Travel timeline
A visual record of where James has been, newest first where the year is known. Cruise stops, city breaks, UK days out and the slightly random bits that make the site feel like a real travel diary rather than a dusty list.
Dublin works brilliantly as a no-luggage day trip: cheap flight, easy bus, proper walking, Irish stew, live music, old buildings and enough chaos to feel like you actually went somewhere.
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Rhodes is a cruise stop with proper weight: medieval walls, Knights of St John, harbour views, old streets and the ghost of the Colossus lurking in the background.
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Mykonos is whitewashed lanes, blue sea, windmills, Little Venice and the strange joy of getting mildly lost somewhere very photogenic.
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Kusadasi is a bright Turkish cruise stop with marina views, hills, sea air and the massive ancient bonus of Ephesus nearby.
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Athens is hot, hilly, chaotic and brilliant: a real city with ancient history casually sitting in the middle of it like that is normal.
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Chania in Crete was one of those cruise stops that did not need much: a cheap bus, a Venetian harbour, sunshine, old lanes and a lighthouse walk that made the day.
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Limassol is a relaxed Cyprus cruise stop with marina life, old town streets, sea views and mythology close enough to make the island feel properly ancient.
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Birmingham is a proper working city with canals, shopping, food, industrial history and more character than its lazy reputation suggests.
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Ilkley is a proper Yorkshire reset: fresh air, moorland, Cow and Calf rocks, river walks, cafés and enough hill to remind you your legs are not decorative.
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Reykjavik is compact, colourful, northern and quietly strange in the best way, with Iceland’s dramatic landscape waiting just behind it.
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Ísafjörður is small, dramatic and very Westfjords: mountains, water, old streets, weather and the feeling that Iceland has turned the scenery up again.
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Akureyri is North Iceland’s easy-going base: fjord setting, compact streets, mountain views and access to waterfalls and volcanic landscapes that do most of the showing off.
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Nanortalik is remote, raw and memorable: mountains, water, quiet streets and the feeling that you have gone properly off the usual travel map.
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Qaqortoq is colourful, compact and properly Greenlandic, with steep hills, harbour views, public art and the feeling of being somewhere very far from ordinary.
Open this trip →Cork is Ireland’s lively southern city: markets, bridges, food, history and enough character to make it worth leaving the cruise port for.
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Cobh is colourful, steep, historic and surprisingly emotional, with Titanic history, harbour views and a cathedral that dominates the town like it knows it looks good.
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Chester is a proper UK day-trip city: Roman walls, old streets, river views and enough history to make wandering feel like a useful activity.
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Dubai is hot, polished, enormous and completely unsubtle. It is not trying to be old-world charming. It is trying to be Dubai, and it is very committed.
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London is crowded, expensive and occasionally exhausting, but it still delivers history, landmarks and proper big-city exploring without needing a passport.
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Pisa is more than the Leaning Tower, but the Leaning Tower is still the reason everyone turns up and pretends they are not going to do the silly photo.
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Trip notes are being built out. The photo exists, the memory exists, the admin field just needs feeding.
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Rome is ancient, crowded, chaotic and ridiculous in the best way: Colosseum, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Forum, churches, scooters and history stacked on history.
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Pompeii is one of the most powerful historic sites anywhere: a Roman city paused by disaster, with streets, houses, plaster casts and Vesuvius watching over everything.
Open this trip →Florence is compact, beautiful and absolutely packed with art, bridges, churches and Renaissance confidence. It is not subtle, but then neither was the Renaissance.
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Dresden is grand, rebuilt, cultural and very good-looking, with old-town monuments, river views and a trip that arrived by coach, ferry and small-train adventure.
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Mouscron was not the main destination, but it became one of those useful travel-stop memories: Belgium overnight, a town wander and a surprisingly important burger.
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New York is loud, vertical, expensive, cinematic and still completely worth it. It is one of those places where the famous sights are not just famous because someone put them on a mug.
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