Tier Point Run to Las Vegas in Nov 2016

Last TP run of the year – just off to Vegas for a short trip. But there’s nothing ‘just’ about Vegas!

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.

Weekend to London in Feb 2016

By Nige on January 1, 2016 at 12:00 am
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Story: Weekend to London in Feb 2016 Category: Travel
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We enjoy heading down to London to sort out Russian visas in support of our trip to St Petersburg.

Holiday to Death Valley in Dec 2015

By Nige on November 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Holiday to Death Valley in Dec 2015 Category: Travel
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At the end of the year, just after Christmas we headed back to Death Valley. We loved it the last time we went and we wanted to do more in this amazing place.

Weekend at the Tennis ATP Finals in Nov 2015

By Nige on October 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Weekend at the Tennis ATP Finals in Nov 2015 Category: Travel
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Another of our regular trips down to the O2 to see the ATP World Tour tennis finals.

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2015

By Nige on October 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2015 Category: Travel
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Another very similar trip to my last trip to Hawaii!

Holiday to the Far East in Nov 2015

By Nige on October 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Holiday to the Far East in Nov 2015 Category: Travel
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Headed out to the Far East in Nov 2015 – me and J. We started in Singapore and then popped up to Kuala Lupur.

Holiday to Cornwall in Sep 2015

By Nige on August 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Holiday to Cornwall in Sep 2015 Category: Travel
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Well this was a bit different – a holiday in the UK. There was a bit of planes, trains and automobiles involved as well, so was full of entertainment.

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Aug 2015

By Nige on July 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Aug 2015 Category: Travel
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What can a guy do? Another trip to Hawaii. These trips were so cheap and so many TPs could be earned.

Holiday to Hawaii in Jul 2015

By Nige on June 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Holiday to Hawaii in Jul 2015 Category: Travel
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Vick's second trip to Hawaii - this time we are visiting Kauai and Maui, so should be a fab trip.

Weekend in Winchester in Jun 2015

By Nige on May 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Weekend in Winchester in Jun 2015 Category: Travel
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Headed down to Winchester to see Andrew and Sam. Add in a bit of sailing with Andrew as skip. Turned out to be fun.

Tier Point Run to Indonesia in Jun 2015

By Nige on May 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to Indonesia in Jun 2015 Category: Travel
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This TP Run started last month with our weekend away to Dusseldorf. Heading east to Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and finishing in Jakarta.