - as there is Thanksgiving in the United States, the volume of new releases is significantly reduced, just ...
David Gramberg – Where Have You Gone EP
After quite a while as a band member, German David Gramberg decided to turn solo. On 25th November 2022, you ...
Karo Lynn – A Line in My Skin
A Line in My Skin is a new album by the German artist Karo Lynn. I guess it has been the ...
Samuel Rösch – Für den Augenblick EP
Samuel Rösch became famous by winning the TV show The Voice of Germany. I already had a look into his music ...
Bad Temper Joe – Glitter & Blues
After I loved his 2021 album One Can Wreck It All, I was really excited to see that there will be ...
St. Pauli “Kult Kieztour” with Barbie Stupid and Lee Jackson
The Reeperbahn area in Hamburg's borough St. Pauli has undergone quite a significant transformation. Some decades ago, the red light and ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 18 November 2022)
Very interesting weekend this time: with the shows of Milky Chance and Brett Young, both in Cologne, I had quite ...
Brett Young (19th November 2022, Cologne)
Quite a lot of interesting music on Flyctory.com in November: after the Alexander Ludwig and Nik Wallner show in Cologne, ...
Milky Chance (18th November 2022, Cologne)
I love country music - but I always feel very gifted when I am able to present you some other ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Milky Chance (17th November 2022)
They started in school years in Kassel, Germany and are now a global musical success. The song Stolen Dance catapulted the German ...
Sarah Connor – Not So Silent Night
There are so many Christmas music albums each and every year - I typically try to filter out interesting ones ...
Millerntor Stadium Tour – Home of the FC St. Pauli
There are two major soccer clubs in Hamburg - and they are so different. If you look at their national ...
Lufthansa Bistro Lounge Frankfurt (FRA) C14/C15
Unexpected encounter in October 2022: right when I was about to have my first Eurowings Discover intercontinental flight to Tampa ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 11 November 2022)
The musical even of the week to me was definitely the announcement of the 2023 European Weird Al Yankovic tour ...
Tina Tandler – Songs for Saxophone
Especially if you frequently watch concerts in Germany and neighboring countries, you simply know Tina Tandler. You might not know ...
Weird Al Yankovic is touring Europe 2023 – Tour Dates and Travel Hints
The 7th November 2022 is one of these days I will hardly forget so quickly. In a Weird Al fan ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Nik Wallner (November 2022)
This is already the second time I met Nik Wallner for a Spotlight interview on Flyctory.com. While the first time we chatted ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 04 November 2022)
After two intercontinental trips in October 2022, I am somehow glad that I am scheduled to stay in Europe until ...
Superläuche – Superläuche
Jazz meets funk - the concept of the self-titled album by the band Superläuche (which is hard to translate, roughly ...
Alexander Ludwig (2nd November 2022, Cologne)
Right after coming back from New York City, I headed to the Helios37 in Cologne the same evening. Sound of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 28 October 2022)
Just two months until Christmas - but I still refused to have an according song in my Songs of the Week ...
Hostage – Memento Mori
On their website the German band Hostage states. "There is only one rule: Stylistic boundaries do not exist." I received ...
Wally – Alles halb so wild
Artists like Wally from Germany are musical encounters which make me enjoy creating contents for Flyctory.com. I ran into his ...
Road Stop Motel Mettmann (Presidential Suite)
After staying at the Road Stop Motel in Dortmund, my wife and I were really curious about exploring another outlet ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 21 October 2022)
October is quite a busy time for me. Private and business trips take most of my time. My Songs of the ...
Avantasia – A Paranormal Evening With The Moonflower Society
Avantasia is back... again and again and again... What started as a one album... or two album metal opera turned ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14 October 2022)
Freddie! Who would have thought that Mr Mercury is part of my Songs Of The Week one day. Not sure if Bryan ...
Atlas Bird – Atlas Bird
While doing tour-chasing in Florida, I am very glad when I am able to prepare postings for Flyctory.com beforehand, especially ...
German Hunting and Fishing Museum Munich
It's already quite a while ago since I visited the Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum, the German Hunting and Fishing Museum, in ...
Walking Along Castle Ruin Hohensyburg (Dortmund – Pictured Story)
The Hohensyburg castle is located at a height of 245 meters above sea level in Southern Dortmund in Germany. While the castle ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 7 October 2022)
I had an amazing week in Cyprus and am just about to prepare for my second trip to the Weird ...
SLIXS – Quer Bach 3
Classic music performed (more or less) a capella - I have been really amazed by the German project SLIXS when ...
Allee der Diktatoren – Dieses kleine bisschen Wut
I typically rather sort out new albums by the sound than by the popularity of the artists. Thus, I am ...
Magical Heart – Heartsonic
Melodic rock from Munich: Magical Heart are delivering right what you really need after spending a few days at the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 30 September 2022)
The last three months of the year are about to start. Traditionally, the focus is rather on well-known artists, their ...
Staying Overnight at the VIWA Private Spa Wuppertal
I had a couple of private spa experiences with my wife already, like the MyWellness in Cologne or the Pure ...
Rock of Ages – International Dates of the Musical in 2023
After I gave you an overview of 2022 European appearances of my favorite musical Rock of Ages, I felt to ...
Flying with OFD (Ostfriesischer Flugdienst)
The OFD (Ostrfriesischer Flug-Dienst) is a regional airline, which is specialized in connection the German North Sea islands. Being part ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23 September 2022)
Even though there are quite a bunch of German (language) songs and German artists in the set of new releases ...
Kill Strings – Limbo
The band Kill Strings is called "Hamburg's Foo Fighters" - quite a lot of pressure on the German rock band ...
Food I Had Onboard IV (May 2022 til August 2022)
Already the fourth edition of my Food I Had Onboard category. Even though my Covid-19 infection changed quite a lot of ...
Phänomenta Lüdenscheid
Lüdenscheid in the Sauerland region of Germany, Southeast of Dortmund, might not be on the top of the list when ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16 September 2022)
While the last week brought me to Sunderland, Hamburg and Lillehammer in Norway, the song selection of the week comes ...
Carly Pearce & Sarah Darling (12th September 2022, Hamburg)
What a lovely combination of two amazing female country artists: on 12th September 2022, Sound of Nashville presented Carly Pearce ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 09 September 2022)
This week, my Songs of the Week features a wide range of sounds. Quite a focus on Austrian and German artists ...
U96 – 20,000 Meilen unter dem Meer
Especially in the early 1990's, the German project U96 was very present in the European electronic music scene. Some thirty ...
Exploring Hamburg with the HADAG Public Ferries – Line 61
In the order of posting the episodes of my trip report of exploring Hamburg Habor (here is my overview posting ...
Exploring Hamburg with the HADAG Public Ferries – Line 73
This episode of my Hamburg Public Ferry trip report takes you to my favorite route of all, Line 73 (see ...
Exploring Hamburg with the HADAG Public Ferries – Line 72
The second posting about exploring Hamburg with the HADAG public ferries features Line 72, which is special in multiple aspects ...
Exploring Hamburg with the HADAG Public Ferries – Lines 62 & 64 & Overview
Typically, my Trip Reports are like travel diaries. One posting per day, telling you all the stories of a trip, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 02 September 2022)
Intense weeks lay ahead of me. My very last shows of my favorite musical Rock of Ages this year are ...
Blind Guardian – The God Machine
Power metal from Germany: Blind Guardian are a German band from the Rheinland region. They are active since 1984 and ...
Roland Kaiser – Perspektiven
The studio album Perspektiven is actually my second album review of a Roland Kaiser release. After the Christmas album Weihnachtszeit, Kaiser is back ...
Jolina Carl – Hallo, ich bin Jolina Carl
Hallo, ich bin Jolina Carl - "Hello, I am Jolina Carl" rather sounds like a debut album than the release of ...
INNSIDE Dusseldorf Derendorf
Saving my Melia frequent traveler points and doing some research for Flyctory.com were two really good reasons to try out ...
BMW Museum Munich
BMW - the Bayerischen Motoren Werke are definitely one of the most famous companies of Munich and a synonym for German ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26 August 2022)
I typically just select the song, which is leading my Songs of the Week. This week, my favorites of the week ...
Drei Meter Feldweg – Durak
If you translate the band name Drei Meter Feldweg literally, you end up by "Three Meters of Country Lane". Sound ...
Holiday Home Wonderland (Ralingen)
My review category Hotels & Accommodation in fact only features hotels so far. Thus, the review of Holiday Home Wonderland is some sort ...
Lindsay Ell (with Kyle Daniel & Shy Carter, 23rd August 2022, Cologne)
23rd August 2022 has been a very special day to me. Always great to be able to cover a Lindsay ...
German Röntgen Museum Remscheid
The museum at the Schwelmer Straße 41 is not exactly at birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen - but it is just a ...
Rickmer Rickmers Museum Ship Hamburg
The harbor area is the heart of the German city of Hamburg. The history of the city is closely linked ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 19 August 2022)
Honestly, I had a lot of 1970's and 1980's songs in mind the last days - so exclude me in ...
Luna Klee – Mein Kopf, mein Bauch, mein Herz
A talent show changed the life of a teenage German artist - and the result is this album. Luna Klee ...
Giovanni Zarrella – Per sempre
Giovanni Zarrella is one of these artists I just cannot have negative feelings about. One rationale might be that his ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 12 August 2022)
Rock and harder rock styles have been a bit of under-represented in here the last weeks. The more I am ...
Vanessa Mai – Metamorphose
The third Vanessa Mai album review: after I really liked her 2020 release Für immer and absolutely struggled with the ...
Versus Goliath – Liebe & Chaos
Rather dark rock tunes from Munich: the Band Versus Goliath is releasing their album Liebe & Chaos on 12th August 2022 ...
Gipsy Kings & More Than Words (11th August 2022, Cologne)
Legendary Gipsy Kings and one of Germany's biggest potential drivers of country music, More Than Words - I felt really ...
HAVET – Mamas Lullaby EP
After featring the German pop duo Havet in my Songs of the Week edition of 29th July 2022, I now ...
Tawern Roman Temple District
The area around Trier is holding a bunch of records for the oldest buildings and structures in Germany. The rationale ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 05 August 2022)
My 5th August 2022 update of the Songs of the Week this time features 15 songs. Again, there is a wide ...
Marie Reim – Bist Du dafür bereit?
After I featured Marie Reim's debut album 14 Phasen in June 2020, I was really curious how her music has evolved during ...
Pete Wolf Band – Crosswalk To Nowhere EP
German schlager icon Wolfgang Petry is back with a new EP. After a "real" Wolfgang Petry album release, Auf das Leben, ...
KölnTriangle Cologne View – a great View of Cologne
Okay, I have to give in from the very beginning: I love my home town Cologne - and this my ...
Spicy’s Spices Museum (Gewürzmuseum) Hamburg
I enjoy visiting museums, which deal with other topics than the ones you find practically everywhere - arts, technology, biology, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29 July 2022)
Weird times: my list of candidates for my Songs of the Week this time was much longer, but a lot of ...
Broken Forest – Wild At Heart EP
Interesting indie-folk from a German artist: Wild At Heart is in fact the third EP by Broken Forest, who lived in Germany ...
Zeitflug – Echte Freunde
Even though there are also some examples in the rock industry as well, boy bands are typically a pop music ...
LustfingeR – LustfingeR
LustfingeR is named to be one of the oldest punk / punk rock bands in Germany. The Southern German band ...
LWL Open Air Museum Hagen
At the beginning of July, my wife and I visited the LWL Freichlichtmuseum Hagen, the LWL Open Air Museum in Hagen. The ...
easyHotel Frankfurt City Centre
Going to Frankfurt by rail after work, watching a concert there and taking an early morning train back to Cologne, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22 July 2022)
Typically, I first collect tracks for my Songs Of The Week and, once the set is complete, pick my favorite and ...
She Bites – Super Hero
She Bites is a German band doing classic rock. After they had a well-reviewed debut album two years ago, they ...
Heischneida – Heischneida II
Powerful party tunes which are made to be great on stage: five years after their first release, the Bavarian band ...
Esterwegen Concentration Camp Memorial
During the Nazi regency in Germany, the Emslandlager (Emsland Camps) was a group of concentration and detention camps in the Emsland region, ...
IntercityHotel Hamburg-Altona
At the beginning of April 2022, I had two nights in Hamburg. As one of my key intentions was to ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15 July 2022)
The list of songs as of 15th July 2022 is rather compact. I open with a very interesting British pop ...
Philipp Eisenblätter – Das Jahr, das sich um eins verschiebt
Interestingly, most of the press information I received about Das Jahr, das sich um eins verschiebt by Philipp Eisenblätter declares the ...
Confirmation – Survive EP
Survive is the debut EP by a Berlin-based project, Confirmation. I got in touch with their music and felt to share ...
More Than Words – Today (Make Today Be the Best Day of Your Life)
Also due to their rather well-known band members, More Than Words is one of the most promising country music acts ...
Markus – Das Leben liebt mich … und ich liebe das Leben
Everybody in Germany knows the songs Ich will Spaß ("I want to have fun", a song about having fun cruising in ...
NHL Schedule 2022-23 released – Some suggested Icehopping Itineraries
Every year, some time in June or July, I am spending hours and hours looking into flight schedules, checking out ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 08 July 2022)
Okay, this week, my Songs Of The Week listeners need to stay strong: I started my list with schlager (with a touch ...
Sophie Fellner – Brown Eyes EP
An artist I did not know about anything before: Just two days before her debut EP Brown Eyes was about to be ...
Helgoland Dune Ferry (“Dünenfähre” – Pictured Story)
During my summer 2021 daytrip to Helgoland, I also needed the Dünenfähre ("Dune Ferry") to connect from the main island to the ...
Traitor – Exiled To The Surface
The German magazine Rock Hard wrote about Traitor, that the band "is playing the most persuading new-old-school-thrash, which I have ...
The Bergisch Coffee Table (Bergische Kaffeetafel) – A Sweet and Savory Tradition
The Bergisch Coffee Table (Bergische Kaffeetafel) is a traditional meal, somewhere between a brunch and an afternoon tea. And: it ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 01 July 2022)
This week, I had at least an easy time determining the leading track of my Songs of the Week. I listened ...
Breathe Your Last – Apocalypse
The album preview of the week this time is a bit of darker than the beautiful melodies of A Smell of ...
Pig Museum (SchweineMusuem) Stuttgart
A museum about pigs? Indeed, that's something you can do when you are in Stuttgart. Interestingly, the former slaughterhouse is ...
German Floorball Under 15 Girls – Final: Red Devils Wernigerode – Dümptener Füchse 5-4 SD (1-1, 3-3, 1-x)
26th June 2022, Mülheim-Dümpten, Von-der-Tann Straße sports hall, 14:00 hrs local time: The final two teams, fighting through the group matches and ...
German Floorball Under 15 Girls – P3 Match: SG Weissenfels/Jena – FBC Havel 6-9 (1-5)
The second last match of the German Under 15 Girls National Championships featured the two losing teams of the semifinals, ...
German Floorball Under 15 Girls – P5 Match: FC Stern Munich – Sportvg Feuerbach 11-1 (2-1)
From the senior girls to the very young ones: while the Dümptener Füchs from Mülheim, Ruhrgebiet region, just have become ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 June 2022)
Whenever I start working for my Songs of the Week, I typically scan the candidates I archived for that reason and ...
Leepa – Brain Freeze EP
The press kit to Brain Freeze, the second EP by Leepa, states that the German is maybe the most promising talent ...
Chris Colter – Nice To Be Back To Be Back Nice
Even though Chris Colter seems to be quite active artist since decades, I could not find too many bio information ...
Charly Klauser – Mehr
Even though Charly Klauser is active in the German music scene since almost two decades, her album Mehr ("More") released on 24th ...
The Cumberland River Project – A Smell of Gravy
So good to have a new one from The Cumberland River Project: one of Germany's finest manufacturers of country music ...
Berlin Computer Games Museum
A museum full of computer games and gaming history? The German capital can offer that one! Right in the city ...
European Airports Go Mad – a Morning at Dusseldorf Airport
Early summer 2022. After the Covid-19 crisis feels to have come to a certain end, air travelers all over Europe ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 June 2022)
I am looking back to a really interesting week of music. For me personally, I have been so happy to ...
April Art – P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E.
Rock from Germany: on 17th June, the German rock band April Art releases their second album, P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E.. I ran into the ...
Clara Louise – Enough Is Enough
Clara Louise is indeed a very multi-talented German artist. With Enough Is Enough, she is already releasing her sixth studio album ...
Hampton by Hilton Aachen Tivoli
Doing some shopping (including the local sweets outlets) and visiting the Drielandenpunt, where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet, I recently ...
Kasalla – Rudeldiere
If you feel that Cologne Carnival songs or party music must be a rather regional and limited things, stats of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10 June 2022)
I had a long list of songs for my Songs of the Week... and after I composed a nice order of ...
Natural History and Mammoth Museum Siegsdorf
Siegsdorf between Rosenheim and Salzburg in Bavaria might be a rather typical spot for that region: a rather nice city, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 3 June 2022)
I am still in the process of recovering from illness - not sure if that had any influence on my ...
Fräulein Frey – Ein Wagnis
Fräulein Frey names her music "Freien Hanseatischen Pop" - Free Hanseatic pop. On 3rd June 2022, she is releasing a ...
Dan O’ Clock – Seelenhippie EP
The German language has the nice opportunity to simply combine two noun to a new word. Seele means soul in German and ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 27 May 2022)
Due to illness, I unfortunately cannot provide you the full coverage on the music side of Flyctory.com - and it ...
Deutsches Museum Traffic Center (Verkehrszentrum)
The Deutsches Museum (literally: "German Museum") is an amazing technical and scientific museum in the heart of Munich. While I just did ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 20 May 2022)
I had a quite long list of songs for my Songs of the Week this time. The 20th May 2022 list is ...
Karaboom – Follow Your Heart
German pop-rock debut: the band Karaboom releases Follow Your Heart on 20th May 2022. I happened to run into the album and ...
Wucan – Heretic Tongues
"Magic Hard Rock from The Krauts" - that's the key slogan the German band Wucan puts on her Facebook profile ...
Like Mint – I Wish I Was Awake EP
Even though Like Mint's first release has been some five years ago, her EP I Wish I Was Awake feels a bit ...
Shameless – So Good, You Should….
I typically love glam rock - and thus, the German band Shameless had a rather easy time to get into ...
Marius Müller-Westernhagen – Das eine Leben
A big name and music legend of German rock is back: Marius Müller-Westernhagen releases Das eine Leben, his first studio album ...
Helgoland Airport (HGL)
If you are not a general aviation pilot and "just" an aviation nerd or traveler, flying Helgoland Airport (HGL) is ...
Home of Ritter Sport – Art Museum & Chocolate
Ritter Sport is one of the most famous German chocolate manufacturers. It has been founded in 1912 in Cannstadt, which ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 13 May 2022)
While I had to process quite a lot of country music new releases this week, the list of non-country songs ...
J.B.O. – Planet Pink
J.B.O. are one of the key players in the German fun metal scene. Over the last decades, they steadily grew ...
A Walk Through Greetsiel in East Frisia (Pictured Story)
Greetsiel is one of the popular villages in East Frisia, right at North Sea. Especially the picturesque harbor area is ...
Dr. Umwuchts Tanzpalast – Im Zentrum der Wirklichkeit
Acoustic bass, jazz guitar, ukulele and sax - the range of instruments used for Dr. Umwuchts Tanzpalast is already quite ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 6 May 2022)
Wow... This edition of my Songs of the Week was a huge bit of work. I simply had so many candidates for ...
Mina Richman – Jaywalker EP
Debut EP release: German-Iranian artist Mina Richman releases her first five song set on 6th May 2022. The EP is ...
