By many measures, 2025 was my biggest year of travel yet.
Three Nights In… Tbilisi
Spending some time in Tbilisi before BA’s inaugural flight out.
Year in Review 2024
A particularly strong year for country counting – powered more by trains than planes.
Year in Review 2023
Sizing up another busy year of travel.
Three nights in… Stockholm
An unusual return to Sweden, exploring a series of tunnels and tubes in Stockholm.
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.
Three nights in… Malta
A pile of bonus avios gave me an excuse for one last trip abroad – returning to Malta for a dose of winter sun and a nostalgic wander around some favourite spots.
Year in Review 2017
Taking stock of 2017’s travels.
Two nights in… Madrid
A hotel voucher to burn, a new camera to test out, and a quirk of BA’s scheduling combined to send me to Madrid – where I was happy to find that this unfamiliar city was an architectural delight, soaking in winter sunshine.
Year in Review 2016
A by-the-numbers summary of my travels in 2016.
Europe, South to North
Overview of my travels this summer, exploring Europes extremes from sand dunes to glaciers!
Visiting Svalbard
The remote arctic island of Svalbard – or, at least, its main settlement Longyearbyen, is not as inaccessible as you might imagine! Here’s what lured me there, how I managed to visit, and what I got up to whilst I was in town.
Two nights in… Oslo
Despairing of the lack of a proper winter in the UK, I took a weekend in Oslo in search of snow.
Year in Review 2015
A quick summary of my flights, train rides, and hotel stays – plus all the corresponding loyalty scheme antics – in 2015.
My North American Travel Bucketlist Tour 2015
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.
Year in review 2014
A quick summary of my travels in 2014.
Radisson Blu Berlin
My first Club Carlson stay, at Berlin’s remarkable Radisson built around a fish tank!
Two nights in… Berlin
An end-of-week jaunt to Germany’s capital, to check out some architectural curiosities.