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!)
- Abbaye de Villers, Villers-la-Ville, Belgium
- Abbey Library of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders, Scotland, TD6 9BQ UK
- Abraham Lincoln statue, Edinburgh Scotland UK
- Abraham Lincoln statue, Manchester UK
- Ackergill Tower, Ackergill, Wick, UK
- Acropolis, Greece
- Acton Scott working farm, Shropshire UK
- ☑ DONE: Add 1000 cool and interesting items on my Bucket List
- Admont Abbey Library, Austria
- ☑ 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
- ☑ Adopt a kitten
- ☑ Adopt a puppy
- Adopt another puppy
- ☑ DONE: Adopt a Rescue Dog
- 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
- Algarve, Portugal
- ☑ DONE: Alamo Mission, San Antonio USA
- A la Ronde, Devon, UK
- Alba Carolina Citadel changing of the guard (May to September), Romania
- Alberobello, Metropolitan City of Bari, Italy
- Alien – Meet a highly-evolved and loving extra-terrestrial Alien
- 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).
- ☑ DONE: Alpsee, Schwangau, Germany
- Alton Barnes White Horse geoglyph, UK
- ☑ DONE: Amalfi Coast
- Ambras Castle, Schloßstraße, Innsbruck, Austria
- Anderton Victorian Boat Lift, UK
- Andrew Carnegie birthplace, Scotland
- ☑ DONE: Angel Oak
- ☑ 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
- Antikythera Mechanism, Bronze Collection, National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece
- Appennine Colossus Villa Demidoff, Firenze
- Appleby Horse Fair, UK (June)
- Applecross Inn, Shore Street, Applecross, Strathcarron, UK
- Aquhorthies Stone Circle, Near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
- ☑ DONE: Arabia Steamboat Museum (the largest single collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world)
- Aran Islands, Galway Bay, Ireland
- Arbroath smokies – taste Iain R Spink’s smokies http://www.arbroathsmokies.net/ Scotland, UK
- ☑ 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
- Armstrong-Browning Library at Baylor University, USA
- ☑ DONE: Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum, Thal, Austria
- Arrive by Helicopter
- Arrive by Sea Plane
- Ashford Castle, Ireland
- ☑ DONE: Aspen
- Aston Hall, Trinity Road, Birmingham, UK
- ☑ DONE: Atalaya Castle
- ☑ 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!))
- Athens, Greece
- Attend a Blitz Party – http://www.theblitzparty.com/ UK
- ☑ DONE: Attend a Cirque de Soleil show in Vegas
- ☑ DONE: Attend a masked ball
- ☑ DONE: Attend an Anzac Day Commemorative Dawn Service on the beach
- ☑ DONE: Attend a Polo Match
- ☑ DONE: Attend a Rodeo
- Attend all three Triple Crown events UK – Private Box
- ☑ DONE: Attend an Eagles concert – when all original band members were still alive
- ☑ DONE: Attend an Event with International Heads of State
- ☑ DONE: Attend an international basketball game
- ☑ DONE: Attend an international soccer match
- Attend an Opera at the Hungarian State Opera House
- ☑ DONE: Attend an Opera at the Vienna State Opera House
- ☑ DONE: Attend a ‘State of Origin’ match
- Attend a Viennese Ball VIENNA
- ☑ DONE: Attend College Football Game (LSU @ Tiger Stadium) & Tail-gating
- ☑ DONE: Attend International Surfing Competitions (not as a competitor!)
- ☑ DONE: Attend Invitation-Only Winemaker’s Dinner
- ☑ DONE: Attend Private Event in US House of Representatives
- ☑ DONE: Attend Revolutionary & Civil War Re-Enactments
- ☑ DONE: Attend the Opera in a Private Box
- ☑ DONE: Attend Zulu Lundi Gras
- ☑ DONE: Attend Renaissance Festival
- ☑ DONE: Attended a Louisiana Cajun Boucherie
- ☑ 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
- ☑ DONE: Australian Outback
- ☑ DONE: Austria
- Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
- Avebury, Wiltshire UK
- Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, UK
- Baddesley Clinton, UK
- BAFTA Awards (with one of my productions nominated)
- Bagni Wildbad Thermal Bath Resort Ruins – Innichin, Italy
- Baia Archaeological Park, Italy
- Ballindalloch Distillery, Scotland, UK
- Balmerino Abbey, Newport-on-Tay, Scotland UK
- Balvenie Castle, Castle Road, Dufftown, Keith, AB55 4GH, Scotland UK
- Bamburgh Castle (and ancient right to drive sheep through the village) UK
- Barometer World & Museum, UK
- Barra Airport, Eoligarry, Barra, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland, HS9 UK
- Barry Mill, Scotland UK
- Barton Swing Aqueduct, Bridgewater Canal (Leigh Branch) Tow Path, Eccles, Manchester UK
- Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
- ☑ DONE: Bath Abbey, UK
- ☑ DONE: Bathe in Milk
- Bathtub Regatta, Dinant, Belgium
- ☑ DONE: Battle Abbey
- ☑ DONE: Battle of Hastings (1066) 950th anniversary on the site of the battle (this was SO cool!
- 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!)
- ☑ DONE: Be a Ghost-Writer
- Beamish Living History, Open Air Museum, UK
- Beauly Priory, Beauly IV4 7DY, Scotland
- ☑ DONE: Beaumaris Castle, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
- Become a UK citizen
- Beer village in South Devon, UK – last white cliffs, beach fishing fleet, and Wurlitzer concert in the church
- Beheading Stone, Stirling, Scotland UK
- 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
- Bekonscot Model Village, Beaconsfield UK
- Belhaven Bridge, Shore Road, Dunbar, Scotland UK
- Belmond Grand Hibernian Rail Journey, Ireland
- ☑ DONE: Be on a first-name basis with a country’s head of state
- Bergen Rail Line with Flåm Railway between Oslo and Bergen via Flåm (Norway)
- Bernina Express between Chur and Tirano (Switzerland & Italy)
- Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon UK
- Be the voice for an animated feature film
- ☑ DONE: Been on stage with Jay Leno
- ☑ DONE: Been to every place in the Route 66 song
- Below Zero Ice Porsche Driving Centre in Åre, Sweden
- Biblioteca Geral, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Biblioteca Malatestiana, Via Montalti, Cesena, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy
- Bibliotheque Nationale de France, France
- ☑ Big Ben, London UK
- ☑ DONE: Biltmore
- Birdoswald Trail along Hadrian’s Wall, UK
- Black Country Living Museum, Tipton Road, Dudley, UK
- ☑ DONE: Black taxi ride in London
- ☑ Blair Drummond Safari Park, Stirling FK9 4UR, Scotland
- Blaise Castle, Bristol UK
- Blarney Castle, Ireland
- Blenheim Palace, UK
- Bletchley Park, UK
- Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire, UK
- Blue Caves, Zakynthos Islands, Greece
- ☑ DONE: Blue Ridge Mountains, USA
- ☑ DONE: Boat License
- Bobby’s Bus Shelter, A968, Shetland, UK
- ☑ DONE: Bodiam Castle, East Sussex, UK
- Bodleian Library, Oxford University, England
- ☑ DONE: Bonfire on the Beach
- Bonifacio, Corsica, France
- Boole House, 5 Grenville Place, Cork, Ireland
- ☑ DONE: Boone Hall Plantation, South Carolina, setting for many movies and mini-series including “North and South”, “The Notebook”, and “Queen” with Halle Berry
- ☑ DONE: Boston, USA
- ☑ DONE: Bought a quality western cowboy (or should that be cowgirl) hat and had it custom-fitted (I love bespoke experiences like that!)
- ☑ DONE: Bowl a 200+ game
- Bowthorpe Oak, Bourne, UK
- ☑ Braemar Gathering, Scotland
- ☑ DONE: Bran Castle, Romania
- Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
- Brandsbutt Stone, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
- ☑ DONE: Brasov, Romania
- ☑ DONE: Bratislava Old Town
- Bregenz Festival, Lake Constance, on the border of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland (July and August)
- ☑ DONE: Brewed Beer
- ☑ DONE: Brighton, England
- ☑ DONE: Bring a Stranger Home for Dinner
- Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 UK
- Brittany Coast, France
- Brodie Castle, Brodie, Forres, Scotland UK
- Brough of Birsay – Historic Scotland, Orkney, UK
- ☑ DONE: Brooklyn Bridge
- ☑ Brownshill Portal Tomb (Dolmen), Hacketstown Road, Carlow, Ireland
- Brown’s Hotel Mayfair, London, England UK
- Bruges, Belgium
- Brunel Museum, London UK
- Brunel’s SS Great Britain, Bristol, UK
- ☑ Buchanan Castle, Scotland UK
- ☑ DONE: Bucharest, Romania
- ☑ DONE: Buckfast Abbey, Devon UK
- Buckingham Palace, UK
- Budapest Castle Hill Funicular Railway, Hungary
- ☑ DONE: Budapest Parliament Building, Hungary
- ☑ DONE: Build a Blanket Fort (with multiple rooms, of course!)
