✨Finalists for the BGTW Travel Writer of the Year, sponsored by South Carolina, are: Kassondra Cloos, Tristan Rutherford & James Stewart (is better on Bluesky; same handle) 👏 Winner revealed at the BGTW AGAD this Monday at @bloomballroom; last few tix & info👉bgtw.org/gala/ #BGTWAwards24 ✨

Big fan of the BBC here but… Discussing Labour policy on illegal immigration by inviting on a Tory MP is nonsensical. And item 2 of its leading lunchtime news programme is… the new Tory cabinet with Michael Howard. Not a good look #WATO

Reader (and The i Paper digital team), it was a different James Stewart. Though hard agree with that James Stewart that house moves are needlessly glacial

"Oxygen water: rich in oxygen" Just wait till they hear about the hydrogen

Airlines that ask you to enter telephone numbers in a specific valid format but don't state what that format is because, hey, let's turn check into a fun guessing game, can do one. I'm looking at you, SAS - Scandinavian Airlines

It's not often your work is read by let alone gets a retweet from a nation's president

My bit in the FT this weekend about Bornholm, which for an islophile like me felt pretty close to paradise ft.com/content/4edfcf…

They say travel broadens the mind but it's interesting how the best pieces for engagement are on destinations that readers already know: 153 comments and counting for my bit on Monday about Herefordshire thetimes.com/travel/destina…

I've done many silly things in this job: slept on a glorified campbed off a sea-cliff or attempted a ski-jump and backflip (I didn't ski). Still, wearing a plastic puffin on my head was a first. Worth a click, this, if only for the cracking little video telegraph.co.uk/travel/destina…

The look of intense happiness on the face of James Stewart (is better on Bluesky; same handle) when he pulls on the puffin hat...

On the show today: Seán Defoe on presidential terms; Live-streaming Kneecap; Sarah Madden on having baths; James Stewart (is better on Bluesky; same handle) on puffin snorkelling; Brian Gurrin on restoring census records; Sarina Bellissimo reviews 'Iron Heart' 'Smoke' & 'The Bear'; No one wants to eat bugs...

What a nice surprise to get an email from ANTOR UK to say I'm nominated for Travel Writer of the Year. No idea for which piece and no idea who nominated me. This is how all awards should be

I am Robohiker! — testing the exoskeleton that promises to take hikers further, faster via Financial Times My bit in today's ⁦⁦FT Weekend⁩ was brought to you by Wales, AI technology and Edmund Hillary on.ft.com/42sqP61

Gosh but Yotel is a lifesaver at airports isn't it? A snug capsule room with all you need and 20 minutes from check out to clearing security at LGW. Had totally forgotten the joy of a stay