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 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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
