Nigel Thompson

Ahoy @robinmckelvie - gave your cruise advice byline a bit of enhancement. Always grateful ma loon!

Hello @RoyalMail - thank you for delivering a package sent from near Glasgow to Essex in just 78 days. 2nd Class is 3 working days delivery, so it took 52 days allowing for Xmas, NY and weekends - actually 17th Class! Still, better late than never 😲

Last week we were at 6th-century St Catherine's Monastery, 5,200ft up in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Church, mosque, burning bush, relics, Moses' Ten Commandments mountain, cute cats. Mesmerising, peaceful place and friendly welcome from Greek Orthodox monks #travel #history #calm

Missed this yday with all the extraordinary misconduct in a public orifice (allegedly) news. Intruiging! Could be the story of the century (yes, even bigger than the Norfolk Nonce). The truth is out there. Possibly 👽 #FermiParadox #Area51 #roswell #rendelsham #xfiles #AlienLife

Proof, as if it was needed, that out here in darkest #Essex it is a green and pheasant land #birds

Another genius cover from the @PrivateEyeNews soothsayers. Read it when I got home from work last night, thought a) very funny b) stranger things happen and.... well, you know the (ar)rest!

And of course also online 🇹🇳 I went to the African town with a beautiful Italian-style attraction… but without the crowds or the price thesun.co.uk/travel/3822233…

Heading to Tunisia this year? Highly recommend a trip to Roman amphitheatre El Jem and the mosques in Kairouan. Joined a tour from Sousse last autumn and rated it a top day out and good value. Thanks to @lisaminot for giving it a nice shout out in The Sun #newspaper today!

What a moment: seeing Craig Revel Horwood produce the 10 paddle in Strictly! So it's the live tour at O2 in London, not the more competitive TV show, and Lewis & Katya were indeed a-maz-ing dancers. But a 10 from Judge Dread! All the judges very funny, an excellent night 🪩💃🕺

For foxtrot sake! Two pints of pale ale at the O2 to see Strictly tour - 10p cha cha change from twenty bloody quid! 😭 Still, the arena does look fab-u-lous! 💃🕺👯🪩

Free your mind! Excited to see Trinity from The Matrix supporting #TeamGB in the #Olympics #MilanoCortina2026 ice dancing final. Liked our pair's Scots routine, tried their best

One of the best days of the year in darkest Essex - it's early February, the weather is rubbish but the daffs are out! 😁👍 Spring is on the way! #positivevibes #springiscoming

@luckybaggage The sun shines on the righteous! 😃 All well with you?

@TravelEdNigel How come you’ve got glorious sunshine…and be still got drizzle?

Sunny #newspaper workstation view today. London is looking lovely after yesterday's deluge. Roll on spring!

You have to admire the optimism/ambition. It's 4C in Belgravia, London, and pissing down. A quid says no takers for this table tonight

Well, this is exciting! Enjoyed contributing to the benchmark @easyJet and @easyJetholidays Great British Holiday Audit 2026. Getting some nice coverage in consumer and trade #travel media in the UK and abroad. Thanks for the opportunity! 🏖️✈️

Liverpool v Qarabağ of Azerbaijan in Champions League, aka European Cup, tonight. Azerbaijan v much not in Europe and Qarabağ stadium in Baku as far from Liverpool as Newfoundland in Canada! That said, quite fancy a Baku trip (fact fans: largest city in world below sea level!)

@TravelDogPR Not by platforms. MaccyD or Greggs 😬

@TravelEdNigel Hmmmmm, smelly fried food on public transport? I'm an M&S sandwich person...

Emergency lukewarm burger & cold fries. Piss poor MaccyD crap obvs, but at least make it hot pls. Rediscovering joys of commuting into London from darkest Essex. In a bored moment on a failed Greater Anglia train, once worked out I've done this bastard more than 12k times 😬🚆

But it was a Saturday edition and the #travel section was there, on Page 8. Surprised it was still in, and front of book too. Needs must when journos scrambling to throw together a 4am paper for one of the biggest news stories in modern history I guess. They did a fine job

All pretty much as you'd expect..

Got a repro of the Daily Telegraph's JFK assassination 4am #newspaper published on 23/11/63 for a quid from a charity shop. Fascinating stuff (no, I do no remember it, am not *that* old!). All over the front page of course...