Howdy all! Hope you are well. Today's post is a musical one for you! Whatever your destination, it's nice to have some songs with you. But today I am reminiscing about the songs that I heard frequently on past trips. So much so that they became the 'Song of the Trip', except that really there …
Yes, goodness me, Eurovision we is FINALLY here. One semi-final down, another to go before the final. And today it's all about the WINNERS of Eurovision. The numbers that really blew the audience away. Minus, you know, the ones I've already mentioned. Johnny Logan & Celine Dion especially. Well okay, I'm going include Celine because …
One country that truly say they have conquered Eurovision (albeit not since the mid-90s) is the Republic of Ireland. They have won an astonishing SEVEN times, including three in a row and four in five years! Here they are, all of them in chronological order. 1970 Dana – All kinds of Everything This is not …
Continue reading Eurovision #ThrowbackThursday – Winners from Ireland
Happy Thursday to ye all. Today I want to show you a very special Eurovision song from the contest in Sweden in the year I was born, 1975. This was the competition following on from Abba's huge win in 1974 with 'Waterloo'. The 1975 winner 'Ding-a-dong' from the Netherlands has not stood the test of …
Continue reading Eurovision Throwback Thursday – Joy Fleming (Germany 1975)
When doing long-term travel, or indeed any travel that involves long journeys by bus, plane or train (or anything in-between!) there’s one thing that can help pass the time. And that’s meeting others. Oh wait no, that’s not it. Watching movies. No no…. okay apart from those two things, there’s only one OTHER way of …
Hi all! Here in Australia we have just had a televised contest to choose the song that we will send to Europe. It was the sort of affair that completely mimicked the contest itself, and the winner was Kate Miller Heidke with 'Zero Gravity', a very Eurovision song indeed, one with that added dose of …
As the evening grows here in Australia, no doubt people have headed to bed and set their alarm clocks for 5am to get up early to see how the contest unfolds in 2015. Not me, I have work at 8am and frankly, I can watch it later. I guess I'm just not 'hardcore' like I …
Last week it was time to hit the town and head out into Melbourne for dinner and a show. Nothing’s better than dinner and a show, right? I was lucky enough to have won two tickets to see ‘Behind the Seams’ at the Wesley Ann in Northcote, featuring two musical acts interspersed with some improvisation. …
AKB48. I've blogged before about J-pop and girl bands, and whilst I am still in Japan it's hard to escape them. AKB48 was created many years ago now by record producer Yasushi Akimoto. The letters AKB represent Akihabara, a district in Tokyo, and '48' is supposed to (and originally did) represent the number of members. …
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
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Put pictures on your travel dreams
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inspiring journeys and friendly advice
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
Andy's World Journeys 