ThunderingTyphoons!

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Note: Although I'm not on a formal Wikibreak as such, my time for Wikivoyage has been severely reduced as of late. This is due to a couple of trips I have taken, in tandem with an ongoing search for the dream job while still working full time. My apologies to Wiki friends and colleagues for my unresponsiveness to messages and general lack of availability. I will be back soon.ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 17:20, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello, world! I'm ThunderingTyphoons!, or "Jamie", as people in real life tend to call me, when they're being nice. I come from Hampshire in the United Kingdom, with family roots in the Liverpool and Cardiff areas. I'm a graduate of the University of Sheffield, and have been a fully committed francophile for as long as I remember.

As of 15 January 2019, I have been a Wikivoyager for six years and am on the administrative team. If you need help with anything at all, please leave a message on my talk page or email me in strictest confidence.

My work on Wikivoyage

Thoughts on editing

As an editor, I enjoy:

writing in lively style about places I know.
finding new facts for Wikivoyage:Discover all over the world's best travel guide.
writing article leads.
contributing to history, transport and food-related articles and sections.
welcoming new users to Wikivoyage.

I think the following aspects of editing are tedious but necessary:

adding images
adding listings (seriously)
copy-editing
dealing with problematic edits
anything to do with impossible-to-remember but damn useful templates

Things you won't find me doing:

doing "technical" things - my programming skills are nonexistent
making a static map - see above
working on anything related to the United States - we have a large number of fine American editors who are brilliant at what they do, so a destination article for just about anywhere else in the world is much more in need of my time.

I prefer to work on destination articles related to the United Kingdom and France, though I also patrol recent changes and my watchlist. Many of the weirder Discover facts you read will have been chosen by me. Pages I have created (bold) and / or have contributed extensively to:

Airport articles
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bouzigues and its French-language counterpart
England
Farnborough
France
Grand-Est
Hampshire
Hauts-de-France
Lot-et-Garonne

Normandy
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Oamaru to Dunedin avoiding SH1
Occitanie
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Sheffield
South East England
Tours
Travelling with a mental health condition
United Kingdom
York

Rather annoyingly, my 10,000th edit on Wikivoyage, usually a milestone to celebrate, was undoing vandalism to my own userpage. Ten thousand thundering typhoons!

Barncompasses

	The Wikivoyage Barncompass
	Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. So here is your medal of appreciation. We need ten thousand thundering typhoons like you! Well done Jamie. Saqib (talk) 14:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

	The Wikivoyage Barncompass
	For being willing and able to change your mind, and for having the courage to say so. Happy and successful communities depend upon people like you. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:29, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

	The Wikivoyage Barncompass
	Great work on handling outdated docent notices. ---Selfie City (talk \| contributions) 00:29, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Upcoming trips

June 2018: Annual Shropshire Hills sojourn.

August-September 2019: The Rhuys Peninsula, Brittany

Recent trips

April-May 2019: The Dieppe area of Normandy

January 2019: Bath

November 2018: The NEC, Birmingham and Stafford

September 2018: Lanzarote: a return to the Canaries after many years

July 2018: The slightly-deserted (due to World Cup) Shropshire Hills in the middle of a heatwave.

February 2018: Winster in the snowy Peak District

November 2017: Forest of Dean (first time I've seen a wild boar and a tawny owl!)

September-October 2017: Bouzigues, Hérault

August 2017: The ever-lovely Shropshire Hills and Pontcysyllte aqueduct (try saying that after a few pints!)

July 2017: Bayeux and the D-Day Beaches, staying in Cerisy-la-Forêt

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

Trips made earlier than two years ago are stored in my trips archive. Because I'm thoroughly anal like that.

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)
Experiencing the spectacular wildlife of the Falkland Islands
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!
Anything archaeological, particularly prehistoric art, stone circles, Roman stuff, or proper nice castles.
Visiting the remains of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 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