Welcome to Brian’s Travel Spot. This is currently a work-in-progress, so please excuse the relatively sparse nature of the page. For now it serves to collate all my trip pages, which is where you’ll find details of the trips I’ve taken since I started the Travel Spot in 2015.
Each page starts with a description of the trip itself, followed by a summary of the Travel Spots I’ve written about that particular trip, plus the Coffee Spots that I visited.
As you can see from the list, my first Travel Spot was in 2015, documenting my coast-to-coast trip across the USA by train. I didn’t leave the UK again until February the following year, but then my travel started to take off (literally) with my new job. It may also have come to just as abrupt an end with the COVID-19 pandemic. Only time will tell.
This list is organised by year, and contains all the trips I’ve taken outside of the UK, plus one trip within the UK. Not all the trips have complete pages yet: if the trip has a link, then the page is live.
- New England, New York & Montreal, February/March 2013
- Portland to Portland, June 2015
- New England, February 2016
- Portugal, May 2016
- Dublin and Copenhagen, June/July 2016
- Around the World (East to West), September/October 2016
- Phoenix and the Grand Canyon, October 2016
- Around the USA, January/February 2017
- The Grand Adventure, January 2017
- Belfast & Galway, March 2017
- First Time in Japan, April 2017
- Vietnam, from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, June 2017
- Chicago x 3, June – October 2017
- Return to China, November/December 2017
- Miami & Phoenix, January 2018
- (Almost) Across the USA by Train, February/March 2018
- Thailand (with a Bad Back), April 2018
- Glasgow on the Caledonian Sleeper, May 2018
- Amsterdam by Eurostar, June 2018
- Tokyo Heatwave, July 2018
- Chicago and the Midwest Road Trip, September 2018
- Around the World (West to East), October 2018
- Rome, November 2018
- Hot and Cold in America, January 2019
- Third Time (Almost) Around the World, February/March 2019
- New Orleans, Los Angeles, Bay Area & Chicago, April/May 2019
- Prague, June 2019
- Return to Portland, August 2019
- Japan in the Rainy Season, August/September 2019
- Around Ireland by Car, October 2019
- Tokyo, November 2019
- Across America: San Jose to Portland, January 2020
- America and the COVID-19 Pandemic, February/March 2020
- Iceland, July 2021
- Atlanta & Portland, November 2021