Julian Reim – In meinem Kopf
The Reim family on Flyctory.com: after the big daddy Matthias Reim, one of the biggest German schlager-rock artists in Germany, ...
Patrick Noe – Ich
A German pop debut on 6th May 2022: Patrick Noe is releasing his very first album, which is simply called ...
Hilton Garden Inn Mannheim
Even though Mannheim is not too much of a touristic highlight in Germany, it is a very important rail traffic ...
Food I Had Onboard III (Mar 2022 til April 2022)
After my second posting about Food I Had Onboard in mid March 2022, I had a couple of interesting flight experiences ...
Automobile & Toy Museum North Sea (Norden, Germany)
During a trip to the German North Sea shore in later 2021, we also visited the Automobil- & Spielzeugmuseum Nordsee. The ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29 April 2022)
A week full of music: my Weird Al Yankovic Tour Trip was of course the key event of my last ...
Kicking Off The Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2022 (Day 6/7, 30.4./1.5.2022)
The last entry of my (multi-day) trip reports is typically a bit of boring. Getting to the airport, flying back ...
Tino Z – Highwayman
Some country music made in Germany: After the intense week traveling with Weird Al Yankovic to the first three shows ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22 April 2022)
The week after the 2022 Easter Bunny features some really interesting music. The heading song comes with a touch of ...
Erwin Hymer Museum
Campers, motor homes or recreational vehicles - no matter how you call do have your hotel room with you during ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15 April 2022)
I was quite amazed that not only Christmas, but also Easter feels to have an impact on the volume of ...
Geschwister David – Verrückt es nicht zu tun
Verrückt es nicht zu tun - "Crazy not to do it" is the new album by Geschwister David, a twin schlager ...
Axel Rudi Pell – Lost XXIII
Axel Rudi Pell is definitely one of the most well-known hard rock and metal acts from Germany. On 15th April ...
DeVicious – Black Heart
The different genres of metal are becoming a significant part of my Flyctory.com music coverage. This posting is about the ...
Premier Inn Hamburg City Millerntor
The reason why I traveled to Hamburg in March was a German show of my favorite musical Rock of Ages in nearby ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 08 April 2022)
Oh, I feel that the Songs Of The Week are really a tradition on Flyctory.com now. More than three months since I ...
Mrs. Greenbird – Love You To The Bone
New songs from Mrs. Greenbird: Cologne's finest Americana pop pair released a new set of tracks on 9th April 2022 ...
Hi! Spencer – Memori EP
Hi Spencer are a punk rock band from Osnabrück, Germany. Especially with their 2019 album Nicht raus, aber weiter ("Not out, but ...
German Packaging Museum (Heidelberg)
I feel that one advantage of Flyctory.com compared to significantly larger travel platforms is that I can also take you ...
The Paradise of Calories – Chocolate and Candy Outlets in Aachen
There are quite some reasons to visit the Western German city of Aachen. However, before I spend a night there ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 01 April 2022)
Not really sure why the release calendars are so seasonal (apart from major holidays like Christmas) - but I generally ...
Yullbe Wunderland – Explore Minatur Wunderland in a very different Way
Already the partners of the project and new Hamburg attraction Yullbe Wunderland sound amazing: on the one hand, there is ...
Emily Roberts – thank you for leaving. EP
Though Emily Roberts has an international background, she so far majorly became big in her country of birth, Germany. With thank ...
Ann Doka – House of Change
House of Change by Ann Doka has indeed bin one of the German artist albums I have been looking forward to ...
Fassberg Airlift Museum
After the end of World War II, the blocking of access to West Berlin by the Soviet Union (the so-called Berlin ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 March 2022)
While the last week's edition solely covered a few songs, my 25th March 2022 version of the Songs Of The Week ...
Max Paul Maria – Paradigm Beach
It is already some six years ago since the Berlin-based artist Max Paul Maria released his last album Figurines. On 25th ...
NANEE – Tausend Farben EP
Nanee's song Frei Sein ("Be Free") impressed me that much that it made it's way into my Songs of the Week as ...
The Jeremy Days – Beauty In Broken
The Jeremy Days have been one of the most important pop-rock bands in Germany in the late 1980's and 1990's ...
Hampton by Hilton Stuttgart City Centre
For the first night of a trip to Stuttgart, I opted for the Hampton by Hilton Stuttgart City Centre. The ...
Gasometer Oberhausen
I already introduced you to the Visiodrom in Wuppertal, for which a former gasometer has turned into an audiovisual exhibition ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 18 March 2022)
My trip through the United States following the Pittsburgh Penguins in eleven days was definitely the highlight of my week ...
Following The Pittsburgh Penguins in March 2022 (Day 10/11, 19th/20th March 2022)
After Day 9 featured the last real travel highlights including the Opry show, the last entry of any multi-day trip ...
KIDSØ – Fir
I just happened to run into the music of KIDSO (which is written as KIDSØ, but I try to avoid ...
Der Sonne zu Nah – Schwerkraft
The name of the German band Der Sonne zu Nah roughly translates to "Too close to the sun". In fact, ...
Tame The Abyss – They Vanished At Dawn! EP
The website of Tame The Abyss introduces themselves as Your new favorite band. In order to gain this kind of global ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 11 March 2022)
Not really sure whether it is my March 2022 trip with the Pittsburgh Penguins or other influences, but this time, ...
Der To – Hand aufs Herz
Der To is a German rock artist, who is active since 2010. On 11th March 2022, he is releasing his ...
House of German History (Haus der Geschichte) Bonn
Germany between World War II. - this is roughly the mission of the House of the History of the Federal ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 04 March 2022)
I feel that this week, there is really a nice range of songs in my Songs Of My Life. There is ...
Floorball Final4 Semifinals at Max-Schmeling-Halle Berlin
As I have been in Berlin but could not and did not really want to do a full coverage of ...
The Keltics – 9
Call it Irish Folk or Kilt-Rock - The Keltics already have quite a long band history. They are not from ...
Solingen Bird and Animal Park
Even though the city is not overwhelmingly large, Solingen in fact comes with two zoos / animal parks. While I ...
Food I Had Onboard II (Nov 21 til Mar 2022)
After I got some quite nice feedback about my first Food I Had Onboard posting, I felt to continue this ...
Brewery Museum (Brauerei-Museum) Dortmund
Apart from regional local soccer dominator Borussia and the coal production history, Dortmund is quite well famous for a very ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 Feb 2022)
Definitely my toughest edition of the Songs of the Week so far. It is very hard for me to concentrate knowing what ...
Gutrectomy – Manifestation Of Human Suffering
Some hard sounds from Germany: Gutrectomy are doing brutal deathcore. I was really curious if their music is as scary ...
Fairytale – Winter Tales
Fairytale themselves call their music "Fantasy Folk". On 25th February 2022, they release a new album, Winter Tales. After a short ...
Visiodrom Wuppertal
One of the architectural witnesses of the industrial heritage of the Rhein-Ruhr Region in Germany are definitely the gasometers. These ...
Porsche Museum Stuttgart
The region of Stuttgart is one of the key car manufacturing areas of Germany. Thus, it has been not too ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 18 Feb 2022)
One thing I really love about this new category Songs Of The Week is that it surprises me again and again ...
Michael Lane – Take It Slow
When I listened to Michael Lane's album Traveling Son in October 2019, I absolutely enjoyed the sound of the US-German artist, who ...
Jördis Tielsch – New Mornings
TV appearances, support act of famous musicians like Heinz Rudolf Kunze or Rea Garvey: Jördis Tielsch has indeed grown quite ...
Klaus Lage – Je wahrer die Liebe
70 years of Klaus Lage - the rock singer-songwriter is one of the most iconic artists of the German music ...
Alexander Martin – Wir zieh’n das durch
Second album release by German schlager artist Alexander Martin. The Rheinland musician publishes Wir zieh'n das durch on 18th February 2022 ...
Hampton by Hilton Munich City Center East
In January 2022, I had a rail trip to Munich. As I arrived rather late, the Hampton by Hilton Munich ...
DB Lounge (German Rail Lounge) Stuttgart
What has started as Stuttgart 21 - the refurbishing of Stuttgart Main Station including changing the main travel direction and putting ...
Holiday Inn Express Oberhausen
Doing Christmas shopping with a hotel room around? Right next to Germany's largest shopping mall, the Westfield Centro in Oberhausen, ...
Sea Life Königswinter
As I purchased a Merlin Entertainment annual ticket for Germany in May 2021 (majorly as I have been covering Heide ...
Exploring Munich With Tram Line 19
I have been a bit of puzzled when I arrived in Munich in late January 2022, learning that the Stammstrecke, the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 11 Feb 2022)
A new week, a new edition of the Songs Of The Week. This time, I ran into a lot of rocking ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Rickie Lee Kroell (8th February 2022)
Rickie Lee Kroell, the second time: I just introduced you to the pop artist and her new EP Hauptsache was mit ...
Road Stop Motel Dortmund
Flyctory.com has a focus on country music, my community includes quite a bunch of US-American people and I love to ...
Rickie Lee Kroell – Hauptsache was mit Deichkind
In later 2021, I ran into the music by German-American artist Rickie Lee Kroell by a contact to her promotion ...
KEC “Die Haie” Cologne – ESC Planegg-Würmtal 1-6 (1-2, 0-1, 0-3)
The DFEL (German Women Ice Hockey League) leader traveling to the bottom team of the table (which had, to be ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 04 Feb 2022)
The last two editions of the Songs Of The Week had a really nice load of positive feedback. Thus, I am really ...
Hampton by Hilton Dusseldorf City Centre
The Hilton Hotel Group is currently opening quite a lot of new Hampton by Hilton Hotels over Central Europe. Sufficient ...
Cuvillies Theater (Cuvilliéstheater) Munich (Pictured Story)
Especially when I am in London, visiting a stage play is always a must on my list (time permitting). One ...
VfL Gummersbach (Handball) at SCHWALBE arena
Even though it is a some 50 kilometer drive from Cologne to Gummersbach, the VfL Gummersbach is not only the ...
Stuttgart Funicular (“Standseilbahn”)
Due to its rather hilly geography, the German city of Stuttgart has some quite iconic public transport systems. During a ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 28 Jan 2022)
After I have already been struggling with the idea of the Songs of the Week, the feedback on my previous edition ...
The Sleeper – Radiant
Metalcore from Germany: already before Christmas 2021, I received the album Radiant from The Sleeper. A good opportunity to rock with Santa ...
Joe Carpenter – Meine Lieder
German schlager with a good touch of pop from the region West of Berlin: Joe Carpenter has just released his ...
Pictures – It’s OK
Britpop / Britrock made in Germany - that's a likely the best short description you can do about the Berlin ...
Lokwelt Freilassing
The Lokwelt Freilassing is one of the most famous train museums in Germany. During a trip through Bavaria, I had ...
Hilton Garden Inn Stuttgart NeckarPark
After I recently made you familiar with the DoubleTree in Milton Keynes, which is located right inside a soccer stadium, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 21 Jan 2022)
I am still evaluating whether the Songs Of The Week are an interesting format for you. While the first postings got ...
Herman Rarebell & The Hurricane Orchestra – Scorpion’s Songs Symphonic
The Scorpions are definitely one of Germany's finest international rock music acts. Herman Rarebell has been part of the band ...
Rock of Ages – Central European Shows of my Favorite Musical in 2022
Last week only, I had to cancel or rebook four trip due to Covid-19 related reasons. Three of them included ...
East Frisia Tea Museum (Norden)
Inhabitants of East Frisia drink ten times more tea than the average German - with their consumption of the hot ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14 Jan 2022)
This week I again present you a nice range of songs again. From Australian pop / R&B artists, who do ...
Gampe – Tiny House Blues
I am always happy to introduce you to German country and Americana acts. On 13th January 2022, the Munich band ...
SSF Dragons Bonn – ETV Piranhhas Hamburg 4:6 (1:3, 0:3, 3:0)
It's been quite a while ago since I stepped foot into Sportpark Nord, the home arena of the SSF Dragons ...
Matthias Reim – MATTHIAS
Matthias Reim is one of the big names in the German schlager-rock scene. After some rather difficult times, he came ...
German Spy Museum Berlin
Hauptstadt der Spione - "Capital of the Spies". This is a book, which you can buy at the souvenir store of ...
Tristan Harders’ Twilight Theatre – Drifting Into Insanity
Quite some artists used the Covid-19 limitation for some additional creativity. Tristan Harders, for example, invested the time during which ...
Gamestate Centro Oberhausen
One of the things I always try to do when in the United States is to spend some time at ...
Walking Through Historic Remscheid-Lennep (Pictured Story)
In order to collect some new material for Flyctory.com, I recently drove to Remscheid to cover some museums there. The ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 7 Jan 2022)
My Songs Of The Week slowly turn into a tradition. This week, I definitely saw that the number of releases massively ...
Spoon And The Forkestra – The Fondest Flinch EP
Especially in the world of social media, where it feels nearly impossible to spot the rising artist Peter Smith (just ...
Riding the Berlin-Warszawa Express Train (EC 40 to 48)
Yes, I do like flying - but I am also a fan of rail travels. Just to find out how ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 31 Dec 2021)
The international music scene is slowly coming back from Christmas break. I listened to a couple of really remarkable releases ...
Jona Bird – Januar
Towards the end of the year, I majorly ran into releases by German artists - either in the "normal" Media ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2021
2021 definitely lifted Flyctory.com to another level. The community is steadily increasing - days with less than 2,000 page hits ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2021
Year-end is the time to look back to all the stuff what happened to you. Ideally you rather remind the ...
G. G. Anderson – Wenn In Santa Maria
G.G. Anderson is one of the most well-known German schlager artists since the early 1980's. 30th December 2021, he is ...
The Berlin Tränenpalast (“Palace of Tears”)
The Tränenpalast ("Palace of Tears") in Berlin is the former border crossing point between East and West Berlin. It is located at ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 Dec 2021)
The week of Christmas is typically one of the weeks of the year with the lowest amount of new music ...
Morris Jones – Out & About
Synthi pop with an Eurodance / 1980's touch? If there is press kit information like this, there is always a ...
Lauryn Mark – Aperitif EP
Lauryn Mark is about to release her second album in the middle of 2022. As an intermediate step, she is ...
German Cup: DJK Holzbüttgen – PSV 90 Black Wolves Dessau 14:1 (4:0, 4:0, 6:1)
I could not make it to the World Floorball Championships in Uppsala (Women) and Helsinki (Men, postponed from 2020) this ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 Dec 2021)
Every week, I am scanning hundreds of new releases, albums and singles, to pick the right (and sometimes: the wrong) ...
No Snakes In Heaven – Dancer EP
The website of the German band No Snakes In Heaven names their style Alternative Singer-Songwriter Music. I felt that their style ...
Ian Tray Band – Electricity
The time right before Christmas is typically not featuring too many new releases. In my point of view, it is ...
Gregorian – Pure Chants
Gregorian, who are interpreting pop, rock and also classic tracks in a Gregorian music style, is indeed a quite fascinating ...
Some Non-Country Christmas Songs 2021
Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also ...
Pure Spa Oberhausen
One of places my wife and I really loved to visit in pandemic times are private spa suites. We already ...
Christmas Market at Westfield Centro Oberhausen
Oberhausen might not be regarded to be one of the most beautiful cities of the German Ruhrgebiet region - but ...
Fuer den Faehrmann – Blutmond EP
I always enjoy to listen to bands I haven't heard of before. One of them is the German band Fuer ...
Johannes Scheurich – Mehr Davon
Short before the release date of 10th December 2021, I ran into the album Mehr Davon ("More of that") by the ...
The Wellness Loft at Romantik Hotel Reichshof (Norden)
Ten years of happiness (and all the other times) with my wife - we originally intended to celebrate this very ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Rusty Stone (8th December 2021)
It's been quite a while since I released my previous Spotlight interview. The more, I feel flattered to dip into ...
My Top 15 Airports Flown – With Some Brief Thoughts
Even though I do have a couple of airport reviews on Flyctory.com, I so far missed a lot of the ...
Charles Dickens Christmas Market Heimbach
As I already told you last year when I reviewed the Charles Dickens Museum in London, I am a huge ...
Emma Longard – Quieter Pt. 2 EP
The title Quieter Pt. 2 already suggests that there has been a first part of Emma Longard's series of songs. Indeed, ...
Incredible Pack – Time For Decisions
"Blues rock with a Texan touch" - that's how the press kit to their second album Time For Decisions is describing ...
Yvonne Catterfeld – Change
A Change in Yvonne Catterfeld's career: just three weeks before Christmas, the popular German artist releases her first album in English. The ...
Hotel Sunset (Kelsterbach)
Due to rail strikes, I had to re-plan my whole trip to Frankfurt Airport before heading to Canada. I finally ...
Hämatom – Die Liebe ist Tot
Hämatom feels to be a truly active band: just some eight months after I reviewed - and enjoyed their album ...
Ho Ho Ho – The Flyctory.com Country Christmas Playlist 2021
Okay, I give in. In the world of country music, Christmas starts in early September. That's when the first song ...
Musa Dagh – Musa Dagh
When the press kit of a music release uses the wording superband, there are typically two options: either the combo ...
Food I Had Onboard (Oct 2021 til Nov 2021)
In October 2021, on a flight from Munich (MUC) to Keflavik Airport (KEF), I decided to go for a new ...
Expo 2020 Dubai – The Sustainability District Pavilions
The Sustainability district, which is marked in green on the Expo 2020 map, featured some really interesting pavilions during our ...
Alena Neubert – A Life That’s Good
A German artist presenting modern country songs - even though A Life That's Good is a cover album, I felt ...
Cat Ballou – Alles Bunt
My hometown Cologne is full of music - not only carnival-related. Not only during these days, Cat Ballou has become ...
Alex Diehl – Die Songs, die ich nie schreiben wollte EP
The press kit to this EP opens with "Another singer-songwriter who is writing about his personal lovesickness. Does the world ...
Flora Falls – Ankle Deep EP
In early November 2021, I received a promo EP from a folk music duo from Berlin, Flora Falls. A bit ...
Max Giesinger – Vier
Max Giesinger has grown his fan base in Germany steadily over the last years. Three years after his most recent ...
Palila – Rock ‘n’ Roll Sadness
A very interesting album "Made In Germany" somewhere between classic and indie rock: on 12th November 2021, Palila released their ...
Wilhelmshaven Aquarium
The Aquarium is one of the attractions of Wilhelmshaven. During a visit in summer 2021 under Covid-19 conditions, I visited ...
Dieter Hallervorden – 80 plus
Dieter Hallervorden is a very famous entertainer in Germany. However, his biggest times in the music business have been the ...
Greyhound George Band – Get Up And Walk!
An album full of blues and funk which sounds so much like a US production, but is very German - ...
Hilton Berlin
In July 2021, I wanted to explore some of the rather centrally located attractions of Berlin. Due to its good ...
Lufthansa Senator Lounge Munich Airport (near G28)
As Munich Airport (MUC) is one of my most traveled ones, I know the business lounge situation there quite well ...
Michael Heppes – Achtung Leben
Honestly, when I ran into his debut album Achtung Leben, I did not know anything about Michael Heppes. However, the album ...
Running Wild – Blood on Blood
Seventeen studio albums so far - #17 on 29th October 2021 - the German band Running Wild has quite an ...
Art Garfunkel Jr. – Wie Du – Hommage an meinen Vater
Who does not know Art Garfunkel, part of Simon & Garfunkel and their famous songs? Sometimes, you run into albums, ...
Dennis Adamus – Right For You
On the promotion platform I use most frequently, I rarely run into songs or albums which are labeled as "Country ...
