THE BIG BUCKET LIST

Miscellaneous things to do

• Do some volunteer work overseas
• Write a book
• Keep chickens ✅
• Have less stuff ✅
• Spend the night in a haunted house
• Become a vegetarian
• Visit a Hammam ✅ Morocco Dec 2023 and Turkey Dec 2024
• Try Stand-up paddle boarding (SUP) ✅
• Get a “Wanderlust” tattoo ✅
• Create a Vision Board ✅
• Stay in over water bungalows
• Set up and use a website/blog ✅
• Get my nose pierced ✅
• Do a barista course ✅
• Try Archery ✅
• Do the RSA course ✅
• Get retrenched ✅
• Give stand-up comedy a go ✅
• Learn to crochet ✅
• Spend a night in a castle ✅ October 2015 (India)
• Land on a beach ✅ 1 Aug 2016 Fraser Island
• Get an Ant Warrior tattoo ✅
• Go on a Yoga Retreat – Happy Buddha and Swamis ✅
• Learn to play the castanets 

Things to do in the UK

• See a tennis game at Wimbledon
• Visit Nellie the Lochness monster in Scotland
• Visit Harry Potter at Warner Brothers
• Visit the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland ✅
• Have a pint of Guinness at the Guinness Storehouse ✅
• Kiss the Blarney Stone ✅
• Canal boat holiday ✅
• Visit Bath ✅
• Visit Brighton and walk the pier ✅
• Visit Basingstoke ✅
• Visit Reading
• Go to Bournemouth ✅
• Go to Portsmouth ✅
• Visit Salisbury and its Cathedral ✅
• Walk St James Way – Reading to Soton
• Do the punk rock tour of Soho ✅
• Do the Strummer Walk (London) Tour
• See a band at the 100 club
• Go to a Premier League football match
• Visit the Horniman Museum and Gardens (Forest Hill)
• Visit Little Venice and walk along the canals
• Go to the theatre in the West End (lots!) ✅
• Visit Battersea Power Station ✅
• Go to a “Let’s Rock” festival ✅ (twice at Southampton)
• Jump on the Hythe Ferry to Hythe ✅
• Visit the Cavern Club in Liverpool & other Beatles hot spots ✅
• Check out Adam Ant’s KOTWF costume at the BME ✅
• Visit Denbies Wine Estate ✅
• Visit the Magnificent 7 London cemetery's (2 visited)
• Take a tour of Highgate Cemetery in London ✅️ 3 December 2024
• Visit the Isle of Wight ✅
• Visit Edinburgh 
• Visit Glasgow
• Go to Cornwall ✅
• Visit Tintagel Castle ✅
• Go to Devon - have afternoon tea ✅
• Visit Chelsea and Belgravia in Bloom ✅
• Visit the Cotswolds ✅
• Visit Cardiff ✅
• Visit Bristol ✅
• Party at Butlins
• Ride the Watercress line steam train
• Live in London ✅
• Visit Yorkshire
• Visit the Lakes District
• Visit Dover Castle
• Visit the Orkney's in Scotland
• Have afternoon tea at Peggy Porchens in London

 

Things to do in Europe

• Camino de Santiago – French Way ✅
• Visit the Sagrada Familia ✅
• Visit the Blue Mosque in Turkey ✅
• Sail around the Greek Isles ✅ Well on a cruise ship anyway!
• Visit Cinque Terra in Italy
• Visit the town of Antiguedad in Palencia, Spain
• Visit Villajoyosa to see the colourful houses and Valor Chocolate factory
• Catch the TRAM d’Alacant
• Visit Altea (Alicante)
• Walk the medieval walls of Dubrovnik in Croatia
• Visit the Acropolis in Athens ✅️
• Sing Mama Mia on Mykonos ✅️
• See the Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights
• Visit the Rafa Nadal Sports Centre/museum in Manacor
• Catch the Eurostar under the English Channel
• Cruise the Mediterranean ✅
• Visit Istanbul ✅
• Cruise the fjords of Norway ✅
• Walk the Portuguese Coastal Camino ✅
• Stay at a Parador in Espana
• Visit Pompeii ✅
• Do a river cruise
• Visit Prague
• Stay at a Parador in Espana
• Walk the Caminito del Rey in Malaga, Spain
• Walk the Relleu Reservoir Route in Alicante, Spain
• Catch the Eurostar 
• Visit Ephesus in Turkey ✅️ 21 October 2024 and a Revisit 20 December 2024
• Visit the Acropolis in Athens ✅️ 25 October 2024
• Sing 'Mama Mia on Mykonos ✅️ 26 October 2024
• Visit Pompeii ✅️ 03 November 2024
• Visit the Blue Mosque in Istanbul✅️ 14 December 2024
• Hot air Balloon over Cappadocia (Turkey)  ✅️ 18 December 2024
• Visit Pamukkale in Turkey ✅️ 20 December 2024
• Eat a Pastéis de Belém in Lisbon ✅
• Visit the Western most point of Europe – Cabo da Roca, Portugal ✅
• Visit Porto and drink Port Wine (& eat a Franceshina) ✅
• Go to the end of the world Finisterra and Muxia ✅
• Eat at Botin ✅️ 11 July 2025
• Take a trip on the Glacier Express Train
• Visit the New York Cafe in Budapest
• Visit Dracula's castle in Romania
• Visit Berlin
• Visit Krakow Christmas Markets ✅️ December 2023
• Visit Tallinn in Estonia
• Visit Plovdiv and Sofia in Bulgaria
• Visit Albania
• Visit Slovenia
• Visit Malta

