Getting away. How many places have you slept this year

I’m assuming some one who actually goes cycle touring or works away will post some crazy numbers. That’s great it’s just another way of looking back at the year

So how many different places have you slept this year? Home counts as one. I’m assuming naps are not included

I’m on 31 different places with a total of 63 nights away in 2025

3 months away when added up. Couldn’t tell you number of individual places but loads across England, Wales, Scotland, France, Spain and Morocco. Touring in the motorhome. Currently in Algeciras in a carpark.

Struggling to think of more than 5…

Edit 6, but not much more than 10 nights away.

should be better next year…

80-90 nights not at home. Mix of work, 3 snowboard trips, 2 weeks in summer and bunch of weekends away

Hmmm! Let me think, not as many as planned due to some changes in circumstances but quite a few because of that too.

Maybe a dozen and a total of 40 nights away but not 100% sure.

Hope to increase that significantly this coming year.

Crikey how on earth did you keep track? It’s bad enough monitoring my walking miles and cycling miles and now I need to consider my nights away too! Not a clue!

Much less than intended.  However quite a few visits to folk involve an overnight stay  the big trip to Canada included a good few.  In approximate order:

Milngavie,  then to Canada for Whitehorse, Dawson city, Eagle plains, Inuvik, Watson lake,  Stewart, Prince Rupert, Campbell river, Torfino, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Toronto, Huntsville  Back to Scotland.  Glenrothes, Cloich hills, Peebles, La Mancha, Upper largo, Boness, Moorfoot hills, Altandhu,  Blair atholl, near Newton Stewart, near Castle Douglas, then to the netherlands Harlingan including 2 nights on the ferry in the middle of the north sea

so thats 28+ different places.  ( I might have forgotton a few)  I estimate 90+ nights away from home.  Only 5 nights wild camping and 2 nights on a campsite which is a disappointment

Edit – just remembered Colne valley as well

Edit2 Port of menteith – brings me to 30+

Dagnamitt  tighnabruaich as well.

Does my van count as one or many?

I’m about to sleep in my 9th location of the year, about 3 weeks away.

Denmark earlier this year was my first foreign trip since 2016 and my first flight since 2008.

we have had a good year.

started off with a week in Norway for the Fat Viking.

then a good weekend in the Lakes for jennride winter thing.

march was a long weekend in the Borders doing some long walks.

then a week in Northumberland with the kids and grandkids in may. warm and sunny, managed some sea swimming.

june saw me in the borders and Edinburgh on a long bike ride.

september saw us in France for a month on a lovely bike tour which stretched into october.

and this week we have been on a mini tour via the pennines and south dales.

not sure of total day, but lots, and moreso all miles that make smiles…………….  ace.

2. And that includes home. The other was Poolewe for six nights

it should have been at least six but as I couldn’t sit an a car or on a train or aeroplane for any length of time between January and September it rather ruined our plans

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Does my van count as one or many?

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According the non existent rules for this game it’s one for each place you parked it. I’m assuming the other end in the layby isn’t different, the other side of town is

But as above. It’s about reflecting on what you’ve been upto as much as a number

Just noticed Upper Largo where I lived 12 years growing up, did you walk up Lergy Law for the cracking view south over the Firth of Forth and a few munros North and West

If you’re doing a *long* bikepacking thing, and you don’t really have a “sleep” for multiple days, but grab 20 minutes in various bus shelters/hedges/whatever along the way, does that count as 0 or *many*?

I think 12 places and around 30 days.

Mix of self catering cottages, b&b, glamping pod, tent on a site,and a couple of wild camp hammocks.

Actually surprised me as I feel Iike I’ve had really shit year health wise and still waiting to see if I can get another knee replacement.  Mam passing away put a damper on things.

Looking back it’s definitely been better than I remember and did a couple of little bike trips with different friends in glamping pods and B&B.

Definitely hoping for more trips away on the bike in 2025 but having to use an ebike means just an overnight camping, or otherwise paid for accommodation.

Saying that now being on a CPAP means wild camping will be more difficult; either suffocate or take some big power bank thing along with the machine, both of which add bulk and weight.

It’s almost a ‘how bad for the environment are you ?’ post

I did 40 nights in the camper. I estimate 18 nights for work and another 4 nights with family or friends.

No wonder the environment is ruined :-(.  But at least we all had an holiday :-).

I’m alright Jack, and F-U.

I’ve had nights away that were a 15 minute train ride and then a night cycling back home. i have flown to Croatia this year. Typical has been me and 2 mates driving to Southhampton and then Ferry to the Isle of Wight

Bikepacking is definitely at least 1 per 24 hours

It’s almost a ‘how bad for the environment are you ?’ post

apart from my canada trip which was very much a one off almost all the rest was done by bicycle and public transport which is why I often stay over when visiting pals

As TJ says the problem is not how much we do but how we do it.

Multiple flights = bad

Many nights away = potentially fine if you’re travelling in a low-impact way

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1. Spain in January at my brother’s place for my 60th birthday trip

2 . My partner lives 1km away and I’ve stayed there almost as many times as I’ve slept in..

3. my own bed

4. 1 or 2 nights (plus tonight will be) at my mate’s in Oxfordshire

what do I win?

