Holiday to Pacific West Coast in Jun 2012

This was our first post on our first blog! This was the place we kept everyone up to date with what we were up to on our road trip holiday on the US West Coast in June 2012.

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 Helsinki in Mar 2020

By Nige on February 1, 2020 at 12:00 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to Helsinki in Mar 2020 Category: Travel
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My regular TP run to Helsinki over two weekends. Just before lockdown started in the UK. Eerily quiet in Helsinki!

Weekend in Oslo in Dec 2019

By Nige on November 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Weekend in Oslo in Dec 2019 Category: Travel
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A weekend away to snowy Oslo for the Christmas markets and museums with Andrew and Sam.

Holiday to Florida in Dec 2019

By Nige on November 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Holiday to Florida in Dec 2019 Category: Travel
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Heading out to Florida on our traditional post-Christmas trip to soak up some sun.

Tier Point Run to Las Vegas in Nov 2019

By Nige on October 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to Las Vegas in Nov 2019 Category: Travel
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Another Tier Point run, taking advantage of some of my GGL benefits with an upgrade in to First Class.

Weekend at the Tennis ATP Finals in Nov 2019

By Nige on October 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Weekend at the Tennis ATP Finals in Nov 2019 Category: Travel
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Another of our regular trips down to the O2 to see the ATP World Tour tennis finals.

Holiday to Utah in Aug 2019

By Nige on July 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Holiday to Utah in Aug 2019 Category: Travel
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This is one of those holidays that we have been hoping to do for years. Utah and the Mighty 5.

Tier Point Run to Phoenix in Jul 2019

By Nige on June 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to Phoenix in Jul 2019 Category: Travel
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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.

Creating our New Garden in Apr 2019

By Nige on April 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Creating our New Garden in Apr 2019 Category: Home
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What about our garden? This series of posts explains how we went about designing and building the garden in our new home.

Tier Point Run to Helsinki in May 2019

By Nige on April 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to Helsinki in May 2019 Category: Travel
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Another TP run to Helsinki over two weekends. Originally scheduled to start a few days after our house move, I had to move this TP run to May.

Tier Point Run to Phoenix in Mar 2019

By Nige on March 1, 2019 at 12:00 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to Phoenix in Mar 2019 Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration

Another trip to Phoenix for a couple of nights via Bucharest, Helsinki, Heathrow and New York.