Country Music Picks – The German Songs (26th October 2021)
This is the third time I am looking into the country music scene of Germany and neighboring German-speaking countries. So ...
Tom Aquinas – XMas Greetings EP
Four Christmas song on a small EP: I just liked the sound of Tom Aquinas when his XMas Greetings became available ...
H+ Hotel Lübeck
For a trip in July 2021, I needed a night close to Lübeck Main Station in Northern Germany. The H+ ...
Bodyguerra – Fire & Soul
Rock from Germany: On 15th October 2021, the Western German band Bodyguerra will release their second album Fire & Soul ...
Det Haggard – Teamwork 2.0
The German artist Det Haggard is a new name in the German lyrics country music scene. After he had some ...
Winter 2 – Winter 2
Interesting pop sound from Hamburg in Northern Germany: Winter 2 are just active for some one year. Nonetheless, the are ...
Paulina Wagner – Vielleicht verliebt
From TV talent show to her debut album - some one and a half year she became well-known to the ...
MEDLZ – (das) Läuft bei uns Vol. 2
Four female voices in an a-capella band - that's the rough concept of MEDLZ (which sounds a bit the German ...
Seal Rescue Station (Seehundstation) Norddeich
The Nationalpark Wattenmeer (Wadden Sea Conservation Area) is one of the most popular natural reserves in Germany. However, many young seals ...
Ehlers Harbor Cruise Hamburg
If you are in Hamburg, a Hafenrundfahrt (or: harbor cruise) is one of these must-dos in the largest city in the ...
The Hits of the Trips – My Summer 2021 in Music
Summer feels to be over - Fall 2021 is coming. Finally, I had much more - and better - trips ...
Santiano – Wenn die Kälte Kommt
Santiano became a huge player in the German music scene. They mix rock with shanty and sailor music style sounds ...
Roland Kaiser – Weihnachtszeit
One of the German schlager artists I honor most is definitely Roland Kaiser. He is active since decades and is ...
Jesse Cole – SAND (Some Are Never Done)
Country from Germany with an important background. In his 2021 release, Jesse Cole deals with the impacts of being a ...
Paule – Wunderschön unperfekt
I had a quite long list - and range - of album to select from for my 1st October 2021 ...
Simon Jela – Safe Place EP
Hail to promotion platforms - just after I was really angry that I had listed some interesting publication with an ...
Leonardo Hotel Düsseldorf Airport (Ratingen)
Parking fees at Dusseldorf Airport got ridiculously high in recent past. For my August 2021 trip to Poland (from Thursday ...
Flying With Lübeck Air
I already introduced you to the lovely regional airport of Lübeck (LBC), a city some one hour Northeast of Hamburg ...
Auto & Traktor Museum Bodensee (Lake Constance)
From outside, the Auto & Traktor Museum Bodensee ("Car and Tractor Museum") at Lake Constance looks like a traditional old farm ...
Condor Boeing 767 Business Class from Toronto (YYZ) to Frankfurt (FRA)
For my trip to Canada on the day they re-opened their borders after Covid-19 restrictions I went for Condor. I ...
Wolfgang Petry – Auf das Leben
In December 2019, I praised the album 2084 by the Pete Wolf Band. The artist behind that project is Wolfgang ...
Madame Tussauds Berlin
Madame Tussauds is a global franchise - not too surprisingly, they also have an outlet in the German capital, Berlin ...
Power Plush – Vomiting Emotions EP
The first set of the press kit I received about Power Plush are (translated to English) "Emancipatoric power meets empahtic ...
Peter Maffay – So Weit
Without a doubt, Peter Maffay is nowadays one of the most well-known rock artists singing in German. As a result ...
Rage – Resurrection Day
Some new guitar riffs made in Germany: it is hard to think about the German metal music scene without thinking ...
Alex Christensen & The Berlin Orchestra – Classical 80s Dance
He does it again: after he successful of three 1990's pop tracks, transformed into orchestral arrangements, Alex Christensen is back ...
A Walk Through Westerland (Sylt – Pictured Story)
The Pictured Story postings give me a nice opportunity to share moments with you, which might not be worth a proper review ...
IntercityHotel Munich
Arriving late from my Lübeck Air flight from Lübeck Airport (LBC), heading out early for my train to Bolzano in ...
Freakstorm – Storm Inside My Heart
A tribute band growing to an album with seven very own songs and two covers: Freakstorm from Gummersbach near Cologne ...
BlueBrixx Megastore (Loop5 Weiterstadt) – The World Largest Brick Bar
More than 5,000 small buckets one next to another in a bunch of aisles within one store. The contents: interlocking ...
Nordseehotel Wilhelmshaven
A lonely place with North Sea view (or, at least, a bit of that) - doesn't sound too bad, does ...
LUKE – Break The Silence EP
Some more music from Germany this weekend: with his solo project LUKE, Lukas Schüßler (which I spell Schüssler in the ...
Mentalist – A Journey Into The Unknown
Mentalist is definitely an interesting German metal band. Even though A Journey Into The Unknown is just their second album, ...
LaFee – Zurück In Die Zukunft
The first album by LaFee since ten years - and in fact this one is heading back some more decades ...
Nura – Auf der Suche
Another review in which I am getting in touch with a genre of music, which I am neither too familiar ...
One Hour Spree Cruise in Berlin with BWSG
Doing a cruise on Berlin's key river Spree is one of the classic touristic options when you visit the German ...
Annie Chops – Level Up
From Kiddo Kat to Annie Chops: her album Piece of Cake was one of the first ones I reviewed on Flyctory.com ...
Hilton Garden Inn Frankfurt Airport
Apart from several stays around the terminals, Frankfurt Airport nowadays features four airport hotels with direct walk-in connection to Terminal ...
German Oil Museum Wietze
If you think about oil producing countries, you may think about the USA or the United Arab Emirates. In fact, ...
Mark Forster – Musketiere
A new album by Mark Forster: the German artist took a three year break before he did it again: his ...
Perlregen – Drei
Friday, the 13th: I am sure that Perlregen, did not think that their new album Drei (meaning ("Three") could turn ...
Little Big City Berlin
Driving a model landscape or a large model train landscape in Germany is a difficult business: Even if you do ...
“Hanse Steinreich” Exhibition at the European Hansa Museum
There was a duplicate reason to visit the European Hansa Museum in Lübeck in late July 2021: apart from the ...
European Hansa Museum Lübeck
Not only because auf an early 1990's video game, I am deeply interested in the Hansa and its history. Thus, ...
Zwanie Jonson – We Like It
It's just about a month ago since I reviewed the 2021 album of Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen, GschichterIn aus ...
MySpa Mainz – Private Spa Experience
I received comparably quite a lot of feedback after I posted a review of MyWellness in Cologne. The place in ...
Lübeck Airport (LBC)
I remember having a flight from Lübeck / Lubeck Airport (LBC) in the very early 2000's. At this time, I ...
Tom Niklas – Einfach Ich
I have to be straight: I did not know Tom Niklas before. I ran into the schlager artist by a ...
Plastic Mars – Up To Our Necks
A new punk rock project from the West parts of Germany: Plastic Mars are active since about four years. On ...
Mercure Hotel Hannover City
At the end of an interesting trip in June 2021, I stayed at the Mercure Hotel Hannover (Hanover) City. I ...
IntercityHotel Hamburg Main Station
In mid June 2021, I again had a night in Hamburg. As I was aiming to come back late from ...
Jasmin Wagner – Von Herzen
I have to admit: I loved Jasmin Wagner... or Blümchen... during my childhood years. As a young girl, the Hamburg ...
Existent – Kartenhaus EP
Some German rock to be released on 23rd July 2021: I ran into the music of the band Existent and ...
Jolina Carl – Mexican Overdrive
Some country from Germany: just in the week I did the second edition of my German Songs Country Music Picks, ...
Walking around Pilsum Light Tower (Pilsumer Leuchtturm, Pictured Story)
15 meters of total height, thereof a the height of the light itself at eleven meters - the Pilsum Light ...
Egotronic – Stresz
Andreas Dorau everywhere: just two weeks after I reviewed GschichterIn aus dem Park Cafe, the new album by Die Liga der ...
Fauna Animal Park Solingen
Even though Solingen is not a that major city (some 160,000 inhabitants), it features two mid-size animal parks / zoos ...
Country Music Picks – The German Songs (20th July 2021)
I received quite a lot of feedback on my initial (late April 2021) version of the The German Songs edition of ...
The Myth of Germania – A Berlin Underground Exhibition
It is almost needless to say that Adolf Hitler was obsessed with megalomanic ideas. Apart from ruling the world and ...
Sarah Straub – Tacheles EP
Tacheles reden is a German saying which means that you have a very straight and honest discussion, expressing your clear ...
Helge Schneider – Die Reaktion – The Last Jazz Vol. II
I just have to admit: I like to listen to very few kinds of jazz, but I am absolutely not ...
German Rail Lounge / DB Lounge Frankfurt Airport (FRA)
For years, if I would have wanted to deeply bash the Deutsche Bahn (German Rails), there would have been a simple way ...
MyWellness Cologne – Renting a Private Spa Experience
Especially after all the Covid-19 restrictions, my wife and I were really looking forward to two relaxing hours in a ...
Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen – GschichterIn aus dem Park Cafe
I started to enjoy the pop-Northern Soul style of the German band Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen, when the recorded ...
Disgusting Food Museum Berlin
Have you ever heard of Surströmming, Hakarl or Spam? Do you mind eating eyes or drinking cow blood? All these ...
Luna Morgenstern – Taking The Blow EP
A debut EP by a home town artist - of course I have been curious when I ran into Luna ...
Car Rental Review – Sixt Hanover City Center – Ford Puma ST Line
Since I agreed to the suggestion of a friend and started to also write reviews of car rentals, Sixt happened ...
Leeraner Miniaturland (Leer Model Land)
Northern Germany, especially the East Frisia (Ostfriesland) region in model scale? This is exactly what the Leeraner Miniaturland (liternally: Leer Model Land) ...
Bud Spencer Museum Berlin
If you know the name Carlo Pedersoli by heart, then you are likely ready to head to Berlin since 27th ...
7fields – Under My Skin EP
You might not have heard from the German artist, but the man behind 7fields has been leading the legendary band ...
Dominik Klein – Reflections EP
Over 560,000 follower on Facebook and some 90k subscribers of his YouTube channel - you just cannot say that Dominik ...
Hamburg Panoptikum
A Panoptikum is a place for everything you can see, if you translate it roughly. The Hamburg Panoptikum in St ...
Novotel Suites Hannover City
For a trip to Lower Saxony in early June 2021, I needed a stay in Hanover / Hannover close to ...
Saarbruecken Airport (SCN)
Majorly in order to check out the DAT (Danish Air Transport) connection from there to Hamburg, I happened to fly ...
My Country Music Picks (22nd June 2021)
After quite a hiatus - the last regular Country Music Picks edition is as of November 2020, I felt it ...
FRS Halunder Jet Fast Ferry VIP Premium Class from Hamburg to Helgoland
Helgoland (in English also called Heligoland) is very often referred to as Germany's only deep-sea island. Even though this nice ...
Razz – Might Delete Later EP
The sound of Razz feels very international - but in fact they are from the Emsland, a Northwest region in ...
Paul Weber – Alles im Arsch EP
German rock made in Cologne: of course, I am always especially curious when I run into artists I don't know ...
Helloween – Helloween
Time to bang your head again: the German metal big guns Helloween are back in the record stores, six years ...
pez – All Lowercase EP
Modern country from Bavaria? No, this is not about Nik Wallner, but about pez, who is singing in English and ...
IntercityHotel Saarbruecken
There is always (mostly?) a second chance at Flyctory.com: After I haven't been too pleased with my first ever IntercityHotel ...
Karlie Apriori – Seelenpassagier EP
I ran into the music of the German singer-songwriter Karlie Apriori, when I checked for 11th June 2021 releases. The ...
Richie Necker – New Songs and Untold Stories
Some cool music from Germany: the album New Songs And Untold Stories was soloely flagged as pop music in a promotion ...
A Walk Through Berlin’s Government District
During my recent daytrip to Berlin, I took the opportunity to have a walk through sunny - and empty - ...
Fancy – MASQUERADE (Les Marionettes)
Fancy has truly been a Eurodance legend in the 1980's. Even though his last Top 20 chart entry, a mix ...
TRYP Hotel Celle
At the beginning of June 2021, I had a trip to Northern Germany. Apart from two nights in Hanover, I ...
Songs Of My Life: Gianna Nannini / Edoardo Bennato – Un’ Estate Italiana
8th July 1990, Olympic Stadium in Rome. German Andreas Brehme took the deciding penalty shot in the 85th minute and ...
Flying from Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport (PAD)
Even though I had to delay my flight from there for medical reasons, I was really excited to have my ...
Heide Park Resort Soltau during Covid-19 conditions
"Why are they allowed to open and we not?" - one of the most frequently asked questions during the Covid-19 ...
Anchors & Hearts – Guns Against Liberty
New hardcore album from the North of Germany: Anchors & Hearts recorded their fourth album Guns Against Liberty and will ...
The Eschede Derailment Memorial
I have always been wondering how people from cities like Lockerbie or Lakehurst deal with the faith that their hometown ...
No Angels – 20
People thought that the five girls of No Angels could become the German Spice Girls. They became talent show stars ...
TriXstar – Dear 2020 EP
TriXstar is a very interesting artist. She is having Iranian background, but is nowadays a rising artist in the German ...
Tinka – Geil EP
There are multiple ways to fame. Maybe countless ones. Tinka is driving trucks. Full stop. The 31-year old was part ...
Bernhard Brink – lieben und leben
Bernhard Brink is indeed one of the big names of German schlager. His songs attract a huge fan base. On ...
Mental Cruelty – A Hill To Die Upon
About the album A Hill To Die Upon, its composer and guitarist Marvin Kessler said, This is the album I ...
Die Prinzen – Krone der Schöpfung
In my younger years, the German a capella band Die Prinzen have been one of my favorite music. Their direct, ...
DIE MAUER – asisi Panorama Berlin
Historic panoramic painting fascinated me massively the last months. I already introduced you to the Panorama Mesdag in The Hague ...
Phil Solo – Harmonie
Harmonie by Phil Solo is one of these reviews which just happened to Flyctory.com while scanning promotion platforms. I ran ...
Alexander Ludwig – Alexander Ludwig EP
A Viking doing modern country? Sounds like a weird Scandinavian story - but in fact the artist is a Canadian actor, ...
Emirsian – Lezoon
Music by a German artist with Armenian roots - I am always curious when it comes to have a listen ...
Noah Levi – Indigo EP
Indigo by Noah Levi is another publication with talent show background: in young teenage years, Noah Levi became famous by ...
Automuseum Wolfegg (Wolfegg Car Museum)
My trip to the Bodensee / Lake Constance region in summer 2020 brought me to a surprisingly large number of car ...
Transrapid Test Track Emsland – The Legendary Maglev
Magnetic levitation is such a fascinating technology - and even though the German Transrapid project is no longer followed, it still ...
Kicker Dibs – Vagabund
From a school band to a flat share and finally their debut album - this is a very short wrap-up ...
Naturwildpark Granat (Haltern am See, Germany)
As the reviews of the park were pretty good, my wife and I headed to a deer park / wildlife ...
Nikola – 369 EP
Due to a promotion platform, I ran into the debut EP of a German pop artist, Nikola. There was just ...
Papenburg Von-Velen-Anlage Open Air Museum
Papenburg has some more interesting places other than the famous Meyer Werft. At the opposite part of the town, my ...
ESO Supernova Munich – Garching
Professional stargazing: The European Southern Observatory, short ESO is a collaboration of multiple European countries to gather astronomic forces on the ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Linda Mar (11th May 2021)
Linda Mar (or Linda Marlen Runge, which is her civil name) is truly a multi-talent in performing: Likely, most people ...
People Club – Take Me Home EP
The promotion kit of People Club calls the act an indie-lo-fi-slacker band. Ooops, I have to admit that I would ...
Claudia Koreck – Perlentaucherin
Twelve cover songs of German music legends - when I recently reviewed a similar concept, #Schlager by Stereoact, my rather was ...
Michael Hirte – Love Hurts
He simply calls himself Der Mann mit der Mundharmonika - "The Man With The Harmonica": Michael Hirte fascinated Germany at ...
Emma Longard – Quieter Pt. 1 EP
After having released her debut album in 2015 already. Emma Longard will release two EPs with new songs in 2021 ...
Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert Vol. 8
Sing meinen Song ("Sing My Song") is definitely one of my favorite German TV music shows. A group of music artist ...
Mighty Oaks – Mexico
The fourth album by the multi-national project Mighty Oaks on 7th May 2021: boosted by lead singer Ian Hopper in ...
Durch & Durch – Nice Aber Nutzlos
It can't be too bad to have a smile in these times, can it? When I ran into the German ...
Wincent Weiss – Vielleicht Irgendwann
Since about half a decade, Wincent Weiss became a big name in the German-singing pop music scene. After two successful ...
Songs Of My Life: Nino De Angelo – Jenseits von Eden
It took me one week later than usual to give you a new edition of the Songs Of My Life. This ...
Sylt / Westerland Airport (GWT)
There are a lot of discussions in Germany whether domestic flights are really necessary - and the argues against them ...
VINTER – Seasons
Seasons by the project VINTER is a typical Flyctory.com review. I scanned future new releases in a promotion database and got ...
Mike Leon Grosch – Wenn wir uns wiedersehen
Despite Mike Leon Grosch had a huge success in Germany in 2006, his career had quite a hit shortly thereafter ...
Klee – Trotzalledem
Some new music from my home town: Klee is a German pop act, who have been quite successful in the ...
Berlin Brandenburg Airport Terminal 1 (BER) – My First Review
I originally planned a flight to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport in late October 2020. Due to all the pandemic ...
Country Music Picks – The German Songs (28th April 2021)
It's been just too long since I did the last episode of my Country Music Picks. At the end of ...
Emsflower – A Gardening Giant & Adventure Park
The history of Emsflower started as Kwekerij Kuipers founded by Jan Kuipers in De Lutte in the Netherlands. Not too far ...
Flying the PAD Aviation Embraer Phenom 300
Fortunate unexpected upgrade: I originally planned to go from Paderborn/Lippstadt (PAD) to Westerland/Sylt (GWT) to check out a new German ...
Resistance Museum Amsterdam
Even though the Netherlands capitulated against Germany just after a few days under attack during World War II, they have ...
Robert John Hope – Plasticine Heart
When I listened to Robert John Hope's solo album debut Plasticine Heart, I felt that I should definitely share these ...
Sarah Lombardi – Im Augenblick
Sarah Lombardi's career started with a bit ups and downs in the German version of American Idol. Three years after ...
Fury in the Slaughterhouse – now
Fury in the Slaughterhouse were indeed a very successful German rock act, especially in the 1990's. They have definitely been ...
German Customs Museum Hamburg
There are so many interesting places in Hamburg, which are still on my bucket list. Of course, the Northern German ...
Samuel Rösch – Geschichten
From the big talent show stage to the (virtual) record stores: After Samuel Rösch won the German The Voice in ...
JORIS – Willkommen Goodbye
New stuff from JORIS: the German singer-songwriter with a touch of rock music is about to present his third album ...
Red Dot Design Museum Essen
The Red Dot Design Award is one of the most well-known (and prestigious) design awards in the world. However, the ...
A Walk Through Cologne / Bonn Airport Terminal at Covid-19 Times (Pictured Story)
Travelling in Germany has been turned down to an absolute minimum. Hotels are just able to accept business guests and ...
Diane Weigmann – Die Wahrheit liegt irgendwo dazwischen
More than thirty years ago, Diane Weigmann was part of the founding of a legendary German band, the Lemonbabies. She ...