Well most of my trips were in Scotland, where I live, a couple in Northumberland , and a couple in North Yorkshire where family are. I’m not losing sleep over my carbon footprint on that.

30 different places across 49 nights. All in our motorhome.

Only done a few weekends away this year then did 12 night trip to France in March and a 28 night European tour for our honeymoon in September.

Hopefully get more weekends away in 2025.

40 years of cycle commuting has put me plenty into the zero carbon footprint bank.

Lots: Paris, Seville (twice), SW France, Ireland, Cuba, Newcastle. Definitely in the environmental doghouse.

Hmm, scary to look back!

23ish places, 228 nights away

40 years of cycle commuting has put me plenty into the zero carbon footprint bank.

My Candada flights probably were equivalent to one years CO2 saving by not having a car.

Im in the stratospheric camp becuase of work – i’ve circumvented the globe at least twice not includng my big US bike trip, so ive no idea on numbers.  However i do have a question for others that have the big numbers – – How does this affect home life, with you – is it all very supportive or “sigh -you’re away again -its not fair i have the kids etc etc” (not downplaying btw)?

Sui

I live on my own.  I am retired.  If my partner was still alive she would have been with me

I live in a van, so about 365 days/nights.

We always do pretty well with this – the perk of teaching.

13 weeks a year holiday and we are always away, plus weekends in the van…

NY was islay in the van, different spots each night and the journey.

Feb h/t Austria snowboarding, folkestone, Austria, Calais over the week

Easter was Brittany for 2 weeks, probably 8 or so different locations

May was a tour of colonsay, coll, tiree. 7 different places

6 weeks summer was Norway cycle tour, we didn’t do more than 1 night anyway.

October was Ireland in the van, 5 different places

Xmas we have been in Orkney, although most of that the same location.

We probably do 2 weekends a month on average too, sometimes only half an hour away.

So yep big numbers that I can’t be bothered to work out exactly, thanks for the prompt to look back over the year. Nice to be able to remind ourselves that when work feels exhausting there is a big advantage.

56 nights away over 23 trips. That I can remember. So much better than it used to be.

My wife wasn’t with me for about a third of these. I think i did 3 locations going to Scillies’s with my daughter

Mrs Ampthillis always up for a trip. Over the years we’ve had plenty of time together. So her having evening meetings and me shooting off didn’t seem to be a problem. Kids have left the nest

It kind of feels like cheating when you have a motorhome as apart from trips to the alps we rarely spend more than 2 nights at the same place. For example in a week in the Lake District we spent the night in 4 different places just because we could and it meant less driving to and from a single base.

Not the best year for us as a broken collarbone interefered with the summer but we did 47 nights and 23 places plus whatever I have missed

Ooh, good game. From perusing the Electronic Calendar of Truth on Google, I get…

January – a night at a friend’s house in Derby, a night at a hotel in Droitwich, two nights in a bunkhouse in Gradbach

February – six nights in a hotel in Taviria in Portugal

March – a night at my folks’ house, a night at a hotel in Swindon, two nights on two different scout hut floors

April – Sixteen nights in four campsites, one hotel and a ferry in France

May – One night in Swindon

June – Two nights in a tent at a scout camp near Leek, one night in a carpark in Oswestry. I’m sure I was down at my folks at some point too.

July – One night in Swindon

August – Two nights in a tent at a scout camp near Stone

September – Fourteen nights in fourteen different places in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro, one night in Llangollen, two nights in a tent at a scout camp near Northwich

October – One night in Swindon

November – Two nights in Glasgow, two nights in Swindon, one night on a scout hut floor in Disley

December – One night at friends’ house in Derby

So sixty for the year. Blimey.

February – Beverley – 2 Nights

February – China – 7 Nights – Work

March – Lanzarote – 7 Nights

May – Croatia 1 Night, Bosnia 3 Nights, Montenegro 1 Night, Albania 2 Nights – Cycle Tour with 7 different stops….all cheap hotels etc rather than camping.

May – Taunton 1 Night – Work

June – Germany – 2 Nights – Work

August – Fuerteventura – 14 Nights

October – York 1 Night, Scarborough 1 Night

16 locations. 42 days in total.

We are planning UK holidays this year.

Damn, it’s 5 – One night in a hotel in Brighton after a Forest Swords gig. Bloody marvellous it was.

I hate everything about going away by plane, not scared of flying, just find it all **** tedious. Any trip away is ruined by the return journey. But I might be persuaded to go somewhere exotic this year for some eBiking and other touristy crap (don’t tell her I said that!). Uzbekistan is heading the list at the mo.

I’ve decided to give it a crack because I think it’s a good way of reflecting as well.

• Long weekend in Prague x 1
• Home x 2
• Visited my parents for a fortnight or so in mid France and stayed in an airbnb as well as some accomodation the night before the ferry x 5
• Went to Scotland in the van for a week and would have stopped somewhere different every night x 14
• I went up to Scotland again in June by myself with the van and the dog x 19
• Returned to the West Mids for a week and a bit including a jaunt down to FOD x 24
• Newton Stewart area for a week x 29
• Spain for a week biking including a night over before the flight x 31
• Another ten days in Scotland with Ash in September x 41
• Bologna for the week x 42
• Went to visit my Best Mate for a week x 43
• Stayed a few nights in Manchester x 44

I think that’s maybe all of them.