Jack McBannon - True Stories
Flyctory.com Pros
Very good songwriting and stories
Characteristic voice
Some really good songs on the album
Flyctory.com Cons
First half of the album is significantly stronger
Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years already, he is releasing his latest album on 19th February 2021. It is simply called True Stories . If you read on this posting, you will learn if the stories are worth listening to.
Jack McBannon – About The Artist
Even though the name Jack McBannon sounds quite English, the singer-songwriter is a German artist . His civil name is Thorsten Willer, he was born in Haan near Dusseldorf on 4th December 1981 and is nowadays living in Wuppertal. He originally toured as Willer through Germany and also recorded his first solo album, The Only Way, under that name. As the album title suggests, he recorded his songs in English, as well as he did at his second album, World Crashing Down (2010). Thereafter, there were two German studio albums, Wovon sollen Lieder reden (“What should songs talk about” – 2014) and Zeitlos (“Timeless” – 2017). After changing his artist name back and forth, he is on stage as Jack McBannon again since 2020.
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Jack McBannon – True Stories – Track by Track
The eleven track album lasts 43 minutes. The physical version contains a hidden track.
1. Right Here
Me I’m right here dreaming
That you’re right here now
Me I’m right here keeping
Every thought I have of you
Every though I have
Remembering you
The album incepts with Right Here , a very emotional and catching, rather slow track, with a touch of country and rock. One of the most beautiful melodies already right at the beginning of the album – a beauty.
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2. Set Me Free
Like Right Here , the second track has already been selected as a single by Jack McBannon’s tream before the album release. The song has a stronger Americana touch to me, but is also more energetic and transports Willer’s voice even better.
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3. The Snowflake
And I know you might
Sometimes feel
Feel the same
And I know you might
Ask yourself
Who’s to blame
I’ve been there
Been alone
Been down
And I asked myself
Am I the snowflake
Or am I the ground
Even though The Snowflake lasts more than four minutes, the lyrics are comparably compact. The song is quite slow on the one hand – and on the other, it is working a lot of instrumental and atmospheric elements. Might not be a 2021 radio hit – but this snowflake is definitely a lovely songwrite.
4. Together
Together, the shortest song on the album, is another catching melody. The raspy voice reminds of big names of the 1980’s and 1990’s. We’re all in this together – and if we do it in that way, it is really great (musical) fun.
5. Here’s A Winner
Here’s A Winner is one of the most beautiful stories of the album. It is about a young man, whose family gave him rather unfortunate conditions to succeed in life. But his fate changed:
He was a young broke man in a rich man‘s world
But one day he met a rich man‘s girl
And she saw in him what nobody has seen
She didn’t care where he was from
Right away she knew he was the one
They fell in love
Never wanted to be without the other one
And all the letter said was
We’re off for good
A lovely story presented in a lovely folk-rock style. One of my album favorites.
6. Dancing In The Rain
Dancing In The Rain is about how a young boy’s dream turned out not to really fulfil – but still it is not really a bad story (don’t want to spoil too much). The way the artist is creating atmosphere, accentuating the lyrics and thus telling the story is just lovely – again!
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7. An Outlaw’s Inner Fight
An Outlaw’s Inner Fight , the last track on the album, which is already available as a single, has a very dark and deep atmosphere.
God knows you have not forgotten
You haven’t forgotten him
You know He still hasn‘t forgotten
He has not forgotten you
The sound of this song makes it very special – McBannon’s voice feels really diabolic in here – and I just love it. Goose bumps possible.
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8. Motel 81
Motel 81 has a certain dark touch – but the song has a lot of speedy elements, so that it is quite a contrast to the song before. I feel that the song is fun, even though it is not one of my favorites.
9. Walking In The Dark
Walking In The Dark feels to connect to An Outlaw’s Inner Fight regarding its sound – however, this song feels a bit more frightening to me for quite a while, before it has some more melodic elements towards its end.
10. The Long Road Ahead
I do love dark country tunes. While I struggled a bit with the two songs before, The Long Road Ahead is much more enjoyable to me. It also comes with a cool contrast of the rather dark verses and a very melodic, happy sounding chorus, which makes this one very easy to keep in mind.
