ABOUT ME.
HI! I’M JAMIE, A TRAVEL BLOGGER AND PHOTOGRAPHER BASED IN DURHAM, ENGLAND.
Hi! I’m Jamie, a 30 something travel blogger and photographer calling the North East of England home with my wife, daughter and dog. I’m also a full-time solicitor but travel & photography is where my passion lies.
I know pretty much everyone says this but I’ve loved photography for as long as I remember. I’ve taken it a lot more seriously since around 2016 when I picked up a Fujifilm X-T2 and honestly I haven’t stopped shooting ever since. Chances are, if you see me in real life, I’ll have my camera with me.
Back in 2017, after an operation on my hip, I started my travel blog and me and my wife quit our jobs as solicitors and lived the dream – at least for ten months or so. We travelled over 16,000km in a failed attempt to complete the lap of Australia in a little campervan before taking the long way home through Bali, Singapore and Thailand. I had hopes of getting the travel blog to a position that it would fund our travels but that’s been much more of a long game. Before we had chance to really process those ten months, we were pretty much straight back into our full-time jobs. I changed specialism and still work now in the child protection arena which, as you can imagine, is quite stressful.
We welcomed our daughter, Evelyn, into the world in 2022 and, since then, we’ve been figuring out how we travel as a family of three. To be fair, it’s been going pretty well so far. We travelled to Portugal, Cyprus and Montenegro before Evelyn turned two.
Back to the travel blog and photography, as I said, it’s been a long game and I’m very much moving in the right direction. Last year saw my first ever press trips abroad to Portugal, Lithuania and Sicily and 2024 kicked off in style with a trip to Madeira!
On this blog you’ll find photography and writing that hopefully will inspire your own adventures. You’ll find travel tips, destination guides and a handful of stories on both here in the UK and abroad. If what I write about or the photos I share here inspire you then, quite frankly, I’m happy.
THE THINGS THAT MAKE ME ME!
family / fujifilm cameras / green tea with lemon / flat whites / fender guitars / pop punk music / records / overshirts / paynter jackets / tens sunglasses / goodlids hats / preston north end / burgers / pizza / melbourne / peep show / inbetweeners / pilsner / honourary northerner / city breaks
GET IN TOUCH
If you want to get in touch about something specifically, please fill out the form below and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible. If you’d prefer, drop me an email at jamiechancetravels [@] gmail.com