ThunderingTyphoons!

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Hello, world! I'm "ThunderingTyphoons!", or "Jamie", as people in real life tend to call me (when they're being nice) and I'm a 23 year-old student from Hampshire in the United Kingdom, with family in the Liverpool and Cardiff areas. I'm a French and Philosophy undergraduate at the University of Sheffield. Travelling is one of the joys of my life, which is why I love writing for Wikivoyage. As of 15 January 2017, I've been on here four whole years, mostly to avoid studying French and philosophy!

Upcoming trips

I would like to take a trip to Edinburgh in the coming months.

• September-October 2017: Somewhere in the Hérault

Recent trips

• February 2017: Derbyshire / Staffordshire borderlands, for the National Memorial Arboretum

• August - September 2016: Mirepoix, Ariège

• July 2016: The Shropshire Hills and Montgomeryshire

• May 2016: Stafford

• May 2016: Barcelona

• April 2016: Chester and Liverpool

• April 2016: Jurassic Coast (the Devonian part)

• November 2015: The Black Mountains near Hay on Wye

• September 2015: Bàscara, near Figueres

• September 2014 - August 2015: A year in Tours, in the Loire Valley.ː

• July 2015: Bordeaux and Toulouse

• May 2015: Alsace, Basel and the Black Forest

• April 2015: Madrid Easter weekend

Trips made earlier than two years ago are stored in my trips archive.

Pointless lists to do with my own travels that I find interesting

Extreme points

(table shamelessly stolen from Andrewssi2)

My records	Place
Northernmost	The Trossachs
Southernmost	Sea Lion Island
Easternmost	Taupo
Westernmost	Port Howard
Closest to the equator	Singapore
Highest	Fox Glacier
Lowest	Channel Tunnel
Furthest Inland	Kraków

Most-memorable travel experiences

• Teaching French kids English for seven months in Tours
• Any time I go to Wales, the land of my father(s)
• My first time in the Channel Tunnel, as a wide-eyed four year-old
• Flying to and walking on the source of Fox Glacier on Mount Cook in New Zealand: in shorts and a t-shirt!
• Visiting the remains of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, for reflection and mourning

Countries I have been to

I have been very lucky so far in my life to have done a lot of travelling. I have set foot in 22 countries around the world, mainly in Europe, though I have also visited Asia and Oceania and done my fair share of Atlantic islands:

Ascension Island

Bosnia and Herzegovina / Bosna i Hercegovina

Croatia / Hrvatska

Falkland Islands

France

Brittany / Breizh / Bertaèyn / Bretagne

Occitania / Occitània / Occitanie

Germany / Deutschland

Greece / Ελλάδα (Crete / Κρήτη)

Hungary / Magyarország

Ireland / Éire

Italy / Italia

Monaco / Múnegu

Montenegro / Crna Gora / Цpнa Гopa

New Zealand / Aotearoa

Poland / Polska

Portugal (including Madeira)

Singapore / Singapura / 新加坡 / சிங்கப்பூர்

Spain / España (including the Balearic Islands / Islas Baleares / Illes Balears and the Canary Islands / Islas Canarias)

Basque Country / Euskadi / País Vasco / Pays Basque

Catalonia / Catalunya / Cataluña

Switzerland / Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera

Turkey / Türkiye

United Kingdom

England / En-ger-land

Cornwall / Kernow

Scotland / Alba

Wales / Cymru

Cities of the world I have been to

• London, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Chester, Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford, Portsmouth, Salford, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southampton, St Albans, St Davids, Winchester, Worcester, York
• Mostar
• Dubrovnik
• Stanley
• Paris, Amiens, Angers, Blois, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Colmar, Lille, Nice, Orléans, Perpignan, Quimper, Rouen, Saint-Denis, Saint-Malo, Strasbourg, Toulon, Toulouse, Tours, Versailles
• Budapest
• Monaco
• Cetinje, Kotor
• Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch
• Kraków
• Funchal
• Singapore
• Madrid, Barcelona, Girona
• Basel

English counties I have set foot in

All counties I have set foot in rather than simply driven through, and not nearly as exciting a list as 'how many U.S. states I've set foot in':

• Berkshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Cheshire
• The City of London
• Cornwall
• County Durham
• Cumbria
• Derbyshire
• Devon
• Dorset
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Hampshire, my home county
• Hertfordshire
• Isle of Wight
• Kent
• Lancashire
• Merseyside
• Northamptonshire
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Shropshire
• Staffordshire
• Surrey
• Sussex: East and West
• Warwickshire
• West Midlands
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire
• Yorkshire: North, South and West

Travel wishlist (no particular order)

• New York City
• Loads more of France, Turkey and my own country.
• Prague
• Moscow
• The Louvre, Paris ✔
• Canadian Rockies
• Snowdonia ✔
• Nepal and Tibet
• St Petersburg
• The rural United States
• The Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
• Egypt, for the archaeology
• India
• Slovakia
• Mongolia
• China
• La Scala, Milan
• Edinburgh
• York ✔
• Mainland Greece - particularly Athens - for the archaeology
• South America (in general- cos it's like America, but south!)
• The interior of Montenegro
• Steinbeck's California
• Rome (I would travel back in time to late Republican Rome if I could just to marvel at the spectacle of an ancient metropolis)
• Istanbul
• The Carpathian Mountains
• Yellowstone National Park
• The top of the Shard, London
• The Trans-Siberian Railway (Moscow to Vladivostok!)
• Nîmes
• Lyon
• Penetrate deeper into the Black Forest
• Patagonia