11. Runaway Me
Runaway Me gives the emotional – and epic finale of the album: With almost five minutes of playtime, the longest song on True Stories is a lovely slow Americana self-reflection. Nice one.
Jack McBannon – True Stories – Spotify
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Jack McBannon – True Stories – My View
Even though I do have to say that I felt some weaknesses in the second part of True Stories , I overall really enjoyed listening to these eleven songs. I feel a bit sad about that these quality of tunes are written in Germany – the country / Americana genres do have so much growth potential in my home country and skilled artists like Jack McBannon could play a key role. Dankeschön for this album!
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With Flyctory.com growing and thus having access to major promotion networks, I get in touch into music I would likely ...
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During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
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Apart from global mainstream sounds, there are some genres, which have a quite local popularity. The German Schlager is one ...
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I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
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Originall, the German Neue Deutsche Welle legends Paso Doble were scheduled to release her new album Urknall on 15th January 2021, ...
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I am always happy to chat with German artists on my blog in the Spotlight interview category. Ann Doka is ...
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It started on 27th July 2018 with Talk of This Town by Catherine McGrath. Last weekend, I reached another milestone: with Immortal ...
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Covid-19 has some weird impacts: as a major German pressing plant had to reduce operation due to the pandemic, a ...
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Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
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Gehst Du mit mir unter - "Are you drowning with me" is the album title of a new German music project ...
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Even though Tragedian is a Hamburg-based project, their members come from quite some parts of Europe. I got to have ...
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While I guess that you knew a lot of the songs I presented you so far as a Song of My ...
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Lina Larissa Strahl, as a musical act simply called LINA, is having a bit of an age issue: the nowadays ...
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After they got quite some good critics for their debut album, the German metal / hardcore band Bashdown starts 2021 ...
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Peter Schilling is a legendary name of the German music business. Major Tom gave him international reputation. So far, Schilling ...
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292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
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2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
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Sodom is one of the finest names for Thrash Metal made in Germany. The band is already having a 38 ...
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Alternative rock made in Hamburg - the German band Tusq is already active for eleven years. Time to release some ...
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Dirk Busch's 1980's song Du bist keine Mona List would be a perfect candidate for my new Songs of my Life category ...
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The story of Ross Antony is quite amazing: having an English education as a musical artist, Antony is nowadays a ...
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50 years of Bläck Fööss - the "naked feet", what is the literal translation of their band name are a ...
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Latest when Michelle represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Copenhagen, she became an important part of the ...
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Just ten days before she is releasing her debut album Desert Diamond, I introduced you to the promising German country music ...
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When you look at European country music, you very often purely focus on British artists. However, the German country music ...
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From street music to the tops of the German charts - Saltatio Mortis have taken the very tough route to ...
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Since I have been registered at a promotion company, I receive quite frequent teasers and links to various types of ...
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The Yonder Boys are definitely an interesting, but also kind of weird and funny combo, which is based in Germany, ...
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Undoubtedly, Van de Forst is one of the most interesting German acts in the country music scene. Her country / ...
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Scanning the new releases as of 28th August 2020, I ran into the Hamburg-based band miu. The gained quite some ...
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Fourteen years after their latest album, the German project X-Perience is releasing a new album. The fifth long-play release of ...
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I saw Sarah Zucker for the first time on stage, when she joined her brother Ben in Cologne's largest LANXESSarena ...
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When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
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Marquess is a very popular band in Germany and the neighboring countries. With Turbulento, they are back in the record stores, ...
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Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
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20 year old Marie Reim is an interesting upcoming artist in the German schlager scene. Both of her parents are ...
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Thomas Anders and Florian Silbereisen are some sort of a new super-band in the German Schlager genre. Both are famous ...
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During the Covid-19 crisis, I visited quite a couple of drive-in movies, which became a very popular kind of entertainment ...
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Sometimes, life as a music blogger is strange. Scanning the new releases (as every Friday) on 22nd May 2020 made ...
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Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
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Even though Covid-19 is taking quite much of our time, we should really enjoy the good things - and at ...
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Nico Santos is a German artist, which made it quite big and gained international attention the last years. He is ...
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60 years of Axel Rudi Pell - one of the big names in the German metal scene is celebrating this ...
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Already the first single Back On The Road felt very promising - and at least when The Cumberland River Project released their ...