Ben Zucker – Jetzt Erst Recht!
Welcome back to Flyctory.com, Ben Zucker. After I have been gifted to report from his arena show in Cologne in ...
Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum Dusseldorf
A zoo which is suitable for the cold and rainy days as well: as you might guess already, Aquazoo Löbbecke ...
Nuremberg Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds
Nuremberg (or Nürnberg, how it is named in German) has some sort of tough political-historic heritage. Several sites still remember ...
Lufthansa Business Lounge Berlin/Brandenburg (BER) during Covid-19
In April 2021, I finally had my first flight connections to/from the new Berlin airport, BER - Berlin / Brandenburg ...
The Jeals – Rage Generation
The Easter weeks have been quite thin regarding new releases. The more, they are a chance for me to listen ...
Löwen am Nordpol – Löwen am Nordpol
The band which is featured in this review is called Löwen am Nordpol - "Lions at the North Pole". Apart ...
German Movie Museum Frankfurt
The German Movie Museum - or: Deutsches Filmmuseum is located in the heart of Frankfurt (Main). It gives you an overview about ...
Antiheld – Disturbia
The German rock band Antiheld grew quite a lot during the last years and established in the German music scene ...
Giovanni Zarrella – Ciao!
Even though Giovanni Zarrella is singing in Italian, his music is definitely aiming to be sold on the German-speaking markets ...
Cap San Diego Museum Ship Hamburg
The Cap San Diego is a general cargo vessel, which has been in duty between 1962 and 1986. Since then, it ...
Jan-Marten Block is the German Idol – Some Thoughts After a Strange Season
At first sight, this is rather a blog posting for people outside Germany. At the time of reading, German residents ...
Hämatom – Berlin
From Franconia via Germany... to the world? At least in their home country, Hämatom (yes, this means hematoma) became a ...
Truck Stop – Liebe, Lust und Laster
Even though we are currently struggling in Germany to build a (modern) country music scene, there has always been some ...
A Walk Through Zeche Zollverein (Pictured Story – Essen, Germany)
If an industrial site is jokingly called the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhrgebiet Region, it seems to be quite an impressive ...
MeerExpress – Flying the Air Shuttle to Norderney & Juist
Despite the limited travel situation in Germany due to Covid-19, there are some quite interesting virtual airline projects in Germany ...
Vanessa Mai – Mai Tai
New stuff from Vanessa Mai: just about a year after the German Schlager star released her album Für Immer ("Forever"), she ...
Thomas Anders – Cosmic
Thomas Anders is back to pop music. After his recent publications on the German Schlager genre, the Gentleman of Music is ...
Burn Down Eden – Burn Down Eden
Even though their press package praises them as the new German lead in the melodic death metal scene, I have ...
Wilderlife – Closer Tonight EP
With Flyctory.com growing on the musical side, I have the opportunity to have access to more and more interesting releases ...
Timo Scharf – Everything Ever Always Is All Forgotten EP
The promotion material to Timo Scharf's new EP Everything Ever Always Is All Forgotten contains a magical sentence. He is writing ...
Maite Kelly – Hello!
Recently, Maite Kelly had a lot of presence in German TV as part of the Deutschland Sucht Den Superstar (German ...
Hanna Batka – Mitten in Berlin
Indeed, Hanna Batka is Mitten in Berlin - "In The Middle of Berlin". She is not only indeed living in the ...
Songs Of My Life: Andreas Dorau – Girls In Love
Music was very important to me. I feel that the postings in the Songs Of My Life category so far really ...
Schorl3 – Sprudelpop EP
I am not even sure if it was about the cheeky lyrics and the fresh sound or simply the album ...
Selig – Myriaden
Selig is one of the most famous German rock bands. They started publlishing music in 1993. On 12th March 2021, ...
Blutengel – Fountain of Destiny
Alphaville, Ultravox and Mike & The Mechanics on one album? Okay, I have to give in that neither of the ...
Vivien Gold – Gedankenkarussell
The ability to simply link two nouns to a new word is a lovely property of the German language - ...
Orden Ogan – Final Days
I have to admit that I did not know Orden Ogan before this review. Quite a gap in my music ...
German Food Additives Museum Hamburg
Preservatives, artificial flavors, abherents and more - there are countless potential food additives in our everyday nutrition. You might feel ...
Bad Temper Joe – One Can Wreck It All
Blues made in Germany? Even though this might sound like an almost average experience, Bad Temper Joe has gained quite ...
Meersburg Castle (Lake Constance)
The Burg Meersburg (Meersburg Castle) in the city of Meersburg is one of the iconic landmarks in the Lake Constance / ...
Bricky Trouble over Germany
Covid-19 has influenced our lifestyle in a historic way, indeed. A lot of things we did love to do are ...
Definition of Insanity – Into The Abyss
A typical life of a music blogger: the information about Definition of Insanity has been sparse when I ran into ...
Zeppelin Museum Zeppelinheim
Zeppelinheim - the nominal reference in the name of the borough South of Frankfurt to the legendary German airships is ...
PeterLicht – Beton Und Ibuprofen
There are several causes which make me feel I should go for an album review. When I decided to have ...
Markus Wasmeier Open Air Museum
Two Olympic Gold Medals and multiple other medals and World Cup victories (with a special focus on Super-G) - undoubtedly, ...
Erik Cohen – Northern Soul
Quite some interesting rock music to be released on 26th February 2021. I originally wanted to start my reviews of ...
Nino de Angelo – Gesegnet und Verflucht
Nino de Angelo is one of my favorite German artists. I will definitely tell you about a very special concert ...
Rhine Cable Car (Kölner Seilbahn) Cologne
There are periodically discussions, whether the Cologne local transport is upgraded by cable car traffic over the river Rhine. However, ...
Munich Olympic Tower and Rockmuseum
Undoubtedly, Munich Olympic Tower is one of the iconic buildings of the Bavarian city. Even though the tower is located ...
rock’n’popmuseum Gronau
Gronau in the Münsterland region in Western Germany calls itself the "Music City". The some 50,000 inhabitant town is definitely not the ...
Gsindl – Gsindlsuperdinger
While so far the only German dialect I feature on Flyctory.com is Kölsch, the lovely way to speak in my ...
Jack McBannon – True Stories
Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
Iuna Lux – All of my Answers EP
With Flyctory.com growing and thus having access to major promotion networks, I get in touch into music I would likely ...
Cologne – My Ten Favorite Songs About My Home Town
During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
Sonor Teutonicus – Morgenrot
Apart from global mainstream sounds, there are some genres, which have a quite local popularity. The German Schlager is one ...
Flying Dortmund Airport (DTM)
The city of Dortmund in the Northeast Ruhrgebiet region is maintaining its own airport. Dortmund Airport, which is officially called Dortmund ...
Bucket Boys – Twentyfive
I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
Paso Doble & DJKC – Urknall
Originall, the German Neue Deutsche Welle legends Paso Doble were scheduled to release her new album Urknall on 15th January 2021, ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Ann Doka (1st February 2021)
I am always happy to chat with German artists on my blog in the Spotlight interview category. Ann Doka is ...
(Over) 400 Media Reviews on Flyctory.com – your most popular ones
It started on 27th July 2018 with Talk of This Town by Catherine McGrath. Last weekend, I reached another milestone: with Immortal ...
Accept – Too Mean To Die
Covid-19 has some weird impacts: as a major German pressing plant had to reduce operation due to the pandemic, a ...
Michael Schenker Group – Immortal
Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
Don Marco & Die Kleine Freiheit – Gehst Du Mit Mir Unter
Gehst Du mit mir unter - "Are you drowning with me" is the album title of a new German music project ...
Tragedian – Seven Dimensions
Even though Tragedian is a Hamburg-based project, their members come from quite some parts of Europe. I got to have ...
Songs Of My Life: Systems In Blue – 1001 Nights
While I guess that you knew a lot of the songs I presented you so far as a Song of My ...
Munich White Rose / Weiße Rose Memorial Exhibition
The Weiße Rose / "White Rose" was a resistance group during the German Nazi regime. Mainly consisting of university students, she ...
LINA – Meins EP
Lina Larissa Strahl, as a musical act simply called LINA, is having a bit of an age issue: the nowadays ...
Bashdown – Pushing the Envelope
After they got quite some good critics for their debut album, the German metal / hardcore band Bashdown starts 2021 ...
Obersalzberg Documentation Center
The Berchtesgadener Land is not only nowadays well-known as a popular tourist destination, there is also a dark part of ...
Siku & Audi-Museum Höing (Stadtlohn, Germany)
A museum with 90 vintage cars and so-called Yountimers might not feel to thrilling. If you add that about half of ...
Peter Schilling – Vis Viva
Peter Schilling is a legendary name of the German music business. Major Tom gave him international reputation. So far, Schilling ...
Georg Breusing Rescue Cruiser Emden
Even though I could likely never have a maritime life (I would feel too locked away on a ship), I ...
Understanding Train Station – A Podcast on Living Abroad and Cultural Differences
I already introduced you to Feli, the German Girl in America, now Feli from Germany, in my Flyctory.com posting about her ...
Chocoversum by Hachez Hamburg
A place about and full of chocolate - I am quite sure that I am not the only one who ...
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2020
After praising my favorite songs of 2020 and the favorite albums and EPs in 2020, the final posting to do ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2020
292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2020
2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
Museum Prototyp Hamburg
The marketing flyer of the Museum Prototyp in Hamburg is really self-confident. The name of the car history museum is not ...
Hilton Garden Inn Frankfurt City Centre
I had a couple of overnights in Frankfurt during 2020, some of them motivated by rail trip connections. In October ...
Visiting the Meyer Werft in Papenburg (Self-Guided Tour)
The Meyer Werft in Papenburg is one of the most iconic plants of German engineering, indeed. The site is manufacturing ...
Leonardo Hotel Munich City Center
Due to a late rail arrival at Munich Central Station, I looked for an overnight opportunity around the central travel ...
German Architecture Museum (Frankfurt)
Even though architecture is a topic which so much influences our everyday life, the German Architecture Museum (Deutsches Architekturmuseum - ...
Munich Toy Museum
The Munich Toy Museum is one of these typical hidden gems you find in many cities. Right in the city ...
My First PCR Test (Centogene Dusseldorf Airport)
While I have a couple of "PCR professionals" in my circle of contacts, it took me until December 2020 until ...
Reichshof Hamburg, Curio Collection by Hilton
I haven't been to too many hotels which are featured in own wikipedia articles in my life. One stay, at ...
Deutsches Museum Bonn
The Deutsches Museum (German Museum for Science and Technology) in Munich is one of the most fascinating places in Germany ...
Fleming’s Express Hotel Frankfurt
Due to the early departure of an ECE 451 ride from Frankfurt to Milan in September 2020, I looked for ...
Chocolate Museum Cologne (Schokoladenmuseum)
Cologne Cathedral is the key attraction of my home town Cologne, of course (it is even one of Germany's very ...
Park Inn by Radisson Papenburg
Doing some local attractions in the Papenburg region like the huge Meyer Werft shipyard, the Dat Otto Huus in Emden or ...
Sodom – Genesis XIX
Sodom is one of the finest names for Thrash Metal made in Germany. The band is already having a 38 ...
Gaststätte Grossmarkthalle – The Best Bavarian White Sausage in Munich
There is no better start of the day for Munich people than a Weißwurst breakfast with a prezel and a beer. The Weißwurst, ...
NH Collection Munich Bavaria
Before Germany went to a lock-down of touristic travel in November 2020, I had a short trip to Munich. For ...
Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Though there is the amazing tiny Zeppelin Museum in Meersburg, not too far away, people tend to think about the ...
Dat Otto Huus (Otto Waalkes Museum) Emden
During an October 2020 trip to the East Frisia (Ostfriesland) region, I just could not prevent myself to have a ...
Tusq – Rarities & Outtakes
Alternative rock made in Hamburg - the German band Tusq is already active for eleven years. Time to release some ...
Hilton Garden Inn Munich City West
For a stay in September 2020, I tested the Hilton Garden Inn Munich City West for two nights, Friday to ...
Dirk Busch – Spuren (Lieder über das Leben)
Dirk Busch's 1980's song Du bist keine Mona List would be a perfect candidate for my new Songs of my Life category ...
Ross Antony – Lass es glitzern (Weihnachten mit Ross)
The story of Ross Antony is quite amazing: having an English education as a musical artist, Antony is nowadays a ...
Bläck Fööss – 5Ö
50 years of Bläck Fööss - the "naked feet", what is the literal translation of their band name are a ...
Averlanche – Life’s Phenomenon
If you are thinking about moving to Finland, but feel afraid of the (indeed strange) language - maybe it is ...
German Central Bank Money Museum (Frankfurt)
Frankfurt is the banking capital in Germany and one of the key financial centers of all Europe.Thus, it may not ...
Maritim Hotel Cologne
After having a couple of hotel reviews from nearby cities Dusseldorf and Bonn already, I felt it was a huge ...
Voss Chocolate Hotel (Schokoladenhotel) Westerstede
Spending the weekend in a hotel dedicated to chocolate? Does not sound too bad, doesn't it? When my wife spotted ...
Rossfeld Panoramic Route
There are just a couple of toll roads in Germany (if you neglect road toll for trucks). One of them ...
bett1HULKS Championship 2020: Krawietz / Mies (GER) – A. Zverev / M. Zverev (GER) 6-4 7-5
After the Divij Sharan as the last Indian player had bowed out of the tournament the day before, I could ...
Michelle – Anders ist gut
Latest when Michelle represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Copenhagen, she became an important part of the ...
bett1HULKS Championship 2020: Alexander Zverev (GER) – John Millman (AUS) 6-0 3-6 6-3
After German Alexander Zverev swept his Australian opponent John Millman in the bett1HULKS Championship 2nd round singles match in the ...
DanaMaria – Desert Diamond
Just ten days before she is releasing her debut album Desert Diamond, I introduced you to the promising German country music ...
bett1HULKS Championship 2020: Sharan (IND) / Sandgren (USA) – Marach (AUT) / Pavic (CRO) 4-6 2-6
Unfortunately, my work schedule on the Championship week Wednesday was a bit busy, so that I had to rush from ...
bett1HULKS Championship: Egor Gerasimov (BLR) – Daniel Altmaier (GER) 6-1 6-0
German wildcard Dennis Altmaier was almost swept by Belarus qualifier Egor Gerasimov. I just saw the second set - the ...
bett1HULKS Championship: Jordan Thompson (AUS) – Gilles Simon (FRA) 3-6 5-7
Right before Sumit Nagal's match against Kecmanovic, I had at least the chance to have a short spot on the ...
bett1HULKS Championship 2020: Sumit Nagal (IND) – Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) 6-3 (4)6-7 1-6
Second week in the Cologne LANXESSarena, second tournament: more or less in parallel to the first week tournament victory by ...
bett1HULKS Indoors 2020: Hubert Hurkacz (POL) vs. Mischa Zverev (GER) 6-4 6-3
After having three doubles matches on the minor Court 1, including Divij Sharan's first round loss, I dared to watch ...
bett1HULKS Indoors 2020: Davidovich Fokina / Verdasco (ESP) – Masur / Molleker (GER) 3-6 6-1 10-8
This first round Men's Doubles match on Court 1 was in fact the first match I saw on 14th October ...
bett1HULKS Indoors 2020: Gonzales (MEX) / K. Skupski (GBR) – Nielsen (DEN) / Puetz (GER) 4-6 6-1 10-5
I just stayed on the smaller Court 1 after Divij Sharan's 1st round match at the bett1HULKS Indoors in Cologne ...
bett1HULKS Indoors 2020: Sharan (IND) / Withrow (USA) – Herbert / Mahut (FRA) 3-6 3-6
Due to all the Covid-19 regulations and local restrictions the male tennis ATP Tour set up some new tournaments in ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets DanaMaria (13th October 2020)
When you look at European country music, you very often purely focus on British artists. However, the German country music ...
Memorium Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg is deeply linked to the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. The key reason for that are of ...
Hotel Grossfeld Bad Bentheim
On a trip from Cologne to Northwest Germany in early October 2020, I was looking for an overnight in the ...
Saltatio Mortis – Für Immer Frei
From street music to the tops of the German charts - Saltatio Mortis have taken the very tough route to ...
The Country Music Week turns Digital
During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
Umadum / Hi-Sky – A Giant Ferris Wheel in Munich
Similar to the Europarad Ferris Wheel in Cologne, Munich is hosting a giant mobile ferris wheel, which is offering its ...
The Fair Play Suite at the Kameha Grand Hotel Bonn
After we visited a couple of hotels in Bonn, we finally wanted to check out the only five star one ...
Marco Schmedtje – 18
Since I have been registered at a promotion company, I receive quite frequent teasers and links to various types of ...
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial
Especially in the recent past, I read a couple of ridiculous comparisons between certain people and political groups (which I ...
Munich Olympic Stadium Tour
A legendary architecture (many people even regard it to be the most important building in the city), a sheer endless ...
Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Trade Fair
Right before I departed in Frankfurt on day 1 of my Four Countries, Four Trains trip in summer 2020, I ...
ALPEN-SYLT Nachtexpress – A New Night Train Crossing Germany
One thousand kilometres to the sea - or vice versa One thousand kilometres to the Alps - was the slogan a new private ...
Yonder Boys – Acid Folk
The Yonder Boys are definitely an interesting, but also kind of weird and funny combo, which is based in Germany, ...
ECE 451 – The Non-Stop Train from Frankfurt To Milan
Also due to the current situation in aviation, I could follow my idea to invest more time in rail travel ...
A Boat Trip on the Königssee
The Königssee (literally: "King's Lake") is a beautiful lake in Southeastern Bavaria, not too far away from the Austrian border ...
Watching Cologne from Europa Rad Ferris Wheel
Sometimes, you just have to be creative: if you have one of the biggest mobile ferris wheels in the neighboring ...
ibis Dusseldorf Main Station
In order to have a more comfortable (and longer) sleep, I decided to go for a night at the ibis ...
Elbphilharmonie (Elbe Philharmonic Hall) Hamburg
The Elbphilharmonie (Elbe Philharmonic Hall), which has been built between 2007 and 2016 and opened on 11th January 2017, is something like ...
Nightjet Night Train – Single Deluxe Class
While - especially for business reasons - trans-European rail connections may still take too much time for daytime transfers, night ...
Van de Forst – Unconditional
Undoubtedly, Van de Forst is one of the most interesting German acts in the country music scene. Her country / ...
Dusseldorf Rhine Tower (Rheinturm)
The Rheinturm - or Rhine Tower - is definitely one of Dusseldorf's most iconic viewpoints. During a recent stay at the ...
INNSIDE Hotel Dusseldorf Hafen
As I had couple of Spain and Portugal trips planned for summer 2020 and all have been cancelled due to ...
miu – Corona Tapes EP
Scanning the new releases as of 28th August 2020, I ran into the Hamburg-based band miu. The gained quite some ...
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
What is Germany's most popular tourist attractions? According to many popular rankings including TripAdvisor, it is neither the Brandenburg Gate ...
X-Perience – 555
Fourteen years after their latest album, the German project X-Perience is releasing a new album. The fifth long-play release of ...
Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen
Aviation fans likely first think about the zeppelins when it comes to Friedrichshafen, Germany. However, the city is also home ...
German Girl in America – YouTube Videos about US-German Differences
2020 is just halfway done - but if I was to choose a German person of the year, regardless whether ...
IntercityHotel Nuremberg
IntercityHotels are a quite interesting joined venture of the German Rail System (Deutsche Bundesbahn, which was a fully state-driven company ...
