Holiday to Canada in Aug 2024

We are on our travels again! This time we are heading over to Canada to do a mini road-trip from Toronto up to Montreal and on to Quebec City. It should be a warm break at this time of the year.

Welcome to The Billingham Blog!

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.

Tier Point Run to Palm Springs in Dec 2023

To continue the build of my Tier Points in my next British Airways Executive Club membership year, I am heading over to Palm Springs to (hopefully) see some sun!

Tier Point Run to Sofia in Dec 2023

This is another installment of my series of TP runs to Sofia. In June and July of 2023, I did a number of trips out to Sofia, just to collect TPs. There was another opportunity in Dec 2023 to collect more cheap TPs, so here I am!

Tier Point Run to San Jose in Nov 2023

It's the start of my next British Airways Executive Club membership year and that means I need to start earning Tier Points again!

Holiday to New England in Oct 2023

Looking forward to a tremendous holiday to watch the leaves fall in New England! Who knows whether we will get the timing right, but we are sure it will be amazing whatever happens.

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 June 21, 2023 at 9:53 pm
Type: Post
Story: Queen''s Club for the Tennis in Jun 2023 Category: Family
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 May 29, 2023 at 4:08 pm
Type: Post
Story: Visit to Battersea Power Station in May 2023 Category: Family
Tags: Announcements | Battersea Power Station | London | Videos

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.