Bucket List

Dear fellow adventurers, digital nomads, and dreamers – welcome to your bucket list.

Gather around for today, we are diving headfirst into the exhilarating world of bucket lists. You know, those tantalizing to-do lists that make your heart race, your palms sweat, and your inner wanderluster (is that even a word?) leap for joy. Buckle up, because we’re about to embark on a journey that’ll make your mundane Mondays look like a stroll in the park.

A Bucket List? You Mean a “Before I Kick the Bucket” List?

Hmmmm, perhaps that could have been said little differently – but in a word – yes!  Before we set sail on the sea of adventures, let’s clear the air about what a bucket list really is.

What is a bucket list?

In plain English, it’s a lineup of heart-pounding, soul-stirring escapades you’re determined to conquer before you shuffle off this mortal coil. No, it’s not just for adrenaline junkies or jet-setters; it’s your personal roadmap to infuse every day with a hint of daring.

The Art of Crafting Your Adventure Manifesto

This is where the magic happens. Crafting your bucket list is like conjuring a spell, except you’re summoning life-changing experiences instead of fire-breathing dragons (though, that does sound pretty cool – or hot as the case may be!).

Here’s the secret sauce:

  • Start Simple: Remember those daydreams you had as a child? Those count. Want to ride a unicorn? Well, maybe not a unicorn, but how about horseback riding through lush landscapes?
  • Predictable Pleasures: Why reinvent the wheel? There’s a reason classics are, well, classic. Think swimming with dolphins or sipping champagne atop the Eiffel Tower. They’re tried-and-true for a reason!
  • Embrace the Quirk: Ever thought about taking elephants for a spa day? Or helping craft Peruvian jewellery? Quirky is the new cool, apparently.
  • Chase the Unconventional: Your bucket list, your rules. Want to sleep in an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora? Done. How about strutting your stuff at Oktoberfest (that usually happens in September not October, but go figure)? Absolutely. The world’s your oyster.
  • Childhood Dreams Redux: Recall those dreams of becoming a space explorer or a pirate? Channel that enthusiasm into exploring a space simulator or sailing the high seas on a pirate-themed cruise.
  • A Dash of Inspiration: Can’t quite decide? Turn to the vast realms of the internet, from Pinterest to travel books, where inspiration hides behind every click and page turn – and if you run out if ideas, ask ChatGPT for help.

As you scribble down your heart’s desires, let your imagination run wild. From defying gravity in a hot air balloon to summiting the tallest peaks, the sky’s not even the limit anymore. 

Part List, Part Vision Board

Think about how you want to display and use your bucket list.  Some people like an actual list, while others like to get pictures, stick them onto a board, and create their bucket list that way.

The Grand Unveiling – Your Personal Bucket List

Drumroll, please! It’s time to unveil your masterpiece, your magnum opus, your personal adventure bible = your very own bucket list.

The Power of the Checkmark

Now the biggest challenge awaits you.  Don’t just let that list gather digital dust.

Channel your inner explorer and start crossing items off! Time to turn those dreams into reality. Remember, it’s not about the end game; it’s about the exhilarating journey.

Carpe Diem (excellent movie if you haven’t seen it!)

So, there you have it. Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and trust me, you should), is to create the bucket list of all bucket lists. It’s about embracing life’s wild ride, throwing caution to the wind, and diving headfirst into the sea of extraordinary experiences. What are you waiting for? Your bucket list beckons, and the world is your playground.

Go forth, explore, and make those checkmarks your badge of honor. Your ultimate bucket list is your ticket to a life well-lived, and my friend, it’s time to seize the day, carpe diem-style!

My Bucket List of over 1,400 things to do and/or done!

It’s funny, a few years ago I found a bucket list I had created about 10 years earlier and to my amazement, I had achieved over 70% of what was on that bucket list!  …even though I think I probably just wrote it, pondered it for a day or two and then put it in a notebook, not to be seen again for a decade…

So, here is my updated bucket list (and some other cool things I’ve done) including items already completed.

Unlike the earlier bucket list to which I referred, this is not a “I feel hugely compelled to do each of these things!” list.  Rather, it is a guide… 

Update as of January 2020 – I am no longer maintaining this bucket list – I started adding to it almost daily – and then as I would explore places on my list, forget to cross them off, and so on…  but exploring this list is still a good reflection on some of the more memorable things I have done, and may give you some ideas for your bucket list…

So, how do I keep track of it all?

Now, I simply use my Google Maps app to keep track of places in my bucket list I want to explore, and put into the notes section any relevant comments or references to texts etc…

This is what my map looks like, just of the UK!

If I happen to be looking for some ideas, I might scroll through the list and see if anything jumps out at me…

If I happen to be in a particular place, since I have each of the geographic items below plugged into a visual map, I can easily see if there is something locally that is on my list I might like to explore…

…and more than half of the items on my list I have actually achieved, even if I haven’t come back to cross them off!

I hope this list inspires you to create your bucket list!

Sending love and smiles…

~ Bella

(The bucket list is in alphabetical order, and the items in pink italics are items I have already achieved and crossed off!)

