In Aug 2006 we explored the west coast of the US, starting in Vancouver, down over the border to Seattle, down the Pacific Coast Highway, to Los Angeles, over to the Grand Canyon and finished off at Las Vegas.
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
By Nige
on August 1, 2017
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Story: Weekend in Telford in Sep 2017
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
A weekend in Telford? This weekend marked PK's 80th birthday, so we decided we would go somewhere nice and not too far away.
By Nige
on August 1, 2017
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Story: Tier Point Run to Tallinn in Sep 2017
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
Another TP run to Tallinn! I was off again over a weekend in Sep and Oct to top up my TPs.
By Nige
on July 1, 2017
at 12:00 am
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Story: Roadtrip Europe in a Tesla in Aug 2017
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
Fancy a roadtrip around Europe with our new Tesla making use of the extensive network of free Tesla Superchargers. This was our chance.
By Nige
on June 1, 2017
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Story: Tier Point Run to San Antonio in Jul 2017
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
Another new one for me: a TP run to San Antonio in Texas. It was great to see somewhere new.
By Nige
on May 1, 2017
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Story: Tier Point Run to Tallinn in Jun 2017
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
Another TP run to Tallinn! I was off again over a weekend in June and July to top up my TPs. Another chance to try Finnair’s A350 product.
By Nige
on March 1, 2017
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Story: Weekend in Tallinn in Apr 2017
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
Haven’t I just been to Tallinn? On a TP run to Estonia via Heathrow and Helsinki? Yes I have. This time I’m taking Vick to actually walk around the place and see whether it’s as nice as everyone says it is!
By Nige
on March 1, 2017
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Story: Tier Point Run to Tallinn in Apr 2017
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
This was a new one for me: a TP run to Estonia via Heathrow and Helsinki. This was better value than my normal TP runs to Hawaii, so I doubled up on the excitement by doing a nested TP run.
By Nige
on January 1, 2017
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Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Feb 2017
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
Hawaii again? Needed to keep my TPs ticking along so that I hit Gold for Life in the next 12 months or so (GfL).
By Nige
on November 1, 2016
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Story: Holiday to Australia in Dec 2016
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
For my 50th we headed to Australia for 5 weeks - it was an amazing. Sydney, Great Ocean Road, Red Centre, Uluru and the Aussie Open.
By Nige
on October 1, 2016
at 12:00 am
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Story: Weekend at the Tennis ATP Finals in Nov 2016
Category: Travel
Tags: Announcements | Pending Migration
Time for our annual trip down to the O2 - looking forward to seeing the World No.1 in action - we hoped he would end the year at the top!
