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Welcome to The Billingham Blog!

By Nige on Wed 28 Sep 2022 at 09:13
Type: Page

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

25/06/2023 – All 2012 stories have now been migrated.
05/04/2023 – All 2006 stories have now been migrated.
03/12/2022 – All 2022 stories have now been migrated.

Recent announcements

Here you will find a list of our recent announcements. Hopefully you can find something you are interested in!.

Weekend in Stockholm in Aug 2023

An amazing weekend away in Sweden is on the cards for us! Stockholm is a Scandinavian gem with plenty to offer and we are sure we are going to make the most of it.

Tier Point Run to Sofia in Jul 2023

This is the next installment in my multi-TP run to Sofia. Last month I did a nested TP run to Sofia and this month I am doing the same again.

A Visit to Queen’s Club for the Tennis in Jun 2023

By Nige on Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 21:53
Type: Post
Story: Queen''s Club for the Tennis in Jun 2023
Tags: Announcements | London | Queen's Club | Sports | Tennis

As everyone knows, Vick is a mad tennis buff, so when the chance of going to Queens for the first time to watch the tennis, she jumped at it.

Tier Point Run to Sofia in Jun 2023

Every year there tends to be a route that offers good value for money when chasing BA Executive Club Tier Points (TPs). For a while now, Sofia (SOF) has been a great place to earn (relatively) low cost TPs.

A Visit to Battersea Power Station in May 2023

By Nige on Mon 29 May 2023 at 16:08
Type: Post
Story: Visit to Battersea Power Station in May 2023
Tags: Announcements | Battersea Power Station | London

We are always interested in a trip into London - it doesn't happen anywhere near enough. But when we do head in it's even better to take the opportunity of meeting up with James.

Weekend in Seville in Mar 2023

It's Vicky's 60th birthday coming up, so we decided we would head out to enjoy some sun in Seville. We are going away with Andrew and Sam to celebrate this big event in style.

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Jan 2023

This is the third in a trilogy of trips to Honolulu in the space of a little over 2 months. This is another trip starting in Budapest and follows the well-trodden path of flying over to Hawaii via London Heathrow, New York JFK and Los Angeles LAX

Review of the New JFK T8 BA/AA Lounges

This is my review of the new BA/AA lounges at the new combined hub at New York's JFK at Terminal 8 (T8).

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Dec 2022

This is another one of those mad dashes across the Atlantic, starting in Budapest, to Heathrow, then onto New York and Los Angeles, before a final hop over to Honolulu.

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2022

Back into the routine of running for Tier Points at the start of my BA Executive Club membership year.

Holiday USA West Coast Road Trip in Aug 2022

Welcome to The Billingham Blog!

Recent announcements