  1. Abbaye de Villers, Villers-la-Ville, Belgium
  2. Abbey Library of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  3. Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders, Scotland, TD6 9BQ UK
  4. Abraham Lincoln statue, Edinburgh Scotland UK
  5. Abraham Lincoln statue, Manchester UK
  6. Ackergill Tower, Ackergill, Wick, UK
  7. Acropolis, Greece
  8. Acton Scott working farm, Shropshire UK
  9. ☑ DONE:  Add 1000 cool and interesting items on my Bucket List
  10. Admont Abbey Library, Austria
  11. ☑ DONE:  Adopt a Kepler Planetary System – the Pale Blue Dot Project (White Dwarf Research) is a non-profit organisation of professional astronomers that raises research funds for the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium – adopting a Kepler Star or Planetary System helps support their research
  12. ☑ Adopt a kitten
  13. ☑ Adopt a puppy
  14. Adopt another puppy
  15. ☑ DONE:  Adopt a Rescue Dog
  16. After-Hours Leonardo da Vinci Last Supper Tour and Dinner at Eataly Milan (https://www.viator.com/tours/Milan/After-Hours-Last-Supper-Tour-with-Ultimate-Dinner-Experience/d512-33060P9) ITALY
  17. Algarve, Portugal
  18. ☑ DONE:  Alamo Mission, San Antonio USA
  19. A la Ronde, Devon, UK
  20. Alba Carolina Citadel changing of the guard (May to September), Romania
  21. Alberobello, Metropolitan City of Bari, Italy
  22. Alien – Meet a highly-evolved and loving extra-terrestrial Alien   
  23. All events in the ‘English Season’ UK > Cartier International Polo (July), Chelsea Flower Show (May), Cheltenham Gold Cup Festival (March), Cowes Week (August), Epsom Derby (June), Formula 1 British Grand Prix (July), Goodwood Festival of Speed (June/July), Glorious Goodwood (August), Glyndebourne Opera Festival (May-August), Henley Royal Regatta (June), Last Night of the Proms (September), Louis Vuitton Classic (June), Royal Ascot (June), The Boat Race (March/April), The Grand National (April), The Queen’s Club Aegon Tennis Championship (June), Wimbledon (June).
  24. ☑ DONE:  Alpsee, Schwangau, Germany
  25. Alton Barnes White Horse geoglyph, UK
  26. ☑ DONE:  Amalfi Coast
  27. Ambras Castle, Schloßstraße, Innsbruck, Austria
  28. Anderton Victorian Boat Lift, UK
  29. Andrew Carnegie birthplace, Scotland
  30. ☑ DONE:  Angel Oak
  31. ☑ DONE:  Antebellum Homes – I have actually visited just about every antebellum (pre-Civil War) home of significance in America – if you’ve seen one on television or in a movie, chances are I’ve been there
  32. Antikythera Mechanism, Bronze Collection, National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece
  33. Appennine Colossus Villa Demidoff, Firenze
  34. Appleby Horse Fair, UK (June)
  35. Applecross Inn, Shore Street, Applecross, Strathcarron, UK
  36. Aquhorthies Stone Circle, Near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
  37. ☑ DONE:  Arabia Steamboat Museum (the largest single collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world)
  38. Aran Islands, Galway Bay, Ireland
  39. Arbroath smokies – taste Iain R Spink’s smokies http://www.arbroathsmokies.net/ Scotland, UK
  40. ☑ DONE:  Area 51 – to the heavily-guarded border thereof – and you can also watch the unmarked Area 51 planes (or Janet flights, so-named for their Janet call sign) taking off and landing at McCarran Airport, Las Vegas
  41. Armstrong-Browning Library at Baylor University, USA
  42. ☑ DONE:  Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum, Thal, Austria
  43. Arrive by Helicopter
  44. Arrive by Sea Plane
  45. Ashford Castle, Ireland
  46. ☑ DONE:  Aspen
  47. Aston Hall, Trinity Road, Birmingham, UK
  48. ☑ DONE:  Atalaya Castle
  49. ☑ DONE:  Ate squirrel and rabbit gumbo (where both critters were shot on the same premises they were cooked and eaten – certainly an ‘interesting’ experience but not one I recommend! (for you or the squirrel!))
  50. Athens, Greece
  51. Attend a Blitz Party – http://www.theblitzparty.com/  UK
  52. ☑ DONE:  Attend a Cirque de Soleil show in Vegas
  53. ☑ DONE:  Attend a masked ball
  54. ☑ DONE:  Attend an Anzac Day Commemorative Dawn Service on the beach
  55. ☑ DONE:  Attend a Polo Match
  56. ☑ DONE:  Attend a Rodeo
  57. Attend all three Triple Crown events UK – Private Box
  58. ☑ DONE:  Attend an Eagles concert – when all original band members were still alive
  59. ☑ DONE:  Attend an Event with International Heads of State
  60. ☑ DONE:  Attend an international basketball game
  61. ☑ DONE:  Attend an international soccer match
  62. Attend an Opera at the Hungarian State Opera House
  63. ☑ DONE:  Attend an Opera at the Vienna State Opera House
  64. ☑ DONE:  Attend a ‘State of Origin’ match
  65. Attend a Viennese Ball VIENNA
  66. ☑ DONE:  Attend College Football Game (LSU @ Tiger Stadium) & Tail-gating
  67. ☑ DONE:  Attend International Surfing Competitions (not as a competitor!)
  68. ☑ DONE:  Attend Invitation-Only Winemaker’s Dinner
  69. ☑ DONE:  Attend Private Event in US House of Representatives
  70. ☑ DONE:  Attend Revolutionary & Civil War Re-Enactments
  71. ☑ DONE:  Attend the Opera in a Private Box
  72. ☑ DONE:  Attend Zulu Lundi Gras
  73. ☑ DONE:  Attend Renaissance Festival
  74. ☑ DONE:  Attended a Louisiana Cajun Boucherie
  75. ☑ DONE:  Attended an international IndyCar race – the sound is truly awesome, like giant mosquitoes whose buzz you can feel in every fibre of your being
  76. ☑ DONE:  Australian Outback
  77. ☑ DONE:  Austria
  78. Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
  79. Avebury, Wiltshire UK
  80. Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, UK
  81. Baddesley Clinton, UK
  82. BAFTA Awards (with one of my productions nominated)
  83. Bagni Wildbad Thermal Bath Resort Ruins – Innichin, Italy
  84. Baia Archaeological Park, Italy
  85. Ballindalloch Distillery, Scotland, UK 
  86. Balmerino Abbey, Newport-on-Tay, Scotland UK
  87. Balvenie Castle, Castle Road, Dufftown, Keith, AB55 4GH, Scotland UK
  88. Bamburgh Castle (and ancient right to drive sheep through the village) UK
  89. Barometer World & Museum, UK
  90. Barra Airport, Eoligarry, Barra, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland, HS9 UK
  91. Barry Mill, Scotland UK
  92. Barton Swing Aqueduct, Bridgewater Canal (Leigh Branch) Tow Path, Eccles, Manchester UK
  93. Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
  94. ☑ DONE:  Bath Abbey, UK
  95. ☑ DONE:  Bathe in Milk
  96. Bathtub Regatta, Dinant, Belgium
  97. ☑ DONE:  Battle Abbey
  98. ☑ DONE:  Battle of Hastings (1066) 950th anniversary on the site of the battle (this was SO cool!
  99. Beach landing in an aircraft – flying from Glasgow or Benbecula to Barra, Scotland, UK (and the landing strip (aka the beach!) actually disappears twice per day due to tides!)
  100. ☑ DONE:  Be a Ghost-Writer
  101. Beamish Living History, Open Air Museum, UK
  102. Beauly Priory, Beauly IV4 7DY, Scotland
  103. ☑ DONE:  Beaumaris Castle, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
  104. Become a UK citizen
  105. Beer village in South Devon, UK – last white cliffs, beach fishing fleet, and Wurlitzer concert in the church
  106. Beheading Stone, Stirling, Scotland UK
  107. Be honorable, respectful and a dignified steward of the blessings bestowed upon me – I focus on this one daily, but it’s always a work-in-progress
  108. Bekonscot Model Village, Beaconsfield UK
  109. Belhaven Bridge, Shore Road, Dunbar, Scotland UK
  110. Belmond Grand Hibernian Rail Journey, Ireland
  111. ☑ DONE:  Be on a first-name basis with a country’s head of state
  112. Bergen Rail Line with Flåm Railway between Oslo and Bergen via Flåm (Norway)
  113. Bernina Express between Chur and Tirano (Switzerland & Italy)
  114. Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon UK
  115. Be the voice for an animated feature film
  116. ☑ DONE:  Been on stage with Jay Leno
  117. ☑ DONE:  Been to every place in the Route 66 song
  118. Below Zero Ice Porsche Driving Centre in Åre, Sweden
  119. Biblioteca Geral, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  120. Biblioteca Malatestiana, Via Montalti, Cesena, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy
  121. Bibliotheque Nationale de France, France
  122. ☑ Big Ben, London UK
  123. ☑ DONE:  Biltmore
  124. Birdoswald Trail along Hadrian’s Wall, UK 
  125. Black Country Living Museum, Tipton Road, Dudley, UK
  126. ☑ DONE:  Black taxi ride in London
  127. ☑ Blair Drummond Safari Park, Stirling FK9 4UR, Scotland
  128. Blaise Castle, Bristol UK
  129. Blarney Castle, Ireland
  130. Blenheim Palace, UK
  131. Bletchley Park, UK
  132. Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire, UK
  133. Blue Caves, Zakynthos Islands, Greece
  134. ☑ DONE:  Blue Ridge Mountains, USA
  135. ☑ DONE:  Boat License
  136. Bobby’s Bus Shelter, A968, Shetland, UK
  137. ☑ DONE:  Bodiam Castle, East Sussex, UK
  138. Bodleian Library, Oxford University, England
  139. ☑ DONE:  Bonfire on the Beach
  140. Bonifacio, Corsica, France
  141. Boole House, 5 Grenville Place, Cork, Ireland
  142. ☑ DONE:  Boone Hall Plantation, South Carolina, setting for many movies and mini-series including “North and South”, “The Notebook”, and “Queen” with Halle Berry
  143. ☑ DONE:  Boston, USA
  144. ☑ DONE:  Bought a quality western cowboy (or should that be cowgirl) hat and had it custom-fitted (I love bespoke experiences like that!)
  145. ☑ DONE:  Bowl a 200+ game
  146. Bowthorpe Oak, Bourne, UK
  147. ☑ Braemar Gathering, Scotland
  148. ☑ DONE:  Bran Castle, Romania
  149. Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
  150. Brandsbutt Stone, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
  151. ☑ DONE:  Brasov, Romania
  152. ☑ DONE:  Bratislava Old Town
  153. Bregenz Festival, Lake Constance, on the border of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland (July and August)
  154. ☑ DONE:  Brewed Beer
  155. ☑ DONE:  Brighton, England
  156. ☑ DONE:  Bring a Stranger Home for Dinner
  157. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 UK
  158. Brittany Coast, France 
  159. Brodie Castle, Brodie, Forres, Scotland UK
  160. Brough of Birsay – Historic Scotland, Orkney, UK
  161. ☑ DONE:  Brooklyn Bridge
  162. ☑ Brownshill Portal Tomb (Dolmen), Hacketstown Road, Carlow, Ireland
  163. Brown’s Hotel Mayfair, London, England UK
  164. Bruges, Belgium
  165. Brunel Museum, London UK
  166. Brunel’s SS Great Britain, Bristol, UK
  167. ☑ Buchanan Castle, Scotland UK
  168. ☑ DONE:  Bucharest, Romania
  169. ☑ DONE:  Buckfast Abbey, Devon UK
  170. Buckingham Palace, UK
  171. Budapest Castle Hill Funicular Railway, Hungary
  172. ☑ DONE:  Budapest Parliament Building, Hungary
  173. ☑ DONE:  Build a Blanket Fort (with multiple rooms, of course!)
  174. Build a Labyrinth
  175. ☑ DONE:  Build a smart-phone app (several)
  176. ☑ Build a Snowman
  177. Build a Clock
  178. Build a Water Feature
  179. ☑ Build several businesses (some were successes – some were monumental failures – although thankfully there were more of the former than the latter!)
  180. ☑ Build Websites
  181. Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet, Ireland
  182. Burg Hasegg / Hall Mint, Burg Hasegg, Hall in Tirol, Austria
  183. Burg Hochosterwitz, Hochosterwitz, Launsdorf, Austria
  184. ☑ Butterfly Park in Kuala Lumpur
  185. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Eoropie, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland, HS2 0XH UK
  186. ☑ Buy dinner for a stranger at a restaurant
  187. Buy jewellery at Tiffany & Co.
  188. ☑ Buy something at an Auction
  189. ☑ Cade’s Cove in the Smoky Mountains
  190. Cairngorm Funicular Railway, Aviemore, Scotland UK
  191. Caledonian Sleeper, London to Scotland UK
  192. Callanish Standing Stones, Callanish, Isle of Lewis HS2 9DY UK
  193. Cambridge University, UK
  194. Camden Market, London UK
  195. Camera Obscura, Scotland UK
  196. Camogli, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy
  197. ☑ Camping By Myself – beside a lake… it was magical!
  198. ☑ Canada
  199. Canal Boat Trips through UK and Europe – I’ve done some, but always more to do and see!
