List the places where you spent a night away from home in 2024; indicate non-consecutive stays with an asterisk. This is the twentieth successive year that I have made this list. I’m not expecting any further trips this year.

* Dublin Airport, Ireland (ie hotel at the airport, I wasn’t sleeping on the concourse)
Prague, Czechia
* Glasgow, Scotland
* Los Angeles, USA
Telford, England
Bratislava, Slovakia
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sheffield, England
Antwerp, Belgium
* Ferry between France and Ireland, and back
Loughbrickland, Northern Ireland
Washington DC, USA
* London, England
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bled, Slovenia
Zgornji Brnik, Slovenia
Hythe, England
Paris, France
Prishtina, Kosovo
Tbilisi, Georgia

That’s 20 places, same as last year. (Counting the two overnight ferries on the same route, but not the two overnight plane flights.) It’s bang on the historical median since I started counting in 2005. (High – first two years in my current job, 2015 and 2016; low – the plague years of 2020 and 2021.)

Those 20 places were in 12 different countries, as opposed to last year’s 9. (No new countries this year, as compared to two last year.) I also changed planes in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Türkiye, and had a day trip to Luxembourg, so that’s a total of 18 countries, beaten by only three of the fifteen years where I have tracked that number too.

Thanks to not going to Asia, this year’s map fits more easily onto a page than last year’s: