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Paul Cole - Writer
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UK based writer and journalist covering travel, music and books at news and reviews blog paulcoletravels.com
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Happy New Year, and thank you for all your support in 2025!
Happy and healthy New Year to you all! Here’s to a brighter 2026
MAY I wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year that brings the world a little love, peace and understanding. Thanks for visiting in 2025 – I couldn’t do it without you, and look forward to …
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December 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Merry Christmas! The Little Drummer Boy gets stadium super-sized #christmas #forking+country
Merry Christmas! The Little Drummer Boy stadium super-sized
IT IS one of those songs that is part and carefully wrapped parcel of Christmas, and it has been covered on stages of every size from school halls to concert theatres, from rock arenas to giant spo…
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December 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Amazing music created by fusing 200 iconic sounds of Switzerland
#Switzerland #Thylacine #electronicmusic #music #electro
Listen to remarkable music made from 200 Swiss sounds
IT’S Switzerland – but as you’ve never heard it before. Electronic artist Thylacine has created a new piece of music made up entirely of 200 different sounds recorded across the country. The French…
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December 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Read all about it - the books of the year that brightened my 2025 #books #booksoftheyear #bookreviews #booksky
Read all about it – the books of the year that brightened my 2025
SURELY it can’t be so close to Christmas? With only a handful of shopping days left until the big day, head to your local book shop to snap up a present that’ll linger long in the memory. Here are …
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December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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On cellphone etiquette, from this weekend’s @thetimes.com. Yes. Just…yes.
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Delighted to join the @lovebookstours team of reviewers today. Watch out for reviews here and on my own Paul Cole Writes www.paulcoletravels.com books, music and travel blog… #books #booksky #bookreviews
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December 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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A tradition I’ve maintained every year since I started out in journalism more than 50 years ago. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, be upstanding for my albums of the year …

#albumsoftheyear #music #rock #pop #country #heavymetal #americana #rnb #soul #hip-hop #folk
At last, it’s time for the Paul Cole Albums of the Year 2025 list
YES, I know it’s an old chestnut – but Christmas is coming up fast, and it’s time to look back at the albums that have soundtracked my travels over the past 12 months. What they have in…
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December 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Getting trolled in Norway #Troll2
Troll 2 – where to see the real-life home of the movie monsters
SOMETHING has awoken from its deep slumber in the Norwegian mountains – and it’s bringing a whole new meaning to trolling. Or rather it’s turning back time to the real meaning of the word. Troll wa…
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December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Buster Keaton breaks his silence – with help of rock legends R.E.M. #BusterKeaton #classiccomedy #silverscreen #silentmovies #REM #rock #cinema
Buster Keaton breaks his silence – with help of rock legends R.E.M.
HE is the comedy legend who blended belly laugh routines with spectacular stunts in the silent era of the silver screen. Now, Buster Keaton is back with a startling new voice … that of rock star Mi…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Lanterns of the Wild trail @twycrosszoo.bsky.social – review and pictures paulcoletravels.com/2025/11/16/l... #christmaslights #zoo #wildlife #familydaysout
Lanterns of the Wild trail, Twycross Zoo – review and pictures
IT is the seasonal spectacular that will make you see nature, quite literally, in a new light – a trail more than a mile long through the world’s wildest places, where beautiful animals await aroun…
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November 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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#BlackSabbath special wins Supplement of the Year at media awards paulcoletravels.com/2025/11/15/b...
Black Sabbath special wins Supplement of the Year at media awards
DELIGHTED that my Black Sabbath special was last night named Supplement of the Year at the prestigious Midlands Media Awards presented in Sabbath’s hometown Birmingham. Black Sabbath: The Hom…
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November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Birmingham: A City Rooted In Talent movie lives up to its name #Birmingham #music #arts #movies #film #literature #BlackSabbath #ELO #DuranDuran
Birmingham: A City Rooted In Talent movie lives up to its name
WHEREVER in the world your travels take you, reveal that you’re from Birmingham and talk will inevitably turn to two topics: Black Sabbath and Peaky Blinders. At a push, you might hear a mention of…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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To infinity and beyond - a major Pixar attraction is coming to London #Pixar #ToyStory #Up #Cars #FindingNemo #MonstersInc #Coco #InsideOut #Disney
To infinity and beyond – major Pixar attraction coming to London
LONDON is going to be looking Up next year – as the capital hosts the stars of movie family favourites in a major new multi-sensory exhibition starring Buzz Lightyear and all his Pixar pals. Mundo …
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November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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New #Frankenstein is a monster boost for historic UK mansion paulcoletravels.com/2025/11/05/n...