  200. Canal De Corinto, Greece
  201. Cannes Film Festival – with one of my films entered
  202. Cape Cod USA
  203. Carezza Rainbow Lake, Italy
  204. Carnac Stones, France
  205. Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, Scotland, UK
  206. Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, Whitepark Rd, Ballycastle, UK
  207. ☑ Cărturești Carusel Bookstore, Romania
  208. Castell Coch, Wales UK
  209. Castle of Mey Trust, Mey, Thurso, UK
  210. Castleboro House, Ireland
  211. Castle Howard, UK
  212. Castle Point Lime Kilns, Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
  213. Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, Caithness, Scotland UK
  214. ☑ Catalina Island
  215. ☑ Catch fish with no bait
  216. ☑ Catch snowflakes on my tongue
  217. Cawdor Castle, Nairn, Scotland UK
  218. Central Rhine Railway between Bingen and Koblenz (Germany)
  219. ☑ Change clothes in an old red phone booth
  220. ☑ Change my name legally
  221. Changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
  222. Channel Islands, UK
  223. ☑ Channel Tunnel
  224. ☑ Charleston, South Carolina – one of my favorite places on the planet
  225. ☑ Charleston Museum, Founded in 1773 and commonly regarded as “America’s First Museum
  226. Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Ireland
  227. Chateau de Chenonceau, Loire Valley, France
  228. Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
  229. Chateau Montelena, USA
  230. ☑ Chateau Rhinafa, Wales UK
  231. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire UK
  232. ☑ Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel (with a vintage rail carriage as my state room)
  233. Cheddar Cave, Somerset, UK
  234. Cherhill White Horse geoglyph, UK
  235. Chetham’s Library, Manchester UK
  236. Chopsticks – I can use them, but it’s not pretty!  LOL!
  237. ☑ Christmas Caroling
  238. Churchill War Rooms, King Charles, London UK
  239. ☑ Churn Butter By Hand
  240. Cinque Terre Rail Line between Levanto and La Spezia (Italy)
  241. Circumetnea Railway, Via Caronda, 352/A, 95128 Catania CT, Italy
  242. ☑ Civil Rights Museum in Lorraine Hotel
  243. Civita di Bagnoregio, VT, Italy
  244. Clachaig Inn, Glencoe, Ballachulish, UK
  245. ☑ Clambake
  246. Clansman Centre, Old Schoolhouse, Canal Side, Fort Augustus PH32 4BD, Scotland UK
  247. Claridge’s – stay there as my regular base in London UK
  248. ☑ Clark Adam Square, Budapest, Hungary
  249. Classic Car Rallies and Concours events – I’ve done some, but always more to see and do!
  250. Clava Cairns, Inverness IV2 5EU, Scotland UK
  251. Cley Windmill (stay in), Holt UK
  252. Clifton Suspension Bridge (Brunel), Bristol UK
  253. ☑ Climbed all 272 steps of the Batu Cave Temple in Malaysia (complete with an army of macaque monkeys ‘helping’ every step of the way)
  254. Cluanie Inn, Skye & Lochalsh, Glenmoriston, Inverness, UK
  255. ☑ Coca-Cola Original Location and Museum, Vicksburg, Mississippi
  256. Codrington Library, England UK
  257. ☑ Co-Host Drive Time on Major Commercial Radio Station
  258. Coimbra Library, University of Coimbra–Alta and Sofia, Portugal 
  259. Coldharbour Mill – one of the oldest woollen textile mills in the world, having been in continuous production since 1797 – UK
  260. ☑ Coliseum (this place was AWEsome in every sense of the word!)
  261. Comic strip route Ric Hochet, Belgium, Brussels
  262. ☑ Competition Ballroom Dancing (as a teenager, and won two awards)
  263. ☑ Complete a charity walk
  264. ☑ Complete an advanced driving course
  265. ☑ Concours of Elegance, UK
  266. Coney Island, USA
  267. ☑ Conquered fear of Public Speaking (and a good thing, too, given that I chose to go into the field of media and entertainment!)
  268. Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, Wales – 19th-century funicular railway to one of the world’s largest camera obscuras UK
  269. ☑ Contact one or more of my heroes – I sent a copy of Quantum Lace Book One to two of my heroes – Lord Julian Fellowes and Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe – and both emailed me back with very positive comments!
  270. ☑ Contact someone I don’t know who also has my name
  271. Continually improve my diction and enunciation – I focus on this daily, but definitely a work-in-progress
  272. ☑ Continually Learn about Quantum Physics
  273. Continue to explore my ancestry, including visiting places from which they originated
  274. Continue to facilitate inspiring events…
  275. Continue to make a difference and help people achieve their dreams…
  276. Continue to regularly attend exhibitions at various wonderful institutions
  277. ☑ Cook and eat a fish I caught (but no, I didn’t clean it!)
  278. Coral Castle, Florida USA
  279. ☑ Corn Maze
  280. Corryvreckan whirlpool, Scotland – world’s third largest whirlpool
  281. Cotswold Olimpick Games, Gloucestershire, UK (June)
  282. Covent Garden, London UK
  283. ☑ Crack a Whip
  284. Cragside, Lord Armstrong’s rural mansion with gadget displays, UK
  285. Cramond Ghost Island, Scotland UK
  286. ☑ Crater Lake, Oregon
  287. ☑ Create a travel blog
  288. ☑ Create My Own Family Crest
  289. Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  290. Cromford Mills, Mill Road, Cromford, Matlock, UK (world’s first successful water-powered cotton mill)
  291. Crooked House Pub, Dudley, UK
  292. Cross the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in a canal boat, Wales UK
  293. Crossness Pumping Station, Bazalgette Way, London, UK
  294. Cruise the Crinan Canal on The Clyde Puffer – VIC 32 – Crinan, Argyll, Scotland – UK
  295. ☑ Cruise the River Danube
  296. Crystal Cave, Vatnajökull, Iceland
  297. Cuckooland, UK
  298. ☑ Cuddle a Koala
  299. Culross Palace – The National Trust for Scotland, Culross, Dunfermline, Scotland UK
  300. Daily continue to see the beauty, give and receive love, enjoy the bliss and be thankful to God… 
  301. ☑ Daily Full-page “Life with Leigh” series in Major Metro Newspaper
  302. ☑ Daily Successfully manage several health and mobility ‘challenges’ that sometimes slow me down but rarely if ever stop me from doing something I reeeeeeally want to do…
  303. Dallas Dhu Historic Distillery, Mannachie Road, Forres, Morayshire, IV36 2RR, Scotland UK
  304. Dance ballroom at the Blackpool Tower, UK
  305. ☑ Danced/Played the giant piano in FAO Swartz in New York
  306. Danubius Health Spa Resort Thermal Baths, Margitsziget, Hungary
  307. ☑ Dartmouth Castle, UK
  308. Dartmouth Royal Regatta (August) UK
  309. Daunt Books bookstore in London (Note to self:  Self, remember to take a rolling suitcase to bring home new members of the family!) UK
  310. ☑ Death Valley, USA
  311. ☑ Debrett’s Quintessentially British Programme UK
  312. ☑ Debutante Ball – yes, I was actually a debutante when I was a teenager and attended my debutante ball, complete with long white dress, dashing partner… It was magical
  313. Deer Abbey, Near Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
  314. Dennis Severs’ House, London UK
  315. ☑ Develop a fictional character I love and publish stories about her journeys (click here to meet Bridgit!)
  316. Develop a range of inspirational books, journals, items etc from my photography
  317. Develop/achieve my ideal body – fit, healthy, flexible, and sexy
  318. Didcot Railway (Brunel) Centre, Didcot UK
  319. Die Welt steht Kopf, Wiesenweg, Trassenheide, Germany
  320. Difference Engine – Babbage’s prototype computer – London, UK
  321. ☑ Dined at the Boat House in Central Park
  322. Exclusive Dinner in a Renaissance Castle in the Company of the Noble Owner, Florence, Chianti (https://www.viator.com/tours/Florence/Exclusive-Dinner-in-a-Renaissance-Castle-in-the-Company-of-the-Noble-Owner-a-Vip-Experience-in-the-Chianti-Countryside/d519-2428P145)
  323. Dinner in the Sky, Voutadon, Athens, Greece
  324. ☑ Discover my signature perfume
  325. Disneyland, USA
  326. Dive on “Christ of the Abyss” off San Fruttuoso, Italian Riveria – Italy
  327. Dolphin tours, ‘Corbiere’ Dolphin Tours in Avoch, Scotland UK
  328. ☑ Do my own gel nails – such a fabulous treat, especially when globe-trotting and not needing to find a salon!
  329. ☑ Do several ‘staycations’ where you stay in a hotel in your city and be a tourist in your own town
  330. ☑ Do something ‘big’ completely on faith
  331. Dog Suicide Bridge, Milton, Scotland, G82 2TH
  332. ☑ Donate Blood
  333. ☑ Don’t talk to/with anyone for an entire three-day long weekend
  334. Dorchester Hyde Park, London, England UK
  335. Dores Inn, Dores, Inverness, UK
  336. Dover Castle, UK
  337. ☑ Dracula’s Castle in Romania
  338. ☑ Drink Bordeaux in Bordeaux
  339. Drink Chianti in Chianti Country
  340. ☑ Drink Irish whiskey in Ireland
  341. ☑ Drink milk/juice from a fresh coconut
  342. Drink Pilsner Beer in Pilsen, Czechia
  343. ☑ Drink Scottish whiskey in Scotland
  344. ☑ Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge
  345. ☑ Drive Across the USA Coast to Coast and Top to Bottom (several times)
  346. ☑ Drive entire length of Historic Route 1 / Hwy 101 from Mexico to Canada
  347. ☑ Drive in Celebrity Speedway Race
  348. ☑ Drive on the German Autobahn
  349. ☑ Drive the Great Ocean Road, Australia
  350. ☑ Drive the Strada della Forra, Via Benaco SP38, Tremosine sul Garda, Province of Brescia, Italy
  351. Drombeg Stone Circle, West Cork, Rosscarbery, Ireland – Leaving Cork, take N71 southwest through Bandon and Clonakilty (approximately 55km). Turn left onto R597, and follow for 4.2km. Turn left at the sign for Drombeg Stone Circle, and follow the road approximately 1km. Turn right into the parking lot. 
  352. ☑ Dropped 75lb after putting it on during an illness 
  353. ☑ Dubai
  354. ☑ Duckett’s Grove House, Kneestown, Duckett’s Grove, County Carlow, Ireland
  355. Duff House, Banff, AB45 3SX, Scotland UK
  356. Dún Aonghasa, Galway Ireland
  357. Duncansby Head Lighthouse, Scotland UK
  358. Dunfermline Palace and Abbey, Dunfermline (56.0694,-3.4638) Scotland UK
  359. Dunmore Pineapple House, Airth, Scotland, FK2 8LU UK
  360. Dunnet Head Lighthouse, Brough, Thurso KW14 8XS, UK – UK’s most northerly point
  361. Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB39 2TL UK
  362. Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Scotland UK
  363. Durdle Door, Dorset, UK
  364. Durham Cathedral and St Cuthbert UK
  365. Dursey Island cable car, Cork Ireland
  366. Duxford Airshow, UK
  367. Dyce Symbol Stones, Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
  368. Dynamometer car at the National Railway Museum in York UK
  369. Easter Island
  370. Eat a Belgian Waffle in Belgium
  371. ☑ Eat a California Roll in California
  372. ☑ Eat a Cornish pasty in Cornwall
  373. ☑ Eat a Milky Way in the Milky Way (ok, so that wasn’t very difficult! LOL!)
  374. ☑ Eat at a Michelin award-winning restaurant (several!)
  375. ☑ Eat at a revolving restaurant
  376. Eat Bolognaise in Bologna
  377. ☑ Eat breakfast at a roadside diner on Route 66
  378. ☑ Eat Canadian Bacon in Canada
  379. Eat Chicken Kiev in Kiev
  380. ☑ Eat Crocodile
  381. Eat Florentine Steak in Florence
  382. ☑ Eat Fried Grasshopper
  383. Eat Hollandaise Sauce in Holland
  384. ☑ Eat Hungarian Goulash in Hungary
  385. Eat Irish Stew in Ireland
  386. ☑ Eat Kangaroo
  387. ☑ Eat New England Clam Chowder in New England
  388. ☑ Eat Philly Cheesesteak in Philadelphia
  389. ☑ Eat possibly the world’s best Lobster Slider – Plymouth (near ‘the rock’)
  390. ☑ Eat Sacher Torte at the famous Sacher Hotel
  391. Eat Salisbury Stead in Salisbury UK
  392. Eat Swiss Cheese in Switzerland
  393. ☑ Eat Vienna Sausage in Vienna
  394. ☑ Eat Vienna/Wiener Schnitzel in Vienna
  395. Echo Hill, Tihany, Visszhang utca, 8237 Hungary
  396. Edgar Cayce Museum, USA
  397. Edinburgh Castle, UK
  398. Edinburgh Military Tattoo, UK
  399. Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
  400. ☑ Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland UK
  401. ☑ Elgin Cathedral, King Street, Elgin, Moray, IV30 1HU, Scotland
  402. ☑ Elvis Presley Aircraft Museum
  403. ☑ Email someone I admire – I emailed Professor Fred Alan Wolf (one of the world’s best-known quantum physicists) with the first chapter of my Quantum Lace series asking for his feedback on whether my physics was sound – and he replied with a wonderful message in the affirmative! 
  404. ☑ Emergency Paramedic Ride-a-long
  405. ☑ English Riviera – Torquay, Devon
  406. ☑ Entertain elderly people at a nursing home
  407. ☑ Entire week without spending any money
  408. Erzabtei Sankt Peter, Sankt-Peter-Bezirk, Salzburg – oldest library in Austria
  409. Etiquette – continually improve my knowledge and application thereof
  410. ☑ Etyek Wine Country Tour, Budapest, Hungary
  411. ☑ Eurostar, London to Paris
  412. ☑ Experience a Real White Christmas
  413. ☑ Experience a tornado
  414. ☑ Explore a Completely Uninhabited Ghost Town
  415. ☑ Explore an abandoned amusement park
  416. ☑ Explore the Scottish Highlands
  417. ☑ Experience Chinese Cupping Therapy
  418. Faery Circles in Ireland
  419. Fairy Flag at Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye UK
  420. Fairy Glen – Uig, Isle of Skye, Scotland UK
  421. ☑ Fairy Penguins on Phillip Island
  422. Fairy Pools in Scotland UK (https://wowscotlandtours.com/tours-from-inverness/private-day-tours-inverness/private-fairy-pools-tour/)
  423. Fairy Rock, Whitehaven UK
  424. ☑ Falkirk Wheel, Lime Rd, Falkirk, Scotland, FK1 4AD
  425. Flakland Palace, Scotland UK
  426. Fan Bay Deep Shelter, Dover UK
  427. ☑ Fantastic Caverns in the Ozarks – with underground tours by convertible Jeep
  428. ‘Fellsman’ Steam Train – Settle to Carlisle + classic coach + historic steamer on Ullswater Lake, UK (http://statesmanrail.com/fellsman.html)
  429. Felsentherme Bad Gastein, Bahnhofplatz, Badgastein
  430. ☑ Ferrari Test Drive in Marinello, Italy
  431. ☑ Finch Foundry, Devon UK
  432. ☑ Find and purchase a copy of the original book, “The Making of Star Trek”
  433. ☑ Find True, Pure, Blissful Joy in pretty much every moment…
  434. Fingal’s Cave, Scotland UK
  435. Finnich Glen, Stirling, Glasgow, UK
  436. ☑ First-Class Overnight Train Trip from Vienna to Rome
  437. ☑ First and Last Pub, Cornwall, UK
  438. Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex, UK
  439. ☑ Fishbowl Margarita in El Paso
  440. ☑ Fisherman’s Bastion, Buda (Budapest) Hungary
  441. Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, Iceland
  442. Flannan Isle Lighthouse, Flannan Isles, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland
  443. Florence, Italy
  444. ☑ Fly a Plane
  445. Fly fishing
  446. ☑ Fly in a helicopter
  447. Fly in a Lear Jet
  448. Fly in a Spitfire over the English Channel – Goodwood – UK
  449. ☑ Fly Internationally First Class
  450. Forbidden Corner, Coverham UK
  451. Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Speech House Road, Coleford, UK
  452. ☑ Forgive and move on
  453. Fort George, Scotland UK
  454. ☑ Fort Jackson, Georgia
  455. For Sale Pub, Vámház körút, Hungary
  456. ☑ Fortingall Yew, Fortingall Church, Fortingall, Scotland, PH15 2LL
  457. ☑ Fort Moultrie, South Carolina
  458. ☑ Fort Sumter – the official start of the American Civil War
  459. Fosse Dionne, Rue de la Fosse Dionne, Tonnerre, France
  460. ☑ Fossick for Thunder Eggs on Tamborine Mountain
  461. Fota Wildlife Park, Ireland
  462. Fountains Abbey, UK
  463. Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest, Hungary
  464. ☑ Four-wheeling over monster sand-dunes
  465. ☑ Foyle’s War – have been to almost every place this series was filmed
  466. Frederiksborg Castle, Frederiksborg Slot, Hillerød, Denmark
  467. French Channel Islands – Chausey Islands, France
  468. French Pyrenees
  469. ☑ French Quarter in New Orleans
  470. ☑ Front-row-center at Don McLean concert
  471. ☑ Fundraising for various causes
  472. Fyvie Castle, Fyvie, Turriff, Scotland UK
  473. Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man 
  474. Galloway Forest Park, the only Dark Sky Park in Scotland – and hopefully even see the Northern Lights! UK
  475. Gaping Gill, North Yorkshire UK
  476. Gasteiner Heilstollen, Heilstollenstraße, Badgastein – “healing tunnel”
  477. Gellért Thermal Bath, Kelenhegyi Way, Budapest, Hungary
  478. George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
  479. ☑ Get caught in a dust storm with zero visibility (Ok, so not something I planned, but experience worthy of the list)
  480. Giant’s Causeway, Ireland
  481. Gilmerton Cove, 16 Drum Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH17 8QH UK
  482. Glacier Express between Zermatt and St Moritz (Switzerland)
  483. ☑ Glacier Lake, Iceland
  484. Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales – UK’s only residential library
  485. Glasgow City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow, UK
  486. Glenbuchat Castle, Near Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire AB36 8TN, Scotland UK
  487. ☑ Glenfinnan monument, Glenfinnan Monument Visitor Centre, Glenfinnan, PH37 4LT (view viaduct), Scotland (Passing times on the viaduct for the Jacobite train are: Morning Train 10:58 outbound and 15:00 return / Afternoon Train 15:13 outbound and 19:30 return).
  488. Gleniff Horseshoe, Ireland
  489. Glenmorangie Distillery, A9, Tain IV19 1PZ, Scotland UK
  490. Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library, Vienna
  491. Globe Theatre, London UK
  492. Glockengießerei Grassmayr, Leopoldstraße, Innsbruck, Austria
  493. ☑ Glow Worm cave
  494. Go behind Big Ben – Not many people know that you can book tours to the top of Elizabeth Tower with their MP, but now you do. Waiting times are long – usually a few months – and the hours are weird. The tour is open to UK residents only.  http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visiting-and-tours/tours-of-parliament/bigben/ UK
  495. Goodwin’s Court, London, UK
  496. Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Train, Romonov Suite
  497. ☑ Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
  498. ☑ Golden Hind Ship, Brixham UK
  499. Golden Roof, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße, Innsbruck, Austria
  500. ☑ Gone With The Wind 75th anniversary exhibition in Austin, Texas
  501. ☑ Goodwood Revival Classic Car Race UK
  502. ☑ Go on a Blind Date – and it ended up being to a Rolling Stones concert!
  503. Go on a Cruise
  504. ☑ Go on a Hay Ride
  505. ☑ Go on a news fast – unless I have been a captive audience somewhere like a salon where a television has been directly in front of me, I have not watched the news nor read a newspaper since 2007!  If something happens I need to know about, someone is bound to tell me
  506. ☑ Gorgeous collection of Jewellery, Shoes, Handbags & Accessories
  507. Gösser Bierklinik Restaurant, Vienna – established 1566
  508. Govan Old Church, 866 Govan Rd, Glasgow, Scotland – Viking Stones UK
  509. ☑ Graceland
  510. Grand Canal, Venice, Italy
  511. ☑ Grand Canyon
  512. ☑ Grand Central Station
  513. ☑ Grand Ole Opry, USA
  514. Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium
  515. ☑ Graz, Austria
  516. Great Blue Hole, Belize
  517. Great Geysir, Iceland
  518. Great Market Hall, Budapest, Hungary
  519. Great Orme Tramway, Wales UK (March – October)
  520. Greece
  521. Greek Islands
  522. ☑ Greenway House – Agatha Christie’s home
  523. ☑ Grow all my own vegetables in my very own vegetable garden!
  524. ☑ Gsellmanns Weltmaschine, Kaag, Edelsbach bei Feldbach, Austria (closed Tuesdays)
  525. ☑ Guest Soloist with Sydney Conservatory Choir
  526. Gullfoss Falls, Iceland
  527. Hadrian’s Wall, UK
  528. Hafelekarspitze, Innsbruck, Austria
  529. ☑ Haggle at an Asian Market
  530. ☑ Hallstatt, Austria
  531. ☑ Hampton Court Palace
  532. ☑ Hand-carved, crafted and created a marionette
  533. Handelingenkamer Library, Netherlands
  534. Harris Tweed – visit one of the homes where they make the tweed, and purchase a garment – Outer Hebrides, Scotland UK
  535. ☑ Hastings Bonfire
  536. ☑ Hastings Castle
  537. Hatton Flight Locks, UK
  538. ☑ Have an old-fashioned, physically posted letters pen-pal (his name was Sang Guy Lee and he was from South Korea)
  539. Have dinner, drinks and/or work with on an inspiring project (in no particular order, other than honouring the first listings) – HRH Prince Charles ~ HRH Princess Anne ~ Lord Julian Fellowes ~ Dame Judy Dench ~ Sir Patrick Stewart ~ Hr Joost Ritman ~ Mr Stephen Fry ~ Mr Tom Hanks ~ Ms Emma Thompson  ~ Dr Bruce Lipton ~ Mr Gregg Braden ~ Mr Hugh Bonneville ~ Ms Bettany Hughes ~ Dr Max Tegmark ~ Mr Bill Bryson ~ Dr Jeffrey Mishlove ~ Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson ~ Mr Ken Burns ~ Mr Christopher Plummer ~ Ms Jodie Foster ~ Professor Alice Roberts ~ Mr Clifford Mahooty ~ Mr Giorgio Tsoukalos ~ Mr Robert Redford ~ Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe ~ Dr Fred Alan Wolf ~ Dr Leonard Susskind ~ Dr Brian Greene ~ Mr Dick Van Dyke ~ Mr Michael Caine ~ Mr Barry Meguiar ~ Mr Gerard Butler ~ Mr Sylvester Stallone ~ Mr Robert Osborne ~ Mr Colin Firth ~ Mr Rick Steves ~ Mr Dan Ariely ~ Pastor Joel Osteen ~ Mr George Noory ~ Ms Ina Garten ~ Ms Nigella Lawson ~ Mr Arnold Schwarzenneger ~ Mr Lee Strobel ~ Ms Oprah Winfrey ~ Mr Clint Eastwood ~ Mr George Clooney ~ Mr Graham Hancock ~ Mr Michael J Fox ~ Ms Kate Winslet ~ Mr John Maxwell ~ Mr Tony Bennett ~ Mr Nido Qubein ~ Mr Neil Oliver…
  540. Hay-on-Wye, Book Town, Hereford, Wales, UK
  541. ☑ Healy Pass, R574, Clashduff, County Cork, Ireland
  542. Hearst Castle USA
  543. Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Holcombe Road, Helmshore, Rossendale, UK
  544. Help a family who is homeless to get a job, a home, and a new life
  545. Herculaneum, Italy
  546. ☑ Herd Cattle
  547. ☑ Heroes’ Square, Budapest, Hungary
  548. Heviz Thermal Lake, Hungary – world’s largest thermally-heated lake
  549. Heuriger Kierlinger, Kahlenberger Str. 20, 1190 Wien – Wine grower’s tavern run by the same family since 1787 – Beethoven used to drop be this place! – Vienna, Austria
  550. Higham Park, Bridge Kent, UK – birthplace of aero-engine, ‘Chitty Bang Bang’
  551. High Bridge, High Street, Lincoln, UK
  552. ☑ Highclere Castle (home of Downton Abbey)
  553. Highgate Cemetery, London UK
  554. Highland Folk Museum, Scotland UK
  555. Highland Games, Scotland UK (May-Sept)
  556. Highland Wildlife Park, Kincraig, Kingussie PH21 1NL, Scotland
  557. Highlanders’ Museum, Scotland UK
  558. ☑ Hiking Through Rainforest
  559. ☑ Hire a professional genealogist to research even more of my family tree in England and Scotland
  560. Hirta Island Ghost Town, St Kilda, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland UK
  561. ☑ Historic Santa Monica Pier
  562. ☑ Historic Vicksburg
  563. HMS Trincomalee, Maritime Avenue, Hartlepool, UK (oldest warship in Europe still afloat)
  564. HMS Victory, Portsmouth England UK
  565. HMY Brittania UK
  566. Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria
  567. ☑ Hofskirkja Church, Iceland (grass roof)
  568. ☑ Hold a Tarantula
  569. ☑ Hole in One (OK, so it was mini-golf!)
  570. Hole in the Wall, Kilkenny Ireland
  571. Hollyrood Abbey Ruins, Scotland UK
  572. ☑ Hollywood Walk of Fame (no, I’m not ON it, I just walked along it)
  573. Hootananny Pub, 67 Church St, Inverness IV1 1ES, Scotland (http://www.hootanannyinverness.co.uk/) UK
  574. ☑ Hoover Dam
  575. Honiton lace-making in Beer, Devon, UK
  576. Hopetoun House, Scotland UK
  577. Horseback riding on the beach
  578. ☑ Horseback Riding through Antebellum Plantation
  579. ☑ Horseback riding in the snow
  580. ☑ Horse-Drawn Canal Boat Journey
  581. ☑ Horse-drawn tour of Vienna, Austria
  582. ☑ Horse Shoe Hall at Okeham Castle, UK
  583. ☑ Host “Achievers and Unsung Heroes” TV & radio shows
  584. Host an annual Christmas Party for people who have nowhere to go and no one with whom to spend the holidays
  585. ☑ Host a neighbourhood street party
  586. ☑ Host “Going Green” TV show
  587. ☑ Host Movie Premieres at Warner Bros
  588. Hot air ballooning
  589. Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc Cap d’Antibes, Côte d’Azur, France
  590. House of Automata, Findhorn near Inverness, Scotland (please contact us if you are visiting – 07790 719 097 / 07811 827 357 / 01309 691 692) UK
  591. House of Waterford Crystal, Ireland
  592. Huers Hut Lighthouse/lookout, UK
  593. ☑ Hug a Redwood in the Redwood Forest
  594. Hugel Winery, France (http://m.hugel.com/598DGMB3C4/web?l=en)
  595. Hungerburgstation Hungerburg, Höhenstraße, Innsbruck, Austria
  596. ☑ Hunley Submarine, American Civil War submarine
  597. Huntly Castle, Castle Avenue, Huntly, AB54 4SH, Scotland UK
  598. Hurawalhi Maldives Resort, Hurawalhi Island, Maldives
  599. ☑ Husky Haven, Netherley Rd, Stonehaven AB39, 3QH, Scotland – husky sledding in the snow!
  600. ☑ Hyperbaric Chamber
  601. Hythe Pier Railway, Hythe, Southampton, UK (world’s oldest)
  602. ☑ I absolutely ADORE what I do for a living and the clients with whom I work!
  603. Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
  604. ☑ Iceland Ring Road multi-day road trip
  605. Ightham Mote, Ightham, Kent UK
  606. Ilfracombe Beach Caves, Cornwall, UK
  607. ☑ Imperial Crypt, Tegetthoffstraße, Vienna
  608. Imperial Treasury of Vienna, Austria
  609. ☑ Incline Railway, Tennessee (world’s steepest)
  610. ☑ Independence Hall, Philadelphia
  611. ☑ Indonesia
  612. ☑ Improve my diction and elocution 
  613. Interlaken, Switzerland
  614. Inveraray Castle, Inveraray, Scotland UK
  615. Invercharron Highland Games, Bonar Bridge, Sutherland, Scotland UK – Sept (http://www.invercharronhighlandgames.co.uk/getting-here)
  616. Inverlochy Castle Hotel, Torlundy, Fort William, UK
  617. Iona Abbey, 2 Sandbank, Argyll and Bute, Scotland UK
  618. ☑ Ireland
  619. ☑ Ireland Seaweed Bath
  620. Irish National Stud and Gardens, Tully Road, Kildare, Ireland 
  621. Irish Sky Garden, Castletownsend Road, Skibbereen, Ireland
  622. ☑ Isle of Man UK
  623. Isle of Skye UK
  624. Isle of Staffa, Scotland UK
  625. Isle of Wight UK
  626. Isles of Scilly, UK
  627. ☑ Italian Riviera
  628. Iveragh Peninsula (The Ring of Kerry), Ireland
  629. ☑ Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee – that is a DRY county!  
  630. James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, 14 India Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 UK
  631. Jameson Experience, Midleton, County Cork, Ireland
  632. Jane Austen’s House Museum, UK
  633. Jaquet-Droz Automata, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (first Sunday of each month)
  634. Jarlshof, Shetland Islands UK 
  635. Jaunting Car Tour to Ross Castle from Killarney, Ireland
  636. ☑ Jekyl Island 
  637. Jerpoint Abbey, R448, County Kilkenny, Ireland
  638. ☑ Jesse James’ family home
  639. Jesuit Church, Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz, Vienna
  640. ☑ Jet-boating
  641. John o’ Groats, Caithness, Scotland UK
  642. John Rylands Library, Manchester UK
  643. ☑ Joshua Tree National Park, USA
  644. ☑ July 4th on the Water in Savannah, Georgia
  645. Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe, Eigergletscher-Jungfraujoch, Grindelwald, Switzerland
  646. Jupiter Artland, Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, Edinburgh EH27 8BB UK
  647. Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort East Village, Finland
  648. Katholische Kirche Maria Rotunda, Postgasse, Vienna
  649. Keiss Castle, Wick, UK
  650. ☑ Kelpies Sculpture, The Helix, Grangemouth, Falkirk FK2 7ZT, Scotland
  651. ☑ Kennesaw’s Southern Museum – ‘The General’ original great locomotive race train, Tennessee
  652. Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves, Torquay, UK
  653. Keukenhof Park, Holland, The Netherlands
  654. Kilchurn Castle, Lochawe, Dalmally, UK
  655. Kildrummy Castle, Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, AB33 8RA, Scotland UK
  656. Kilkenny Castle, Ireland
  657. Kilt Making, Highland House of Fraser Ltd, 4-9 Huntly Street, Inverness, IV3 5PR, Scotland  UK
  658. Kilmacduagh Round Tower, R460, Galway, Ireland
  659. ‘Kindred Spirits’ Sculpture, Connolly St, Cork, Ireland
  660. Kinema in the Woods, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire UK  
  661. King John’s Castle, Nicholas Street, Limerick, Ireland
  662. King Puck, Lower Bridge St, Killorglin, Ireland
  663. Kinnaird Head Castle Lighthouse and Museum, Castle Terrace, Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, Scotland UK
  664. Kincardine Castle, Kincardine O’Neil, Aboyne, Scotland UK
  665. Kiplingcotes Derby, third Thursday in March – oldest horse race in England UK
  666. Király Baths, Fő Street, Budapest, Hungary
  667. Kirkham Priory, UK
  668. Kiss passionately in the rain
  669. Kiss the Blarney Stone, Ireland
  670. ☑ Klementinum buildings, Prague
  671. ☑ Klementinum Barokní knihovna (Baroque Library), Prague
  672. Kotor, Montenegro
  673. Krakow – carriage ride through Kraków’s Old Town, Poland
  674. Krzywy Domek, Bohaterów Monte Cassino, Sopot, Poland
  675. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
  676. Kunsthofpassage Funnel Wall, Görlitzer Str. 21-25, 01099 Dresden, Germany
  677. Kunstkammer, Museumsplatz, Wien, Austria
  678. ☑ Kursalon Wien, Austria
  679. Kylemore Abbey, Ireland 
  680. Kyteler’s Inn, St Kieran’s St, Kilkenny, Ireland
  681. Labyrinth of Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary
  682. Lake Como, Italy
  683. Lake District National Park, England UK
  684. La Marmite Restaurant, St Moritz
  685. ☑ Lancaster Amish Country, USA
  686. Land at Courchevel Airport, France
  687. ☑ Landau carriage – I would dearly love to own a landau carriage and Royal Friesian horses, along with a driver on hand – I would actually go shopping in it, run errands in it…  My absolute, definite, most gloriously favourite way to travel!  (I now have the carriage, but not yet the horses or driver) – well, I did have it until I gave it to my then and now ex-fiance…  oh, well…  I’ll just have to find another one…
  688. Landeszeughaus, Herrengasse, Graz
  689. ☑ Land’s End in Cornwall – Britain’s most easterly point UK
  690. Langenfeld’s Aqua Dome, Austria
  691. ☑ Langtry Manor – this is the manor house that King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) had built for Lillie Langtry and I actually stayed in the King’s private suite!  Magnificent!
  692. Lanhydrock House, Cornwall UK
  693. L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Division No. 9, Subd. D, NL, Canada
  694. ☑ Lasik Eye Surgery
  695. ☑ Lasso a Fence Post – OK, so the post wasn’t moving, but it was still cool to do it!
  696. Lauriston Castle, Cramond Road South, Edinburgh UK
  697. Lavender Fields, Norfolk, UK
  698. Lavender fields, Provence, France
  699. Laytown Sand Beach Horse Race, Ireland (September)
  700. ☑ Lead in Musical Theater
  701. Leadenhall Market, London UK
  702. Leakey’s Bookshop, Church Street, Inverness, UK
  703. Leaning Tower of Glenfinnan, Glenfinnan, Scotland UK
  704. ☑ Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
  705. Leap Castle, Roscrea, Offaly Ireland – considered the world’s most haunted castle
  706. ☑ Learn CPR
  707. ☑ Learn Sign Alphabet
  708. Learn to better appreciate wine
  709. Learn to play croquet
  710. Learn to Salsa
  711. ☑ Learn to say ‘no’ without feeling guilty
  712. ☑ Learn to sew, knit, embroider, macrame and crochet – none of which I do exceedingly well 
  713. Learn to Tango
  714. ☑ Learn to Throw a Clay Pot
  715. Learn to Yodel in the Austrian Alps – http://diejodelschule.at/ – Schmittenhöhe Mountain above Zell Am See
  716. ☑ Leave nothing ‘unsaid’
  717. Leigh St John School – it would be fun to visit! UK
  718. Leighton Library – The oldest library in Scotland, Dunblane UK
  719. Leith Hall, Huntly AB54 4NQ, Scotland UK
  720. Le Mans 24 Hour Race, France 
  721. Leprechaun Museum, Jervis Street, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland
  722. Les Fermes de Marie Megève, Rhône-Alpes, France
  723. Le Train Jaune, France through the French Pyrenees from Villefranche-de-Conflent to Latour-de-Carol
  724. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  725. Library of El Escorial, Spain
  726. Library of the Sárospatak Reformed College, Hungary
  727. Lime Wood Hotel New Forest, Hampshire, England UK
  728. Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
  729. ☑ Line Dancing
  730. ☑ Lipizzaner Horse Performance Spanish Riding School, Vienna, Austria
  731. Little Woodham Living History Village, UK
  732. Live in a castle or manor house and be a worthy steward
  733. Live in a house with secret passageways…
  734. ☑ Live in a marina
  735. ☑ Live in a marina (again)
  736. ☑ Live in a luxury ski resort for a year and a half – just glorious!
  737. ☑ Live in a two-storey villa in a 4.5 star resort with a friend’s 65′ yacht moored at my front door
  738. ☑ Live in Las Vegas
  739. ☑ Live in USA (my dream since I was a small child) – I lived there for ten years
  740. ☑ Live on a canal and do grocery shopping by boat!
  741. ☑ Live on a Yacht for a Week
  742. ☑ Live on the Great Barrier Reef
  743. ☑ Live with no regrets
  744. ☑ Live with Private Beach at my Doorstep
  745. ☑ Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales UK – and yes, I actually can pronounce it!  (The name translates to “Saint Mary’s Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave”)
  746. LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado at the National Railway Museum in York
  747. ☑ Loch Lomond, Scotland UK
  748. Loch Lomond Seaplanes, Alexandria, UK
  749. ☑ Loch Ness UK
  750. Lock & Co. Hatters, Saint James’s Street, London, UK – oldest hat maker in the world
  751. Lofoten, Gimsøysand, Norway
  752. London to Brighton Veteran Car Run UK (done as a spectator – still yet to do it as a participant) 
  753. Long Man of Wilmington geoglyph, formerly known as the “Wilmington Giant” or the “Green Man” UK
  754. Long Room Library at Trinity College, Dublin Ireland
  755. Lord Byron’s Newstead Abbey UK
  756. Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall UK 
  757. Lost Town of Newtown Jerpoint, Jerpoint is just 2.0 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Thomastown, and 15–20 minutes from the city center of Kilkenny, Ireland (I went there, but even the locals had no idea what I was talking about – they said they had never heard of the place – I guess it really is LOST!) 
  758. ☑ Louis Vuitton luggage
  759. Louvre, France
  760. ☑ Love Unconditionally
  761. ☑ Low Country Boil
  762. Lucerne, Switzerland
  763. ☑ (ref scene in Pretty Woman) Lunch at Bar at the Beverley Wilshire (they’ve redecorated since the movie)
  764. Lulworth Cove, Dorset, UK
  765. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
  766. Luxury rail train trip across Canada – https://www.planetrail.co.uk/holidays/canada-coast-to-coast-with-the-ocean-the-canadian-and-the-rocky-mountaineer-trains
  767. Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, Devon UK
  768. Machines of the Isle of Nantes, Nantes, France
  769. Machu Pichu
  770. ☑ Made my living as a Professional Entertainer
  771. ☑ Made paper by hand
  772. Magdeburg Water Bridge, Wolmirstedt, Germany
  773. Maggie Wall’s Memorial, Dunning, Scotland, PH2 0QS, off B8062 which, accessible from A9 highway UK
  774. Magic Circle Museum, London UK
  775. ☑ Magnificent Historic Charleston, South Carolina
  776. Maidenhead Railway Bridge (Brunel), UK – widest & flattest arches in the world
  777. Major art and architectural icons through Europe
  778. ☑ Make a Difference in Someone’s Life
  779. ☑ Make a Kiva loan
  780. ☑ Make an entire Chess Set by hand – including all the pieces and the board!
  781. ☑ Make home-made icecream from scratch
  782. ☑ Malaysia
  783. ☑ Manage a Charity Feeding Homeless Children
  784. Märchengrottenbahn, Fairytale Grotto Line, Schloßbergplatz Graz, 8010
  785. Marciana Library, Venice
  786. ☑ Mardi Gras Ball
  787. ☑ Mark Twain’s beloved Hannibal Missouri
  788. Marqueyssac Gardens, France