- Build a Labyrinth
- ☑ DONE: Build a smart-phone app (several)
- ☑ Build a Snowman
- Build a Clock
- Build a Water Feature
- ☑ Build several businesses (some were successes – some were monumental failures – although thankfully there were more of the former than the latter!)
- ☑ Build Websites
- Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet, Ireland
- Burg Hasegg / Hall Mint, Burg Hasegg, Hall in Tirol, Austria
- Burg Hochosterwitz, Hochosterwitz, Launsdorf, Austria
- ☑ Butterfly Park in Kuala Lumpur
- Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Eoropie, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland, HS2 0XH UK
- ☑ Buy dinner for a stranger at a restaurant
- Buy jewellery at Tiffany & Co.
- ☑ Buy something at an Auction
- ☑ Cade’s Cove in the Smoky Mountains
- Cairngorm Funicular Railway, Aviemore, Scotland UK
- Caledonian Sleeper, London to Scotland UK
- Callanish Standing Stones, Callanish, Isle of Lewis HS2 9DY UK
- Cambridge University, UK
- Camden Market, London UK
- Camera Obscura, Scotland UK
- Camogli, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy
- ☑ Camping By Myself – beside a lake… it was magical!
- ☑ Canada
- Canal Boat Trips through UK and Europe – I’ve done some, but always more to do and see!
- Canal De Corinto, Greece
- Cannes Film Festival – with one of my films entered
- Cape Cod USA
- Carezza Rainbow Lake, Italy
- Carnac Stones, France
- Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, Scotland, UK
- Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, Whitepark Rd, Ballycastle, UK
- ☑ Cărturești Carusel Bookstore, Romania
- Castell Coch, Wales UK
- Castle of Mey Trust, Mey, Thurso, UK
- Castleboro House, Ireland
- Castle Howard, UK
- Castle Point Lime Kilns, Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
- Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, Caithness, Scotland UK
- ☑ Catalina Island
- ☑ Catch fish with no bait
- ☑ Catch snowflakes on my tongue
- Cawdor Castle, Nairn, Scotland UK
- Central Rhine Railway between Bingen and Koblenz (Germany)
- ☑ Change clothes in an old red phone booth
- ☑ Change my name legally
- Changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
- Channel Islands, UK
- ☑ Channel Tunnel
- ☑ Charleston, South Carolina – one of my favorite places on the planet
- ☑ Charleston Museum, Founded in 1773 and commonly regarded as “America’s First Museum
- Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Ireland
- Chateau de Chenonceau, Loire Valley, France
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
- Chateau Montelena, USA
- ☑ Chateau Rhinafa, Wales UK
- Chatsworth House, Derbyshire UK
- ☑ Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel (with a vintage rail carriage as my state room)
- Cheddar Cave, Somerset, UK
- Cherhill White Horse geoglyph, UK
- Chetham’s Library, Manchester UK
- Chopsticks – I can use them, but it’s not pretty! LOL!
- ☑ Christmas Caroling
- Churchill War Rooms, King Charles, London UK
- ☑ Churn Butter By Hand
- Cinque Terre Rail Line between Levanto and La Spezia (Italy)
- Circumetnea Railway, Via Caronda, 352/A, 95128 Catania CT, Italy
- ☑ Civil Rights Museum in Lorraine Hotel
- Civita di Bagnoregio, VT, Italy
- Clachaig Inn, Glencoe, Ballachulish, UK
- ☑ Clambake
- Clansman Centre, Old Schoolhouse, Canal Side, Fort Augustus PH32 4BD, Scotland UK
- Claridge’s – stay there as my regular base in London UK
- ☑ Clark Adam Square, Budapest, Hungary
- Classic Car Rallies and Concours events – I’ve done some, but always more to see and do!
- Clava Cairns, Inverness IV2 5EU, Scotland UK
- Cley Windmill (stay in), Holt UK
- Clifton Suspension Bridge (Brunel), Bristol UK
- ☑ Climbed all 272 steps of the Batu Cave Temple in Malaysia (complete with an army of macaque monkeys ‘helping’ every step of the way)
- Cluanie Inn, Skye & Lochalsh, Glenmoriston, Inverness, UK
- ☑ Coca-Cola Original Location and Museum, Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Codrington Library, England UK
- ☑ Co-Host Drive Time on Major Commercial Radio Station
- Coimbra Library, University of Coimbra–Alta and Sofia, Portugal
- Coldharbour Mill – one of the oldest woollen textile mills in the world, having been in continuous production since 1797 – UK
- ☑ Coliseum (this place was AWEsome in every sense of the word!)
- Comic strip route Ric Hochet, Belgium, Brussels
- ☑ Competition Ballroom Dancing (as a teenager, and won two awards)
- ☑ Complete a charity walk
- ☑ Complete an advanced driving course
- ☑ Concours of Elegance, UK
- Coney Island, USA
- ☑ Conquered fear of Public Speaking (and a good thing, too, given that I chose to go into the field of media and entertainment!)
- Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, Wales – 19th-century funicular railway to one of the world’s largest camera obscuras UK
- ☑ 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!
- ☑ Contact someone I don’t know who also has my name
- Continually improve my diction and enunciation – I focus on this daily, but definitely a work-in-progress
- ☑ Continually Learn about Quantum Physics
- Continue to explore my ancestry, including visiting places from which they originated
- Continue to facilitate inspiring events…
- Continue to make a difference and help people achieve their dreams…
- Continue to regularly attend exhibitions at various wonderful institutions
- ☑ Cook and eat a fish I caught (but no, I didn’t clean it!)
- Coral Castle, Florida USA
- ☑ Corn Maze
- Corryvreckan whirlpool, Scotland – world’s third largest whirlpool
- Cotswold Olimpick Games, Gloucestershire, UK (June)
- Covent Garden, London UK
- ☑ Crack a Whip
- Cragside, Lord Armstrong’s rural mansion with gadget displays, UK
- Cramond Ghost Island, Scotland UK
- ☑ Crater Lake, Oregon
- ☑ Create a travel blog
- ☑ Create My Own Family Crest
- Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Cromford Mills, Mill Road, Cromford, Matlock, UK (world’s first successful water-powered cotton mill)
- Crooked House Pub, Dudley, UK
- Cross the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in a canal boat, Wales UK
- Crossness Pumping Station, Bazalgette Way, London, UK
- Cruise the Crinan Canal on The Clyde Puffer – VIC 32 – Crinan, Argyll, Scotland – UK
- ☑ Cruise the River Danube
- Crystal Cave, Vatnajökull, Iceland
- Cuckooland, UK
- ☑ Cuddle a Koala
- Culross Palace – The National Trust for Scotland, Culross, Dunfermline, Scotland UK
- Daily continue to see the beauty, give and receive love, enjoy the bliss and be thankful to God…
- ☑ Daily Full-page “Life with Leigh” series in Major Metro Newspaper
- ☑ 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…
- Dallas Dhu Historic Distillery, Mannachie Road, Forres, Morayshire, IV36 2RR, Scotland UK
- Dance ballroom at the Blackpool Tower, UK
- ☑ Danced/Played the giant piano in FAO Swartz in New York
- Danubius Health Spa Resort Thermal Baths, Margitsziget, Hungary
- ☑ Dartmouth Castle, UK
- Dartmouth Royal Regatta (August) UK
- Daunt Books bookstore in London (Note to self: Self, remember to take a rolling suitcase to bring home new members of the family!) UK
- ☑ Death Valley, USA
- ☑ Debrett’s Quintessentially British Programme UK
- ☑ 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
- Deer Abbey, Near Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
- Dennis Severs’ House, London UK
- ☑ Develop a fictional character I love and publish stories about her journeys (click here to meet Bridgit!)
- Develop a range of inspirational books, journals, items etc from my photography
- Develop/achieve my ideal body – fit, healthy, flexible, and sexy
- Didcot Railway (Brunel) Centre, Didcot UK
- Die Welt steht Kopf, Wiesenweg, Trassenheide, Germany
- Difference Engine – Babbage’s prototype computer – London, UK
- ☑ Dined at the Boat House in Central Park
- 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)
- Dinner in the Sky, Voutadon, Athens, Greece
- ☑ Discover my signature perfume
- Disneyland, USA
- Dive on “Christ of the Abyss” off San Fruttuoso, Italian Riveria – Italy
- Dolphin tours, ‘Corbiere’ Dolphin Tours in Avoch, Scotland UK
- ☑ Do my own gel nails – such a fabulous treat, especially when globe-trotting and not needing to find a salon!
