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…
UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex (Pictured Story)
Going to Pittsburgh is always very special to me. Typically, this means that there is a home match of my favorite ice hockey franchise, the Pittsburgh Penguins. On the fourth day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022, I…
IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships 2022 at Helsinki Ice Hall
In mid May 2022, my wife and I went to Helsinki for the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships. The organizers were quite heavily hit by the Russian attack on the Ukraine as they had to change the Helsinki venue some…
Kicking Off The Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2022 (Day 4, 28.4.2022)
No concert… But this trip is just not complete without a venue. On Day 4 of my trip following the first Weird Al Yankovic tour stops, I did not have any show of Weird Al… But ice hockey. NHL. Here…
A Nashville Predators Match at the Bridgestone Arena
Apart from visiting Pittsburgh itself, seeing a match at the Bridgestone Arena was likely the highlight of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022. Nashville is obviously a very special place to me – and so I was really nervous…
Watching the New York Islanders at UBS Arena
Already right on the very first day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022, I visited the new home venue of the New York Islanders, the UBS Arena in Queens. The match on 10th March 2022 has originally been…
Following The Pittsburgh Penguins in March 2022 (Day 8, 17th March 2022)
Visiting the Gateway Arch and having the last NHL ice hockey match of the trip: the eighth day of my Pittsburgh Penguins March 2022 tour had quite some places, which I was really looking forward to this day. No flights,…
Following The Pittsburgh Penguins in March 2022 (Day 6, 15th March 2022)
No flight this day, but therefor, the match I was likely looking forward to most on this Pittsburgh Penguins March 2022 trip: my beloved Pittsburgh Penguins face the Nashville Predators. A clash of the likely two most favorite places in…