1st Creatif Hotel Elephant Munich
Arriving at Munich Main Station by rail at 22:00, grabbing a rental car there at 8:00 (earliest possible time during ...
Four Countries, Four Trains – A Trip on Tracks (Day 4, 10th August 2020)
Heading back home. As said in the Day 3 coverage, I did not expect too much going on on that ...
Four Countries, Four Trains – A Trip on Tracks (Day 1, 7th August 2020)
So excited to travel again and do a proper. I did my first day of the rail rides through Germany, ...
Four Countries, Four Trains – A Trip on Tracks (Preview)
After having so many trip reports involving flights and road trips, this trip report will completely leave me on the ...
The Constance – Meersburg Ferry at Lake Constance – Is It Worth It?
If you travel in the Western Lake Constance (Bodensee) area, you have a choice of transport: you can either shortcut ...
Mainau Island – The Floral Paradise at Lake Constance
The "Flower Island" Mainau is one of the key attractions of the whole Bodensee / Lake Constance region. No doubt that ...
Herbertstrasse Hamburg – A Covid-19 Vacuum in the Red Light District
Hamburg has a lot of famous attraction: some might first think about the huge harbor, others about the new Elbphilharmonie (Elbe ...
Sarah Zucker – Wo Mein Herz Ist
I saw Sarah Zucker for the first time on stage, when she joined her brother Ben in Cologne's largest LANXESSarena ...
U.D.O. & The German Armed Forces Concert Band – We Are One
When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
Avalon Hotel Bad Reichenhall
For my June 2020 stay in the Salzburger Land / Berchtesgadener Land area, I decided to go for two nights ...
Golfhotel Bodensee (Weißensberg)
Fancy a round of golf in the Lake Constance area? The reason why I chose the Golfhotel Bodensee ("Golf Hotel ...
Taking a (Summer) Taxi Ride on the Königssee Bobsleigh Track
Whenever you happened to watch Bobsleigh races in TV, did you also often think about how it is like to ...
Marquess – Turbulento
Marquess is a very popular band in Germany and the neighboring countries. With Turbulento, they are back in the record stores, ...
ibis Styles Konstanz (Constance)
The last night of my Lake Constance trip in May/June 2020 was at Constance. I did not went for one ...
Überlingen Plane Collision Memorials
On 1st July 2002, Überlingen at Lake Constance (Bodensee) gain notoriety not only in Germany: two planes, a Tupolev TU-154M ...
2 Brüder – The most German supermarket in the Netherlands
The city of Venlo in the Netherlands is maybe some sort of perfect illustration of profiting from the Schengen Agreement, ...
Serways Hotel Weiskirchen Nord (A3 Autobahn, Rodgau)
On my Whitsun 2020 trip to Lake Constance, I made a stop en route - due to the Covid-19 regulations ...
Beyond the Black – Horizons
Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
Pfahlbauten (Lake Dwelling) Unteruhldingen, Lake Constance
The Pfahlbauten (Lake Dwelling) at Unteruhldingen, prehistoric houses built on wooden piles, are one of the Top 5 attractions of the ...
Berlin Zoo
During my Covid-19 day trip to Berlin, I spent some time in the Berlin Zoo. Berlin is quite famous for ...
Marie Reim – 14 Phasen
20 year old Marie Reim is an interesting upcoming artist in the German schlager scene. Both of her parents are ...
Zeppelin Museum Meersburg
Air ship and zeppelin flights / flight history is a quite popular part of a visit at Lake Constance. In ...
The German Midpoints of the European Union
Where is the heart, the center of the European Union? There is really an official answer for that. The Institut Géographique ...
Thomas Anders & Florian Silbereisen – Das Album
Thomas Anders and Florian Silbereisen are some sort of a new super-band in the German Schlager genre. Both are famous ...
Lake Constance after the touristic Lockdown – My Experience
Many Germans did it - and I did it as well: travelling again. The Whitsun weekend was not only a ...
Women Soccer Bundesliga is back – But some Girls score in a different Way
They did it: the German Women Soccer Bundesliga (Flyeralarm Frauen-Bundesliga) re-started a few days ago, on 29th May 2020. I ...
Das Moped – Erstaunlich Klar
Sometimes, life as a music blogger is strange. Scanning the new releases (as every Friday) on 22nd May 2020 made ...
Traveling Through Germany at Covid-19 Times – A special Trip Review
Coming back from London from the (finally cancelled) Country To Country Festival 2020 was the last trip I took before ...
Mrs. Greenbird: Strong Crowdfunding Start for New Album
Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
Back To Soccer-Country: Germany
Saturday, 16th May 2020, 15:30 hrs German time. The point in time at which the German Soccer Bundesliga was intended ...
My Country Music Picks (13th May 2020)
Even though Covid-19 is taking quite much of our time, we should really enjoy the good things - and at ...
Frankfurt Airport during Covid-19
Apart from some hiking and a number of drive-in cinemas, I did not generate any new contents for Flyctory.com on ...
Nico Santos – Nico Santos
Nico Santos is a German artist, which made it quite big and gained international attention the last years. He is ...
Axel Rudi Pell – Sign of The Times
60 years of Axel Rudi Pell - one of the big names in the German metal scene is celebrating this ...
Autokino Düsseldorf – Drive-Movies & Show
After I recently visited the traditional drive-in movie in Cologne and the additional pop-up Car Watch in my home town, 2nd ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Frank Renfordt / The Cumberland River Project (30th April 2020)
Already the first single Back On The Road felt very promising - and at least when The Cumberland River Project released their ...
Car Watch – A new Pop-up Drive-in Cinema in Cologne
As I wrote in my recent review about the traditional DRIVE IN movies in the South of Cologne, drive-in movies ...
Karen – Repeat
Typically, after I have completed my first wave of reviews (which was quite quick on that 17th April 2020 due ...
Cologne DRIVE IN Movies – More than the Covid-19 Alternative
Quarantining, social isolation, being unable to go out on a Friday - overall, the cultural and social scene has been ...
My Favorite C2C: Country To Country 2020 Songs
Due to the late cancellation of the C2C festivals in London, Dublin and Glasgow and all the organizational trouble caused ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Nik Wallner (12th March 2020)
Many people in the German country music business see a lot of potential in Southern German artist Nik Wallner. At ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 3 (08.03.2020) – The Main Stage
The last four big acts of the C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - the three days have been ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 3 (08.03.2020) – Splitter
My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 3 (08.03.2020) – The Side Stages
Sunday, 8th March 2020, the third day in Berlin. Already that typical mixture of feelings: looking forward to the last ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 2 (07.03.2020) – The Main Stage
After a good start on Main Stage on Day 1 with Luke Combs, Jimmie Allen and Darius Rucker headlined the ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 2 (07.03.2020) – The Side Stages
After the the first side stage acts on Day 1 of the C2C Country To Country 2020 in Berlin, Day ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 2 (07.03.2020) – Splitter
Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 1 (06.03.2020) – The Main Stage
Time for the big party - after the side stage artists of Day 1 have cheered up the audience, it ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 1 (06.03.2020) – The Side Stages
C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 1 (06.03.2020) – Splitter
The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Van De Forst (5th March 2020)
Van De Forst is one of the most interesting German country music / country pop music act. Vanessa, the person ...
The Cumberland River Project – The Cumberland River Project (Album Review)
Country music made in Germany? There are more and more projects which feel to be very promising. In my point ...
Böhse Onkelz – Böhse Onkelz (2020 Album)
Time for some discussions in the German music scene - the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th ...
Heinz Rudolf Kunze – Der Wahrheit die Ehre
Heinz Rudolf Kunze is one of the biggest songwriters and rock musicians in Germany. Already in the 1980s, he had ...
Arithmeum Bonn – A Museum about Calculations
A Calculation Museum? Sounds like a place for die-hard nerds - but the Arithmeum in Bonn is really a popular ...
Country 2 Country 2020 in Berlin – A Preview
A lot has happened since the Country 2 Country 2020 headliners for all five venues have been published in October 2019 ...
Henriette – Henriette EP
Country music made in Germany? Especially in the last few months, there have been a couple of acts, which feel ...
Brett Eldredge / Lauren Jenkins (24th January 2020, Cologne)
The first Sound of Nashville show of the year - it felt really good to be back close to the ...
Vanessa Mai – Für Immer
While there were not too many country music releases on my intiial review list, there were some quite interesting new ...
Hilton Bonn
Why not doing it at home? Though Bonn is just some 40 kilometers away from our flat, my wife and ...
Airport Lounge World Munich Airport
If you fly a non-Schengen flight from Terminal 1 (the non-Lufthansa one) at Munich Airport and depart from the B ...
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2019
While I so far made an semi-annual look back in time, the "Very Important Postings", I decided something with my ...
Hilton Munich Airport
After I had some stays at Hilton Munich Airport in the past, I was happy to be back in this ...
My Favorite Music Albums 2019
I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
Eurowings Lounge Munich – The Low(est) Cost Lounge Experience?
The reviews I found so far are quite clear: 9 out 9 users assigned a 1.0 to the Eurowings Lounge ...
Historic Mustard Mill Cologne
The Historic Mustard Mill in Cologne ("Historische Senfmühle Köln") is quite a unique place in the million people city. It ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2019
2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
Noah Guthrie (9th December 2019, Cologne)
Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
Pete Wolf Band – 2084 (Album Review)
Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
The Christmas Market at Munich Airport
After reviewing four Christmas markets in Cologne recently, I did not expect to get in touch with any additional ones ...
Cologne Old Town Christmas Market
The Christmas Market in Cologne's Old Town is the largest of the city. Under the slogan "Heinzel's Wintermärchen" (something like Good ...
Cologne Cathedral / Roncalli Square Christmas Market
Cologne Cathedral and a 25 meter high Christmas tree - these are the key ingredients, which turn the Christmas Market ...
Björn Heuser – Kopp voll Dräum (Nashville Recordings)
I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
Toyoko Inn Frankfurt Main Station
As an overnight stay after the Mrs Greenbird concert in Frankfurt, I decided to opt for a hotel chain, which ...
Max Raabe & das Palast Orchester – MTV Unplugged
Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester is likely not the kind of music you would expect to be reviewed on ...
Stars Of The Galaxy – A Star Wars Shrine in Mönchengladbach
You may know Mönchengladbach (or: Moenchengladbach) for soccer, likely. However, the city hosts one of the most remarkable Star Wars ...
Cologne Harbor Christmas Market at Chocolate Museum
During each festive season, Cologne is crowded with tourists and visitors due to its Christmas markets. There are masses of ...
The New 2021 Miles & More Points – Back to FREQUENT Flying?
In an evening session with German aviation experts and frequent travelers in Frankfurt, Lufthansa today revealed their new Miles & ...
Alex Christensen & The Berlin Orchestra – Classical 90s Dance 3
When I was on social media, the account of a friend reminded me that Alex Christensen. After two amazingly successful ...
Mrs. Greenbird (Frankfurt, 7th November 2019)
One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
Ben Zucker & Van De Forst (6th November 2019, Cologne)
I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany's largest multiplex arena ...
Willie Jones & Tyler Rich (29th October 2019, Cologne)
An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
Dusseldorf Airport Photo Tour
Though it just processes about a half of the number of passengers of Munich Airport and even just a third ...
Logan Mize (26th October 2019, Cologne)
While the Sound of Nashville October started big with the the concert of Old Dominion. One day after the big ...
Scotty McCreery (24th October 2019, Cologne)
I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
Michael Lane – Traveling Son
In many countries, a good placement at The Voice almost feels like a guarantee to have some steps on the ...
Country 2 Country 2020 Lineup – My View
During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
Andy Clark (19th October 2019, Dusseldorf)
As I really enjoyed to listen to Andy Clark's new album I Love Joyce Morris, I was really hoping to manage ...
Johanniter Gästehaus Münster
The Johanniter Gästehaus in Münster in Northern Northrhine-Westfalia is likely one of the most unusual places I stayed in the last ...
Sarah Darling, Kenny Foster, Robert Counts (13th October 2019, Frankfurt)
Right after I returned from a vacation trip to Tenerife, I headed from Frankfurt Airport to Das Bett (literally: The Bed), a Frankfurt ...
SSF Dragons Bonn – MFBC Leipzig/Grimma 0:3 (0:1, 0:0, 0:2)
Before I went to Zons and watched the German interpretation of Rock of Ages at the Zons Open Air Theater, ...
DJK Holzbüttgen – SSF Dragons Bonn 9:8 (2:4, 3:2, 4:2)
A day after SSF Bonn's ladies home match versus Leipzig/Grimma, I watched the men's team in Holzbüttgen. Sunday Night Floorball ...
Rock of Ages (Zons / Germany, 28th Sep 2019)
Rock of Ages is my favorite musical. At the time of writing, I saw it 30 times, in four countries ...
Flying the Aerotask A320 Simulator (in Essen)
Like you already saw in my review of the Emirates Aviation Experience, including the A380 simulator, I have a certain ...
Sound of Nashville Press Event & Logan Mize Concert (11th Sep 2019, Cologne)
Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
Jillian Jacqueline & Lauren Jenkins (9th September 2019, Cologne)
The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
Thompson Square (5th September 2019, Cologne)
September 2019 is a country music concert months full of highlights. Just one day after I returned from my Aschaffenburg ...
Eric Paslay (3rd Sep 2019, Aschaffenburg)
Eric Paslay and his song Friday Night was one of the first songs, which really made me get in touch with ...
Andernach Geyser
The Vulkaneifel region Southwest of Bonn, Germany, is still a quite active vulcanic region. Thus, all around there and in ...
Floorball RENEW Cup 2019 (Holzbüttgen, Germany)
DJK Holzbüttgen close to Dusseldorf and Cologne is an amazing masterpiece of local sports club management. Having started with very ...
Flugausstellung Peter Junior (Hermeskeil)
The next cities around are Trier, Sankt Wendel or Idar-Oberstein - the small city of Hermeskeil could be seen as ...
On Top of Leverkusen Water Tower
Water towers are not too common in Central Europe, especially in Germany. This is definitely one of the key factor, ...
Wade Bowen (6th August 2019, Cologne)
The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge Frankfurt Airport
After I mentioned the Air Canada Lounge at Frankfurt Airport already in my love letter posting to LATAM flight 705, ...
SV Menden – 1. FC Köln 3:5 (0:3) (31st July 2019)
Same procedure as last year? Same procedure as every year! The traditional women soccer pre-season test match between my home ...
Weird Al & Grass Court Tennis 2019 (Day 5/6 – 21st/22nd July 2019)
After two days of Weird Al Yankovic concerts and a memorable Day 4 with my sports idol Leander Paes and ...
A Preview to Country Music Concerts (European Tours)
After my posting in April, which was already speculating about a country music boom in Germany and Central Europe, a ...
Flying Sun-Air of Scandinavia
Flying back from the Write Like A Girl event in London, I had the opportunity to fly Sun-Air of Scandinavia for ...
Andreas Dorau – Das Wesentliche (Album Review)
There is an easy musical way to make myself happy while driving my wife nuts in parallel: Andreas Dorau. I ...
Lufthansa First Class Flight Experience
My trip to Singapore and Malaysia was my debut First Class experience (apart from Domestic First in the USA). I ...
German Blade Museum Solingen
Solingen, some 30 km Northeast of Cologne, is known as Germany's headquarter of the knife and scissor industry. Thus, it ...
Lufthansa First Class Terminal in Frankfurt
For customers flying on Lufthansa's top notch First Class product (and HON Circle Members), the German airline offers a very ...
The Scherz-Tour – A Different RheinEnergieSTADION Cologne Tour
I already visited a couple of stadium tours with Flyctory.com in the past. My home and heart soccer club, 1 ...
Bergisch Historic Trams Wuppertal
Wuppertal in the Bergisches Land region Northeast of Cologne hosts a very special attraction for train and rail enthusiasts: the ...
GDR Museum (DDR Museum) Berlin
Bad times of terror, being pried and controlled in a country without the freedom to move - or good times ...
Museum Plagiarius Solingen – The Place for Copies
Did you ever copy a CD from a friend? Plagiarism can be much worse than just bootlegging. The Museum Plagiarius ...
Lufthansa Panorama Lounge in Frankfurt
The Lufthansa Lounges for Senators and Business Class customers are tending to be too crowded, especially in peak times. Thus, ...
Best Western Premier Parkhotel Kronsberg Hanover
Due to a career event of my wife, we had to travel to the trade fair area of Hanover in ...
Country Music Concert Summer 2019 in Germany – a small Boom?
Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations - or declared ...
Mrs. Greenbird – Dark Waters (Review)
Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
SSF Dragons Bonn – TV Schriesheim 5:8 (1:1, 3:1, 1:6)
At the beginning of April 2019, the floorball seasons worldwide were already about to reach their climax. On 6th April ...
My Favorite Country 2 Country Songs 2019
The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
Hampton by Hilton Berlin East Side Gallery
During our visit of the Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin, we chose the Hampton by Hilton Berlin East Side ...
Lindlar Open Air Museum
Lindlar, a minor Eastern suburb of Cologne, hosts one of two open-air museums driven by the regional Rhineland authority LVR ...
“Sound of Nashville” in Cologne (6th March 2019)
How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin
I visited Europe's biggest country music festival, Country 2 Country (C2C), for the first time in 2018 in London. I immediately ...
Avantasia – Moonglow (Album Review)
Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
WFCQ 2019: Germany – Russia 8:4 (4:1, 3:3, 1:0)
Sunday morning in Trencin started with a clash between Russia and Germany. The winner of that match would get the ...
WFCQ 2019: Spain – Germany 3:6 (0:1, 1:3, 2:2)
After I made my way from Germany to Vienna and headed on to Trencin by car, the match between Germany ...
Alte Dombach Paper Mill
Bergisch Gladbach, a 110,000 inhabitant city East of Cologne, is a traditional location for the production of paper. While nowadays, ...
My Favorite Songs 2018
As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
Speyer Technology Museum
After I visited the Sinsheim sister museum in February, I have been very curious about visiting the Speyer Technology Museum ...
B&B Hotel Aschaffenburg – The No-Thrill Hotel
The B&B Hotels group, mainly operating in Germany, operates in the quite strongly growing of budget hotels. When you book ...
Ratingen-Cromford Textile Factory
One of the key attractions in Ratingen, Northeast of Dusseldorf, is the remarkable Cromford Textile Factory, which is driven by ...
The Eau de Cologne Giants – 4711 vs. Farina
When people think of real "Eau de Cologne", they typically think about the well-branded 4711 brand located in the city's ...
Kiddo Kat – Piece of Cake (Album Review)
Kiddo Kat already a viral hit on Youtube in 2016. Now, Anna Guder produced her first album "Piece of Cake" ...
Floorball Bundesliga: DJK Holzbüttgen – ETV Piranhhas Hamburg 2:7 (1:3, 0:4, 1:0)
9th September, first matchday of the Men Bundesliga. One of the most interesting teams of the new season is likely ...
Leverkusen Deer Park Reuschenberg (Review)
There are quite a lot of minor deer and animal parks around Cologne, quite a lot of them mainly based ...
Flying with VLM from Cologne to Antwerp
The route between Cologne and Rostock is a quite traditional connection from Rhineland to the Baltic Sea - which has ...
Doro – Forever Warriors // Forever United (Album Review)
Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
Deutsches Museum – Flugwerft Schleissheim
Due to the limited exhibition space of the "Deutsches Museum" (German Museum of Technology), the famous Munich educative center had ...
Dormagen Deer Park Tannenbusch
Located North of Cologne, the "Wildpark Tannenbusch" offers a nice way to spent your free time with your family, enjoying ...
SV Menden – 1. FC Köln 0:1 (0:1) (2018 pre-season)
Visiting the women soccer pre-season between SV Menden, a team from my home town St. Augustin near Bonn, and the ...