- ☑ Do several ‘staycations’ where you stay in a hotel in your city and be a tourist in your own town
- ☑ Do something ‘big’ completely on faith
- Dog Suicide Bridge, Milton, Scotland, G82 2TH
- ☑ Donate Blood
- ☑ Don’t talk to/with anyone for an entire three-day long weekend
- Dorchester Hyde Park, London, England UK
- Dores Inn, Dores, Inverness, UK
- Dover Castle, UK
- ☑ Dracula’s Castle in Romania
- ☑ Drink Bordeaux in Bordeaux
- Drink Chianti in Chianti Country
- ☑ Drink Irish whiskey in Ireland
- ☑ Drink milk/juice from a fresh coconut
- Drink Pilsner Beer in Pilsen, Czechia
- ☑ Drink Scottish whiskey in Scotland
- ☑ Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge
- ☑ Drive Across the USA Coast to Coast and Top to Bottom (several times)
- ☑ Drive entire length of Historic Route 1 / Hwy 101 from Mexico to Canada
- ☑ Drive in Celebrity Speedway Race
- ☑ Drive on the German Autobahn
- ☑ Drive the Great Ocean Road, Australia
- ☑ Drive the Strada della Forra, Via Benaco SP38, Tremosine sul Garda, Province of Brescia, Italy
- 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.
- ☑ Dropped 75lb after putting it on during an illness
- ☑ Dubai
- ☑ Duckett’s Grove House, Kneestown, Duckett’s Grove, County Carlow, Ireland
- Duff House, Banff, AB45 3SX, Scotland UK
- Dún Aonghasa, Galway Ireland
- Duncansby Head Lighthouse, Scotland UK
- Dunfermline Palace and Abbey, Dunfermline (56.0694,-3.4638) Scotland UK
- Dunmore Pineapple House, Airth, Scotland, FK2 8LU UK
- Dunnet Head Lighthouse, Brough, Thurso KW14 8XS, UK – UK’s most northerly point
- Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB39 2TL UK
- Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Scotland UK
- Durdle Door, Dorset, UK
- Durham Cathedral and St Cuthbert UK
- Dursey Island cable car, Cork Ireland
- Duxford Airshow, UK
- Dyce Symbol Stones, Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
- Dynamometer car at the National Railway Museum in York UK
- Easter Island
- Eat a Belgian Waffle in Belgium
- ☑ Eat a California Roll in California
- ☑ Eat a Cornish pasty in Cornwall
- ☑ Eat a Milky Way in the Milky Way (ok, so that wasn’t very difficult! LOL!)
- ☑ Eat at a Michelin award-winning restaurant (several!)
- ☑ Eat at a revolving restaurant
- Eat Bolognaise in Bologna
- ☑ Eat breakfast at a roadside diner on Route 66
- ☑ Eat Canadian Bacon in Canada
- Eat Chicken Kiev in Kiev
- ☑ Eat Crocodile
- Eat Florentine Steak in Florence
- ☑ Eat Fried Grasshopper
- Eat Hollandaise Sauce in Holland
- ☑ Eat Hungarian Goulash in Hungary
- Eat Irish Stew in Ireland
- ☑ Eat Kangaroo
- ☑ Eat New England Clam Chowder in New England
- ☑ Eat Philly Cheesesteak in Philadelphia
- ☑ Eat possibly the world’s best Lobster Slider – Plymouth (near ‘the rock’)
- ☑ Eat Sacher Torte at the famous Sacher Hotel
- Eat Salisbury Stead in Salisbury UK
- Eat Swiss Cheese in Switzerland
- ☑ Eat Vienna Sausage in Vienna
- ☑ Eat Vienna/Wiener Schnitzel in Vienna
- Echo Hill, Tihany, Visszhang utca, 8237 Hungary
- Edgar Cayce Museum, USA
- Edinburgh Castle, UK
- Edinburgh Military Tattoo, UK
- Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
- ☑ Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland UK
- ☑ Elgin Cathedral, King Street, Elgin, Moray, IV30 1HU, Scotland
- ☑ Elvis Presley Aircraft Museum
- ☑ 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!
- ☑ Emergency Paramedic Ride-a-long
- ☑ English Riviera – Torquay, Devon
- ☑ Entertain elderly people at a nursing home
- ☑ Entire week without spending any money
- Erzabtei Sankt Peter, Sankt-Peter-Bezirk, Salzburg – oldest library in Austria
- Etiquette – continually improve my knowledge and application thereof
- ☑ Etyek Wine Country Tour, Budapest, Hungary
- ☑ Eurostar, London to Paris
- ☑ Experience a Real White Christmas
- ☑ Experience a tornado
- ☑ Explore a Completely Uninhabited Ghost Town
- ☑ Explore an abandoned amusement park
- ☑ Explore the Scottish Highlands
- ☑ Experience Chinese Cupping Therapy
- Faery Circles in Ireland
- Fairy Flag at Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye UK
- Fairy Glen – Uig, Isle of Skye, Scotland UK
- ☑ Fairy Penguins on Phillip Island
- Fairy Pools in Scotland UK (https://wowscotlandtours.com/tours-from-inverness/private-day-tours-inverness/private-fairy-pools-tour/)
- Fairy Rock, Whitehaven UK
- ☑ Falkirk Wheel, Lime Rd, Falkirk, Scotland, FK1 4AD
- Flakland Palace, Scotland UK
- Fan Bay Deep Shelter, Dover UK
- ☑ Fantastic Caverns in the Ozarks – with underground tours by convertible Jeep
- ‘Fellsman’ Steam Train – Settle to Carlisle + classic coach + historic steamer on Ullswater Lake, UK (http://statesmanrail.com/fellsman.html)
- Felsentherme Bad Gastein, Bahnhofplatz, Badgastein
- ☑ Ferrari Test Drive in Marinello, Italy
- ☑ Finch Foundry, Devon UK
- ☑ Find and purchase a copy of the original book, “The Making of Star Trek”
- ☑ Find True, Pure, Blissful Joy in pretty much every moment…
- Fingal’s Cave, Scotland UK
- Finnich Glen, Stirling, Glasgow, UK
- ☑ First-Class Overnight Train Trip from Vienna to Rome
- ☑ First and Last Pub, Cornwall, UK
- Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex, UK
- ☑ Fishbowl Margarita in El Paso
- ☑ Fisherman’s Bastion, Buda (Budapest) Hungary
- Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, Iceland
- Flannan Isle Lighthouse, Flannan Isles, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland
- Florence, Italy
- ☑ Fly a Plane
- Fly fishing
- ☑ Fly in a helicopter
- Fly in a Lear Jet
- Fly in a Spitfire over the English Channel – Goodwood – UK
- ☑ Fly Internationally First Class
- Forbidden Corner, Coverham UK
- Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Speech House Road, Coleford, UK
- ☑ Forgive and move on
- Fort George, Scotland UK
- ☑ Fort Jackson, Georgia
- For Sale Pub, Vámház körút, Hungary
- ☑ Fortingall Yew, Fortingall Church, Fortingall, Scotland, PH15 2LL
- ☑ Fort Moultrie, South Carolina
- ☑ Fort Sumter – the official start of the American Civil War
- Fosse Dionne, Rue de la Fosse Dionne, Tonnerre, France
- ☑ Fossick for Thunder Eggs on Tamborine Mountain
- Fota Wildlife Park, Ireland
- Fountains Abbey, UK
- Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest, Hungary
- ☑ Four-wheeling over monster sand-dunes
- ☑ Foyle’s War – have been to almost every place this series was filmed
- Frederiksborg Castle, Frederiksborg Slot, Hillerød, Denmark
- French Channel Islands – Chausey Islands, France
- French Pyrenees
- ☑ French Quarter in New Orleans
- ☑ Front-row-center at Don McLean concert
- ☑ Fundraising for various causes
- Fyvie Castle, Fyvie, Turriff, Scotland UK
- Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man
- Galloway Forest Park, the only Dark Sky Park in Scotland – and hopefully even see the Northern Lights! UK
- Gaping Gill, North Yorkshire UK
- Gasteiner Heilstollen, Heilstollenstraße, Badgastein – “healing tunnel”
- Gellért Thermal Bath, Kelenhegyi Way, Budapest, Hungary
- George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- ☑ Get caught in a dust storm with zero visibility (Ok, so not something I planned, but experience worthy of the list)
- Giant’s Causeway, Ireland
- Gilmerton Cove, 16 Drum Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH17 8QH UK
- Glacier Express between Zermatt and St Moritz (Switzerland)
- ☑ Glacier Lake, Iceland
- Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales – UK’s only residential library
- Glasgow City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow, UK
- Glenbuchat Castle, Near Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire AB36 8TN, Scotland UK
- ☑ 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).
- Gleniff Horseshoe, Ireland
- Glenmorangie Distillery, A9, Tain IV19 1PZ, Scotland UK
- Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library, Vienna
- Globe Theatre, London UK
- Glockengießerei Grassmayr, Leopoldstraße, Innsbruck, Austria
- ☑ Glow Worm cave
- 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
- Goodwin’s Court, London, UK
- Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Train, Romonov Suite
- ☑ Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
- ☑ Golden Hind Ship, Brixham UK
- Golden Roof, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße, Innsbruck, Austria
- ☑ Gone With The Wind 75th anniversary exhibition in Austin, Texas
- ☑ Goodwood Revival Classic Car Race UK
- ☑ Go on a Blind Date – and it ended up being to a Rolling Stones concert!
