Home is where the heart is – I had the idea to this posting about my favorite cities of the world while listening to music related to different places n the world. One of them was my home town Cologne,…
NHL Schedule 2023-24 released – Here are my suggested Trips
Last week, the NHL released their schedule for the 2023-24 season. This typically means a bunch of work to me, as I try to analyse the schedule to find the best possible itineraries. The result is a list of sensible…
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 travel distances by car and air and typically use a lot of bad words: This is the time when the…
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 report is typically a travel entry. Nashville – Washington – Frankfurt – Cologne – home – that’s about the the…
Smithsonian’s National Zoo (Washington)
The Smithsonian’s are just a tourist’s (and likely also a resident’s) best friend when visiting Washington DC. The US capital has such an amazing set of top class museums driven by the Foundation – which all have free entry. On…
Flying PSA Airlines from Washington Reagan to Chattanooga
In order to transfer from East Coast to Tennessee on my trip to CMA Fest 2019, I flew from Washington Reagan National Airport to Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport. Being booked on American Airines flight 5309, the flight has been operated by…
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 review of the year 2019. I just felt that the Very Important Postings became too long and that I will…
National Postal Museum (Washington)
One amazing feature of Washington D.C. is the massive number of museums driven by the Smithsonian Institution: they are typically well driven and very educative and on top of that offer free entry. While tourists typically focus on the “Big…