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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 in Liverpool, music brought me …

What is more characteristic about Liverpool than John, Paul, George and Ringo? It is not too surprising that one of most beautiful areas of the …

As part of her “Talk of this Town” tour, Catherine McGrath presented her equivalently named album. I visited the tour on 22nd September 2018 in …

British Airways flight BA 1 has always been on my bucket list. The very special connection between London and New York departs at London City …

The “Jacobite” connecting the Scottish villages of Fort William and Mallaig has always been regarded to be one of the most beautiful rail routes in …

After having seen Catherine McGrath twice at the 2018 Country 2 Country in London, I have become an admiring follower of her and her country …

It is some two months since I posted my latest top country songs – thus, I felt to update you with a handful of country …

While Day 1 has been a “transfer day” with the flight from Cologne to Tangier after work, Day 2 was meant to combine Tangier sightseeing …

As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe’s major country music festival, the Country 2 Country in the …

Country 2 Country, short: C2C, has established to be the largest country music festival in Europe. In fact, it is held in three cities, London, …

Tiny exclave places over the world – for most of them I feel it is pretty useless for a country to “maintain” and pay for …