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Where we have actually been.

Every trip on this page happened, told with our own photos and the dates from our phones. Where only one of us went, we say so.

Trips since November 202422
Countries between us47
Written up so far10
Egypt and Malta, 2026

Towel Wars

It started with a tip for the cleaner in Egypt. Now hotels are battling it out in towels, and we sleep in the battlefield.

November 2024 to January 2025

Latin America

Nearly three months, twelve countries

August and September 2025

USA

LA to Las Vegas by road, then Nashville and Austin

July 2025

Corfu and Albania

Corfu, then across the water to Albania

December 2025 to January 2026

Marrakech

New Year in Marrakech

April 2025

Madeira

Madeira over Easter

March 2026

Egypt

Sharm el Sheikh, Luxor and the towel that started it all

August and October 2026

Malta

Malta, in August and again in October

March 2026 · Si

Chamonix and Schladming

Chamonix with friends, and Schladming before it

March and April 2018

Thailand

Three weeks in Thailand, north to the islands

April and May 2023

Vietnam

Vietnam, top to bottom

Every trip since we started

November 2024 to now.

A name next to a trip means only that one of us went.

  1. October 2026Malta, Round Two of Towel Wars
  2. October 2026Zakopane, PolandBeth
  3. August 2026Malta
  4. July 2026AmsterdamSi
  5. July 2026LisbonBeth
  6. April and May 2026MajorcaBeth
  7. March 2026Sharm el Sheikh and Luxor
  8. March 2026Budapest, a cruise conference on the Danube
  9. March 2026ChamonixSi
  10. February 2026LisbonSi
  11. February 2026BucharestBeth
  12. December 2025Marrakech
  13. November 2025SevilleBeth
  14. November 2025Golf on the Costa del SolSi
  15. October 2025DublinSi
  16. August and September 2025Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Nashville and Austin
  17. July 2025Corfu and Albania
  18. April 2025Madeira
  19. March 2025KrakówBeth
  20. February 2025IstanbulSi
  21. February 2025TenerifeBeth
  22. November 2024 to January 2025Latin America, twelve countries

Before WheatleyWorldwide

The big ones.

  1. May 2023Vietnam, Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City
  2. November 2022Oman and Dubai: Muscat, the Wahiba Sands and the Palm
  3. July 2022Croatia: Plitvice, Zadar, Split, Hvar and Dubrovnik
  4. December 2019 to April 2020Australia, three months from Sydney to the Daintree
  5. December 2019Singapore, where we got engaged
  6. December 2018The Philippines: Manila, Cebu, Bohol, Boracay and El Nido
  7. March and April 2018Thailand, north to the islands
  8. May and June 2017California: San Francisco, Yosemite and Big Sur