  789. Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, just behind St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland
  790. Martha’s Vineyard USA
  791. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth UK
  792. ☑ Matthais Church, Budapest, Hungary
  793. Maunsell Army Sea Forts, UK
  794. ☑ Mayerling Lodge, Austria
  795. ☑ Mayflower replica, Plymouth USA
  796. Mechanical Dragon Clock, opposite Château de Blois, Place du Château, Blois, France
  797. ☑ Medieval Festival
  798. ☑ Meditate successfully
  799. Medway Queen, Heroine of Dunkirk, Gillingham UK
  800. Meet and fall mutually in love with the Man of my Dreams
  801. Meet HM Queen Elizabeth II
  802. ☑ Meikleour Beech Hedges, A93, Perth – The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world
  803. ☑ Melk Monastery Library, Austria
  804. ☑ Member of Mensa
  805. ☑ Memphis, USA
  806. ☑ Member of various Private Members’ Clubs
  807. ☑ Mermaid Inn, Rye, UK – 12th century haunted pub
  808. ☑ Met Masaru Emoto
  809. ☑ Met the Principals of the Russian Bolshoi Ballet & had front row seats
  810. Meteora Floating Monasteries just 4 hours outside Athens, Greece
  811. Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Szabó Ervin tér, Hungary
  812. ☑ Mexico
  813. ☑ Michaelerplatz, Vienna
  814. Middleton Hall, Tamworth UK
  815. Milan Cathedral, Italy
  816. ☑ Milk Cows both by Hand and Machine
  817. ☑ Mille Miglia, Italy
  818. ☑ Minack Theatre in Cornwall UK
  819. Mini-Europe, Brussels, Belgium
  820. Minimundus, Villacher Straße, Klagenfurt, Austria
  821. Monaco
  822. Monaco Grand Prix
  823. Monopoly – visit all the places on the London UK board game: Marylebone Station, Euston Road, Kings Cross Station, Pentonville Road, The Angel Islington, Liverpool Street Station, Whitechapel Road, Fenchurch Street Station, Old Kent Road, Fleet Street, Bow Street, Strand, Northumberland Avenue, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Pall Mall, Piccadilly Circus, Coventry Street, Leicester Square, Regent Street, Vine Street, (Great) Marlborough Street, Oxford Street, Bond Street, Mayfair, Park Lane
  824. ☑ Monticello
  825. Mont Saint-Michel, France
  826. Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco
  827. Montenegro
  828. ☑ ‘Monuments Men’ – Attended Private Book Signing with the Author and Bill Murray (who was one of the stars of the film)
  829. ☑ Moonshine
  830. ☑ Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero Blues Club
  831. Morris Dancers at the medieval Fleece Inn near Evesham, Worcs, UK
  832. ☑ Morris Island Lighthouse
  833. Morwellham Quay, Devon, UK
  834. Moulin Inn, Scotland UK
  835. Mount Olympus, Greece
  836. ☑ Mount Vernon
  837. ☑ Move to another country
  838. Muchołapka Nazi Fly Trap, Ludwikowice Kłodzkie in Silesia, Poland (northern end of Fabryczna – 50.628959°, 16.494949°)
  839. Mud Bath
  840. ☑ Munich, Germany
  841. Munich to Innsbruck via Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany & Austria)
  842. Murinsel, Lendkai, Graz
  843. ☑ Museum of Alchemists and Magicians of Old Prague
  844. Museum of East Anglian Life, UK
  845. Museum Hofburg Palace, Rennweg, Innsbruck, Austria
  846. Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Kinnaird Head, Castle Terrace, Fraserburgh, Scotland UK
  847. ☑ Museum of the Appalachia living history museum, Tennessee
  848. ☑ Museum of the Bavarian kings, Alpseestraße, Schwangau, Germany
  849. Museum of the Flat Earth, Joe Batt’s Arm, NL, Canada
  850. ☑ Museum of Timekeeping, Newark, UK
  851. Museum Speelklok, Steenweg, Utrecht, Netherlands
  852. MV Plassy, Inis Oírr, Galway Ireland
  853. ☑ Mystic Seaport
  854. Nantucket USA
  855. ☑ Naples
  856. Narraganset Rune Stone USA – I did visit Wickford, however couldn’t find the stone…
  857. ☑ Nashville
  858. ☑ Natchez Pilgrimage, Mississippi
  859. ☑ Natchitoches, pronounced Nakatesh – go figure! 
  860. National Library of Brazil
  861. National Railway Museum, York, UK
  862. National Waterways Museum, UK
  863. ☑ Natural Bridge in Virginia
  864. ☑ Natural Hot Springs
  865. Natural Pool, Santorini Greece
  866. Nemo 33, Rue de Stalle, Bruxelles, Belgium
  867. Ness of Brodgar, B9055, Stromness, UK
  868. Nessie Hunter, Steve Feltham, Scotland UK
  869. ☑ Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
  870. New Abbey Corn Mill, New Abbey, Dumfries, UK
  871. Newark Castle and Gardens, Castle Gate, Newark, UK
  872. Newgrange, Meath, Ireland
  873. ☑ New Orleans
  874. ☑ Newport Tower
  875. ☑ Newport, Rhode Island
  876. New Slains Castle Ruins, Castle Road, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  877. ☑ New Year’s Eve on the river in Savannah, Georgia
  878. ☑ New Years Eve on Sydney Harbor
  879. ☑ New York City
  880. ☑ Niagara Falls (& also did a horse-drawn carriage ride in middle of winter – stunning!)
  881. Niederwald, Switzerland – birthplace of Cesar Ritz
  882. Nikola Tesla Museum, Krunska, Belgrade, Serbia
  883. ‘Nights in Rodanthe’ House USA
  884. No Man’s Fort, Solent, Portsmouth
  885. ☑ Nordkette Cable Car, Rennweg, Innsbruck, Austria
  886. Northern Lights in Scandinavia or Iceland
  887. ☑ North Laine, Brighton, UK
  888. Notre Dame de Paris, France
  889. Nova Scotia
  890. Novelty Automation, Princeton Street, London, UK
  891. NY World’s Fair Globe USA
  892. ☑ Oak Alley Plantation
  893. ☑ Oak of the Witches, Località San Martino in Colle, Capannori, Province of Lucca, Italy
  894. Oakham Castle Horseshoes, UK
  895. ☑ Off-Roading Through Monster Sand Dunes
  896. Ogham Stones in Kerry & Killarney, Ireland
  897. ☑ Old Buttonwillow Church Civil War Theatre
  898. Old Forge Pub – most remote bar/pub in the world, Knoydart, Scotland, PH41 4PL UK
  899. Old Man of Hoy, Stromness, UK
  900. Old railroad tunnels in Hope, British Columbia, Canada 
  901. Old Red Iron Bridge, Head towards Bilberry from Kilkenny along the river and you cannot miss it, Ireland
  902. Old Wardour Castle, Tisbury, Salisbury, UK
  903. Oradour-sur-Glane, France
  904. Orkney Italian Chapel, built by POWs in WWII 
  905. Oscar Wilde Statue, Merrion Square Park, Dublin, Ireland
  906. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library), Vienna, Austria
  907. Osmington White Horse geoglyph, UK
  908. Outdoor cinema UK – There’s the Rooftop Cinema that pops up in Shoreditch, Stratford and Peckham; Backyard Cinema in Camden and the Luna Cinema that projects its classic movies wherever it can. There’s also a little one under the Westway at Portobello Road which has the added bonus of being positioned right next to Boom Burger (review here).
  909. Oxford University, UK
  910. ☑ Own a gold fountain pen – it is one of my treasured possessions and I use it daily
  911. ☑ Own a grand piano
  912. Own a stable of Royal Friesian Horses
  913. ☑ Own AV Studio
  914. ☑ Own Louis Vuitton luggage and accessories
  915. ☑ Own Personalized Private Label Wine
  916. ☑ Own several Civil War Gowns
  917. ☑ Own the Car of My Dreams – well, one of them (she’s a classic Jaguar convertible I restored who has been my constant travel companion for several years while living in the USA – when preparing to finally leave the States, I donated her to a children’s charity.  I just couldn’t bring myself to ‘sell’ her so I gave her to a children’s charity for them to use her to raise money, where she could continue to bring smiles to people…)
  918. ☑ Paddlewheel Boat Cruise on the Mississippi River
  919. Padua Astronomical Clock, 28 Piazza dei Signori Padua, Italy
  920. Palace of Versailles, Yvelines, France
  921. Pamukkale, Kale Mahallesi, Pamukkale Belediyesi/Denizli Merkez/Denizli, Turkey
  922. Panama Canal
  923. Pantheon, Italy
  924. Papafragas beach, Milos Island, Greece
  925. ☑ Paramedic ride-a-long
  926. Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium
  927. Parthenon, Greece
  928. ☑ Parthenon, Tennessee
  929. ☑ Participate in a Variety Club Bash Fundraising Rally – dressed for several days as a cross between Elvira and Morticia Addams!
  930. ☑ Participate in Murder Mystery
  931. Patscherkofel Cable Car Lower/Valley Station, Römerstraße, Austria
  932. ☑ Pawley’s Island, South Carolina
  933. ☑ Pay it forward at a toll booth and pay for the car behind me – hey, we all talk about it, but have you ever DONE IT?
  934. Peasholm Park’s Naval Battles, UK
  935. Pebble Beach Concours USA
  936. Perpetual Calendar, The Chapel of Merchants and Bankers, Turin, Italy
  937. Pharmacy Museum of Sibiu, Romania
  938. Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy
  939. Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
  940. Picardy Symbol Stone, South of Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
  941. Picnic lunch in Hyde Park, London UK
  942. ☑ Picnics are usually 5 Star with Vintage Crystal Glasses & Estate Silverware
  943. Piel Island, LA13 0QN UK
  944. ☑ Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
  945. Pike’s Market USA
  946. Pilgrimage Church of Wies, Wies, Steingaden, Germany
  947. Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfalls, Wales, UK
  948. Pixies’ Parlour UK (a cave in sandstone on the banks of the River Otter, about a mile south of the Otter Road bridge in Ottery St. Mary)
  949. ☑ Plant a memorial tree
  950. Plantin Moretus Museum, Vrijdagmarkt, Antwerp, Belgium
  951. ☑ Play Bocce
  952. ☑ Play classical piano – not well!  LOL
  953. Play/sing “Up, Up, and Away” while up in a hot air balloon
  954. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
  955. ☑ Plymouth USA and Plymouth UK
  956. Pocahontas’ grave, Kent, UK
  957. Poellatschlucht, Bavaria
  958. Pompeii, Italy
  959. Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct), France
  960. Portico Library and Gallery, Manchester UK
  961. ☑ Portmeirion Village, Wales, UK
  962. Portobello Road Market UK
  963. Portofino, Italy
  964. ☑ Positano, Italy
  965. Postman’s Palace, the Drôme, France
  966. Posture and deportment – continue to improve
  967. ☑ Prague Astronomical Clock, Old Town Square, Prague-Old Town, Czechia
  968. ☑ Prague Castle, Prague, Austria-Hungary
  969. Prague Metronome 
  970. ☑ President Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage
  971. Preston Mill & Phantassie Doocot, Scotland UK
  972. Prince Rainier’s Monaco Top Cars Collection, Terraces de Fontvieille
  973. ☑ Private Plane (I don’t want one, I just want to travel in one if I need to fly anywhere)
  974. Produce inspiring short films
  975. Provand’s Lordship, Castle Street, Glasgow – oldest house in Glasgow is a museum dedicated to medieval history UK
  976. PS Waverley – the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world UK
  977. Puffin-spotting in the Faroe Islands
  978. ☑ Put money into a stranger’s expired meter
  979. Pusztaprograms in the Kiskunság National Park with horse show, Hungary
  980. Puzzlewood, Coleford England UK
  981. Pyronaut – last remaining Bristol fire-boat UK
  982. QEII – stay aboard – USA
  983. ‘Quantum Lace’ to be turned into a successful television-series
  984. Quarry Bank Mill, Stoney Lane, Huddersfield, UK
  985. Queen Elizabeth (Cunard) cruise
  986. Queen Mary USA
  987. Queen Mary II cruise
  988. Queen’s Swans, Windsor Promenade Windsor, England, SL4 1QX United Kingdom UK
  989. Queen Street Mill, Burnley – as seen in interior shots in BBC’s ‘North and South’ UK
  990. ☑ R2-D2 of Prague
  991. Raglan Castle, Wales UK
  992. Rakotzbrücke Devil’s Bridge, 6 Halbendorfer Str. Gablenz, 02953
  993. Rathaus, Vienna, Austria
  994. ☑ Rathaus-Glockenspiel, Munich’s mechanical clock, Marienplatz Munich, 80331
  995. Rauma Train Line from Dombås to Åndalsnes (Norway)
  996. Ravenglass Bath House, Cumbria UK 
  997. Reading Museum Bayeux Tapestry, UK
  998. Really explore Napa Valley USA
  999. ☑ Rebuild a Car Engine (twice – and no, it wasn’t the same one! LOL!)
  1000. Recite a Limerick in Limerick, Ireland
  1001. Record an album (I’ve had recording sessions for individual songs, but never a complete album)
  1002. ☑ Red Oak II – 1930s vintage town
  1003. Redbournbury watermill & bakery, UK – open Sat, Sun, Tue
  1004. Red Lion Hotel, High Street, Colchester, UK – built 1465