 

Things to do in Australia/New Zealand/South Pacific

• Train trip on the Ghan
• Buy a caravan/campervan and travel around Australia
• See the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights)
• Visit Darwin
• Visit the Kimberley in WA
• Visit Litchfield National Park (NT)
• Visit Cactus Country in Strathmeaton ✅
• Go to Fraser Island ✅
• Catch the Spirit of Tasmania to Tassie
• Go to Nimbin
• Throw a dart at a map of Australia and go there
• Visit Kakadu NP
• Go to Kangaroo Island ✅ Dec 2015 
• Go to Byron Bay and see the whales
• Fly over the Bungle Bungles
• Do the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb – done 23 May 15 ✅
• Visit Vivid in Sydney – done 23 May 2015 ✅
• Visit Brisbane 
• Do a Ghost Tour of the Rocks in Sydney
• Eat my way around King Island (Tassie)
• See a performance at the Sydney Opera House ✅Evita  
• Whale watch at Hervey Bay ✅
• Spend 6 months in NZ in a campervan
• Go to Dark MOFO in Hobart  ✅

Things to do in Asia

• Visit Taiwan during the Lantern Festival
• Go to Nepal ✅
• See orang-utans in the wild
• Visit Laos
• Visit the Great Wall of China ✅
• Visit the south of India – Kerala, Goa
• See the Ellora and Ajanta caves in India
• Go on a retreat in Bali
• Visit Sri Lanka
• See the cherry blossoms in Japan
• Stay at the Marina Bay Sands hotel & swim in the infinity pool ✅18/19 Oct 2015 
• Stand in Tiananmen Square (China/Beijing) ✅
• Stroll the Bund in Shanghai ✅
• Visit Tokyo
• Visit the Taj Majal ✅ October 2015
• Train trip into Tibet from China
• Visit the Philippines
• Visit South Korea

 

Things to do in Africa and the Middle East

• Go on an African safari and see the Big 5 ✅
• Visit the pyramids and Sphinx of Giza in Egypt ✅
• See Victoria Falls Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Cruise down the Nile ✅
• See wild gorillas in Rawanda /Uganda
• Visit Petra in Jordan ✅
• Go to Morocco ✅
• Float in the dead sea and have a mud bath ✅
• Visit Madagascar
• Visit the temples of Egypt ✅
• Visit Cape Town ✅
• Visit crazy Cairo ✅
• Visit the Southern most point of Africa ✅
• Visit King Tut in Valley of the Kings ✅
• Stay in a Martian Tent in Wadi Rum (Jordan) ✅

 

Things to do in South and Central America

• Visit Machu Picchu with Emi on his 50th ✅ March 2016
• Visit Iguassu Falls from both sides ✅March 2016 
• Ride a horse in Argentina ✅ March 2016  
• Celebrate Dia de los Muertos in Mexico
• Visit the Mayan Ruins in Mexico
• Drink Tequila and eat Tacos in Mexico
• Tango in Buenos Aires ✅ March 2016
• Cruise the Caribbean
• Drink rum and smoke a cigar in Havana Cuba
• Do a cruise around the bottom of South America
• Visit the Galapagos islands
• Visit Easter Island
• Visit Chichen Itza in Mexico
• Visit Costa Rica and see a sloth
• Cruise the Panama Canal
• Visit Christ the Redeemer in Rio
  
  

Things to do in the US, Canada and the Caribbean 

• Go to Disneyland
• Win $ in Vegas
• Take a ride on the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls
• Do an Alaskan cruise
• Do a road trip along route 66
• Visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras
• Greet Lady Liberty in NY
• Go to New York and see a play on Broadway
• Do a trip on the Rocky Mountaineer
• Catch a San Francisco cable car
• Visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona
• See a show in Vegas