- Go on a Cruise
- ☑ Go on a Hay Ride
- ☑ 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
- ☑ Gorgeous collection of Jewellery, Shoes, Handbags & Accessories
- Gösser Bierklinik Restaurant, Vienna – established 1566
- Govan Old Church, 866 Govan Rd, Glasgow, Scotland – Viking Stones UK
- ☑ Graceland
- Grand Canal, Venice, Italy
- ☑ Grand Canyon
- ☑ Grand Central Station
- ☑ Grand Ole Opry, USA
- Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium
- ☑ Graz, Austria
- Great Blue Hole, Belize
- Great Geysir, Iceland
- Great Market Hall, Budapest, Hungary
- Great Orme Tramway, Wales UK (March – October)
- Greece
- Greek Islands
- ☑ Greenway House – Agatha Christie’s home
- ☑ Grow all my own vegetables in my very own vegetable garden!
- ☑ Gsellmanns Weltmaschine, Kaag, Edelsbach bei Feldbach, Austria (closed Tuesdays)
- ☑ Guest Soloist with Sydney Conservatory Choir
- Gullfoss Falls, Iceland
- Hadrian’s Wall, UK
- Hafelekarspitze, Innsbruck, Austria
- ☑ Haggle at an Asian Market
- ☑ Hallstatt, Austria
- ☑ Hampton Court Palace
- ☑ Hand-carved, crafted and created a marionette
- Handelingenkamer Library, Netherlands
- Harris Tweed – visit one of the homes where they make the tweed, and purchase a garment – Outer Hebrides, Scotland UK
- ☑ Hastings Bonfire
- ☑ Hastings Castle
- Hatton Flight Locks, UK
- ☑ Have an old-fashioned, physically posted letters pen-pal (his name was Sang Guy Lee and he was from South Korea)
- 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…
- Hay-on-Wye, Book Town, Hereford, Wales, UK
- ☑ Healy Pass, R574, Clashduff, County Cork, Ireland
- Hearst Castle USA
- Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Holcombe Road, Helmshore, Rossendale, UK
- Help a family who is homeless to get a job, a home, and a new life
- Herculaneum, Italy
- ☑ Herd Cattle
- ☑ Heroes’ Square, Budapest, Hungary
- Heviz Thermal Lake, Hungary – world’s largest thermally-heated lake
- 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
- Higham Park, Bridge Kent, UK – birthplace of aero-engine, ‘Chitty Bang Bang’
- High Bridge, High Street, Lincoln, UK
- ☑ Highclere Castle (home of Downton Abbey)
- Highgate Cemetery, London UK
- Highland Folk Museum, Scotland UK
- Highland Games, Scotland UK (May-Sept)
- Highland Wildlife Park, Kincraig, Kingussie PH21 1NL, Scotland
- Highlanders’ Museum, Scotland UK
- ☑ Hiking Through Rainforest
- ☑ Hire a professional genealogist to research even more of my family tree in England and Scotland
- Hirta Island Ghost Town, St Kilda, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland UK
- ☑ Historic Santa Monica Pier
- ☑ Historic Vicksburg
- HMS Trincomalee, Maritime Avenue, Hartlepool, UK (oldest warship in Europe still afloat)
- HMS Victory, Portsmouth England UK
- HMY Brittania UK
- Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria
- ☑ Hofskirkja Church, Iceland (grass roof)
- ☑ Hold a Tarantula
- ☑ Hole in One (OK, so it was mini-golf!)
- Hole in the Wall, Kilkenny Ireland
- Hollyrood Abbey Ruins, Scotland UK
- ☑ Hollywood Walk of Fame (no, I’m not ON it, I just walked along it)
- Hootananny Pub, 67 Church St, Inverness IV1 1ES, Scotland (http://www.hootanannyinverness.co.uk/) UK
- ☑ Hoover Dam
- Honiton lace-making in Beer, Devon, UK
- Hopetoun House, Scotland UK
- Horseback riding on the beach
- ☑ Horseback Riding through Antebellum Plantation
- ☑ Horseback riding in the snow
- ☑ Horse-Drawn Canal Boat Journey
- ☑ Horse-drawn tour of Vienna, Austria
- ☑ Horse Shoe Hall at Okeham Castle, UK
- ☑ Host “Achievers and Unsung Heroes” TV & radio shows
- Host an annual Christmas Party for people who have nowhere to go and no one with whom to spend the holidays
- ☑ Host a neighbourhood street party
- ☑ Host “Going Green” TV show
- ☑ Host Movie Premieres at Warner Bros
- Hot air ballooning
- Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc Cap d’Antibes, Côte d’Azur, France
- House of Automata, Findhorn near Inverness, Scotland (please contact us if you are visiting – 07790 719 097 / 07811 827 357 / 01309 691 692) UK
- House of Waterford Crystal, Ireland
- Huers Hut Lighthouse/lookout, UK
- ☑ Hug a Redwood in the Redwood Forest
- Hugel Winery, France (http://m.hugel.com/598DGMB3C4/web?l=en)
- Hungerburgstation Hungerburg, Höhenstraße, Innsbruck, Austria
- ☑ Hunley Submarine, American Civil War submarine
- Huntly Castle, Castle Avenue, Huntly, AB54 4SH, Scotland UK
- Hurawalhi Maldives Resort, Hurawalhi Island, Maldives
- ☑ Husky Haven, Netherley Rd, Stonehaven AB39, 3QH, Scotland – husky sledding in the snow!
- ☑ Hyperbaric Chamber
- Hythe Pier Railway, Hythe, Southampton, UK (world’s oldest)
- ☑ I absolutely ADORE what I do for a living and the clients with whom I work!
- Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
- ☑ Iceland Ring Road multi-day road trip
- Ightham Mote, Ightham, Kent UK
- Ilfracombe Beach Caves, Cornwall, UK
- ☑ Imperial Crypt, Tegetthoffstraße, Vienna
- Imperial Treasury of Vienna, Austria
- ☑ Incline Railway, Tennessee (world’s steepest)
- ☑ Independence Hall, Philadelphia
- ☑ Indonesia
- ☑ Improve my diction and elocution
- Interlaken, Switzerland
- Inveraray Castle, Inveraray, Scotland UK
- Invercharron Highland Games, Bonar Bridge, Sutherland, Scotland UK – Sept (http://www.invercharronhighlandgames.co.uk/getting-here)
- Inverlochy Castle Hotel, Torlundy, Fort William, UK
- Iona Abbey, 2 Sandbank, Argyll and Bute, Scotland UK
- ☑ Ireland
- ☑ Ireland Seaweed Bath
- Irish National Stud and Gardens, Tully Road, Kildare, Ireland
- Irish Sky Garden, Castletownsend Road, Skibbereen, Ireland
- ☑ Isle of Man UK
- Isle of Skye UK
- Isle of Staffa, Scotland UK
- Isle of Wight UK
- Isles of Scilly, UK
- ☑ Italian Riviera
- Iveragh Peninsula (The Ring of Kerry), Ireland
- ☑ Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee – that is a DRY county!
- James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, 14 India Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 UK
- Jameson Experience, Midleton, County Cork, Ireland
- Jane Austen’s House Museum, UK
- Jaquet-Droz Automata, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (first Sunday of each month)
- Jarlshof, Shetland Islands UK
- Jaunting Car Tour to Ross Castle from Killarney, Ireland
- ☑ Jekyl Island
- Jerpoint Abbey, R448, County Kilkenny, Ireland
- ☑ Jesse James’ family home
- Jesuit Church, Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz, Vienna
- ☑ Jet-boating
- John o’ Groats, Caithness, Scotland UK
- John Rylands Library, Manchester UK
- ☑ Joshua Tree National Park, USA
- ☑ July 4th on the Water in Savannah, Georgia
- Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe, Eigergletscher-Jungfraujoch, Grindelwald, Switzerland
- Jupiter Artland, Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, Edinburgh EH27 8BB UK
- Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort East Village, Finland
- Katholische Kirche Maria Rotunda, Postgasse, Vienna
- Keiss Castle, Wick, UK
- ☑ Kelpies Sculpture, The Helix, Grangemouth, Falkirk FK2 7ZT, Scotland
- ☑ Kennesaw’s Southern Museum – ‘The General’ original great locomotive race train, Tennessee
- Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves, Torquay, UK
- Keukenhof Park, Holland, The Netherlands
- Kilchurn Castle, Lochawe, Dalmally, UK
- Kildrummy Castle, Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, AB33 8RA, Scotland UK
- Kilkenny Castle, Ireland
- Kilt Making, Highland House of Fraser Ltd, 4-9 Huntly Street, Inverness, IV3 5PR, Scotland UK
- Kilmacduagh Round Tower, R460, Galway, Ireland
- ‘Kindred Spirits’ Sculpture, Connolly St, Cork, Ireland
- Kinema in the Woods, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire UK
- King John’s Castle, Nicholas Street, Limerick, Ireland
- King Puck, Lower Bridge St, Killorglin, Ireland
- Kinnaird Head Castle Lighthouse and Museum, Castle Terrace, Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, Scotland UK
- Kincardine Castle, Kincardine O’Neil, Aboyne, Scotland UK
- Kiplingcotes Derby, third Thursday in March – oldest horse race in England UK
- Király Baths, Fő Street, Budapest, Hungary
- Kirkham Priory, UK
- Kiss passionately in the rain
- Kiss the Blarney Stone, Ireland
- ☑ Klementinum buildings, Prague
- ☑ Klementinum Barokní knihovna (Baroque Library), Prague
- Kotor, Montenegro
- Krakow – carriage ride through Kraków’s Old Town, Poland
- Krzywy Domek, Bohaterów Monte Cassino, Sopot, Poland
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Kunsthofpassage Funnel Wall, Görlitzer Str. 21-25, 01099 Dresden, Germany
- Kunstkammer, Museumsplatz, Wien, Austria
- ☑ Kursalon Wien, Austria
- Kylemore Abbey, Ireland
- Kyteler’s Inn, St Kieran’s St, Kilkenny, Ireland
- Labyrinth of Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary
- Lake Como, Italy
- Lake District National Park, England UK
- La Marmite Restaurant, St Moritz
- ☑ Lancaster Amish Country, USA
- Land at Courchevel Airport, France
- ☑ 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…
- Landeszeughaus, Herrengasse, Graz
- ☑ Land’s End in Cornwall – Britain’s most easterly point UK
- Langenfeld’s Aqua Dome, Austria
- ☑ 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!