Life of a Women Soccer Legend
You won't find Patricia Hanebeck in the ranking of the most successful German women soccer players if you you drill ...
A touch of Orient in a Munich Hotel Room
"Stylish", "Surprising" or "Modern design" might not really be the attributes which you combine with ibis hotels. The more I ...
Munich State Museum of Egyptian Art
As I for example stated in my review on Louvre Abu Dhabi, I am quite much interested in ancient cultures ...
City Outlet Bad Münstereifel
Spa Town Bad Münstereifel, suffering from economic problems in their city center, decided to revamp its commercial concept and opened ...
LINA @ Kunst!Rasen Bonn
The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
LATAM 705 – Love Letter to a Flight
If you collect and something, you likely also have one or more several favourite pieces in your collection. What do ...
History of Gaming in Cologne’s City Museum
The Cologne City Museum's recent history is not really what one would call "lucky". After a water damage in later ...
It’s all about bread – Museum of Bread Culture Ulm
Maybe one of the most characteristic German products is bread. I even found "German bakeries" during my visit of Taipei ...
Germany’s Largest Hotel – Staying at the Estrel Berlin
More than 1,100 rooms in the German capital - the Estrel Hotel in Germany's capital Berlin is just a massive ...
Six Intercontinental Flight Weekend – Day 5 (Trip Report)
Sunday, 27th May 2018 - time to slowly head home. After quite a lot of flying, this has really been ...
Six Intercontental Flights in 72 Hours (Overview)
No, I am not going to travel between Europe and Asia or America like a madman or do some extreme ...
A Day at Sinsheim Technology Museum
Located quite prominently right at the motorway A6 at Sinsheim (home of the TSG Hoffenheim soccer club), the Technik Museum ...
All Hotel Reviews
Here are all postings about hotels and other accomondation:
Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus
Rather briefly before I went to Istanbul in May 2025, I decided to change my hotel. I originally had a ...
IntercityHotel Duisburg
In order to visit three Rock of Ages shows in Duisburg in May 2025 (not the one I covered as a photographer), ...
Fosshotel Reykholt
Managing my backlog of possible reviews sometimes leads to some rather late reviews. This posting is my last hotel review ...
Hampton Inn Carlstadt – At the Meadowlands
For a Jessica Lynn tour-chasing trip in December 2024, I decided to upgrade my trip with a first row Christmas ...
Pullman Dubai Creek City Centre
One of the hotels my wife and I stayed in for two nights in December 2024 in Dubai has been ...
NH Hotel Bussum Jan Tabak
After featuring the rematch of the Netherlands and the Faroe Islands in Almere, Netherlands, I decided it was the better ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Krakow Hotel & Convention Center
In late March 2025, I spent three nights in Krakow. This time, I opted for a hotel, which haven't stayed ...
Hilton Garden Inn Malaga
As part of my mileage run in late January 2025, I had a night at the Hilton Garden Inn Malaga ...
Novotel Bern Expo
Covering all four matches of the Swiss Floorball Cup Finals in February 2025 required me having two nights in Bern, ...
Hotel 1001 Nott (Egilsstadir, Iceland)
I hate when I simply don't make it to fit in reviews in time. This review, for example, is based ...
Mercure Hotel Dortmund Messe (Trade Fair)
As the Run & Fly Meeting 2025 in Dortmund was held in parallel to a Borussia Dortmund soccer match and ...
Hampton Inn Pittsburgh / Greentree
I typically enjoy changing hotels during my trip. For my four night stay in Pittsburgh watching three Penguins matches in ...
Novotel Vienna Main Station (Wien Hauptbahnhof)
For my trip to Vienna in January 2025, I needed a hotel with good rail connections, as I planned going ...
Il Milione Country House (Palazzolo dello Stella)
Covering the World Floorball Championship Qualification in January 2025 almost failed. The rationale for that was finding a suitable accommodation ...
Nordic Inn (Torshavn)
I am typically rather shy in reviewing bed and breakfasts, guesthouses and other kind of private accommodation. In some places, ...
Hilton Garden Inn Venice Mestre San Giuliano
After my 2025 Women World Floorball Championship Qualification coverage in Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy, I needed a hotel night close ...
Sport Hotel Sletiste (Kladno)
Watching Czech ice hockey Extraliga team Rytiri Kladno has been my first travel highlight of the year 2025. In order ...
Moment Hotels Malmö
Going back from two floorball matches in Gothenburg by train, I had an overnight rail transfer in Malmö. I looked ...
ibis Styles Basel City
Supporting the Faroe Islands at the EHF Women Handball Euro 2024 in Basel, Switzerland, made me look for a stay ...
Hampton Inn Philadelphia / King of Prussia
Heading to a Jessica Lynn concert in nearby Phoenixville in December 2024, I was looking for a reasonable priced accommodation ...
Hilton Dubai Al Habtoor City
Rather short-notice, my wife and I changed our travel plans for New Year's Eve 2024 and decided to stay in ...
Hilton Frankfurt Airport
I typically prefer Hilton Hotels and my second-most flown airport so far is Frankfurt Airport (FRA). Thus, it feels quite ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Los Angeles – Norwalk
Long distances, a lot of traffic and some very pricey hotel options - I am not the biggest fans of ...
NH Hotel Dresden Neustadt
Covering the opening of the "Goldenes Oval" and the Dresden vs. Weißenfels Floorball Bundesliga match took me to Dresden in ...
Royal Rose Abu Dhabi (Curio Collection Affiliate)
The Royal Rose Hotel in Abu Dhabi is one of the classic and traditional stays in the U.A.E. capital. The ...
Hilton Lille
Even though I felt rather weak and we had to adopt my travel plans, my wife and I finally decided ...
Hotel No13 (Bergen)
For our stay in Bergen, Norway, my wife and I chose the Hotel No13 in the center of the town ...
IntercityHotel Mannheim
Attending a conference in the city, I had one night at the IntercityHotel Mannheim. My typical choice, the Hilton Garden ...
ibis Styles Budapest Citywest
Covering at least one day of the Czitrom Andras Hungaria Kupa in October 2024 and reporting from the Hungarian Floorball National ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Newcastle Airport
In September 2024, I had two Rock of Ages musical amateur shows in Newcastle in Northern England. Not having too many other ...
Airport Garni Hotel (Belgrade)
In early October 2024, I took a trip to Indonesia. The trip featured several staggered flights, optimized for cost and ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Jakarta – Diponegoro
While I had quite a bunch of hotel changes of my inbound and outbound trip to Indonesia in October 2024, ...
Hilton Garden Inn Innsbruck Tivoli
I had a quite weird situation staying at the Hilton Garden Inn Innsbruck Tivoli. I booked the hotel as Hotel ...
Hilton Paris La Defense
For a business trip to Paris in September 2024, I chose a hotel in La Defense. The Hilton options around ...
Best Western Providence Warwick Airport Inn
My July 2024 tennis trip to Newport, Rhode Island, featured quite a range of different hotels. I spent the first ...
ibis Berlin Hauptbahnhof / Main Station
As I didn't feel like taking the night ICE train after my August 2024 trip to Dresden from Berlin to ...
Molin Guesthouse (Skalavik)
The December 2023-opened Sandoyartunnilin (Sandoy Tunnel) allowed me to visit the Southern island of Sandoy on the Faroe Islands. Apart ...
IntercityHotel Bonn
I haven't done a "Review Battle" for quite a while. Today, I am comparing two hotels of the same brand ...
IntercityHotel Dubai Jaddaf Waterfront
The very last hotel night on my mileage run to Jakarta and the Emirates was a stay I was really ...
Hampton by Hilton Doha Old Town
In October 2024, I spent my very first hotel night in Qatar. En route to Jakarta, I wanted to explore ...
ibis Styles Bielefeld
Watching a musical show with a performer I know brought me to Bielefeld in September 2024. Due to my Accor ...
Innside by Melia Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg might not be the first place which comes to your mind when you think about German touristic hotspots.. However, ...
ibis Hotel Zurich Messe Airport
One of the key challenges of visiting the last stage of the German Rock of Ages musical tour 2024 in ...
Hampton Inn Fall River/Westport
With five nights, my longest stay during the Tennis Hall of Fame Open 2024 in Newport, Rhode Island, was the ...
Steigenberger Hotel Cologne (Köln)
From time to time, I simply enjoy having a night in Cologne, between two office days close to the office ...
Clarion Hotel Arlanda Airport
For my coverage of the Swedish Floorball Finals 2024 in the Friends Arena in Solna, I originally had a booking ...
Hotel Maison du Pre (Paris)
Getting a reasonably priced hotel during Olympic Games is typically a very tricky task. Thus, I was quite happy when ...
Hilton Grand Vacations Club on the Las Vegas Strip
Also due to the high hotel prices over New Year's Eve, my wife and I did some hotel-hopping in Las ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Johor Bahru
O my recent trip to Malaysia in February 2024, I also had one night at the Southern mainland town Johor ...
Premier Inn Wolfsburg City Centre
After I covered the Muxx.tv show by Jessica Lynn in Erftstadt, I felt that I should also just visit one ...
ibis Styles Lille Neuville-en-Ferrain
While getting a reasonably priced hotel in Paris for Olympic Games 2024 was quite a hassle (at least if you ...
Hampton Inn Seekonk
A key issue about organizing my trip to Newport for the Infosys Tennis Hall of Fame Open 2024 were hotels ...
Oaks Ibn Battuta Gate Hotel Dubai
Ibn Battuta Gate is not only right next to my favorite mall in Dubai, the Ibn Battuta Mall, but it ...
Premier Inn Braunschweig City Centre
In order to cover the German Athletics Nationals 2024, I needed to have a three night stay in Braunschweig. I ...
B&B Hotel Stadthalle Vienna
After I just had one night in Vienna in April 2024, watching a show of the Rock of Ages musical ...
Novotel Brussels Airport
As flights were much cheaper from Brussels (BRU) than from Dusseldorf (DUS) or Frankfurt (FRA), I opted for the Belgian ...
Stracta Hotel Hella (Iceland)
The pictures already suggest it: this hotel review is in fact not based on a recent stay. My wife and ...
ibis budget Düsseldorf Willich
Getting a hotel in or around Mönchengladbach should typically be not too much of an issue. However, when I wanted ...
Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Ratingen
I have stayed at the Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Ratingen a couple of times before my night in June 2024. However, ...
Desert Rose Resort Las Vegas
When my wife and I visited Las Vegas in December 2023, this was exactly ten years after our wedding there ...
Hotel Sternen Oerlikon (Zurich)
For the final 2024 shows of the musical Rock of Ages, I had two different hotels in Zurich. I spent ...
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Pittsburgh West – Green Tree
I more and more tend to have hotels in the outer boroughs of Pittsburgh when I visit the city. The ...
Hilton London Canary Wharf
After I had a stay at the Novotel in the area right before Covid-19 broke out, I haven't been staying ...
Hampton Inn Manhattan – Madison Square Garden Area
Hotel pricing in New York is weird. It is very hard to spot a reasonable place for 250 USD per ...
EnjoyNature B&B Hollola (near Lahti, Finland)
During World Floorball Championships, my demands on accommodation are rather basic: I need a bed, breakfast, a work desk, electrical ...
Best Western Raphael Hotel Altona (Hamburg)
For Charles Esten's show in Hamburg in May 2024, I needed a hotel in the Northern German city. I chose ...
Homewood Suites Myrtle Beach Coastal Grand Mall
When I received my rental car from Avis at Myrtle Beach Airport (MYR), the representative there surprised me. Homewood Suites? ...
Stravinsky Hotel Hengelo
In order to cover the Carrie Welling and Kasey Williams show in Hengelo in the Netherlands in early May 2024 ...
Mercure Wien Westbahnhof (Vienna West Station)
My third stage of my Rock of Ages tour-chasing took me to the Austrian capital Vienna. With the show being ...
Mövenpick Hotel Basel
The Swiss Floorball Superfinals 2024 in Fribourg gave me a bit of a travel headache. I would have made it ...
LIC Hotel (New York / Queens)
Hotel prices in the USA are getting more and more ridiculous and this require to go for some strategy and ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Brussels City
There are still some hotel reviews which came from my 2023 Weird Al Yankovic European Tour tour-chasing. One of them ...
Holiday Inn Express Cologne – Troisdorf
Meeting with friends in Troisdorf between Bonn and Cologne in the evening and relaxing at the Wellnest private spa Bonn ...
Avani Deira Hotel Dubai
Dubai is not only a place where you run into people from all over the world, but also in hotel ...
Motto by Hilton Washington DC City Center
Is this already a hotel? Or is it something like an upgraded hostel? I was really curious when I had ...
Hotel Saski Krakow, Curio Collection by Hilton
Krakow is one of my favorite cities in Poland. After some active time, I thus decided to explore the city ...
ibis Bochum Zentrum
12th March 2024 brought me to Bochum in the German Ruhrgebiet. The city hosted my very first Rock of Ages ...
Aerotel Jeddah Airport (JED)
Even though I really enjoyed my trip with Saudia Airlines from Tunis (TUN) to Kuala Lumpur (KUL), the transfer times ...
My 15 Favorite Hotels I Have Stayed in… So Far
At the time when I started writing this posting in early March 2024, Flyctory.com already featured reviews of over 320 ...
Mercure Krakow Stare Miasto
Krakow is one of my favorite places in Poland. I love the city and the wide range of historic and ...
Premier Inn Dubai International Airport
A strike in Germany caused me to re-book my February 2024 flight to Dubai. Instead of Thursday morning, I landed ...
Hilton Petaling Jaya (Kuala Lumpur)
Apart from staying in the lovely Hilton Kuala Lumpur, I checked out some more hotels during my February 2024 trip ...
Hampton by Hilton London Docklands
In order to cover the Jenn Bostic show in London in February 2024, I was looking for a hotel in ...
MAIA Hotel Suites Tunis
Arriving on a Friday from Germany at Tunis Airport (TUN) and heading on the day thereafter, I was looking for ...
B&B Hotel Frankfurt-Niederrad
As I knew it would be rather late after I visited the TSV Erlensee Floorball Bundesliga home matches vs. Dümptener ...
Sorell Hotel Ador Bern
On the first weekend of January 2024, I had the opportunity to feature two Swiss floorball matches on the same ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Cathedral City
After spending three days in San Diego, my wife and I headed on to Coachella Valley in late December 2023 ...
The WB Hotel Abu Dhabi, Curio Collection by Hilton
I was so happy to be back in Abu Dhabi in February 2024. Especially due to the stricter Covid-19 restrictions ...
Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest
Returning from a USA trip in early November 2023, I had a night in the city of Budapest. I was ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Sittard
A Hilton Hotel just an hour away from my home coming with a special kind of architecture and competitive prices? ...
Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt City Centre East
Having dinner with some frequent traveler friends in Frankfurt lead to a one night stay in the German city, famous ...
First Hotel G Gothenburg
Staying in Gothenburg for one night to handle the Pixbo IBK vs. Malmö FFC Floorball Women SSL match, I had ...
Aparthotel Adagio Birmingham City Centre
After my stay at the Adagio Hotel Bremen in 2023, I really had a certain traveller's crush on the aparthotel ...
Best Western Dreiländerbrücke Weil am Rhein
On 6th January 2024, I have been in Switzerland to cover two floorball matches, Zulgtal Eagles vs. Visper Lions and ...
Best Western Plus Casino Royale – Center Strip (Las Vegas)
There were a couple of different options and changes in the itinerary of our recent Las Vegas trip in December ...
22 Hill Hotel (Reykjavik)
Reykjavik has been the last stop (before staying at the Aurora Star at Keflavik Airport KEF) of the Icelandic Ring ...
Homewood Suites by Hilton San Diego Airport – Liberty Station
Reviving somewhat the same route we took ten years ago, when my wife and I married in Las Vegas - ...
ibis Budget Aachen Raeren Grenze
Staying at the ibis Budget Aachen Raeren Grenze has been a hotel night I have been looking forward to do ...
Travelodge Aylesbury
I typically stsa in rather solid to good hotels. However, sometimes, they simply exceed the need I have. When I ...
Conrad Tokyo
Our first time in Japan - and thus our first time in Tokyo. My wife and I wanted to have ...
NH Collection Hamburg City
Before I have just been close to the NH Collection Hamburg City, I knew that this hotel will give me ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Toronto Downtown
Watching a Rock of Ages show in Toronto and heading on to a Journey concert at Scotiabank Arena thereafter - I had ...
Hilton Dresden
The Nacht der Gitarren concert series with Jim Kimo West took me to quite some nice places in late 2023. I had ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Pittsburgh Downtown
Arriving from New York City by the Amtrak Pennsylvanian Train in the evening, I needed a hotel with good connections ...
ibis Styles Hamburg Barmbek
In order to cover the Home Free concert in Hamburg in September 2023, I had a night at the ibis ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Frankfurt Niederrad
As I typically prefer Hilton Hotels, the situation at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) is rather comfortable to me. With the Hilton ...
Motel 6 Pittsburgh – Crafton
My second night in Pittsburgh in October 2023 was the perfect opportunity to try out something very new. I typically ...
ibis Hotel Cologne Frechen
Just as it felt convenient to stay somewhere closer to the office where I work, I had a night at ...
Asiatic Hotel Flushing (New York City)
Nowadays, you should definitely do one thing before you head to New York City as a tourist and explore the ...
ibis Styles Budapest Airport
In late October 2023, I had an overnight transfer at Budapest Airport (BUD). Such a special place to me, as ...
Mercure Hotel Frankfurt City Messe
Having a cheap hotel close to the main station after the Kelvin Jones concert in October 2023. My aim, when ...
RiKu Hotel Reutlingen
In order to to cover the local Nacht der Gitarren show, I headed to Reutlingen in mid-October 2023. As the weeks before ...
Moxy Cologne Muelheim
Before we checked out the new Wellnest private spa in Cologne, my wife and I felt it is a good ...
The Royal Park Hotel Tokyo Haneda
After staying five nights at the Conrad Tokyo, having a hotel directly linked to the airport terminal the night before ...
Hotel Andromeda (Ostend)
The British cast of Rock of Ages in the European Union - while the first leg of the DLAP production ...
Hampton by Hilton Newcastle
Watching the wonderful former Rock of Ages musical actress Zoe Birkett in Bodyguard brought me back to Newcastle. As I headed on ...
ibis Styles Bern City
ibis Styles time in Switzerland: while the previous review of the Accor brand I shared with you has been the ...
ibis London Shepherd’s Bush
Having a musical night in London in August 2023, I needed an affordable overnight with good connections to the London ...
Post-Plaza Guesthouse Husavik
Husavik - as you recently have learned, the small town in North Iceland is one of my most favorite spots ...
Hilton Garden Inn Faroe Islands
Rarely, it has been easier for me to visit all the Hilton Hotels of a country (if you name the ...
Quality Inn Arena (Wilkes-Barre)
During my March 2023 ice hockey trip of Pittsburgh Penguins matches, I had the opportunity to visit the Pens' farm ...
Holiday Inn Express Dublin City Centre
The very first show of the Weird Al Yannkovic European Tour 2023 was in Dublin, Ireland. As my employer got ...
ibis Kassel
While covering the German Athletics Nationals 2023 in Kassel, I was looking for an accommodation near the hosting venue Auestadion. I ...
Anemi Hotel & Suites Paphos
I really love to look back to the trip to Cyprus in October 2022, which my wife and I took ...
RiKu Hotel Pfullendorf
Looking for a hotel to cover the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf did not give me too many options ...
Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik
My wife and I went on a trip to Dubrovnik in Croatia in April 2023. As Hilton is generally my ...
Hampton Inn Pittsburgh – Bridgeville
The first evening in Pittsburgh during my March 2023 trip had a very easy schedule: land in Pittsburgh Airport (PIT), ...
