Bucket List

1. Travel to 50 UNESCO World Heritage Sites (59 sites and counting)
2. Travel to minimum 30 countries (45 countries and counting)
3. Visit all New 7 Wonders of the World (2 down, 5 more to go)
4. Travel to all 6 continents (not including Antartica)
5. Write a travel article and get it published
6. Attend a travel writing course
7. Japan, especially Kyoto (Completed)
8. Bathe in an onsen in Japan (Completed)
9. Sydney & Melbourne (Completed)
10. Bushwalking in Australia (Completed)
11. Visit Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt (Completed)
12. Attend the Great Festival of the Sun in Abu Simbel, Egypt (Completed)
13. Bathe in a hammam in the Middle East (Completed in Damascus, Syria)
14. Swim in the Dead Sea (Completed)
15. Israel
16. Ethiopia
17. Watch the Great Migration in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
18. Go down 198m into the bowels of the earth to see the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland (Completed)
19. Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp (Completed)
20. Croatia - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Montenegro (Completed)
21. Prague (Czech Republic) - Cesky Krumlov (Czech Republic) - Vienna (Austria) - Bratislava (Slovakia) - Budapest (Hungary) - Ljubljana (Slovenia) (Completed)
22. Helsinki (Finland) - Tallinn (Estonia) - Riga (Latvia) - Vilnius (Lithuania) - Warsaw (Poland) - Krakow (Poland) - St Petersburg (Russia) (Completed)
23. Malaga - Granada - Cordoba - Seville - Lisbon - Porto
24. Eat tapas in Spain (Completed)
25. Drink sangria in Spain (Completed)
26. See the Pope live in Vatican City
27. Visit the 4 Basilicas in Vatican City
28. Cinque Terre, Italy
29. Ride in a gondola in Venice
30. Watch a Riverdance show in Ireland
31. Island hopping in Greece
32. Travel the Silk Road (Completed)
33. Bhutan (Decided to ditch this because it's too costly and the landscape is similar to Nepal which I've visited a couple of times)
34. Mongolia
35. Trek to Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal (Completed)
36. Trek to Everest Base Camp (Decided to ditch this after a failed first attempt)
37. Climb Mount Kinabalu (Completed)
38. Deer Cave in Miri, Sarawak (Completed)
39. Animal watching in Sukau, Sabah (a friend went there and saw only elephants and crocodiles, both of which I've already seen in the wild when I was in Nepal)
40. Watch a ping pong show in Thailand (Completed in Phuket)
41. Attend a Broadway musical in London (Completed - Les Miserables)
42. Visit a haunted castle in Europe (Chickened out)
43. Swim with the whale sharks of Donsol in the Philippines
44. Spend a night in a Catholic monastery
45. Witness an aurora borealis or aurora australis
46. Chisinau (Moldova) - Brasov (Romania) - Bucharest (Romania) - Sofia (Bulgaria) - Skopje (Macedonia) - Pristina (Kosovo) - Tirana (Albania) - Corfu (Greece) - Athens (Greece)
47. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) - Cologne (Germany) - Luxembourg - Brussels (Belgium)
48. Venice / Padua - Milan - Cinque Terre - Bologna - San Marino (country) - Florence - Assisi - Rome - Naples
49. St Paul's Second Missionary Journey
50. Malta - Sicily - Tunis (Completed)
51. Tbilisi (Georgia) - Yerevan (Armenia) - Baku (Azerbaijan)
52. Almaty (Kazakhstan) - Dushanbe (Tajikistan) - Tashkent (Uzbekistan) - Samarkand (Uzbekistan) - Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (Completed)
53. Copenhagen (Denmark) - Gothenburg (Sweden) - Stockholm (Sweden)
54. Cuba - Jamaica - The Bahamas
55. Barcelona - Andorra - Monaco - Genoa - Piacenza - Milan - Zurich - Freiburg im Breisgau

Updated 8 July 2024

This bucket list was first conceived on 12 August 2011. Since then it has and will continue to undergo many revisions to accommodate my growing and varied interests in the remarkable inhabitants and things that make up planet earth.