An overview and links to coverage of my trip to New York, Vancouver, Seattle and Los Angeles via a mix of international business class flights and long distance trains.

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

An overview and links to coverage of my trip to New York, Vancouver, Seattle and Los Angeles via a mix of international business class flights and long distance trains.

A photographic record of the BA 737’s farewell flight.

I was lucky enough to get a last minute seat on the last passenger flight of G-DOCW, a staff-only low level sightseeing flight around the south coast of England.

Sampling BA’s ‘baby bus’: a 32 seat business-only A318 from London City to New York JFK (via Shannon).

To the top of 20 Fenchurch Street, for a visit to London’s highest public garden.

My first taste of a travel show – with features from talks by explorers to climbing competitions, via a photography exhibition and bike stunt display team.


My luxury-holiday-on-a-budget, to Gibraltar in Club via a 5* London hotel.

Bristol is famed for its hot air balloons, and this year I was able to see the fiesta from my house, and then my house from a balloon!

A summary of my Scandinavian wanderings: EDI-OSL-AES-OSL-CPH-LGW on Norwegian, then home via Cambridge.