I have not been posting to my travel blog much this year so seeing as it is now December, I thought I'd write a summary for 2012.
- My year started well with waking up on New Years Day in Paris. I had got there just for new years eve (with only about 2 hours to spare) after getting spending the night on a bus stuck on a closed, icy mountain road in the French Alps and having to be rescued by the rescue services (see separate blog post). I would visit Paris two more times in 2012, both in November, with a business trip and a trip to Disneyland Paris in the same week.
- My business travel year also started well. I travelled to Pennsylvania for business meetings, and combined the trip with a weekend in Atlantic City. I managed to lose both my passports on this trip and only realised on my way to the airport to fly back to London. Luckily I managed to get them back!
- The Spring was packed full of travel! A boys' trip to Las Vegas for a mate's 30th, a long weekend in Tenerife, a business trip and weekend in Ireland, a surprisingly rainy weekend in Gibraltar, and Easter in Australia, where I went just for a week. I surprised my parents as I didn't tell them I was coming home. On my way back from Melbourne I stopped over in Doha to look around.
- During the summer, my parents were over from Australia. With them, I travelled to Prague and Venice, and also did various sightseeing around the south of England.
- However, my main trip this summer was to the Benicassim Festival, on the coast of Spain between Barcelona and Valencia We stayed at a spa resort instead of roughing it camping, spending the nights at the festival and the afternoons recovering on the beach.
- Autumn was spent chasing the last of the summer sun. I saw my parents off to Dubai on their way back to Australia, and had a weekend in Ibiza with my girlfriend.
- Other business trip destinations this year included Brussels, Madrid, Munich, Oslo, Prague, Vienna and Zurich.
- My travel year will finish off with flying to Miami on Christmas Day to get some winter Florida sun!
Overall less flights this year than 2011 but about the same distance flown:
