I’ve been giving this a lot of though since we returned from USA back in October.Some of the statistics on what we’ve done are insane compared with the last 2 decades or so when we travelled much LESS than most people. Nursing and Teaching leave you with a lot less leisure time and we had […]
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I’ve been pretty busy since our last trip with setting up this Website, Instagram and the Newsletter.So that I can target the content at those who are best placed to make use of it, there will be a focus in the future on travelling in the run up and going into retirement. Much of the […]
Continue Reading →Flying Blue Platinum in 2026?
Following on from my Gold qualification in May 2025 I had 87XP to carry forward. My requalification date had now been reset. I qualified on 4th May which worked perfectly because I had Gold Status and the requalification date showed 31st May 2026. I had almost 13 months to requalify for Gold So the […]
Continue Reading →Flying Blue Going for Gold
Its April 2025 and I’ve got Silver status with Flying Blue. Both of us have.But is it enough? We are flying to the USA in a few weeks. If I push for us to get to Flying Blue Gold we will be able to pick seats a few days in advance and we can use […]
Continue Reading →Turkish Airline Status Run?
I have currently got Status with Turkish at *G level. In the 9 months Dec2025 – July (June to be safe?) 2025 I need to get 15000 status miles to extend for another year. It’s not yet clear whether this is worthwhile, probably not when its about our flights to USA but as YT content […]
Continue Reading →Bargain Transport in Lisbon
In the video we use the navegante card to travel around just a little of Lisbon. We don’t scratch the surface of what there is to see and I would like to return https://youtu.be/V-jUz54EZ4E?si=rnoEKVl0F1R_6gAi We spent a day of our stay in Estoril travelling in to Lisbon from Estoril.Theres a rail station next to the […]
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