Welcome to my yearly travel roundup, an overview of where I’ve been this year and all the travel-related highs and lows. Regular readers will know that 2022 has been my most exciting year of travel ever because I’m on a 12-month career break (also called a sabbatical) and have been full-time travelling since 1 April. So this is going to be a VERY long roundup I’m afraid. But hopefully an interesting one.

Since I launched Pack The Suitcases in 2016, I’ve been doing these yearly roundups, in which I try to sum up the ‘best of’ and ‘worst of’ (ahem, Spain) for all my previous year’s travel, and it’s become a tradition I can’t drop. They serve as a kind of personal reminder and are more for me than anything else, seeing as they’re of no interest to most people. So, if you’re reading this, thanks for sticking with me!

Pour yourself a mulled wine or a hot chocolate, and enjoy a read about my travel-tastic 2022. I also touch on what my plans are for the rest of my career break going into 2023…