  1005. Rendlesham Forest UFO Landing, Woodbridge, UK
  1006. Red Square of Moscow, Russia
  1007. Regularly make something with my own hands
  1008. ☑ Regularly Send Handwritten Notes with Wax-Sealed Envelope, Written with Fountain Pen
  1009. Rennes le Chateau, France
  1010. Re-trace Andrew Carnegie’s 1881 coach trip from Brighton to Inverness – and to do it in a Victorian landau carriage and in period-inspired clothing – as a fundraiser UK
  1011. ☑ Reverse a Trailer Around an Obstacle Course – although I am dreadful at reverse parking a basic car!
  1012. Rhapsody in Blue – attend a live symphony orchestra performance
  1013. Rhine Valley, Germany train from Koblenz to Mainz
  1014. ☑ Ride a Camel
  1015. Ride a gondola in Venice
  1016. ☑ Ride a Greyhound Bus across several States (boy, was that an experience!)
  1017. Ride a jaunting car through Killarney National Park
  1018. ☑ Ride an Elephant
  1019. Ride in a Limousine in Limousin, France
  1020. ☑ Ride in a Tiger Moth
  1021. ☑ Ride in a Tuk Tuk
  1022. Ride on The Flying Scotsman UK
  1023. ☑ Ride the L train in Chicago
  1024. ☑ Ride up top on a double-decker bus in London
  1025. Ride side-saddle
  1026. Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire UK
  1027. Ring of Brodgar, B9055, Orkney, Scotland, KW16 3JZ UK
  1028. ☑ Ringwood Manor
  1029. Ritz Hotel, France
  1030. RMS Olympic (sister to Titanic) dining room in White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, UK 
  1031. Robert Smail’s Printing Works, High Street, Innerleithen, Scotland UK (I went there, but the day I was there, it was closed!)
  1032. ☑ Rock of Cashel, Ireland 
  1033. Rock of Dunamase, Laois, Ireland
  1034. ☑ Rocky Mountains, USA
  1035. ☑ Rocky Ridge Farm, home of the real Laura Ingalls Wilder of “Little House on the Prairie” fame
  1036. Rooftop Film, London http://rooftopfilmclub.com/london/ UK
  1037. ☑ Roman Bath
  1038. ☑ Romania
  1039. ☑ Romanian Salt Mine
  1040. ☑ Rome
  1041. Roodee – Chester Racecourse, Chester, UK – oldest racecourse in Great Britain
  1042. ☑ Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland UK
  1043. Rothenburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
  1044. Roughting Linn Waterfall, Northumberland, England UK
  1045. ☑ Route 66
  1046. ☑ Row 6 – Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge Tour
  1047. ☑ Royal Albert Bridge (Brunel), Devon UK
  1048. Royal Highland Show – June – Scotland UK
  1049. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Film Gala, UK
  1050. Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro
  1051. Royal Pump Rooms, UK
  1052. Royal Windsor Horse Show UK
  1053. Royston Cave, Hertforshire, UK
  1054. RSS Discovery, Scotland UK
  1055. ☑ Ruby Falls
  1056. Rufford Abbey, Ollerton, UK
  1057. ☑ Rules Restaurant, London’s oldest, WC2E 7LB, UK
  1058. Rushton Triangular Lodge, Kettering UK
  1059. ☑ Rye, UK
  1060. Ryhope Engines Museum, Waterworks Road, Sunderland, UK
  1061. Sail around the Greek Isles
  1062. ☑ Sailing
  1063. ☑ Sailing on a tall ship
  1064. Salisbury Cathedral Medieval Clock (oldest in the world), Salisbury UK
  1065. Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK
  1066. Saltburn Cliff Lift – oldest operating water-balance cliff lift in the world – Saltburn-by-the-Sea, UK
  1067. ☑ Salzburg, Austria
  1068. Sam Cody’s (replica) of British Army Aeroplane No 1 at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum in Farnborough UK
  1069. ☑ San Antonio Riverwalk
  1070. Saint Conan’s Kirk, Scotland, UK
  1071. Sanctuary Wood Museum, Canadalaan, Ypres, Belgium
  1072. San Francisco Cable Car, USA
  1073. Santorini, Greece
  1074. Sardinia – Italy (Tomb of the Giants)
  1075. ☑ Sat beside Walt Disney’s original “Dreaming Tree” on the farm where he grew up – while the original tree has fallen over, the trunk is still there, a sapling from the tree is growing next to it – and the entire field is awe-inspiringly beautiful!  Wild flowers that grow as high as your waist in some places…  It is one of my top 10 spots on the planet.
  1076. Saut de Brot Bridge – Boudry, Switzerland
  1077. Savoy Covent Garden, London, England UK
  1078. Scala Cinema, Market Place, Ilkeston, UK (1913)
  1079. Schloss Hellbrunn water-powered mechanical theatre, Fürstenweg, Salzburg
  1080. ☑ Schmetterlinghaus, Butterfly house, Vienna
  1081. Scone Palace, Scotland UK
  1082. Scotland’s Northcoast 500 UK
  1083. Scotland Street School Museum, Scotland Street, Glasgow, UK
  1084. ☑ Scotland UK – my beloved Scotland…  The Highlands are my equal #1 spot on the planet, along with Vienna
  1085. Scott’s View, B6356, Scottish Borders, Scotland, TD6 UK
  1086. Sean’s Bar – the oldest pub in Ireland and possibly the oldest in the world!  Athlone, Ireland
  1087. ☑ See a bear in the wild
  1088. ☑ See a show at London’s West End
  1089. ☑ See icebergs up close
  1090. ☑ Semmering Railway (Austria)
  1091. Send a message in a bottle
  1092. Seven Churches, Ireland
  1093. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London UK
  1094. Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Trongate, Glasgow, UK
  1095. ☑ Shear a Sheep
  1096. Sheep Highway at Dunquin Pier, Ireland
  1097. ☑ Shenandoah National Park, USA
  1098. Sherlock Holmes Museum UK
  1099. Sherston UK boules tournament held on Bastille Day
  1100. ☑ Shoot a Bow & Arrow
  1101. Shopping at Harrods UK
  1102. Shopping at Selfridge’s UK
  1103. Shopping on Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich –  In 2011, a study named the Bahnhofstrasse the most expensive street for retail property in Europe, and the third most expensive worldwide
  1104. ☑ Shopping on Oxford Street, London
  1105. ☑ Shopping on Rodeo Drive
  1106. Shoreditch vintage shopping trip UK
  1107. ☑ Shucking Oysters Fresh from the Fire at an Oyster Roast
  1108. ☑ Silent (no talking) for 48 hour
  1109. Silver Swan automaton – Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, DL12 8JY UK
  1110. Sinca Veche Temple Cave, Romania
  1111. ☑ Sing for a Living
  1112. ☑ Singapore
  1113. Singapore WWII train at Rutland Railway Museum, UK
  1114. Singing Ringing Tree, Crown Point Road, Burnley, UK
  1115. Sisi Museum, Vienna
  1116. Sistine Chapel, Italy
  1117. Skaftafell Ice Cave, Iceland
  1118. Skara Brae, Scotland UK
  1119. Skellig Michael, County Carey, Ireland
  1120. Skye Ferry, Scotland UK
  1121. ☑ Skinny dipping
  1122. ☑ Slieve League, Ireland
  1123. ☑ Sligo Abbey
  1124. ☑ Smithsonian
  1125. ☑ Smoky Mountains, USA
  1126. Smoo Cave, Scottish Highlands UK
  1127. ☑ Snorkled on the Great Barrier Reef
  1128. Snowdon Mountain Railway, Wales UK
  1129. ☑ Snowdonia, Wales
  1130. ☑ Sorrento, Italy
  1131. Speak Italian, French, German, Spanish, and Greek (I don’t need to be fluent, just enough to understand and to be understood)
  1132. ☑ Speak on stage at the United Nations in New York
  1133. ☑ Speak to a group of people who are hearing-impaired, with the assistance of sign-language translators
  1134. ☑ Speak to a group of international delegates with the assistance of multi-lingual translators
  1135. ☑ Speculum Alchemiae, Haštalská, Prague 1-Old Town, Czechia
  1136. ☑ Spend a whole day at a luxury spa, then elegant dinner and a show
  1137. ☑ Spent several inspiring hours at the Georgia Guidestones
  1138. ☑ Spent Significant Time Touring Through 42 States (so far) – all by Road
  1139. ☑ Spent three days travelling with the military covering a story on the dual lives of men and women in the Army Reserves
  1140. Spitfire LA198 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street, Glasgow UK
  1141. ☑ Sponsor a retired working horse – well, actually I’m a softie and sponsored two!
  1142. ☑ Spun wool
  1143. S.S. Kyle, Harbour Grace, NL A0A 2N0, Canada
  1144. Stacks of Duncansby, John o’ Groats, Scotland UK
  1145. ☑ Stairs of Reconciliation, 15 Hofgasse Graz
  1146. ☑ Stallburg, Vienna
  1147. ☑ Stand on the Greenwich Meridian Line
  1148. ☑ Start a Non-Profit
  1149. ☑ Statesman vintage Pullman rail trip from Holyhead Wales to Edinburgh Scotland – first class, of course!  🙂
  1150. Statue of Liberty Crown USA
  1151. Stavanger Swords Monument, Norway
  1152. Stay at a Dude Ranch
  1153. Stay at Sandringham Estate UK
  1154. Stay in a Glass Igloo at the Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort in Finland
  1155. Stay in Glengorm Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland, UK
  1156. Stay in historic Alton Railway Station, Staffordshire UK http://bit.ly/2nxNk62
  1157. Stay in a Lighthouse
  1158. Stay in Martello Tower, Suffolk UK http://bit.ly/2nEdC5I
  1159. ☑ Stay in Eco-Friendly Cavallo Point, California
  1160. Stay in The Lighthouse Keepers Cottage, Lynton, Devon UK
  1161. Stay in ‘The Ruin’, Hackfall, Grewelthorpe UK http://bit.ly/2DWmZc8
  1162. ☑ Stayed AirBnB
  1163. ☑ Stayed in a number of glorious vintage hotels
  1164. ☑ Stayed two nights in one of America’s most haunted B&Bs
  1165. ☑ Stay up all night on the beach and watch the sun rise
  1166. St Donat’s Castle, Wales UK
  1167. St. Dunstan-in-the-East Ruins, London UK
  1168. ☑ Steampunk Festival
  1169. St Edward’s Church, Crossways House the Square, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cheltenham, UK (yew trees at door)
  1170. St. Fillan’s Cave, Cove Wynd, Pittenweem, Scotland UK, KY10 – cave entrance is through an iron gate on Cove Wynd, a small pedestrian only street. However you need to pick up the key to the gate from the key custodians, currently in The Pittenweem Chocolate Company around the corner on theHigh Street, Pittenweem,KY10 2LA
  1171. St George’s Hall, Saint George’s Place, Liverpool, UK (Charles Dickens called it “the most perfect room in the world”)
  1172. ☑ St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall UK
  1173. St Moritz
  1174. St Moritz Snow Polo (January http://www.snowpolo-stmoritz.com/)
  1175. St. Nectan’s Kieve, UK
  1176. St Ninian’s Isle, UK
  1177. Stokesay Castle, Ludlow, Shropshire UK
  1178. ☑ Stonehenge
  1179. ☑ Stone Mountain, Georgia
  1180. ☑ Stop using my personal Facebook page
  1181. St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy
  1182. St. Peter Stiftskulinarium – world’s oldest restaurant, Sankt-Peter-Bezirk, Salzburg
  1183. Strachur Smiddy Museum(Easter-September), Cairndow, Scotland UK
  1184. ☑ Strahov Monastery Library, Czech Republic
  1185. Strasbourg Astronomical Clock, Tramway de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
  1186. St Regis Grand Hotel, Rome, Italy
  1187. Stroll along the River Danube
  1188. ☑ Struck by lightning – and obviously lived to tell the tale!  Actually, the lightning hit the roof of the garage I was in and went through the power line to the charger cable that was beside me – the spark arced from the cable to my leg, causing a weird burn/bruise-like injury, my hair stood on end, my heart started beating to a very different drum!  Not only that, but it fried the wiring in the garage and even literally ‘blew up’ the automatic sprinkler controller on the wall – we found pieces everywhere!
  1189. St Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest, Hungary
  1190. ☑ Study Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University for a semester (for fun)
  1191. St. Valentine’s Bones, Glasgow, Blessed St John Duns Scotus, 270 Ballater Street, Glasgow, Scotland UK, G5 0YT
  1192. Sueno’s Stone, Findhorn Road, Forres, Moray IV36 3WX, Scotland UK
  1193. Super Cars or just Stunning Cars I would love to adopt – Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin, Jaguar XK 120/140/150 Convertible, Jaguar XK8 convertible, Morgan, Cord Cabriolet, Stutz Bearcat, Talbot-Lago T150-C SS, Duesenberg SSJ Speedster, 1936 Auburn Boattail Speedster, 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540k Spezial Roadster, 1938 Delahaye 165 Roadster, 1935 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900, any 1930s Bugatti convertible…
  1194. ☑ Survive an Illness that was supposed to kill me
  1195. Sutton Weaver Swing Bridge, A56, Frodsham WA6 7JA UK
  1196. ☑ Swim in a Tea Tree Lake