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Typically, after I have completed my first wave of reviews (which was quite quick on that 17th April 2020 due ...
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Many people in the German country music business see a lot of potential in Southern German artist Nik Wallner. At ...
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Van De Forst is one of the most interesting German country music / country pop music act. Vanessa, the person ...
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Country music made in Germany? There are more and more projects which feel to be very promising. In my point ...
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Time for some discussions in the German music scene - the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th ...
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Heinz Rudolf Kunze is one of the biggest songwriters and rock musicians in Germany. Already in the 1980s, he had ...
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Country music made in Germany? Especially in the last few months, there have been a couple of acts, which feel ...
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While there were not too many country music releases on my intiial review list, there were some quite interesting new ...
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I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
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2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
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Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
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Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
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I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
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Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester is likely not the kind of music you would expect to be reviewed on ...
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When I was on social media, the account of a friend reminded me that Alex Christensen. After two amazingly successful ...
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One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
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I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany's largest multiplex arena ...
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There is an easy musical way to make myself happy while driving my wife nuts in parallel: Andreas Dorau. I ...
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Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
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Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
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As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
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Kiddo Kat already a viral hit on Youtube in 2016. Now, Anna Guder produced her first album "Piece of Cake" ...
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Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
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The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
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Travel Postings about the Cologne Region
Here are all Flyctory.com travel postings of the region around Cologne :
Early summer 2022. After the Covid-19 crisis feels to have come to a certain end, air travelers all over Europe ...
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Doing some shopping (including the local sweets outlets) and visiting the Drielandenpunt, where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet, I recently ...
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Old lounge, new lounge: after Lufthansa decided to terminally close down some of their lounges, the company Global Lounge Network ...
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There are quite some reasons to visit the Western German city of Aachen. However, before I spend a night there ...
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Germany between World War II. - this is roughly the mission of the House of the History of the Federal ...
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Even though the city is not overwhelmingly large, Solingen in fact comes with two zoos / animal parks. While I ...
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One of the architectural witnesses of the industrial heritage of the Rhein-Ruhr Region in Germany are definitely the gasometers. These ...
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Trying out another hotel brand: after I had stayed at quite a bunch of Premier Inn Hotel locations in England ...
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As I purchased a Merlin Entertainment annual ticket for Germany in May 2021 (majorly as I have been covering Heide ...
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The Hilton Hotel Group is currently opening quite a lot of new Hampton by Hilton Hotels over Central Europe. Sufficient ...
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Even though it is a some 50 kilometer drive from Cologne to Gummersbach, the VfL Gummersbach is not only the ...
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In order to collect some new material for Flyctory.com, I recently drove to Remscheid to cover some museums there. The ...
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Even though I do have a couple of airport reviews on Flyctory.com, I so far missed a lot of the ...
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As I already told you last year when I reviewed the Charles Dickens Museum in London, I am a huge ...
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Parking fees at Dusseldorf Airport got ridiculously high in recent past. For my August 2021 trip to Poland (from Thursday ...
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Located right at the River Rhine, the Hyatt Regency is one of the most iconic and also one of the ...
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During the later phases of the Covid-19 lock-downs in Germany, I had the idea to that posting. Maybe just because ...
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Even though Solingen is not a that major city (some 160,000 inhabitants), it features two mid-size animal parks / zoos ...
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The hotel situation at Cologne / Bonn Airport used to be quite bothering. There used to be a single hotel ...
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Especially after all the Covid-19 restrictions, my wife and I were really looking forward to two relaxing hours in a ...
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The story why I felt I had to visit the Bergisches Museum für Bergbau, Handwerk und Handel - the Bergisches ...
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Travelling in Germany has been turned down to an absolute minimum. Hotels are just able to accept business guests and ...
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A zoo which is suitable for the cold and rainy days as well: as you might guess already, Aquazoo Löbbecke ...
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There are periodically discussions, whether the Cologne local transport is upgraded by cable car traffic over the river Rhine. However, ...
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Since late October 2020, restaurants in Germany are not allowed to open as a pandemic lock-down measure. However, take-away services ...
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The Deutsches Museum (German Museum for Science and Technology) in Munich is one of the most fascinating places in Germany ...
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Cologne Cathedral is the key attraction of my home town Cologne, of course (it is even one of Germany's very ...
