Conditions limited my outdoor activities in DC, but fortunately I had booked a few indoor attractions in advance.
Maryland, minimally
Weighing up my claims to have visited Kentucky and Maryland on this trip.
Gallery: Cincinnati Street Art
A sample of Cincinnati’s excellent mural collection.
Cincinnati Sightseeing
Discovering some of the highlights of ‘The Queen City’.
Gallery: NL/BE 23
Photos from my trip to the Netherlands and Belgium – a mix of The Hague’s Museum Voorlinden and various architectural finds.
The puzzlepiece towns of Baarle Nassau and Baarle Hertog
Exploring the enclaves and counter-enclaves making up a complex Dutch/Belgian community.
Three nights in… The Hague
An overdue return to the Netherlands, and a bit more of Belgium.
Stockholms Tunnelbana
Exploring the world’s longest art gallery – Stockholm’s metro.
Three nights in… Stockholm
An unusual return to Sweden, exploring a series of tunnels and tubes in Stockholm.
Gallery: Cosmic Day Trip
Photos from a variety of Armenian astrophysics facilities – some abandoned!
A Cosmic Day Trip
Searching for soviet space science in the mountains of Armenia.
The Extraordinary Travel Festival
A gathering of some of the world’s most-travelled people (and me).
Yerevan, Armenia
Exploring Armenia’s capital, host to the extraordinary travel festival.
Gallery: Dubai
A few views of – and from – the world’s tallest building.
Three nights in… Dubai
My first new country since 2019 was one I’d never sought out: the UAE.
Gallery: Oslo 2022
An art-heavy return to Norway’s capital.
Two nights in… Oslo
The chance to join Norse Atlantic’s first flight from London to Oslo seemed an ideal excuse to revisit one of my favourite countries.
The Idaho and Utah State Capitols
Unusually, both cities on this trip were the capitals of their respective states. Their capitol buildings turned out to be unexpected delights.
36 hours in… Boise, Idaho
A brief side-trip from Salt Lake City let me claim another US State – my seventh new one of the year.
Salt Lake City
With Salt Lake City hosting four climbing word cups on back-to-back weekends, I returned for a second visit in 2022.