New Frankenstein is a monster boost for historic UK mansion
A MIDLANDS mansion is set to get a monster boost when Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated new Frankenstein movie makes its streaming debut on Netflix later this week. Worldwide audiences will s…
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November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Dull, Boring and Bland - the holiday hotspots proud of it … #travel
Dull, Boring and Bland – the holiday hotspots proud of it
DROPPING down through the Tay Forest Park en route to Aberfeldy, you encounter a roadside sign that makes you think twice. It’s pointing the way to the tiny Scottish village of Dull. Yes, that’s ri…
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November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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The death of Jackson Lamb and the future of the Slow Horses #SlowHorses #JacksonLamb #MickHerron
The death of Jackson Lamb and the future of the Slow Horses
HE’S the scruffy spy we’ve come to know and love – but Jackson Lamb’s days are numbered. The boss of Slough House’s Slow Horses, played brilliantly by Oscar-winner Gary Oldman, can’t live forever. …
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November 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Enter Sandman, Psycho Killer and Broken Peach – Happy Halloween! #halloween #brokenpeach #entersandman
Enter Sandman, Psycho Killer and Broken Peach – Happy Halloween!
IT’S that night of the year again – and I’m soundtracking ghoulish goings on with Broken Peach’s Halloween take on Enter Sandman, which springs a suitably spooky surprise. The Spa…
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October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Great evening tonight with @halewrites and @howardlinskey at Stratford Literary Festival tonight.
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Why the Sun is guaranteed to shine every day from next Spring in Birmingham
The Sun is guaranteed to shine every day soon in Birmingham
THE forecast is good for a leading UK university next Spring – because the sun will be shining whatever the weather. What’s more, it will be shining not overhead but indoors. The University of Birm…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I’m supporting the Sunday Times help #getbritainreading and you can too. Reading opens your mind, educates, entertains, and allows you to escape for a while. Spend at least 10 minutes a day reading to yourself or to someone else, just for the fun of it. link.thetimes.co.uk/join/74t/sig...
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival named Event of the Year
#jazz #blues #music
Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival named Event of the Year
BIRMINGHAM’S long-running Jazz & Blues Festival has been named the city’s best event at a prestigious awards ceremony – only months after local government funding cuts threatened its very exist…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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First look at stunning new Orient Express carriages set to debut in 2027. #orientexpress #luxurytraintravel
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First look at new Orient Express carriages for luxury 2027 revamp
THIS is the Orient Express – but not as you know it. The world’s most iconic rail travel experience is undergoing a transformation, with a new look due to pull in at the platform in 2027. The first…
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October 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Ghost town visitor wins wildlife photographer of the year award #wildlife #WildlifePhotographeroftheYear #photography #wildlifephotography #nature
Ghost town visitor wins wildlife photographer of the year award
IT is a haunting image – the world’s rarest hyena stalks through the mist as night falls on an abandoned diamond mine. Little wonder that it has won a double award in the Wildlife Photographer of t…
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October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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90,000 expected at festival in honour of cold beetroot soup. Yes, really. #PinkSoupFestival #Vilnius #Lithuania
90,000 expected at festival in honour of cold beetroot soup
THEY’LL be in the pink in Lithuania next Spring as they celebrate one of the oddest events in Europe – a three-day festival in honour of … cold beetroot soup. Yes, you read that right. Cold. Beetro…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Well, time flies! Today is the fifth birthday of the Paul Cole Writes blog, which started life in the depths of Covid lockdown as a travel site but has since widened scope to include my love of music, books and entertainment. Thanks for your support!
Five years since we met, these are the stories you’ve liked most
THANKS for popping in! The Paul Cole Writes blog is five years old today and I’m still having a ball, bringing you news and reviews, tips and trivia related to the things I love in life. It s…
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October 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM