I’ve nearly died – a couple of times actually, which has led to a strong, ‘Do it now, while you can’ attitude in my life choices. In no particular order – My Bucket List as they are known…
Visit Fingal Caves and finally see the puffins goddammit! (even longer story now)
Tour Blenheim Palace where Kenneth Brannagh’s Hamlet was filmed
See the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road
Smoke legal marijuana in Amsterdam
Get arrested for public indecency before I’m 30 (so much for that).
Learn to make Crème brûlée
Drive a car that costs more than my house – never gonna happen!
Go to the Hot Air Ballooning festival in Canberra
Visit the Cloisters in New York
Do the Overland Trek in Tasmania
Swim in the limestone pools at Pummukale in Turkey
Have a white Christmas somewhere… Canada?
Go on Safari in Kenya. Photograph the crazy wildlife
Visit Hampton Court Palace built by Cardinal Wolsey in London
Tour the Loire valley; go hot air ballooning; eat lots of cheese
Wander through tulips at the Wynyard Tulip Festival in Tasmania
Help cook and be a part of a traditional Māori Hāngi in New Zealand
See Bruce Springsteen at Madison Square Garden
Swim with large rays in Tahiti or the Caribbean
Stay in a glass igloo in Finland in winter
Buy property in Tasmania
Trek to Angel Falls in Venezuela
Cross the Arctic Circle
Cross the Antarctic Circle
Go to Carnival in Brazil to people watch
Go back to Brazil and do Carnivale properly
Check out the Geisha district in Kyoto
Pick up glass pebbles at Mendocino’s beaches in northern California
Buy something from the gold shops on the Pont Vecchio in Florence
Do a transit through the Panama 
Have a turkish bath in Turkey: Selçuk, Antalya and Istanbul
Go Goth for a season and dye my hair black
Have roasted chestnuts at Covent Garden
Visit Mad King Ludwig II’s Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany
Go hot air ballooning over Capadoccia in Turkey
Stay at the Waldorf Astoria in New York
Take a boat trip through the glow worm caves in Waitomo, New Zealand
See the Malterer Hangings at the Augustinermuseum in Frieberg, Germany.
Visit Mt Rushmore – stare at it, thinking: ‘Why?’
Visit Machu Picchu – stare at it, thinking: ‘Wow!’
Go to the Holi Festival (Festival of Colours) in India
River cruise through Europe on the Danube
Stay in a log cabin in the Canadian Rockies.
Rock the Kasbah in Marrakech
Canoe with the crocodiles at Yellow Water Lagoon in Kakadu National Park
Go to Japan to see the cherry blossoms
Hit a highway and end up in Baton Rouge – go Garth (blame The Scrubber!)
Wander through lavender fields in France
Have Chicken Kiev in Kiev
Stay in a yurt in Mongolia; try the kumiss
Go to the Spring Dances in Kyoto
Learn to knit
Have a Singapore Sling at the Raffles Hotel, Singapore
Visit Greenland – find out if it’s actually green
Get my own website
Have crazy cold sex in the snow
Acquire an EU passport
See all the Cirque du Soleil shows in Las Vegas
Explore Antarctica (doubt I’ll get to tick this one)
See Adele in concert
Do a Polar Bear swim somewhere really cold
Visit the inaccessible South West National Park in Tasmania
Join the Mile High Club
See Van Gogh’s Starry Starry Night at the MoMA in New York
Have a baby
Stomp around national parks in Patagonia and admire the scenery
Take a trip on a bullet train
Go to Easter Island; take photographs
Finish my medieval aumoniere embroidery project
Count the seats in the Ngatokimatawhaorua at Waitangi in New Zealand
Climb Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Central Australia
Learn some German – enough to buy alcohol and pork knuckles
Take the Trans-Siberian Railway trip
Do a Jane Goodall and meet wild gorillas in Rwanda
Buy pashmina at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul
Go do the Skywalk at the Grand Canyon
Get ridiculously expensive tickets to see Pavarotti in concert
Start my own business
Learn a smattering of Spanish
Take a trip on The Ghan
Venture to Thailand for the Loi Krathong lantern festival
Visit Vigelund Sculpture Park in Oslo
Have bagels with cream cheese from street vendors in NYC
Take the cog railway up Jungraujoch in the Swiss Alps
Go diving in the South Pacific
Have dinner at Lee Ho Fooks in (Werewolves of) London
Check out the Hong Kong tramway
Visit the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to forget the Russian Ark
Skinny dip in the Pacific ocean
See the Great Wall of China
Do a helicopter tour of New York City at night
Go see the Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska in March
Check out the hot air ballooning in Kenya
Snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef
Tour the Hospices of Beaune in Burgundy
Stay in the Blue Hole in Sweden to see the Northern Lights
Marvel at colourful St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow
Try Peking duck in Peking (Beijing)
Visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras and collect beads
Go to the Monaco Grand Prix and drool over the cars in Monte Carlo
Visit some Japanese onsens
Sit on that bench across the reflection pool at the Taj Mahal
Check out the Vasa Museum in Stockholm
See the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio
Go to some Broadway shows in NYC
Dance the night away on rum cocktails in Havana, Cuba
Return to the Vatican museum and look for lion door-knocker earrings
Check out red bummed snow monkeys in Japan
Have a threesome or moresome
Cruise the Inside Passage in Alaska
Study medieval history and/or art history at university
Down tequilas in Tijuana with a tacky Mariachi band
Get a new tattoo in New York
See Pompeii and look for brothels
Walk through the Forbidden City in China
Snorkel somewhere in the Caribbean (Barbados & Curacao)
Chase aurorae (Borealis or Australis)
Spend a weekend at the Georges V in Paris
Marvel at the colourful, Pink Mosque in Shiraz, Iran
Go on a Russian nuclear icebreaker to the North Pole
See Joe Cocker in Concert
Play with otters
Tootle around Amish country, in Pennsylvania
Go back to Moscow, visit the Bolshoi Theatre. Drink vodka.
Ride camels in the Sahara Desert
Swim in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland
Go back to Peru, try the guinea pig
Visit some Islamic countries (like Pakistan) to shop for rugs
Go to an authentic Tapas bar in Spain
Learn to ride a motorbike and buy a bright red one
See the Amber Room in the Hermitage Museum
Skydive in Tahiti at Morea or Bora Bora
Go photograph narwhals in far northern Canada
Visit the Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan
Find a copy of the Great Wave of Kanagawa actually on display
Get my portrait drawn at Montemarte near Sacré-Cœur in Paris
Hire a pensione in Florence, Sorrento or Orvieto for a month
Chase squirrels in St James’s Park in London
Stay in a yurt and drink kumiss on a tour of Mongolia
Marry a physiotherapist
Go sailing through the Greek Islands and indulge in local seafood
Find the perfect mushroom soup recipe
Visit the Gallipoli Peninsular and salute the ANZACS
Learn to cook GOOD Hollandaise sauce
Find some favourite charities and set up regular donations.
Wander the Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versaille in France
See Rammstein in concert somewhere in Germany Europe
See the Cluny Tapestries at the Musee de Moyen Age in Paris
Get a Brazilian wax (I don’t get it)
Buy some THFM boots
Go to St Petersburg… See the Faberge museum. Drink vodka.
Take up shooting and get my Cat H pistol license
Stargaze at Ormiston Pound in central Australia
Go to the US and fly on the Zero G plane thing
I originally wrote this list years ago… and every couple of years or so it gets added to. So far, I’m not doing too bad…