- Lanhydrock House, Cornwall UK
- L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Division No. 9, Subd. D, NL, Canada
- ☑ Lasik Eye Surgery
- ☑ Lasso a Fence Post – OK, so the post wasn’t moving, but it was still cool to do it!
- Lauriston Castle, Cramond Road South, Edinburgh UK
- Lavender Fields, Norfolk, UK
- Lavender fields, Provence, France
- Laytown Sand Beach Horse Race, Ireland (September)
- ☑ Lead in Musical Theater
- Leadenhall Market, London UK
- Leakey’s Bookshop, Church Street, Inverness, UK
- Leaning Tower of Glenfinnan, Glenfinnan, Scotland UK
- ☑ Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
- Leap Castle, Roscrea, Offaly Ireland – considered the world’s most haunted castle
- ☑ Learn CPR
- ☑ Learn Sign Alphabet
- Learn to better appreciate wine
- Learn to play croquet
- Learn to Salsa
- ☑ Learn to say ‘no’ without feeling guilty
- ☑ Learn to sew, knit, embroider, macrame and crochet – none of which I do exceedingly well
- Learn to Tango
- ☑ Learn to Throw a Clay Pot
- Learn to Yodel in the Austrian Alps – http://diejodelschule.at/ – Schmittenhöhe Mountain above Zell Am See
- ☑ Leave nothing ‘unsaid’
- Leigh St John School – it would be fun to visit! UK
- Leighton Library – The oldest library in Scotland, Dunblane UK
- Leith Hall, Huntly AB54 4NQ, Scotland UK
- Le Mans 24 Hour Race, France
- Leprechaun Museum, Jervis Street, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland
- Les Fermes de Marie Megève, Rhône-Alpes, France
- Le Train Jaune, France through the French Pyrenees from Villefranche-de-Conflent to Latour-de-Carol
- Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Library of El Escorial, Spain
- Library of the Sárospatak Reformed College, Hungary
- Lime Wood Hotel New Forest, Hampshire, England UK
- Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
- ☑ Line Dancing
- ☑ Lipizzaner Horse Performance Spanish Riding School, Vienna, Austria
- Little Woodham Living History Village, UK
- Live in a castle or manor house and be a worthy steward
- Live in a house with secret passageways…
- ☑ Live in a marina
- ☑ Live in a marina (again)
- ☑ Live in a luxury ski resort for a year and a half – just glorious!
- ☑ Live in a two-storey villa in a 4.5 star resort with a friend’s 65′ yacht moored at my front door
- ☑ Live in Las Vegas
- ☑ Live in USA (my dream since I was a small child) – I lived there for ten years
- ☑ Live on a canal and do grocery shopping by boat!
- ☑ Live on a Yacht for a Week
- ☑ Live on the Great Barrier Reef
- ☑ Live with no regrets
- ☑ Live with Private Beach at my Doorstep
- ☑ 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”)
- LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado at the National Railway Museum in York
- ☑ Loch Lomond, Scotland UK
- Loch Lomond Seaplanes, Alexandria, UK
- ☑ Loch Ness UK
- Lock & Co. Hatters, Saint James’s Street, London, UK – oldest hat maker in the world
- Lofoten, Gimsøysand, Norway
- London to Brighton Veteran Car Run UK (done as a spectator – still yet to do it as a participant)
- Long Man of Wilmington geoglyph, formerly known as the “Wilmington Giant” or the “Green Man” UK
- Long Room Library at Trinity College, Dublin Ireland
- Lord Byron’s Newstead Abbey UK
- Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall UK
- 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!)
- ☑ Louis Vuitton luggage
- Louvre, France
- ☑ Love Unconditionally
- ☑ Low Country Boil
- Lucerne, Switzerland
- ☑ (ref scene in Pretty Woman) Lunch at Bar at the Beverley Wilshire (they’ve redecorated since the movie)
- Lulworth Cove, Dorset, UK
- Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- 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
- Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, Devon UK
- Machines of the Isle of Nantes, Nantes, France
- Machu Pichu
- ☑ Made my living as a Professional Entertainer
- ☑ Made paper by hand
- Magdeburg Water Bridge, Wolmirstedt, Germany
- Maggie Wall’s Memorial, Dunning, Scotland, PH2 0QS, off B8062 which, accessible from A9 highway UK
- Magic Circle Museum, London UK
- ☑ Magnificent Historic Charleston, South Carolina
- Maidenhead Railway Bridge (Brunel), UK – widest & flattest arches in the world
- Major art and architectural icons through Europe
- ☑ Make a Difference in Someone’s Life
- ☑ Make a Kiva loan
- ☑ Make an entire Chess Set by hand – including all the pieces and the board!
- ☑ Make home-made icecream from scratch
- ☑ Malaysia
- ☑ Manage a Charity Feeding Homeless Children
- Märchengrottenbahn, Fairytale Grotto Line, Schloßbergplatz Graz, 8010
- Marciana Library, Venice
- ☑ Mardi Gras Ball
- ☑ Mark Twain’s beloved Hannibal Missouri
- Marqueyssac Gardens, France
- Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, just behind St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland
- Martha’s Vineyard USA
- Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth UK
- ☑ Matthais Church, Budapest, Hungary
- Maunsell Army Sea Forts, UK
- ☑ Mayerling Lodge, Austria
- ☑ Mayflower replica, Plymouth USA
- Mechanical Dragon Clock, opposite Château de Blois, Place du Château, Blois, France
- ☑ Medieval Festival
- ☑ Meditate successfully
- Medway Queen, Heroine of Dunkirk, Gillingham UK
- Meet and fall mutually in love with the Man of my Dreams
- Meet HM Queen Elizabeth II
- ☑ Meikleour Beech Hedges, A93, Perth – The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world
- ☑ Melk Monastery Library, Austria
- ☑ Member of Mensa
- ☑ Memphis, USA
- ☑ Member of various Private Members’ Clubs
- ☑ Mermaid Inn, Rye, UK – 12th century haunted pub
- ☑ Met Masaru Emoto
- ☑ Met the Principals of the Russian Bolshoi Ballet & had front row seats
- Meteora Floating Monasteries just 4 hours outside Athens, Greece
- Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Szabó Ervin tér, Hungary
- ☑ Mexico
- ☑ Michaelerplatz, Vienna
- Middleton Hall, Tamworth UK
- Milan Cathedral, Italy
- ☑ Milk Cows both by Hand and Machine
- ☑ Mille Miglia, Italy
- ☑ Minack Theatre in Cornwall UK
- Mini-Europe, Brussels, Belgium
- Minimundus, Villacher Straße, Klagenfurt, Austria
- Monaco
- Monaco Grand Prix
- 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
- ☑ Monticello
- Mont Saint-Michel, France
- Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco
- Montenegro
- ☑ ‘Monuments Men’ – Attended Private Book Signing with the Author and Bill Murray (who was one of the stars of the film)
- ☑ Moonshine
- ☑ Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero Blues Club
- Morris Dancers at the medieval Fleece Inn near Evesham, Worcs, UK
- ☑ Morris Island Lighthouse
- Morwellham Quay, Devon, UK
- Moulin Inn, Scotland UK
- Mount Olympus, Greece
- ☑ Mount Vernon
- ☑ Move to another country
- Muchołapka Nazi Fly Trap, Ludwikowice Kłodzkie in Silesia, Poland (northern end of Fabryczna – 50.628959°, 16.494949°)
- Mud Bath
- ☑ Munich, Germany
- Munich to Innsbruck via Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany & Austria)
- Murinsel, Lendkai, Graz
- ☑ Museum of Alchemists and Magicians of Old Prague
- Museum of East Anglian Life, UK
- Museum Hofburg Palace, Rennweg, Innsbruck, Austria
- Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Kinnaird Head, Castle Terrace, Fraserburgh, Scotland UK
- ☑ Museum of the Appalachia living history museum, Tennessee
- ☑ Museum of the Bavarian kings, Alpseestraße, Schwangau, Germany
- Museum of the Flat Earth, Joe Batt’s Arm, NL, Canada
- ☑ Museum of Timekeeping, Newark, UK
- Museum Speelklok, Steenweg, Utrecht, Netherlands
- MV Plassy, Inis Oírr, Galway Ireland
- ☑ Mystic Seaport
- Nantucket USA
- ☑ Naples
- Narraganset Rune Stone USA – I did visit Wickford, however couldn’t find the stone…
- ☑ Nashville
- ☑ Natchez Pilgrimage, Mississippi
- ☑ Natchitoches, pronounced Nakatesh – go figure!