Hilton Garden Inn Krakow Airport
Having an 11:40 flight from Krakow Airport (KRK) in July 2023, I just did not feel to go for the ...
Pullman Cologne
As part of my overnights bridging the night between two mandatory days at the office in Cologne, my last stay ...
Premier Inn Swansea City Centre
The very last Rock of Ages shows under the British DLAP production - I just did not feel like doing ...
Mercure Hotel Severinshof Cologne City
Just a week after I stayed at the Mercure Cologne City Friesenstrasse, I tried out another hotel of the Accor ...
Hampton by Hilton Dortmund Phoenix See
Being on a five-day seminar in Lünen North of Dortmund lead to a comparably long stay at the Hampton by ...
Mercure Cologne City Friesenstrasse
What are you doing as a hobby travel blogger when your company (the professional work...) is requesting you to meet ...
Airport Hotel Aurora Star Keflavik
The first night in Iceland or the last night before going back home - that's about the time when quite ...
nhow Frankfurt
NH Hotels are rolling out a new brand of hotels in Europe: nhow (pronounced as "now") is a group of ...
Homewood Suites by Hilton Orlando Theme Parks
My last stay during my October 2022 trip to Florida was in Orlando. Even though I visited a Weird Al ...
GLO Hotel Helsinki Airport
On my mileage run in May 2023, I slept in two typical air room hotels (even though both were landside, ...
Hafdals Hotel Akureyri
Akureyri in Northern Iceland is my favorite city of the island. Also as I expected to be there just the ...
ibis Styles Zurich City Center
The easy, convenient and typically also rather affordable style of an ibis hotel meets some boutique touch. That's about roughly ...
Hilton Dusseldorf
Right before my wife and I visited the Wellnest Private Spa in Essen during the Christmas holidays of 2022, we ...
Holiday Inn Express Glasgow – City Centre Riverside
One of the shows I followed during the European Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2023 has been the one in Glasgow ...
Premium Traveller Air Rooms Madrid Airport Terminal 4
Arriving late at Madrid Airport (MAD) Terminal 4 from Germany and heading on to Lisbon (LIS) in Portugal early the ...
Melia Berlin
Sad and touching moments just need to have a good hotel stay for your soul. For the very last leg ...
Hampton Inn Daytona Speedway-Airport
During my October 2022 trip tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic in Florida, I also had a night in Daytona. As I ...
Hrafnavellir Guest House (Hornafirdi, Iceland)
During our 2023 Ring Road Trip through Iceland, we had a wide range of stays: from guesthouses to hotel chain ...
Comfort Hotel Malmö
Due to a rather late cancellation of the Condor connection between Frankfurt Airport (FRA) and Akureyri Airport (AEY) made me ...
Mercure Hotel Tilburg Centrum
Following the Weird Al Yankovic European Tour 2023, one of the highlights was definitely the concert in Tilburg in the ...
Adagio Hotel Bremen
Even though Accor is likely the second-most frequented hotel group in my bookings, a night in Bremen in April 2023 ...
Quality Lodge (Best Western Premium Collection) Larnaca
The last stay of our trip to Cyprus in October 2022 was at the Quality Lodge in Larnaca. my wife ...
Even Hotel Pittsburgh Downtown
March 2023 featured my annual ice hockey trip supporting the Pittsburgh Penguins. Right before the first match on my list, ...
IntercityHotel Hannover Hauptbahnhof Ost
For a night after a photo trip to the Harz mountains in January 2023, I had a one night stay ...
Hampton Inn St. Louis / Fairview Heights
Having quite a lot of things on my list, including a five hour drive from Nashville and my very first ...
Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Airport
Attending a frequent traveler meeting nearby, I had the opportunity to visit the Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Airport towards the ...
Quality Inn Pittsburgh Airport
On my recent March 2023 trip to Pittsburgh watching the Pittsburgh Penguins, I wanted to close a circle and also ...
Hampton by Hilton Utrecht Central Station
One of the ten concerts I visited of the Weird Al Yankovic European Tour 2023 was at the TivoliVredenburg in ...
Premier Inn Hamburg St. Pauli
In order to explore Hamburg and upgrade my contents about the Northern German city, I had a two night stay ...
Holiday Inn Express Glasgow Airport
If you need a night at Glasgow Airport (GLA), you might be rather surprised about the rather wide range of ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh Downtown
What would be a better posting while being on a trip to Pittsburgh than posting about... Pittsburgh. In fact, I ...
Comfort Inn Blackpool Gresham
Blackpool is one of the classic party and beach destinations in summer in England. However, after my time at the ...
H+ Hotel Köln Brühl
Even though Brühl right South of Cologne is just home of 45,000 inhabitant, there are mutiple major attractions in the ...
Embassy Suites by Hilton Tampa Downtown Convention Center
Arriving from Germany on my October 2022 trip to the Florida Weird Al Yankovic shows, I needed a hotel close ...
hub by Premier Inn London Soho
I have been to quite a lot of Premier Inn hotels in recent times. In Germany as well as in ...
Hilton Garden Inn New York/Central Park South – Midtown West
After staying at the Conrad New York Midtown for two nights, my wife and I went for a more economic ...
Hampton by Hilton Dublin City Centre
The very first night on my tour-chase of Weird Al Yankovic's very first European Tour since seven years. Regarding this ...
Premier Inn Peterborough City Centre
Time for Rock of Ages again. The 2023 season of my favorite musical was about to start in early February 2023 - ...
Hilton Munich City
For some reviews, I just need much longer than expected to find a good slot in my publication planning. One ...
Acta Arthotel (Andorra La Vella)
For my weekend trip to Andorra in November 2022, I was looking for a hotel in a rather central location ...
Premier Inn Saarbruecken City Centre
After my - a bit of weird - trip of passing all 16 German states and eleven largest cities of ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Albany Downtown
The last hotel I feature from my Weird Al Yankovic Tour Kick-Off trip in April 2022 is the Hampton Inn ...
Sofitel London Heathrow (Terminal 5)
It is hard to argue against that the Sofitel London Heathrow is the most convenient option when you need a ...
Regiohotel Schanzenhaus Wernigerode
The night before the two floorball matches of the Red Devils Wernigerode against UHC Weißenfels (women) and the Berlin Rockets ...
Hilton Garden Inn Tirana
I have been very impressed of the country when I visited Albania for the very first time in December 2022 ...
Clarion Collection Hotel Hammer (Lillehammer)
Reporting from Davis Cup tie typically requires a reasonable hotel with sufficient space for all the equipment, good food and ...
Hotel Fürst Bismarck (Hamburg)
For a trip to Pinneberg just outside Hamburg, I needed a stay close to one of Hamburg's regional train stations ...
Wasserturm Hotel Cologne (Curio Collection by Hilton)
The Wasserturm in my home town Cologne is indeed one of the most iconic hotels of the city. Literally, the ...
Hampton Inn Pittsburgh Airport
On the fourth day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022, right before I headed on to Nashville, I ...
Novotel Krakow Centrum
After staying at the Hampton by Hilton Oswiecim and visitng the depressing concentration camp sites of Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau, I ...
ibis Hamburg St. Pauli Messe
I like Hamburg - and especially in recent times, I have been very frequently around the Reeperbahn region. There are ...
Hampton Inn @Aviation Plaza Linden (New Jersey)
Even though it nominally was the lowest standard hotel of my short trip, I was really looking forward to the ...
Premier Inn London Southwark (Southwark Station)
Before I headed to Portsmourth for some Rock of Ages shows in Southern England, I had a night at the Premer ...
Lillehammer Turistsenter Budget Hotel
Finally, going to Lillehammer for the Tennis Davis Cup Norway vs. India felt just too tempting - and so I ...
Holiday Inn Washington (near Newcastle UK)
When I was visiting my favorite musical Rock of Ages in Sunderland (including a great Empire Theatre tour), the Newcastle Great Northern ...
Conrad New York Midtown
Starting a short trip to New York in style: Majorly due to the great location next to Carnegie Hall, my ...
Hampton Inn Kansas City-Airport
Before in fact exploring Kansas City itself in July, I had a night at an airport hotel close to Kansas ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Poughkeepsie
Weird Al Yankovic made me travel to a couple of weird US places in my life. Like Poughkeepsie, a place ...
Sleep Inn & Suites Tampa South
I am typically a Hilton Hotels guy - this is also the reason why most of the hotels I visited ...
Hampton Inn Melbourne (Florida)
The first show of my five concert trip with Weird Al Yankovic to Florida in October 2022 was in Melbourne ...
MAP Boutique Hotel Nicosia
In early October 2022, my wife and I had our very first trip to Cyprus. For the first two nights, ...
Hotel Hubertushof (Anif near Salzburg)
After a flight reschudling in summer 2021, my wife and I needed an additional night in Austria before heading to ...
Radisson Red Oslo Airport
The night before I headed to Lillehammer for the Tennis Davis Cup tie Norway vs. India, I had a night ...
Premier Inn Inverness Centre River Ness
Another Rock of Ages musical trip took me to Inverness in the Scottish Highlands in August 2022. Due to the good location ...
INNSIDE Dusseldorf Derendorf
Saving my Melia frequent traveler points and doing some research for Flyctory.com were two really good reasons to try out ...
Hilton Malta
My wife and I chose Malta as the location for our Easter vacation in 2022. We initially felt about some ...
Holiday Home Wonderland (Ralingen)
My review category Hotels & Accommodation in fact only features hotels so far. Thus, the review of Holiday Home Wonderland is some sort ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Dubai – Business Bay
It took me quite a while to finally complete the review of the DoubleTree by Hilton Dubai Business Bay. My ...
Red Roof Plus+ Nashville Airport
Second stay on the "hunt" for some budget nights around Nashville: after I had two nights at the Hampton Inn ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Lebanon (TN)
Especially during major events like the CMA Fest, having a central accommodation in Nashville comes with one huge issue: the ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Kansas City Downtown/Crossroads
In order to explore downtown and the central sights of Kansas City, I opted for the Hampton Inn & Suites ...
Paola Inn and Suites (Paola, KS)
In July 2022, I went to Paola in Kansas in order to explore the home town of the (fictive) female ...
Premier Inn Portsmouth City Centre
Another set of shows of my favorite musical Rock of Ages in England, another city, another hotel: In mid June 2022, I ...
easyHotel Frankfurt City Centre
Going to Frankfurt by rail after work, watching a concert there and taking an early morning train back to Cologne, ...
IntercityHotel Hamburg-Altona
At the beginning of April 2022, I had two nights in Hamburg. As one of my key intentions was to ...
Courtyard by Marriott London City Airport
Being able to have a look into the Courtyard by Marriott London City Airport was the cause of a rather ...
Hampton by Hilton Warsaw Airport
In April 2022, I went to Warsaw to see my favorite musical Rock of Ages. In order to stay being able ...
Icelandair Hotel Reykjavik Natura
During one of my trips to Iceland in 2021, I decided to have two nights right at Reykjavik Domestic Airport ...
Premier Inn London Paddington Basin
In June 2022, I had a night at the Premier Inn London Paddington Basin. The booking was quite short-noticed after ...
Hilton Garden Inn Ras Al Khaimah
My February 2022 trip to the United Arab Emirates lead me to the Northern part of the country for the ...
Hampton by Hilton Aachen Tivoli
Doing some shopping (including the local sweets outlets) and visiting the Drielandenpunt, where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet, I recently ...
Comfort Inn Nashville – Opryland Area
While I typically prefer Hilton Hotels, I had the last night of my March 2022 trip with the Pittsburgh Penguins ...
Le Belgrand Hotel Paris Champs Elysees (Tapestry Collection by Hilton)
As part of a business trip to Paris, I had two nights in the Le Belgrand Hotel Paris Champs Elysees ...
Hampton Inn New Bedford / Fairhaven
The last show of my Weird Al Yankovic tour-chasing in April 2022 took place in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Thus, after ...
Epsilon Hotel London-Stratford
For a Saturday evening show at The O2 in London, I have been looking for a reasonably priced hotel with ...
Microtel Inn by Wyndham Long Island City
For the very first night of my Weird Al Yankovic trip in April 2022, I needed to have a reasonably ...
Holiday Inn Helsinki City Centre
In order to watch some matches at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships, my wife and I stayed in Helsinki ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Boston Bayside
Right before I had the third and last Weird Al Yankovic concert during my April 2022 trip through New England, ...
Premier Inn London Gatwick Airport South
Quite some hectic a few weeks before I actually visited my favorite musical Rock of Ages again. After the show has been ...
Falkensteiner Hotel Bratislava
During a recent business trip, I was happy to be able to visit my Bratislava team after two years of ...
Hilton Garden Inn Mannheim
Even though Mannheim is not too much of a touristic highlight in Germany, it is a very important rail traffic ...
OYO Hotel St. Louis Downtown City Center
A hotel right across Enterprise Center for a reasonable price? The OYO Hotel St. Louis Downtown City Center just felt ...
Adria Hotel & Conference Center (Queens, NY)
The very first night of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022 lead me to New York City. Finally, my ...
Hilton Gdansk
Gdansk is simply a beautiful Polish city, right at the Baltic Sea. I already took you on a walk through ...
Premier Inn Hamburg City Millerntor
The reason why I traveled to Hamburg in March was a German show of my favorite musical Rock of Ages in nearby ...
Hilton Nashville Downtown
As central as it gets: not only during the CMA Fest week, the Hilton Nashville Downtown offers a perfect location ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Sharjah Waterfront
For the last two nights of my trip to the Northern United Arab Emirates, I chose to go for two ...
Hampton by Hilton Stuttgart City Centre
For the first night of a trip to Stuttgart, I opted for the Hampton by Hilton Stuttgart City Centre. The ...
The Cockpit Suite at Jumbo Stay Stockholm
In 2009, a former Pan Am Boeing 747-212B has started its (likely) final operation: based on the initiative and business ...
Premier Inn Cologne City South
Trying out another hotel brand: after I had stayed at quite a bunch of Premier Inn Hotel locations in England ...
Hampton by Hilton Munich City Center East
In January 2022, I had a rail trip to Munich. As I arrived rather late, the Hampton by Hilton Munich ...
Holiday Inn Express Oberhausen
Doing Christmas shopping with a hotel room around? Right next to Germany's largest shopping mall, the Westfield Centro in Oberhausen, ...
Airport Hotel Grasteinn (Keflavik)
When I visited Iceland in October 2021, my Lufthansa flight from Munich Airport (MUC) to Keflavik (KEF) arrived at the ...
Road Stop Motel Dortmund
Flyctory.com has a focus on country music, my community includes quite a bunch of US-American people and I love to ...
Hampton by Hilton Dusseldorf City Centre
The Hilton Hotel Group is currently opening quite a lot of new Hampton by Hilton Hotels over Central Europe. Sufficient ...
Hilton Garden Inn Stuttgart NeckarPark
After I recently made you familiar with the DoubleTree in Milton Keynes, which is located right inside a soccer stadium, ...
TownePlace Suites Mississauga-Airport Corporate Center
Right after arriving at Toronto-Pearson Airport (YYZ) in November 2021, my wife and I headed to the TownePlace Suites Mississauga-Airport ...
Hilton Reykjavik Nordica
You can almost read the popularity of Iceland as a tourist destination also for North American tourists that the capital ...
The Retreat Palm Dubai – MGallery by Sofitel
Having a vacation at The Palm in Dubai is likely on the bucket list for many people worldwide. The artificial ...
Avani Ibn Battuta Dubai Hotel
For our October 2021 visit of the Expo 2020 in Dubai, my wife and I stayed at the Avani Hotel ...
Albergo delle Alpi (Airolo)
For my visit of the match of HC Ambri-Piotta in Ticino, Switzerland, in December 2021, I needed a stay as ...
Delta Hotels by Marriott Toronto
Watching the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Scotiabank Arena at the Toronto Maple Leafs in November 2021, my wife and I ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Milton Keynes
A Hilton Group Hotel located right inside a soccer stadium? When I watched my favorite musical Rock of Ages in ...
Hotel Kjarnalundur (Akureyri, Iceland)
Especially due to a scheduled flight with Norlandair, I looked for a stay not too far away from Akureyri Airport ...
The Wellness Loft at Romantik Hotel Reichshof (Norden)
Ten years of happiness (and all the other times) with my wife - we originally intended to celebrate this very ...
Hotel Sunset (Kelsterbach)
Due to rail strikes, I had to re-plan my whole trip to Frankfurt Airport before heading to Canada. I finally ...
ME Hotel Dubai
Even though I have a (low) status at Melia Hotels, my experience with the brand is rather mixed. The more, ...
Hilton Mississauga/Meadowvale
After two rather average nights in the InterContinental Toronto in the heart of the largest Canadian metropolitan area in September ...
Hotel Restaurant Lewald (Bolzano, Italy)
New regional carrier: since mid-2021, Bolzano Airport (BZO) is operating scheduled flights with their own carrier, SkyAlps. For an early ...
Mercure Gloucester Bowden Hall Hotel
Watching by favorite musical Rock of Ages in November 2021 lead me to another interesting place in England: Cheltenham. However, ...
Hotel Laxarbakki (Akranes, Iceland)
On my summer 2021 trip to Iceland, I had the last night before heading into Greater Reykjavik in Akranes. Hotel ...
Hilton Berlin
In July 2021, I wanted to explore some of the rather centrally located attractions of Berlin. Due to its good ...
Holiday Inn Helsinki Vantaa Airport
With multiple floorball matches in the Vantaa region, like the EräViikingit matches against SC Classic on 22nd October and against ...
Hotel Duus (Keflavik)
As my August trip to Iceland was prolonged by one night, as my Icelandair business class flight to Frankfurt was ...
Grand Hotel Villa Torretta Milan Sesto (Curio Collection by Hilton)
A 16th century palace, which has been renovated in the late 1990's and turned into a posh hotel - apart ...
H+ Hotel Lübeck
For a trip in July 2021, I needed a night close to Lübeck Main Station in Northern Germany. The H+ ...
Hotel Alpina Wellness & Spa (Kössen)
Having a prolonged relaxing weekend in the Austrian Alps - this was about the thoughts we had about a stay ...
Leonardo Hotel Düsseldorf Airport (Ratingen)
Parking fees at Dusseldorf Airport got ridiculously high in recent past. For my August 2021 trip to Poland (from Thursday ...
Radisson Blu Espoo (Finland)
Typically, I rather like to change hotels after a few days, also to have some different impressions and material for ...
Hampton by Hilton Warsaw City Centre
Arriving from Krakow testing the Polish EIP high-speed train and heading on to Berlin with the Berlin-Warsaw Express - all ...
InterContinental Toronto Centre
For my trip to Toronto in September 2021, just after the re-opening of Canadian borders, I needed a hotel centrally ...
Litli Geysir Hotel
The first overnight during my August 2021 trip to Iceland was right next to one of the most iconic places ...
Hampton by Hilton Oswiecim
You might struggle with that statement intiially, but in fact the city of Oswiecim is likely one of the globally ...
IntercityHotel Munich
Arriving late from my Lübeck Air flight from Lübeck Airport (LBC), heading out early for my train to Bolzano in ...
Hotel Maranello Village
When staying in Ferrari City Maranello, would there be any better option than staying in a Ferrari-themed hotel? When I ...
Nordseehotel Wilhelmshaven
A lonely place with North Sea view (or, at least, a bit of that) - doesn't sound too bad, does ...
Hilton Garden Inn Frankfurt Airport
Apart from several stays around the terminals, Frankfurt Airport nowadays features four airport hotels with direct walk-in connection to Terminal ...
Hyatt Regency Cologne
Located right at the River Rhine, the Hyatt Regency is one of the most iconic and also one of the ...
Hotel Nord (Guardamiglio, Lombardy)
I had the first night of my June 2021 trip to the Emilia-Romagna region right in the South of Lombardy, ...
Mercure Hotel Hannover City
At the end of an interesting trip in June 2021, I stayed at the Mercure Hotel Hannover (Hanover) City. I ...
IntercityHotel Hamburg Main Station
In mid June 2021, I again had a night in Hamburg. As I was aiming to come back late from ...
Novapark Airplane Hotel Graz
The reason why I decided to go to Graz in July 2021 was a hotel. Or to be more precisely: ...
Moxy Cologne Bonn Airport
The hotel situation at Cologne / Bonn Airport used to be quite bothering. There used to be a single hotel ...
InterContinental Dubai Festival City – One Bedroom Suite
There are these moments in my traveler's life where I just feel I have to go for a certain thing ...
Melia Calvia Beach (Mallorca)
An attack into enemy grounds? You simply see that I am not a Mallorca expert at all based on this ...
Novotel Suites Hannover City
For a trip to Lower Saxony in early June 2021, I needed a stay in Hanover / Hannover close to ...
Hampton by Hilton Dubai Airport
Most of the flights from Germany to Dubai lead to an arrival time in the United Arab Emirates at about ...
Hotel Marina Wellness & Spa Port Soller
Port Soller or Port de Soller is named to be one of the most beautiful places on Mallorca. The trip from ...
IntercityHotel Saarbruecken
There is always (mostly?) a second chance at Flyctory.com: After I haven't been too pleased with my first ever IntercityHotel ...
TRYP Hotel Celle
At the beginning of June 2021, I had a trip to Northern Germany. Apart from two nights in Hanover, I ...
Pullman Sharjah
When people visit the United Arab Emirates, they typically think about Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The more I got into ...
INNSIDE by Melia Palma Center
Trying to get (a bit) back to normal. The Covid-19 regulations at that time allowed me to have a (relatively) ...
V Hotel Dubai, Curio Collection by Hilton
At the end of my December 2020 trip to Dubai, I indulged myself with a very special overnight: for two ...
Hotel Massimo D’Azeglio (Rome)
Just before I boarded the Nightjet Single Deluxe compartment from Rome to Munich in summer 2020, I had a night ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Royal Parc Soestduinen
Visiting some places around Utrecht and aiming for a relaxing weekend in the Netherlands, my wife and I had a ...
Hilton Rotterdam
There are just a few hotel stay reviews left which I haven't covered on Flyctory.com yet after overnights became practically ...
Hotel Abbazia (Venice)
For my two day summer stage to Venice, I had one night at the Hotel Abbazia in the heart of ...
Conrad Hotel London St. James
The limited travel intensity during summer and fall 2020 lead to some interesting budget travel opportunities. During a trip to ...
Al Seef Heritage Hotel Dubai, Curio Collection by Hilton
A historic style hotel, driven by Hilton and located in the heart of a heritage district of Dubai? The idea ...
NH Rijnhotel Arnhem
In late September 2020, I felt to explore the region of Arnhem, majorly in order to explore some of the ...
Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef
Even though my first night of my December 2020 trip to Dubai has been significantly shorter than expected due to ...
Santa Catalina (Royal Hideaway Hotel) Las Palmas, Grand Canary
Hard to believe - but when I selected the Santa Catalina, a Royal Hideaway Hotel, in Las Palmas for my ...
Hilton Garden Inn Frankfurt City Centre
I had a couple of overnights in Frankfurt during 2020, some of them motivated by rail trip connections. In October ...
Babylon Hotel The Hague (Den Haag)
During August 2020, my wife and I took a trip to Rotterdam and The Hague / Den Haag. Due to ...
Leonardo Hotel Munich City Center
Due to a late rail arrival at Munich Central Station, I looked for an overnight opportunity around the central travel ...
Reichshof Hamburg, Curio Collection by Hilton
I haven't been to too many hotels which are featured in own wikipedia articles in my life. One stay, at ...
Fleming’s Express Hotel Frankfurt
Due to the early departure of an ECE 451 ride from Frankfurt to Milan in September 2020, I looked for ...
Motel One Salzburg – Mirabell
I arrived in Salzburg late before I had the Alpen-Sylt-Express night train ride from Salzburg to Sylt the day after ...
Park Inn by Radisson Papenburg
Doing some local attractions in the Papenburg region like the huge Meyer Werft shipyard, the Dat Otto Huus in Emden or ...
Hotel Flora (Milan)
After I had a lovely stay on my Four Countries, Four Trains trip in the Hilton Milan and this was ...
NH Collection Munich Bavaria
Before Germany went to a lock-down of touristic travel in November 2020, I had a short trip to Munich. For ...
Hilton Garden Inn Munich City West
For a stay in September 2020, I tested the Hilton Garden Inn Munich City West for two nights, Friday to ...
Maritim Hotel Cologne
After having a couple of hotel reviews from nearby cities Dusseldorf and Bonn already, I felt it was a huge ...
Voss Chocolate Hotel (Schokoladenhotel) Westerstede
Spending the weekend in a hotel dedicated to chocolate? Does not sound too bad, doesn't it? When my wife spotted ...
Hilton Milan
The first "real" night of my Four Countries, Four Trains trip to Italy in summer 2020 lead me to Milan. As ...
Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Terminal 2/3
I would say that the opening of the Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Terminal 2/3 has been one of the ...
Hotel Grossfeld Bad Bentheim
On a trip from Cologne to Northwest Germany in early October 2020, I was looking for an overnight in the ...
The Fair Play Suite at the Kameha Grand Hotel Bonn
After we visited a couple of hotels in Bonn, we finally wanted to check out the only five star one ...
Pullman London St Pancras
As I delayed some reviews after I saw that Covid-19 will have a significant impact on us and our travel ...
Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Trade Fair
Right before I departed in Frankfurt on day 1 of my Four Countries, Four Trains trip in summer 2020, I ...
Bonn Marriott Hotel
Holidays close to home? Not just due to Covid-19, I felt it to be more and more attractive to have ...
ibis Dusseldorf Main Station
In order to have a more comfortable (and longer) sleep, I decided to go for a night at the ibis ...
Novotel London Canary Wharf
I could not react any more when finally the C2C Country to Country in London 2020 had been cancelled. Thus, ...
INNSIDE Hotel Dusseldorf Hafen
As I had couple of Spain and Portugal trips planned for summer 2020 and all have been cancelled due to ...
NH Collection Eindhoven Centre
During a July 2020 trip through the Netherlands, I had two nights at the NH Collection Hotel Eindhoven Centre, right ...
IntercityHotel Nuremberg
IntercityHotels are a quite interesting joined venture of the German Rail System (Deutsche Bundesbahn, which was a fully state-driven company ...
1st Creatif Hotel Elephant Munich
Arriving at Munich Main Station by rail at 22:00, grabbing a rental car there at 8:00 (earliest possible time during ...
Mövenpick Hotel ‘s-Hertogenbosch
After my wife and I stayed at the wonderful beautiful Vliegtuigsuite, we visited the safari park Beekse Bergen near Tilburg ...
ibis Styles Amsterdam Central Station
With the Covid-19 situation easing and travel restrictions more and more lifted, I was happy to have a trip to ...
Avalon Hotel Bad Reichenhall
For my June 2020 stay in the Salzburger Land / Berchtesgadener Land area, I decided to go for two nights ...
Golfhotel Bodensee (Weißensberg)
Fancy a round of golf in the Lake Constance area? The reason why I chose the Golfhotel Bodensee ("Golf Hotel ...
ibis Styles Konstanz (Constance)
The last night of my Lake Constance trip in May/June 2020 was at Constance. I did not went for one ...
Serways Hotel Weiskirchen Nord (A3 Autobahn, Rodgau)
On my Whitsun 2020 trip to Lake Constance, I made a stop en route - due to the Covid-19 regulations ...
Vliegtuigsuite Teuge (NED) – Sleeping in an Ilyushin IL-18
Some of my hobbies are travelling, civil aviation incl. historic planes and hotels - so having a plane which has ...
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Anaheim – Convention Center
During my 2020 tour following the Pittsburgh Penguins on their West Coast away matches, the only hotel I had multiple ...
Novotel Paris 17
A business trip to the Northwestern tip of Paris' central area lead me to the 17th Arrondissement. I had never ...
OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
On the last full day in America on my trip following the Pittsburgh Penguins on their 2019/20 West Coast away ...
Hilton London Kensington
Visiting Brett Eldredge's and Lauren Jenkins' final show of their January 2020 European tour (here are reviews of their Amsterdam ...
Hotel Korpilampi (Espoo, Finland)
Visit my Finnish favorite SB-Pro Nurmijärvi for two home matches in January 2020, I was looking for a reasonable priced ...
Motel One Zurich
As I had a really good experience at Motel One Glasgow, apart from severe internet problems, I was really looking ...
Hilton London Gatwick Airport
In early January 2020, I had a British Airways Mileage Run, flying from Cologne/Bonn to Gatwick and then spending a ...
Hilton Helsinki Airport
Helsinki Airport is nicely staffed with airport hotels: the GLO Hotel is located right inside the terminal building, two more ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh – Green Tree
After one night in Homestead, I had three additional nights at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Green Tree during my ...
Marriott Hotel Al Forsan (Abu Dhabi)
New Year's Eve at Abu Dhabi - as we could not really decide whether we should go for a city ...
Hilton Bonn
Why not doing it at home? Though Bonn is just some 40 kilometers away from our flat, my wife and ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Pittsburgh/Waterfront – West Homestead
On my December 2019 trip to Pittsburgh, I had to book an additional night as I had to reschedule my ...
DoubleTree by Hilton London Victoria
During a November 2019 stay in London, I opted for the DoubleTree right at Victoria Station. Especially as we were ...
Hilton Munich Airport
After I had some stays at Hilton Munich Airport in the past, I was happy to be back in this ...
Crowne Plaza Madrid Airport
In late November 2019, I had a short stay in Madrid. Due to a recommendation of a friend and due ...
Hotel St. Gotthard (Zurich, Switzerland)
As part of a business trip to Zurich in November (during which I also featured the James Barker Band show), ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Schererville
During my trip to Chicago and Indianapolis, I spent the first night as a transfer in Schererville in Northwest Indiana, ...
Conrad Dubai
For my November 2019 stay in Dubai, I decided to also gain some more experience on the Northern and Eastern ...
Toyoko Inn Frankfurt Main Station
As an overnight stay after the Mrs Greenbird concert in Frankfurt, I decided to opt for a hotel chain, which ...
Hilton Newcastle Gateshead
In order to see one edition of the "Introducing Nashville" show (I have been on Tenerife during the German ones), ...
Melia Hacienda Del Conde (Tenerife)
In early October 2019, I had six nights on Tenerife with my wife. We chose the Melia Adults Only Hotel ...
Johanniter Gästehaus Münster
The Johanniter Gästehaus in Münster in Northern Northrhine-Westfalia is likely one of the most unusual places I stayed in the last ...
Motel One Glasgow
As my flight to Barra, which gave my a great day on the Outer Hebrides island, departed (and arrived) in ...
Fairfield Inn & Suites Indianapolis Downtown
While I am typically more of a Hilton Hotels person, I chose a Marriott Group hotel for my stay in ...
Palmer House Chicago – A Hilton Hotel
It does not happen too often that I sleep in a hotel which has a detailed Wikipedia entry. This did ...
Hampton by Hilton Belfast City Centre
I was visiting Belfast in later June 2019 in order to watch some shows of my favorite musical, Rock of ...
Hilton Garden Inn Orlando At Sea World
I originally booked a Home 2 Suites close to one of the Premium Outlets, but a very competitive rate made ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Providence/Warwick-Airport
Right after visiting the Tennis Hall of Fame Open, I spent the fourth night of my Weird Al Yankovic & ...
Premier Inn Sunderland City Centre
The grand final of the Rock of Ages 2018/19 tour through Great Britain, Ireland and Berlin was a bit of ...
Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Airport
Thousands of people pass Hatton Cross every day without ever getting an impression of the area. The Piccadilly Line London ...
Hilton Garden Inn Preston Casino Area
As staying at the Foxwood Casinos in Mashantucket, Conneticut, was more on the pricey side, I I chose a hotel ...
ibis Madrid Centro
In April 2019, I had another LATAM flight weekend to Madrid, staying in the city to see a concert and ...
Premier Inn London Stratford
Premier Inn is a branch of budget hotels which is especially active in the United Kingdom. There are, however, also ...
ibis Luxembourg Airport
As a first overnight before heading to the United States to see Weird Al Yankovic and tennis in Newport, I ...
So/ Sofitel Singapore
As part of a business trip to Singapore, I chose to have a longer stay in the So/ Sofitel in ...
ibis Styles London ExCeL
After I stayed at the ibis Styles London ExCeL during the Country 2 Country 2018 already, I chose the hotel ...
Cotswold Lodge Hotel Oxford
On most of my travels, I am rather a chain hotel nerd. Branches of Accor Hotels or Hilton Hotels guarantee ...
ibis London City – Shoreditch
In May 2019, I had another weekend trip to London. As my wife and I flew into London City Airport, ...
Hilton Kuala Lumpur
I originally planned to visit Kuala Lumpur on a daytrip from Singapore. As the Malaysian hotel prices significantly beat the ...
ibis Amsterdam Centre
After an ICE high speed train ride from Cologne, I chose the ibis Amsterdam Zentrum as my overnight during my ...
Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville-Airport
After I made my trip to Nashville, my stay during the CMA Fest 2019 was the Hampton Inn Nashville-Airport. I ...
Holiday Inn Express Memphis Airport Elvis Presley Blvd
In order to be able to visit Graceland and many other attractions in Memphis on my trip to CMA Fest ...
Hilton Garden Inn Tupelo
After flying from Washington (DCA) to Chattanooga (CHA), my first night on my trip to Nashville in 2019 was in ...
Hotel du Bois (Paris)
To me, Paris is toughest destination world-wide to find a reasonable hotel accommodation for an affordable price. Spacious rooms with ...
DoubleTree Washington Crystal City
The first stage of my trip to Nashville in 2019 brought me to Washington. As I had a flight connection ...
One Farrer Hotel Singapore (Review)
After some searching and looking for reviews in different sources, I finally opted for the One Farrer Hotel for my ...
Hampton Inn Philadelphia Airport
During my February 2019 visit to Philadelphia featuring the NHL Stadium Series match and my round trip with Southern Airways ...
Crowne Plaza Abu Dhabi Yas Island (Review)
For our Easter 2019 trip to Abu Dhabi, we decided to stay at Yas Island for the first time. We ...
ibis London Canning Town (Review)
I chose the ibis Canning Town just North of the River Thames as my stay for the Country 2 Country ...
Best Western Premier Parkhotel Kronsberg Hanover
Due to a career event of my wife, we had to travel to the trade fair area of Hanover in ...
Hotel Allegra (Kloten, Switzerland)
For my floorball trip to the the Swiss Women matches between the Floorball Riders and Appelnzell and Frauenfeld vs. Jets, ...
Novotel Sheffield Centre
Watching the amazing "Mike & the Mechanics" in Sheffield's beautiful City Hall, I chose the Novotel Sheffield Centre as my ...
Hilton Capital Grand Abu Dhabi
I love having some warm days and sunshine in the cold fall and winter season. For that reason, I love ...
Novotel Glasgow Centre (Review)
Glasgow is becoming a more and more frequent destination for me. Very often, my visits are linked to music. For ...
Novotel Zurich Airport Messe (Review)
During a business-related trip to Switzerland's economic capital, I stayed at Novotel Zurich Airport Messe (Trade Fair). Apart from attractive ...
Hampton by Hilton Berlin East Side Gallery
During our visit of the Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin, we chose the Hampton by Hilton Berlin East Side ...
Homewood Suites Lake Buena Vista Orlando (Review)
Cooking facilities are much more popular in North American hotels than in European ones. Even quite lousy motel rooms typically ...
Hampton by Hilton Stansted Airport (Review)
Due to a Eurowings flight cancellation on a London daytrip in early January, I got stuck at Stansted Airport. The ...
ibis Madrid Aeropuerto Barajas (Review)
There is a huge variety of airport hotels around Madrid-Barajas. In early December, I chose the ibis option, which is ...
Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst
Visiting the Floorball Champions Cup in Gävle in early January 2019, I selected the Scandic hotel group outpost at the ...
Hampton Inn Busch Gardens Area Tampa (Review)
As we were aiming to visit Busch Gardens on our December 2018 trip, my wife and I chose the Hampton ...
Hilton Garden Inn Dublin City Centre
As my boss is located in the Irish capital, Dublin is one of my most frequent trips for my actuarial ...
Alexander Thomson Hotel Glasgow (Review)
Visiting the concert of the US country band "Midland", I had the opportunity to stay in the quite central Alexander ...
Gran Hotel La Laguna (Tenerife)
One of my favorite places on Tenerife is definitely its historic capital, San Cristobal de La Laguna. Gran Hotel La ...
Melia Hotel Barajas Madrid (Review)
As my favourite flight, LA 705 from Frankfurt to Madrid, is quite late in the evening, I know quite many ...
Hotel Olympia (Thessaloniki) – Hotel Review
I had quite a packed weekend at Thessaloniki in October 2018. Thereby, the central Hotel Olympia has been my travel ...
Novotel Dubai Al Barsha (Hotel Review)
After having visited the Novotel Suites Mall of the Emirates on my last Dubai visit in May, I went for ...
B&B Hotel Aschaffenburg – The No-Thrill Hotel
The B&B Hotels group, mainly operating in Germany, operates in the quite strongly growing of budget hotels. When you book ...
Hilton Helsinki Kalastajatorppa (Hotel Review)
There are three Hilton hotels in greater Helsinki: while the airport hotel is mainly focussing on flying guests, the two ...
Hilton Manchester Deansgate (Hotel Review)
With my favourte musical, Rock of Ages, touring again through the UK, just a week after I saw Catherine McGrath ...
Garni Hotel Crystal Kraljevo (Hotel Review)
During the Serbia-India Davis Cup tie in Kraljevo, I stayed in Garni Hotel Crystal. It is just a Garni / ...
John Hotel (Flushing, New York City)
After I had to book another hotel right across the street for the first night to get a low airfare, ...
Novotel Toronto Center (Hotel Review)
Just being a short walk away from Toronto Union Station, which perfectly connects to Pearson airport, the Novotel Toronto Center felt ...
Blue Bay Lodges Curacao (Hotel Review)
For my one-week stay on Curacao I chose the Blue Bay Lodges. The serviced apartments had excellent reviews on different travel sites ...
A touch of Orient in a Munich Hotel Room
"Stylish", "Surprising" or "Modern design" might not really be the attributes which you combine with ibis hotels. The more I ...
Hotel Glärnischhof Zurich (Hotel Review)
As I had to join two workshops in the Zurich offices of the company I am working for, I chose ...
Azor Hotels Ponta Delgada (Review)
A five star stay in the lovely islands in the Azores capital, Ponta Delgada? Sounded like a nice sleep for ...
Germany’s Largest Hotel – Staying at the Estrel Berlin
More than 1,100 rooms in the German capital - the Estrel Hotel in Germany's capital Berlin is just a massive ...
Sercotel Malaga (Hotel Review)
The only hotel I stayed two nights in during my Six-Intercontinental-Flights weekend was the Sercotel Malaga. Here is the review ...
Novotel Suites Mall of the Emirates Dubai (Hotel Review)
As a homebase for my trip to the Dubai Parks, I decided to go for a hotel location in Southern ...
The Riddle Room for Geeks
I typically prefer Accor oder Hilton hotels when I am abroad. To me, it is a matter of reliability - ...
