Tier Point Run to Phoenix in Jul 2019

Yet another trip to Phoenix for a couple of nights via Bucharest, Heathrow, LA and New York. This one doesn’t include the Helsinki shuffle.

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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.

Seville

Seville

Weekend in Seville in Mar 2023

By Nige on March 1, 2023 at 6:26 am
Type: Post
Story: Weekend in Seville in Mar 2023 Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | British Airways | LGW | London | Seville | SVQ | Weekends

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.

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A beautiful view of a Hawaiian beach

A beautiful view of a Hawaiian beach

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Jan 2023

By Nige on January 1, 2023 at 12:00 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Jan 2023 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | Announcements | British Airways | BUD | Budapest | Hilton | HNL | Honolulu | LAX | LHR | London | Los Angeles | Trips | USA | Waikiki

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

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The new BA/AA Chelsea Lounge at JFK T8

The new BA/AA Chelsea Lounge at JFK T8

Review of the New JFK T8 BA/AA Lounges

By Nige on December 17, 2022 at 2:38 am
Type: Post
Story: New York JFK T8 Lounge Reviews in Dec 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | Announcements | British Airways | JFK | New York | Reviews | USA

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

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The best of Hawaii

The best of Hawaii

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Dec 2022

By Nige on December 1, 2022 at 1:58 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Dec 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | Announcements | British Airways | BUD | Budapest | Hilton | HNL | Honolulu | LAX | LHR | London | Los Angeles | Trips | USA | Waikiki

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.

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Off to Hawaii!

Off to Hawaii!

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2022

By Nige on November 8, 2022 at 5:26 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | BUD | Budapest | Heathrow | Hilton | HNL | Honolulu | JFK | LAX | LHR | London | Los Angeles | New York | Trips | Waikiki

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

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Inverness

Inverness

Tier Point Run to Inverness in Nov 2022

By Nige on October 1, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Inverness in Nov 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | INV | Inverness | LHR | London

Time for another TP run. This time a local one up to Inverness and back twice over one weekend.

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On another road trip in the USA!

On another road trip in the USA!

Holiday USA West Coast Road Trip in Aug 2022

By Nige on July 1, 2022 at 3:38 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday USA West Coast Road Trip in Aug 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | Announcements | British Airways | DUB | Dublin | Hertz | Hilton | Holidays | LAS | Las Vegas | LAX | LHR | London | Los Angeles | USA

Following up on our Easter break in April 2022 to the south west of the USA, this trip takes us on a road trip down the west coast of the USA.

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Early in the morning in Rancho Mirage, CA

Early in the morning in Rancho Mirage, CA

Holiday USA SW Road Trip in Apr 2022

By Nige on March 1, 2022 at 10:38 am
Type: Post
Story: Holiday USA SW Road Trip in Apr 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | Announcements | British Airways | Holidays | LAX | LHR | London | Los Angeles | USA

This is the first holiday that we have been on since we headed out to Italy for a week in Oct 2020.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas

Tier Point Run to Las Vegas in Feb 2022

By Nige on January 2, 2022 at 12:00 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Las Vegas in Feb 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | AMS | Amsterdam | Announcements | British Airways | Hilton | LAS | Las Vegas | LAX | LHR | London | Los Angeles | Trips | USA

Enjoying getting back into flying after the awful last few years. Managed to sneak in another trip in Feb with Las Vegas in my sights.

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The streets of San Francisco!

The streets of San Francisco!

Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022

By Nige on January 1, 2022 at 7:42 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | AMS | Announcements | British Airways | JFK | LAX | LHR | Los Angeles | Netherlands | New York | San Francisco | SFO | Trips | USA

Managed to sneak in another trip in Jan. San Francisco is a great place to visit!

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