I normally post this much earlier in December – my last trip was at the end of last month – but just forgot.
List the places where you spent a night away from home in 2025; indicate non-consecutive stays with an asterisk. This is the twenty-first successive year that I have made this list.
Leiden NL
Los Angeles USA
* London UK
* Beijing (Chaoyang, east of the centre) China
Beijing (Shijinshan, west of the centre), also China (counting separately as it’s 30 km from Chaoyang)
Bramley, Surrey, UK
Belfast, Norn Iron
* Loughbrickland, Norn Iron
Steendam, Groningen province, NL
Dunkirk harbour, France
Cherbourg-Dublin ferry
Rosslare-Dunkirk ferry
Chengdu, China
Paris, France
Buxton, Derbyshire, England
Podgorica, Montenegro
That’s 16 places, on the low side for the years since I have been counting (since 2005). I’m counting the overnight ferries separately, since they were different routes. I am not counting overnight flights to and from China, and back from California.
Those 16 places are in six countries (counting NI as UK), and I also travelled through Albania to reach Montenegro, so my country total for the year is seven, the second lowest since I have been tallying (which I did not do consistently before 2012).
| Year | Overnights | Countries visited | |
| 2025 | 16 | 7 | |
| 2024 | 20 | 18 | |
| 2023 | 20 | 12 | |
| 2022 | 15 | 14 | |
| 2021 | 7 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 8 | 11 | |
| 2019 | 23 | 14 | |
| 2018 | 23 | 20 | |
| 2017 | 20 | 15 | |
| 2016 | 29 | 23 | |
| 2015 | 28 | 21 | |
| 2014 | 15 | 15 | |
| 2013 | 17 | 11 | |
| 2012 | 16 | 14 | |
| 2011 | 11 | ||
| 2010 | 25 | ||
| 2009 | 14 | ||
| 2008 | 17 | 16 | |
| 2007 | 24 | 17 | |
| 2006 | 25 | ||
| 2005 | 21 |
To finish with, have a groovy embedded Google map: