It’s been a while but I’m back once again, like the renegade master, with my travel roundup for 2024. This is my usual annual overview of where I went in the year, including all my travel-related highs and lows. I know my regular readers always especially enjoy the lows… Travel mishaps and disasters are apparently way more entertaining than successful trips!

I’ve been doing these yearly roundups since I launched Pack The Suitcases in 2016. They serve as a kind of personal reminder of the years and are more for me than anything else, seeing as they’re of very little interest to most people. So, if you’re reading this, thanks for sticking with me. Perhaps some of my highs this year will give you some travel ideas for 2025?

Anyway, pour yourself a cuppa or a glass of New Year’s champagne, and enjoy a read…

It’s been a while but I’m back once again, like the renegade master, with my travel roundup for 2023. This is my usual annual overview of where I went in the year, including all my travel-related highs and lows. Normally I publish it in December so it’s very late. This is due to recent trauma in my life, which I’ll explain later.

I’ve been doing these yearly roundups since I launched Pack The Suitcases in 2016. They serve as a kind of personal reminder of the years 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.

In 2023, regular readers will know that I was on a 12-month career break (aka sabbatical). This went from April 2022 to April 2023. So the first bit of this calendar year involved that, and then I was back to work and reality. I still fitted in a fair amount of trips until disaster struck, though.

Pour yourself a cuppa, and enjoy a read about my rather up-and-down 2023…

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…

Happy new year! I can’t quite believe we’ve got through another year of all this. Overall, 2021 was less hideous than 2020 but still pretty rubbish. And so this roundup of everywhere I went is obviously going to be quite short…

I’m typing this sat on the sofa in my pyjamas, nursing a cup of tea while my other half self-isolates upstairs after a delightful Christmas present of a positive PCR. I think that about sums the state of 2021 up. But since 2016, I’ve been doing these yearly roundups, in which I try to sum up the ‘best of’ and ‘worst of’ 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, you’re probably one of my regular readers and I love you for sticking with me! Pour the dregs of your New Year’s Eve bubbly and enjoy a read about my rather limited travel highs and lows in 2021. They range from sitting next to the worst passenger in the world on a flight home to discovering a new bit of Scotland to explore. I also touch on my massive plans for 2022 (everything crossed)…