- National Library of Brazil
- National Railway Museum, York, UK
- National Waterways Museum, UK
- ☑ Natural Bridge in Virginia
- ☑ Natural Hot Springs
- Natural Pool, Santorini Greece
- Nemo 33, Rue de Stalle, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Ness of Brodgar, B9055, Stromness, UK
- Nessie Hunter, Steve Feltham, Scotland UK
- ☑ Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
- New Abbey Corn Mill, New Abbey, Dumfries, UK
- Newark Castle and Gardens, Castle Gate, Newark, UK
- Newgrange, Meath, Ireland
- ☑ New Orleans
- ☑ Newport Tower
- ☑ Newport, Rhode Island
- New Slains Castle Ruins, Castle Road, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- ☑ New Year’s Eve on the river in Savannah, Georgia
- ☑ New Years Eve on Sydney Harbor
- ☑ New York City
- ☑ Niagara Falls (& also did a horse-drawn carriage ride in middle of winter – stunning!)
- Niederwald, Switzerland – birthplace of Cesar Ritz
- Nikola Tesla Museum, Krunska, Belgrade, Serbia
- ‘Nights in Rodanthe’ House USA
- No Man’s Fort, Solent, Portsmouth
- ☑ Nordkette Cable Car, Rennweg, Innsbruck, Austria
- Northern Lights in Scandinavia or Iceland
- ☑ North Laine, Brighton, UK
- Notre Dame de Paris, France
- Nova Scotia
- Novelty Automation, Princeton Street, London, UK
- NY World’s Fair Globe USA
- ☑ Oak Alley Plantation
- ☑ Oak of the Witches, Località San Martino in Colle, Capannori, Province of Lucca, Italy
- Oakham Castle Horseshoes, UK
- ☑ Off-Roading Through Monster Sand Dunes
- Ogham Stones in Kerry & Killarney, Ireland
- ☑ Old Buttonwillow Church Civil War Theatre
- Old Forge Pub – most remote bar/pub in the world, Knoydart, Scotland, PH41 4PL UK
- Old Man of Hoy, Stromness, UK
- Old railroad tunnels in Hope, British Columbia, Canada
- Old Red Iron Bridge, Head towards Bilberry from Kilkenny along the river and you cannot miss it, Ireland
- Old Wardour Castle, Tisbury, Salisbury, UK
- Oradour-sur-Glane, France
- Orkney Italian Chapel, built by POWs in WWII
- Oscar Wilde Statue, Merrion Square Park, Dublin, Ireland
- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library), Vienna, Austria
- Osmington White Horse geoglyph, UK
- 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).
- Oxford University, UK
- ☑ Own a gold fountain pen – it is one of my treasured possessions and I use it daily
- ☑ Own a grand piano
- Own a stable of Royal Friesian Horses
- ☑ Own AV Studio
- ☑ Own Louis Vuitton luggage and accessories
- ☑ Own Personalized Private Label Wine
- ☑ Own several Civil War Gowns
- ☑ 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…)
- ☑ Paddlewheel Boat Cruise on the Mississippi River
- Padua Astronomical Clock, 28 Piazza dei Signori Padua, Italy
- Palace of Versailles, Yvelines, France
- Pamukkale, Kale Mahallesi, Pamukkale Belediyesi/Denizli Merkez/Denizli, Turkey
- Panama Canal
- Pantheon, Italy
- Papafragas beach, Milos Island, Greece
- ☑ Paramedic ride-a-long
- Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium
- Parthenon, Greece
- ☑ Parthenon, Tennessee
- ☑ Participate in a Variety Club Bash Fundraising Rally – dressed for several days as a cross between Elvira and Morticia Addams!
- ☑ Participate in Murder Mystery
- Patscherkofel Cable Car Lower/Valley Station, Römerstraße, Austria
- ☑ Pawley’s Island, South Carolina
- ☑ 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?
- Peasholm Park’s Naval Battles, UK
- Pebble Beach Concours USA
- Perpetual Calendar, The Chapel of Merchants and Bankers, Turin, Italy
- Pharmacy Museum of Sibiu, Romania
- Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy
- Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
- Picardy Symbol Stone, South of Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
- Picnic lunch in Hyde Park, London UK
- ☑ Picnics are usually 5 Star with Vintage Crystal Glasses & Estate Silverware
- Piel Island, LA13 0QN UK
- ☑ Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
- Pike’s Market USA
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies, Wies, Steingaden, Germany
- Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfalls, Wales, UK
- 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)
- ☑ Plant a memorial tree
- Plantin Moretus Museum, Vrijdagmarkt, Antwerp, Belgium
- ☑ Play Bocce
- ☑ Play classical piano – not well! LOL
- Play/sing “Up, Up, and Away” while up in a hot air balloon
- Plitvice Lakes National Park, Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
- ☑ Plymouth USA and Plymouth UK
- Pocahontas’ grave, Kent, UK
- Poellatschlucht, Bavaria
- Pompeii, Italy
- Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct), France
- Portico Library and Gallery, Manchester UK
- ☑ Portmeirion Village, Wales, UK
- Portobello Road Market UK
- Portofino, Italy
- ☑ Positano, Italy
- Postman’s Palace, the Drôme, France
- Posture and deportment – continue to improve
- ☑ Prague Astronomical Clock, Old Town Square, Prague-Old Town, Czechia
- ☑ Prague Castle, Prague, Austria-Hungary
- Prague Metronome
- ☑ President Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage
- Preston Mill & Phantassie Doocot, Scotland UK
- Prince Rainier’s Monaco Top Cars Collection, Terraces de Fontvieille
- ☑ Private Plane (I don’t want one, I just want to travel in one if I need to fly anywhere)
- Produce inspiring short films
- Provand’s Lordship, Castle Street, Glasgow – oldest house in Glasgow is a museum dedicated to medieval history UK
- PS Waverley – the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world UK
- Puffin-spotting in the Faroe Islands
- ☑ Put money into a stranger’s expired meter
- Pusztaprograms in the Kiskunság National Park with horse show, Hungary
- Puzzlewood, Coleford England UK
- Pyronaut – last remaining Bristol fire-boat UK
- QEII – stay aboard – USA
- ‘Quantum Lace’ to be turned into a successful television-series
- Quarry Bank Mill, Stoney Lane, Huddersfield, UK
- Queen Elizabeth (Cunard) cruise
- Queen Mary USA
- Queen Mary II cruise
- Queen’s Swans, Windsor Promenade Windsor, England, SL4 1QX United Kingdom UK
- Queen Street Mill, Burnley – as seen in interior shots in BBC’s ‘North and South’ UK
- ☑ R2-D2 of Prague
- Raglan Castle, Wales UK
- Rakotzbrücke Devil’s Bridge, 6 Halbendorfer Str. Gablenz, 02953
- Rathaus, Vienna, Austria
- ☑ Rathaus-Glockenspiel, Munich’s mechanical clock, Marienplatz Munich, 80331
- Rauma Train Line from Dombås to Åndalsnes (Norway)
- Ravenglass Bath House, Cumbria UK
- Reading Museum Bayeux Tapestry, UK
- Really explore Napa Valley USA
- ☑ Rebuild a Car Engine (twice – and no, it wasn’t the same one! LOL!)
- Recite a Limerick in Limerick, Ireland
- Record an album (I’ve had recording sessions for individual songs, but never a complete album)
- ☑ Red Oak II – 1930s vintage town
- Redbournbury watermill & bakery, UK – open Sat, Sun, Tue
- Red Lion Hotel, High Street, Colchester, UK – built 1465
- Rendlesham Forest UFO Landing, Woodbridge, UK
- Red Square of Moscow, Russia
- Regularly make something with my own hands
- ☑ Regularly Send Handwritten Notes with Wax-Sealed Envelope, Written with Fountain Pen
- Rennes le Chateau, France
- 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
- ☑ Reverse a Trailer Around an Obstacle Course – although I am dreadful at reverse parking a basic car!