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After having a couple of hotel reviews from nearby cities Dusseldorf and Bonn already, I felt it was a huge ...
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After we visited a couple of hotels in Bonn, we finally wanted to check out the only five star one ...
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Holidays close to home? Not just due to Covid-19, I felt it to be more and more attractive to have ...
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Sometimes, you just have to be creative: if you have one of the biggest mobile ferris wheels in the neighboring ...
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In order to have a more comfortable (and longer) sleep, I decided to go for a night at the ibis ...
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The Rheinturm - or Rhine Tower - is definitely one of Dusseldorf's most iconic viewpoints. During a recent stay at the ...
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As I had couple of Spain and Portugal trips planned for summer 2020 and all have been cancelled due to ...
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My birth town Bonn has been hit heavily by Covid-19. The key reason for that are not health issues, but ...
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My beloved home town Cologne, Germany, is always a bit of crazy - not just during the carnival days. Thus, ...
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After I recently visited the traditional drive-in movie in Cologne and the additional pop-up Car Watch in my home town, 2nd ...
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As I wrote in my recent review about the traditional DRIVE IN movies in the South of Cologne, drive-in movies ...
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Regarding passenger flights, my hometown airport Cologne / Bonn is only the seventh biggest in Germany, servicing some 12 million ...
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Quarantining, social isolation, being unable to go out on a Friday - overall, the cultural and social scene has been ...
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Fairy Forests are a quite traditional attraction. Different stages tell you the stories of fairy tales, typically illustrated by puppets ...
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A Calculation Museum? Sounds like a place for die-hard nerds - but the Arithmeum in Bonn is really a popular ...
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Why not doing it at home? Though Bonn is just some 40 kilometers away from our flat, my wife and ...
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The Historic Mustard Mill in Cologne ("Historische Senfmühle Köln") is quite a unique place in the million people city. It ...
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The Christmas Market in Cologne's Old Town is the largest of the city. Under the slogan "Heinzel's Wintermärchen" (something like Good ...
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The Stadtgarten in Cologne is both, a recreational park in the heart of the city, whose facilities are protected, and ...
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Cologne Cathedral and a 25 meter high Christmas tree - these are the key ingredients, which turn the Christmas Market ...
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You may know Mönchengladbach (or: Moenchengladbach) for soccer, likely. However, the city hosts one of the most remarkable Star Wars ...
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During each festive season, Cologne is crowded with tourists and visitors due to its Christmas markets. There are masses of ...
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Though it just processes about a half of the number of passengers of Munich Airport and even just a third ...
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The Vulkaneifel region Southwest of Bonn, Germany, is still a quite active vulcanic region. Thus, all around there and in ...
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Water towers are not too common in Central Europe, especially in Germany. This is definitely one of the key factor, ...
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Solingen, some 30 km Northeast of Cologne, is known as Germany's headquarter of the knife and scissor industry. Thus, it ...
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I already visited a couple of stadium tours with Flyctory.com in the past. My home and heart soccer club, 1 ...
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Wuppertal in the Bergisches Land region Northeast of Cologne hosts a very special attraction for train and rail enthusiasts: the ...
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Did you ever copy a CD from a friend? Plagiarism can be much worse than just bootlegging. The Museum Plagiarius ...
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Lindlar, a minor Eastern suburb of Cologne, hosts one of two open-air museums driven by the regional Rhineland authority LVR ...
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Bergisch Gladbach, a 110,000 inhabitant city East of Cologne, is a traditional location for the production of paper. While nowadays, ...
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Another six months have passed - the first full half year of Flyctory.com's existance. After I did the Very Important ...
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One of the key attractions in Ratingen, Northeast of Dusseldorf, is the remarkable Cromford Textile Factory, which is driven by ...
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When people think of real "Eau de Cologne", they typically think about the well-branded 4711 brand located in the city's ...
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There are quite a lot of minor deer and animal parks around Cologne, quite a lot of them mainly based ...
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Located North of Cologne, the "Wildpark Tannenbusch" offers a nice way to spent your free time with your family, enjoying ...
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Spa Town Bad Münstereifel, suffering from economic problems in their city center, decided to revamp its commercial concept and opened ...
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The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
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The Cologne City Museum's recent history is not really what one would call "lucky". After a water damage in later ...
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