I originally intended to buy a flight to Hamburg for my son, but it never got sorted out and he decided he would like to come on a trip with me instead. Looking around I coould get a good deal on business class flights and there was one available BHX-CXG-AMS so 2 flights in one. […]
Continue Reading →All the flights I took in 2025
I’ve been logging my flights using myFlightRadar24 so here are the stats for 2025. I’m not pleased about the 8.6 Tonnes of CO2 but in my defence I did pay SAF surcharges on at least half of these flights, which should reduce the total to about half of this. It was a pretty amazing year […]
Continue Reading →Helsinki (part1)
In October 2025 I decided to cancel our USA trip to Cancun/USA we had booked for March 2026. This had become quite a complicated trip, which started by me chasing a business class fare from MAD-CUN for 119k Flying Blue miles and €125, for 2 people! I saw this and jumped at it without realising […]
Continue Reading →Our travel goals in 2026
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 […]
Continue Reading →New You Tube Content Soon
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 →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 […]
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