After two years of living in a pandemic, 2022 is when the world slowly started to re-open. It also meant that after a travel free 2021, my 7th edition of a yearly review has some interesting places.

My end of year review for 2021 is here
My end of year review for 2020 is here
My end of year review for 2019 is here
My end of year review for 2018 is here
My end of year review for 2017 is here
My end of year review for 2016 is here

My first trip after the re-opening was to France, focusing on Brittany and Normandy. I continued my European adventure with another trip to Amsterdam, followed by my second trip to Rome. In Italy, I also visited Florence, Pisa, and Parma. I hopped across the Irish sea to Dublin before I moved to Washington DC. While on the East Coast, I made a trip to New York, 6 years after living there, before switching to the West Coast and visiting San Francisco for the second time. I went back to South-East Asia when I finally visited Lao, stopping off in Vientiane, and then in Luang Prabang. A third trip to Bangkok followed, before a first ever visit to Kuwait. I finally made it to Greece with a visit to Athens, before I went back to the Middle East for my second visit to Dubai and ended the year in Mauritius. Yep, it has been a busy one, and I still don't know how this council estate boy has managed to grow up visiting so many places - but I am grateful.

As always, you can click any of the blue links to read in depth reviews of each location