- Rhapsody in Blue – attend a live symphony orchestra performance
- Rhine Valley, Germany train from Koblenz to Mainz
- ☑ Ride a Camel
- Ride a gondola in Venice
- ☑ Ride a Greyhound Bus across several States (boy, was that an experience!)
- Ride a jaunting car through Killarney National Park
- ☑ Ride an Elephant
- Ride in a Limousine in Limousin, France
- ☑ Ride in a Tiger Moth
- ☑ Ride in a Tuk Tuk
- Ride on The Flying Scotsman UK
- ☑ Ride the L train in Chicago
- ☑ Ride up top on a double-decker bus in London
- Ride side-saddle
- Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire UK
- Ring of Brodgar, B9055, Orkney, Scotland, KW16 3JZ UK
- ☑ Ringwood Manor
- Ritz Hotel, France
- RMS Olympic (sister to Titanic) dining room in White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, UK
- Robert Smail’s Printing Works, High Street, Innerleithen, Scotland UK (I went there, but the day I was there, it was closed!)
- ☑ Rock of Cashel, Ireland
- Rock of Dunamase, Laois, Ireland
- ☑ Rocky Mountains, USA
- ☑ Rocky Ridge Farm, home of the real Laura Ingalls Wilder of “Little House on the Prairie” fame
- Rooftop Film, London http://rooftopfilmclub.com/london/ UK
- ☑ Roman Bath
- ☑ Romania
- ☑ Romanian Salt Mine
- ☑ Rome
- Roodee – Chester Racecourse, Chester, UK – oldest racecourse in Great Britain
- ☑ Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland UK
- Rothenburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
- Roughting Linn Waterfall, Northumberland, England UK
- ☑ Route 66
- ☑ Row 6 – Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge Tour
- ☑ Royal Albert Bridge (Brunel), Devon UK
- Royal Highland Show – June – Scotland UK
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Film Gala, UK
- Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro
- Royal Pump Rooms, UK
- Royal Windsor Horse Show UK
- Royston Cave, Hertforshire, UK
- RSS Discovery, Scotland UK
- ☑ Ruby Falls
- Rufford Abbey, Ollerton, UK
- ☑ Rules Restaurant, London’s oldest, WC2E 7LB, UK
- Rushton Triangular Lodge, Kettering UK
- ☑ Rye, UK
- Ryhope Engines Museum, Waterworks Road, Sunderland, UK
- Sail around the Greek Isles
- ☑ Sailing
- ☑ Sailing on a tall ship
- Salisbury Cathedral Medieval Clock (oldest in the world), Salisbury UK
- Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK
- Saltburn Cliff Lift – oldest operating water-balance cliff lift in the world – Saltburn-by-the-Sea, UK
- ☑ Salzburg, Austria
- Sam Cody’s (replica) of British Army Aeroplane No 1 at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum in Farnborough UK
- ☑ San Antonio Riverwalk
- Saint Conan’s Kirk, Scotland, UK
- Sanctuary Wood Museum, Canadalaan, Ypres, Belgium
- San Francisco Cable Car, USA
- Santorini, Greece
- Sardinia – Italy (Tomb of the Giants)
- ☑ 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.
- Saut de Brot Bridge – Boudry, Switzerland
- Savoy Covent Garden, London, England UK
- Scala Cinema, Market Place, Ilkeston, UK (1913)
- Schloss Hellbrunn water-powered mechanical theatre, Fürstenweg, Salzburg
- ☑ Schmetterlinghaus, Butterfly house, Vienna
- Scone Palace, Scotland UK
- Scotland’s Northcoast 500 UK
- Scotland Street School Museum, Scotland Street, Glasgow, UK
- ☑ Scotland UK – my beloved Scotland… The Highlands are my equal #1 spot on the planet, along with Vienna
- Scott’s View, B6356, Scottish Borders, Scotland, TD6 UK
- Sean’s Bar – the oldest pub in Ireland and possibly the oldest in the world! Athlone, Ireland
- ☑ See a bear in the wild
- ☑ See a show at London’s West End
- ☑ See icebergs up close
- ☑ Semmering Railway (Austria)
- Send a message in a bottle
- Seven Churches, Ireland
- Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London UK
- Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Trongate, Glasgow, UK
- ☑ Shear a Sheep
- Sheep Highway at Dunquin Pier, Ireland
- ☑ Shenandoah National Park, USA
- Sherlock Holmes Museum UK
- Sherston UK boules tournament held on Bastille Day
- ☑ Shoot a Bow & Arrow
- Shopping at Harrods UK
- Shopping at Selfridge’s UK
- 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
- ☑ Shopping on Oxford Street, London
- ☑ Shopping on Rodeo Drive
- Shoreditch vintage shopping trip UK
- ☑ Shucking Oysters Fresh from the Fire at an Oyster Roast
- ☑ Silent (no talking) for 48 hour
- Silver Swan automaton – Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, DL12 8JY UK
- Sinca Veche Temple Cave, Romania
- ☑ Sing for a Living
- ☑ Singapore
- Singapore WWII train at Rutland Railway Museum, UK
- Singing Ringing Tree, Crown Point Road, Burnley, UK
- Sisi Museum, Vienna
- Sistine Chapel, Italy
- Skaftafell Ice Cave, Iceland
- Skara Brae, Scotland UK
- Skellig Michael, County Carey, Ireland
- Skye Ferry, Scotland UK
- ☑ Skinny dipping
- ☑ Slieve League, Ireland
- ☑ Sligo Abbey
- ☑ Smithsonian
- ☑ Smoky Mountains, USA
- Smoo Cave, Scottish Highlands UK
- ☑ Snorkled on the Great Barrier Reef
- Snowdon Mountain Railway, Wales UK
- ☑ Snowdonia, Wales
- ☑ Sorrento, Italy
- Speak Italian, French, German, Spanish, and Greek (I don’t need to be fluent, just enough to understand and to be understood)
- ☑ Speak on stage at the United Nations in New York
- ☑ Speak to a group of people who are hearing-impaired, with the assistance of sign-language translators
- ☑ Speak to a group of international delegates with the assistance of multi-lingual translators
- ☑ Speculum Alchemiae, Haštalská, Prague 1-Old Town, Czechia
- ☑ Spend a whole day at a luxury spa, then elegant dinner and a show
- ☑ Spent several inspiring hours at the Georgia Guidestones
- ☑ Spent Significant Time Touring Through 42 States (so far) – all by Road
- ☑ Spent three days travelling with the military covering a story on the dual lives of men and women in the Army Reserves
- Spitfire LA198 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street, Glasgow UK
- ☑ Sponsor a retired working horse – well, actually I’m a softie and sponsored two!
- ☑ Spun wool
- S.S. Kyle, Harbour Grace, NL A0A 2N0, Canada
- Stacks of Duncansby, John o’ Groats, Scotland UK
- ☑ Stairs of Reconciliation, 15 Hofgasse Graz
- ☑ Stallburg, Vienna
- ☑ Stand on the Greenwich Meridian Line
- ☑ Start a Non-Profit
- ☑ Statesman vintage Pullman rail trip from Holyhead Wales to Edinburgh Scotland – first class, of course! 🙂
- Statue of Liberty Crown USA
- Stavanger Swords Monument, Norway
- Stay at a Dude Ranch
- Stay at Sandringham Estate UK
- Stay in a Glass Igloo at the Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort in Finland
- Stay in Glengorm Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland, UK
- Stay in historic Alton Railway Station, Staffordshire UK http://bit.ly/2nxNk62
- Stay in a Lighthouse
- Stay in Martello Tower, Suffolk UK http://bit.ly/2nEdC5I
- ☑ Stay in Eco-Friendly Cavallo Point, California
- Stay in The Lighthouse Keepers Cottage, Lynton, Devon UK
- Stay in ‘The Ruin’, Hackfall, Grewelthorpe UK http://bit.ly/2DWmZc8
- ☑ Stayed AirBnB
- ☑ Stayed in a number of glorious vintage hotels
- ☑ Stayed two nights in one of America’s most haunted B&Bs
- ☑ Stay up all night on the beach and watch the sun rise
- St Donat’s Castle, Wales UK
- St. Dunstan-in-the-East Ruins, London UK
- ☑ Steampunk Festival
- St Edward’s Church, Crossways House the Square, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cheltenham, UK (yew trees at door)
- 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
- St George’s Hall, Saint George’s Place, Liverpool, UK (Charles Dickens called it “the most perfect room in the world”)
- ☑ St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall UK
- St Moritz
- St Moritz Snow Polo (January http://www.snowpolo-stmoritz.com/)
- St. Nectan’s Kieve, UK
- St Ninian’s Isle, UK
- Stokesay Castle, Ludlow, Shropshire UK
- ☑ Stonehenge
- ☑ Stone Mountain, Georgia
- ☑ Stop using my personal Facebook page
- St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy
- St. Peter Stiftskulinarium – world’s oldest restaurant, Sankt-Peter-Bezirk, Salzburg
- Strachur Smiddy Museum(Easter-September), Cairndow, Scotland UK
- ☑ Strahov Monastery Library, Czech Republic
- Strasbourg Astronomical Clock, Tramway de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- St Regis Grand Hotel, Rome, Italy
- Stroll along the River Danube
- ☑ 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!
