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 Liverpool and Cardiff. A graduate of the University of Sheffield, I have been a fully committed francophile for as long as I can remember.
As of 15 January 2020, I have been a Wikivoyager for seven years and am on the administrative team.
- If you need help with anything at all, please leave a message on my talk page.
- If there's something you need to discuss in private, email me in strictest confidence.
My work on Wikivoyage
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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:
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Rather annoyingly, my 10,000th edit on Wikivoyage, usually a milestone to celebrate, was undoing vandalism to my own userpage. Ten thousand thundering typhoons!
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.
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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) |
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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) |
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Great work on handling outdated docent notices. ---Selfie City (talk | contributions) 00:29, 23 August 2018 (UTC) |
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Thank you for making me smile today. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:30, 9 April 2020 (UTC) |
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I just read the Stratford-upon-Avon article, and the quotes are a great touch. What a delightful theme for that article. —Granger (talk · contribs) 16:04, 15 August 2020 (UTC) |
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I am giving you this for all your hard work on Wikivoyage, although this is Wikipedia and I am mostly found here. Cupper52 (talk) 17:17, 16 December 2020 (UTC) |
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Thank you for helping me! I saw that you had a barnstar and thought I'd give you a second one. 82.3.185.12 14:12, 23 December 2020 (UTC) |
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This Barncompass is for helping me creating those new articles. I also saw you were collecting them. 82.3.185.12 14:14, 23 December 2020 (UTC) |
Upcoming trips
With luck:
- Sometime 2021: Berlin
- September-October 2021: The Algarve
Recent trips
- September-October 2020: Happisburgh, North Norfolk
- September 2020: The Shropshire Hills; possibly the last one
- January 2020: Brighton
- August-September 2019: The Rhuys Peninsula, Brittany
- June 2019: Annual Shropshire Hills sojourn.
- January 2019: Bath
- November 2018: The NEC, Birmingham and Stafford
- September 2018: Lanzarote: a return to the Canaries after many years
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)
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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.
- Being stripped of a citizenship I acquired at birth and travelling back in time 50 years, while simultaneously standing still on my back patio in the dark.
- 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:
Bosnia and Herzegovina / Bosna i Hercegovina
Croatia / Hrvatska
Germany / Deutschland
Greece / Ελλάδα (Crete / Κρήτη)
Hungary / Magyarország
Ireland / Éire
Italy / Italia
Monaco / Múnegu
Montenegro / Crna Gora / Цpнa Гopa
New Zealand / Aotearoa
Poland / Polska
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
England / En-ger-land
Cornwall / Kernow
Scotland / Alba
Wales / Cymru
Cities of the world I have been to
London, Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Chester, Durham, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford, Portsmouth, Salford, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southampton, St Albans, St Davids, Winchester, Worcester, York
Mostar
Dubrovnik
Stanley
Paris, Amiens, Angers, Bayeux, Blois, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Colmar, Lille, Montpellier, Nice, Nîmes, Orléans, Perpignan, Quimper, Rouen, Saint-Denis, Saint-Malo, Strasbourg, Toulon, Toulouse, Tours, Versailles
Budapest
Monaco
Cetinje, Kotor
Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch
Kraków
Funchal
Singapore
Madrid, Arrecife, 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
- Hertfordshire
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Merseyside
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Surrey
- Sussex: East and West
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire: North, South, East 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 ✔ish
- Nepal and Tibet
- St Petersburg
- United States National Parks
- 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
- Kyrgyzstan
- Monument Valley
- Louisiana
- Berlin, ideally with my father
- Heidelberg
- Amsterdam by Eurostar
- San Miguel de Allende
- Tallinn
- Quebec
- The Knepp Estate, West Sussex