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Background: For the next few days I was mainly doing the tourist thing, although I did briefly stop by one place in Milan and had an all too brief experience of Ljubljana’s vibrant nightlife, otherwise I was mostly enjoying craft beer and some great Italian food. In fact other than MetalDays there is not much…
July 20 I left Paris the following morning, for an equally short stay in Zürich where I will stay overnight before taking a rather special train over the Alps and into Italy. I took the TGV to Strasbourg, covering 300 miles (about 500 km) in a mere 2 hours, impressive when many train journeys of…
June 22 A long day on the rails and road today, as I set off to Vilnius to meet with my metal family before heading to Kilkim Žaibu for three days of metal, folk and Baltic culture. The past two times I had been have marked among the highlights of my year, and in turn…
June 17 I boarded my train to Munich, sharing a couchette compartment with three friendly Dutchmen, from who I learned that Dutch sounds like a drunk Englishman attempting German – which I can well believe. Although in a jovial mood they weren’t too late getting to bed, although the attendant did inform me that he…
I have wanted to travel across Europe, working my way from city to city since I graduated from uni. After the pandemic had shurnk everyone’s world for the past two years, I decided to make the most of the ending of restrictions and go and do that trip, taking in two European metal festivals: Kilkim Žaibu in…