Tier Point Run to Helsinki in Mar 2020

My regular TP run to Helsinki over two weekends. Just before lockdown started in the UK. Eerily quiet in Helsinki!

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Welcome to The Billingham Blog! This is a record of Nigel and Vicky Billingham’s journey through life, primarily focusing on holidays, trips and events.

We are in the process of migrating our blog over from tumblr, which became far too restrictive with limited opportunities to expand. So we are hosting ourselves now with Hostinger.

That means it’s going to take us a while to migrate stories over, refine them and manage links to flickr photos. So bear with us!

Update on Migration Progress

  • 03/12/2022 – All 2022 stories have now been migrated.
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Tier Point Run to Tucson in Oct 2024

By Nige on September 1, 2024 at 7:07 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Tucson in Oct 2024
Tags: AGP | American Airlines | Announcements | Arizona | British Airways | DUB | Dublin | JFK | LAX | LHR | London Heathrow | Los Angeles | Malaga | New York Kennedy | Trips | Tucson | TUS | USA

Back in the air, to continue adding to my Tier Point pot. Somewhere new for me this time: Tucson in Arizona. The only time I have ever come across Tucson in the past is courtesy of Chandler in Friends.

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Hawaii
Hawaii

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Feb 2024

By Nige on February 1, 2024 at 12:00 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Feb 2024
Tags: American Airlines | AMS | Amsterdam | Announcements | British Airways | Hawaii | Hilton | HNL | Honolulu | JFK | LAX | LHR | London Heathrow | Los Angeles | New York | Trips | USA | Waikiki

My first trip to Hawaii in more than 12 months - I'm getting withdrawal symptoms! This trip starts in Amsterdam and follows the well-trodden path of flying over to Hawaii via London Heathrow, New York JFK and Los Angeles LAX. I start with an initial positioning flight from Heathrow to Amsterdam.

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