  1197. Swim with Horses off the Cornish Coast (http://www.atthepeepout.co.uk/) UK
  1198. ☑ Swim Naked Under the Stars in a beautiful a lake
  1199. Swim with Dolphins
  1200. Swim with Sharks – Basking Shark Scotland, Oban, UK
  1201. ☑ Swiss Alps
  1202. ☑ Switzerland
  1203. ☑ Sydney Opera House
  1204. Széchenyi Thermal Bath, Állatkerti körút, Budapest, Hungary
  1205. ☑ Take an Improv class
  1206. ☑ Tančící dům – ‘Fred and Ginger’ Dancing House of Prague
  1207. Tankardstown Engine House, R675, Waterford, Ireland
  1208. Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, Scotland UK
  1209. Tapolca Subterranean Lake Cave, Kisfaludy Sándor utca, Hungary
  1210. ☑ Target Pistol Shooting
  1211. TCM Cruise as a VIP
  1212. ☑ Teach at a World’s Top Business School
  1213. ☑ Teach Someone who is Illiterate to Read – I volunteered as an adult literacy tutor for several years
  1214. Teatro Andromeda, Contrada Rocca, Santo Stefano Quisquina, AG, Italy 
  1215. Telegraph Field Valentia Island, Coarha Beg, Valentia Islands, Kerry, Ireland
  1216. Temple Church, London UK
  1217. ☑ Tennessee Valley Railway Museum
  1218. Teotihuacan
  1219. ☑ Thailand
  1220. The British Museum, London UK
  1221. The Centovalli Railway between Locarno and Domodossola (Switzerland & Italy)
  1222. The Connaught Mayfair, London, England UK
  1223. The Danny – Daniel Adamson Steamship, UK
  1224. The Empty Tomb of Maximilian I Hofkirche mit Silberner Kapelle, Austria
  1225. The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow, UK – built 1619 (supposedly haunted)
  1226. The Glen, Sligo, Ireland
  1227. The Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Scotland UK
  1228. The Goring Belgravia, London, England UK
  1229. The Grand Tour classic car rally/concours
  1230. The Grapes Bar owned by Sir Ian McKellen UK
  1231. The Great Steward of Scotland’s Dumfries House Trust, Cumnock, Scotland UK
  1232. ☑ The Hamptons
  1233. The Hat Works Great Britain’s only hat-making museum UK
  1234. The Hebridean Princess Cruise, Scotland UK
  1235. The House of Automata, Forres Scotland UK
  1236. ☑ The Jacobite Steam Train Journey in Scotland UK
  1237. The Lanesborough Hyde Park, London, England UK
  1238. The Langham, London Marylebone, London, England UK
  1239. The Lost Caves Bar, UK
  1240. The Louvre, Paris, France
  1241. The Matthew of Bristol, UK
  1242. The National Gallery, London UK
  1243. ☑ The Ritz London
  1244. The Royal Scotsman Train, Shore, Edinburgh UK
  1245. Thermae Bath Spa – and watch the sunset from the rooftop pool, UK
  1246. Therme Wien – largest spa in Europe 
  1247. The Sandcastle, Withernsea, UK
  1248. The Three Bridges, Windmill Lane, Southall, UK – designed by Brunel
  1249. The Writers’ Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland UK
  1250. ☑ Three Sisters formation in the Blue Mountains
  1251. Three Mills Island – largest tidal mill in the world UK
  1252. Thrihnukagigur magma chamber – descend into a volcano – Iceland 
  1253. Tiergarten Zoo – oldest in the world, Berlin
  1254. Tihany, Hungary
  1255. Tilting Bridge – Gateshead Millennium Bridge, UK
  1256. ☑ Times Square, New York
  1257. ☑ Tintagel Castle, Cornwall
  1258. Tintern Abbey, Wales UK
  1259. Tolquhon Castle, Tarves, Aberdeenshire, AB41 7LP, Scotland UK
  1260. Tomatin Distillery, Inverness, Scotland UK
  1261. Tomb of the Eagles, Liddle, St. Margaret’s Hope, Orkney, Scotland, KW17 2RW UK
  1262. ☑ Tombstone, Arizona & OK Corral (where the shootout DIDN’T happen, by the way!)
  1263. Tomnaverie Stone Circle, Near Tarland, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
  1264. Torwood Blue Pool, Falkirk, Scotland, FK5 4TB UK
  1265. Tour ~ and stay in ~ Castles across the UK and Europe
  1266. ☑ Tour Historic Newport
  1267. ☑ Tour Historic Philadelphia
  1268. ☑ Tour Royal Selangor Pewter Factory in Kuala Lumpur
  1269. ☑ Tour Stalagmite Caves
  1270. ☑ Toured a submarine
  1271. ☑ Toured an aircraft-carrier
  1272. Tourlitis Lighthouse – Andros, Greece
  1273. Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve, Portland, UK
  1274. Tower of London, UK
  1275. ☑ Traced my family tree back several hundred years and completed the Ancestry DNA analysis
  1276. ☑ Trafalgar Square, London
  1277. Trans Siberian Railway
  1278. ☑ Transfăgărășan Road – ‘Top Gear’ rated as most amazing road in the world
  1279. ☑ Transylvania
  1280. ☑ Travel the world full-time, 24/7, as a Luxurious Nomad – with a wonderful luggage concierge service picking up my cases at one amazing location and dropping them off at the next!
  1281. ☑ Travel Through Asia
  1282. ☑ Treat a Person who is Homeless to Thanksgiving Feast (I did this most every year when I lived in America)
  1283. Treehotel, Harads, Sweden
  1284. Trenino Verde della Sardegna, Italy – train in Sardinia from Mandas to Arbatax
  1285. Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy
  1286. Trolley Bus Museum, Belton Road, Epworth, Doncaster, UK
  1287. Troy archaeological site, Greece
  1288. Truffles
  1289. ☑ Tuscany, Italy
  1290. Tuscany Hot Air Balloon Flight
  1291. Tuscany’s Funicolare di Montecatini Terme, Via Armando Diaz, Montecatini Terme, Province of Pistoia, Italy
  1292. ☑ Two Guns Ghost Town, Arizona
  1293. Tyneham Ghost Village, Dorset, UK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Ag8YgR8QU)
  1294. ☑ Type 100wpm
  1295. Uffington White Horse, the oldest horse geoglyph in England, UK
  1296. Underwater scooter in St Thomas, UK Virgin Islands
  1297. ☑ Unplug for an entire three-day weekend
  1298. Up Helly AA Fire Festival in Lerwick, UK
  1299. Upperville Horse Show USA
  1300. Upside Down House in Austria
  1301. ☑ Urquhart Castle, By Drumnadrochit, near Inverness, IV63 6XJ, Scotland
  1302. ☑ Use Limousines as primary method of transport when travelling
  1303. Utter Inn, Västerås, Sweden
  1304. Vaadhoo Island Sea of Stars, Maldives
  1305. ☑ Vail Ski Resort Town, Colorado
  1306. Valley of the Fairies. Porumbacu de Sus, Romania
  1307. ☑ Van Morrison concert – amazing dress circle seats
  1308. Venice, Italy
  1309. Versailles, France
  1310. Viaduct Tavern, Newgate Street, London, UK – Victorian jail and gin palace
  1311. ☑ Victor Borge 80th Birthday concert
  1312. Victoria and Albert Museum UK 
  1313. Victor’s Way Indian Sculpture Park, L1036, Wicklow – Ireland From Dublin take the N11 south towards Wicklow. Turn right at Kilmacanogue towards Glendalough. After about 7 miles turn right towards Sally Gap (Route 759). At the first crossroad (after 600 yards) turn left towards Roundwood. You’ll find the Indian Sculpture Park @ Victoria’s Way, 300 yards up the road on the left. Admission is €5 per adult. Victor is usually outside by the small shed where you pull up to and if he is not there he is probably out within the park; Use the Honesty Box.
  1314. ☑ Vienna, Austria
  1315. Vienna Clock Museum, Vienna, Austria
  1316. View a piece of Harry Winston jewellery up close and personal
  1317. Villa Honegg, Switzerland – stairway to heaven pool
  1318. Vintage Rail Tours including Orient Express & Pullman Tours
  1319. Viriconium (Wroxeter), UK
  1320. ☑ Visit ‘The General’ in Kennesaw Mountains
  1321. ☑ Visit all Smithsonian Buildings in Washington
  1322. Visit a spa in Spa, Belguim
  1323. ☑ Visit Cadillac Ranch
  1324. ☑ Visit Churchill Downs (Home of Kentucky Derby)
  1325. Visit every US state (42 down – 8 to go…) – I have left this here, although I no longer feel any desire to go back to the USA
  1326. ☑ Visit Grant Park in Chicago
  1327. ☑ Visit just about every significant Antebellum Home in the USA
  1328. ☑ Visit New Zealand
  1329. ☑ Visit Painted Desert in New Mexico
  1330. ☑ Visit Parkes Observatory
  1331. ☑ Visit the original Laura Ingalls Wilder house
  1332. ☑ Visit Times Square
  1333. ☑ Visited The Alamo
  1334. Visit with the two retired working horses I sponsored – Princes Risborough, UK
  1335. ☑ Voice activated devices – over a long-weekend I learned to create programs that drive devices such as Alexa
  1336. ☑ Volunteer at a shelter
  1337. ☑ Volunteer at a soup kitchen
  1338. Volunteer at “il Club di Guilietta” (ref ‘Letters to Juliet’) Italy (hmmm, first need to learn Italian!)
  1339. ☑ Volunteer on a meal truck serving people who are homeless
  1340. ☑ Votivkirche Church, Vienna, Austria
  1341. Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, UK
  1342. Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh – The Caledonian, Edinburgh UK
  1343. Walk across the Chain Bridge between Buda and Pest (Budapest) Hungary
  1344. Walk the Pennine Way, UK – 267 miles (429 km) from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District, north through the Yorkshire Dales and the Northumberland National Park and ends at Kirk Yetholm, just inside the Scottish border
  1345. ☑ Walk over Sydney Harbour Bridge
  1346. ☑ Walt Disney home in Marcelline, Missouri – one of my favourite places!
  1347. Wanderlusts Gypsy Caravan adventure, Ambleside, Cumbria UK http://www.wanderlusts.co.uk/
  1348. Warley Museum, world’s smallest museum, UK
  1349. ☑ Washington DC, USA
  1350. ☑ Watch an African version of Hamlet – yes, you read that correctly!
  1351. Watch a performance (ballet) at London’s Royal Opera House UK
  1352. ☑ Watch the sun rise and set at the horizon while at the Beach (obviously not at the same beach!  LOL!)
  1353. ☑ Wear a blindfold for a whole day
  1354. ☑ Weekly massages and facials
  1355. Wentworth Woodhouse, Wentworth, Rotherham, UK
  1356. Westbury White Horse geoglyph UK
  1357. Westminster Abbey, UK
  1358. Wexford Lighthouse – oldest operational lighthouse in the world, UK
  1359. Whitby Abbey Ruins, UK
  1360. ☑ White Cliffs of Dover – from the water!
  1361. White Pass and Yukon Railway (Skagway AK to Whitehorse, Canada)
  1362. White Turf Race, St Moritz
  1363. Whiteford Lighthouse, Wales UK
  1364. Wiblingen Monastery Library, Germany
  1365. ☑ Wiener Riesenrad Ferris Wheel, Vienna, Austria
  1366. Wigtown – Scotland’s National Book Town, Scotland UK
  1367. ☑ Wild Atlantic Way, Ireland
  1368. Wilhelmstein Island, Germany
  1369. ☑ Willard Hotel in Washington
  1370. Wilton’s Music Hall is a traditional Victorian music hall in its original condition UK
  1371. Willy Wilcox Cave, Quay Road, Polperro, Looe, PL13 2QZ, Cornwall UK
  1372. ☑ Win Awards for my Photography
  1373. Winchester Mystery House USA
  1374. Windsor Castle, UK
  1375. Windsor Great Park UK
  1376. ☑  Windsor Ruins
  1377. Wine Cellar of Strasbourg Hospital – oldest wine barrel in the world
  1378. Winter in Lapland, Finland
  1379. ☑ Winter Olympics in Whistler, Canada
  1380. Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  1381. Winter – Scotland’s Enchanted Forest, UK
  1382. Wistman’s Wood, Devon UK
  1383. Witchery by the Castle, Castlehill, Edinburgh, Scotland UK
  1384. Wonderful Barn, Celbridge Road, Barnhall, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland
  1385. World Alternative Games in Wales, August UK
  1386. ☑ World’s oldest surviving Ferris Wheel – it is in Vienna and is BEAUTIFUL! 
  1387. World’s shortest street at Ebenezer Place, Wick, UK
  1388. Working Textile Museum, Matlock Bath UK
  1389. ☑ Woven a basket from scratch, including creating the base in wood, drilling holes for the stays
  1390. ☑ Wrap a Snake Around My Neck
  1391. ☑ Wren’s Nest House, home of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit author, Joel Chandler Harris
  1392. ☑ Write a song and record it
  1393. ☑ Write an Amazon #1 Best-Seller
  1394. Ye Olde Trip to Jersulem – the oldest inn in England – Nottinghamshire, UK
  1395. Yester Castle, East Lothian, Scotland, EH41 UK
  1396. York Minster, UK
  1397. York Shambles – walk through the medieval streets – UK
  1398. York’s Chocolate Story, York UK
  1399. Yorkshire Living History Museum of Farming, UK
  1400. Zermatt, Zwitzerland
  1401. Zugspitze Beer Garden, Bavaria, Germany – highest beer garden in Germany
  1402. ☑ Zurich, Switzerland

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~ Bella

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