I upgraded my outbound flights to experience Finnair’s new business class offering.
A Novelty Flight
Our trip to Sark offered some much-needed aviation variety.
Three Nights In… Tbilisi
Spending some time in Tbilisi before BA’s inaugural flight out.
Overview: The Tbilisi Inaugural
Putting together a plan to experience BA’s first flight from Georgia.
Year in Review 2024
A particularly strong year for country counting – powered more by trains than planes.
My 20th Anniversary Flight
To mark two decades in the air, I recreated my first ever flight.
Overview: DMV24
Through points and perks, I was able to join a friend at the opera – in Washington DC!
Two Nights In… Luxembourg
A luxury hotel proved an agreeable base for my explorations of 2024’s second new country.
Year in Review 2023
Sizing up another busy year of travel.
Around the world with Finnair and JAL
Between Finland and Japan I was able to try each nation’s flag carrier – and circumnavigate the globe!
Bern 2023: IFSC World Championships
Another climbing-inspired trip to Switzerland, this time for the World Championships.
Three nights in… The Hague
An overdue return to the Netherlands, and a bit more of Belgium.
Three nights in… Stockholm
An unusual return to Sweden, exploring a series of tunnels and tubes in Stockholm.
ETF: The flights
Yerevan the long way: LHR-DXB-EVN-DXB-CDG-LHR on a mix of BA, Flydubai and Air France.
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.
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.
Two nights in… Meiringen
Reviving a travel plan from 2020, I headed to Switzerland for the first bouldering world cup of the season.
Chicago – the flights
Comparing BA’s new Club Suite to the familiar Club World; plus first class on Alaska Airlines.
Year in Review 2021
Another heavily disrupted year, but some hopes of a return to (new) normal.