I have been to 50 independent countries and 2 self-governing territories.
Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar (aka Burma), Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Qatar, Rwanda, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, UK, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan, The Vatican City, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
In addition to the above I have also visited the following in transit only, where I sadly stayed in the airport:
- Oman
- Panama
- Russia
You can see the flights that I have been on, that I can remember the details of, over on myFlightRadar24 by clicking on the image below.
Wish List and Upcoming Trips
I have booked trips to the following:
- Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Hong Kong – 2025
The following map shows countries currently on my wish list. This list tends to change frequently, and I regularly get distracted by trips to countries not on this list which I end up booking first, so we’ll see.
(On the map in no particular order is Canada, El Salvador, Ecuador (inc The Galapagos), Colombia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin, Gabon, Nepal, Taiwan, South Korea, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Cook Islands, Sao Tome & Principe, Kosovo, Mexico, and I’d love to go back to Myanmar to see more of the country than just the islands I visited in the south. I’d also love to visit Antarctica at some point – to tick off my final continent, but the costs are prohibitive and I don’t know how I’d feel about the crossing).
Top of my list would be an overland trip to some of the countries in West Africa, or another trip to see more of South Korea, but again we’ll see which I end up booking first depending on COVID, money, trip availability, if anything else distracts me first, or if anything comes off of my to-do list!
Trips I have been on
I have been on the following trips, that I can remember the details of:
- 1996 – Italy (Sorrento, Naples and Pompeii)
- 1997 – Antigua and Barbados
- 1998 – Florida
- 1999 – Turkey
- 1999 – Italy skiing (1999/2000 New Year)
- 2000 – Egypt
- 2001 – USA (California, Nevada and Arizona)
- 2002 – Namibia
- 2003 – Tunisia
- 2003 – Corfu
- 2004 – Los Angeles (conference)
- 2005 – Los Angeles (conference)
- 2006 – Majorca
- 2006 – Los Angeles (conference)
- 2007 – Singapore and Australia
- 2007 – Stockholm
- 2008 – USA (New York and Boston)
- 2008 – Rome and The Vatican City
- 2009 – Ireland
- 2009 – Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda
- 2009 – Helsinki
- 2010 – China and North Korea
- 2012 – Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Atlanta
- 2012 – Uganda
- 2012 – Amsterdam
- 2013 – Ukraine (Chernobyl tour)
- 2013 – Germany
- 2014 – Myamnar (sailing), Thailand and Hong Kong
- 2015 – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Istanbul
- 2015 – Amsterdam
- 2015 – Madrid
- 2016 – Chile
- 2017 – Madrid
- 2018 – Barcelona
- 2020 – Madrid and Salamanca
- 2021 – Iceland
- 2021 – Madrid
- 2022 – Madrid
- 2022 – Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe (+ Qatar and South Africa layovers)
- 2023 – Morocco
- 2024 – South Korea, Singapore, and Dubai (+ day trip to Malaysia)
Plus a few school ski trips to France, Austria and The USA (New Hampshire and Maine), school trips to France and Belgium and early family trips to Menorca, The Canary Islands, Spain, Gibraltar, France and Italy that I can’t remember the years of as I was too young.