- St Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest, Hungary
- ☑ Study Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University for a semester (for fun)
- St. Valentine’s Bones, Glasgow, Blessed St John Duns Scotus, 270 Ballater Street, Glasgow, Scotland UK, G5 0YT
- Sueno’s Stone, Findhorn Road, Forres, Moray IV36 3WX, Scotland UK
- 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…
- ☑ Survive an Illness that was supposed to kill me
- Sutton Weaver Swing Bridge, A56, Frodsham WA6 7JA UK
- ☑ Swim in a Tea Tree Lake
- Swim with Horses off the Cornish Coast (http://www.atthepeepout.co.uk/) UK
- ☑ Swim Naked Under the Stars in a beautiful a lake
- Swim with Dolphins
- Swim with Sharks – Basking Shark Scotland, Oban, UK
- ☑ Swiss Alps
- ☑ Switzerland
- ☑ Sydney Opera House
- Széchenyi Thermal Bath, Állatkerti körút, Budapest, Hungary
- ☑ Take an Improv class
- ☑ Tančící dům – ‘Fred and Ginger’ Dancing House of Prague
- Tankardstown Engine House, R675, Waterford, Ireland
- Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, Scotland UK
- Tapolca Subterranean Lake Cave, Kisfaludy Sándor utca, Hungary
- ☑ Target Pistol Shooting
- TCM Cruise as a VIP
- ☑ Teach at a World’s Top Business School
- ☑ Teach Someone who is Illiterate to Read – I volunteered as an adult literacy tutor for several years
- Teatro Andromeda, Contrada Rocca, Santo Stefano Quisquina, AG, Italy
- Telegraph Field Valentia Island, Coarha Beg, Valentia Islands, Kerry, Ireland
- Temple Church, London UK
- ☑ Tennessee Valley Railway Museum
- Teotihuacan
- ☑ Thailand
- The British Museum, London UK
- The Centovalli Railway between Locarno and Domodossola (Switzerland & Italy)
- The Connaught Mayfair, London, England UK
- The Danny – Daniel Adamson Steamship, UK
- The Empty Tomb of Maximilian I Hofkirche mit Silberner Kapelle, Austria
- The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow, UK – built 1619 (supposedly haunted)
- The Glen, Sligo, Ireland
- The Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Scotland UK
- The Goring Belgravia, London, England UK
- The Grand Tour classic car rally/concours
- The Grapes Bar owned by Sir Ian McKellen UK
- The Great Steward of Scotland’s Dumfries House Trust, Cumnock, Scotland UK
- ☑ The Hamptons
- The Hat Works Great Britain’s only hat-making museum UK
- The Hebridean Princess Cruise, Scotland UK
- The House of Automata, Forres Scotland UK
- ☑ The Jacobite Steam Train Journey in Scotland UK
- The Lanesborough Hyde Park, London, England UK
- The Langham, London Marylebone, London, England UK
- The Lost Caves Bar, UK
- The Louvre, Paris, France
- The Matthew of Bristol, UK
- The National Gallery, London UK
- ☑ The Ritz London
- The Royal Scotsman Train, Shore, Edinburgh UK
- Thermae Bath Spa – and watch the sunset from the rooftop pool, UK
- Therme Wien – largest spa in Europe
- The Sandcastle, Withernsea, UK
- The Three Bridges, Windmill Lane, Southall, UK – designed by Brunel
- The Writers’ Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland UK
- ☑ Three Sisters formation in the Blue Mountains
- Three Mills Island – largest tidal mill in the world UK
- Thrihnukagigur magma chamber – descend into a volcano – Iceland
- Tiergarten Zoo – oldest in the world, Berlin
- Tihany, Hungary
- Tilting Bridge – Gateshead Millennium Bridge, UK
- ☑ Times Square, New York
- ☑ Tintagel Castle, Cornwall
- Tintern Abbey, Wales UK
- Tolquhon Castle, Tarves, Aberdeenshire, AB41 7LP, Scotland UK
- Tomatin Distillery, Inverness, Scotland UK
- Tomb of the Eagles, Liddle, St. Margaret’s Hope, Orkney, Scotland, KW17 2RW UK
- ☑ Tombstone, Arizona & OK Corral (where the shootout DIDN’T happen, by the way!)
- Tomnaverie Stone Circle, Near Tarland, Aberdeenshire, Scotland UK
- Torwood Blue Pool, Falkirk, Scotland, FK5 4TB UK
- Tour ~ and stay in ~ Castles across the UK and Europe
- ☑ Tour Historic Newport
- ☑ Tour Historic Philadelphia
- ☑ Tour Royal Selangor Pewter Factory in Kuala Lumpur
- ☑ Tour Stalagmite Caves
- ☑ Toured a submarine
- ☑ Toured an aircraft-carrier
- Tourlitis Lighthouse – Andros, Greece
- Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve, Portland, UK
- Tower of London, UK
- ☑ Traced my family tree back several hundred years and completed the Ancestry DNA analysis
- ☑ Trafalgar Square, London
- Trans Siberian Railway
- ☑ Transfăgărășan Road – ‘Top Gear’ rated as most amazing road in the world
- ☑ Transylvania
- ☑ 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!
- ☑ Travel Through Asia
- ☑ Treat a Person who is Homeless to Thanksgiving Feast (I did this most every year when I lived in America)
- Treehotel, Harads, Sweden
- Trenino Verde della Sardegna, Italy – train in Sardinia from Mandas to Arbatax
- Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy
- Trolley Bus Museum, Belton Road, Epworth, Doncaster, UK
- Troy archaeological site, Greece
- Truffles
- ☑ Tuscany, Italy
- Tuscany Hot Air Balloon Flight
- Tuscany’s Funicolare di Montecatini Terme, Via Armando Diaz, Montecatini Terme, Province of Pistoia, Italy
- ☑ Two Guns Ghost Town, Arizona
- Tyneham Ghost Village, Dorset, UK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Ag8YgR8QU)
- ☑ Type 100wpm
- Uffington White Horse, the oldest horse geoglyph in England, UK
- Underwater scooter in St Thomas, UK Virgin Islands
- ☑ Unplug for an entire three-day weekend
- Up Helly AA Fire Festival in Lerwick, UK
- Upperville Horse Show USA
- Upside Down House in Austria
- ☑ Urquhart Castle, By Drumnadrochit, near Inverness, IV63 6XJ, Scotland
- ☑ Use Limousines as primary method of transport when travelling
- Utter Inn, Västerås, Sweden
- Vaadhoo Island Sea of Stars, Maldives
- ☑ Vail Ski Resort Town, Colorado
- Valley of the Fairies. Porumbacu de Sus, Romania
- ☑ Van Morrison concert – amazing dress circle seats
- Venice, Italy
- Versailles, France
- Viaduct Tavern, Newgate Street, London, UK – Victorian jail and gin palace
- ☑ Victor Borge 80th Birthday concert
- Victoria and Albert Museum UK
- 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. Youll 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.
- ☑ Vienna, Austria
- Vienna Clock Museum, Vienna, Austria
- View a piece of Harry Winston jewellery up close and personal
- Villa Honegg, Switzerland – stairway to heaven pool
- Vintage Rail Tours including Orient Express & Pullman Tours
- Viriconium (Wroxeter), UK
- ☑ Visit ‘The General’ in Kennesaw Mountains
- ☑ Visit all Smithsonian Buildings in Washington
- Visit a spa in Spa, Belguim
- ☑ Visit Cadillac Ranch
- ☑ Visit Churchill Downs (Home of Kentucky Derby)
- 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
- ☑ Visit Grant Park in Chicago
- ☑ Visit just about every significant Antebellum Home in the USA
- ☑ Visit New Zealand
- ☑ Visit Painted Desert in New Mexico
- ☑ Visit Parkes Observatory
- ☑ Visit the original Laura Ingalls Wilder house
- ☑ Visit Times Square
- ☑ Visited The Alamo
- Visit with the two retired working horses I sponsored – Princes Risborough, UK
- ☑ Voice activated devices – over a long-weekend I learned to create programs that drive devices such as Alexa
- ☑ Volunteer at a shelter
- ☑ Volunteer at a soup kitchen
- Volunteer at “il Club di Guilietta” (ref ‘Letters to Juliet’) Italy (hmmm, first need to learn Italian!)
- ☑ Volunteer on a meal truck serving people who are homeless
- ☑ Votivkirche Church, Vienna, Austria
- Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, UK
- Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh – The Caledonian, Edinburgh UK
- Walk across the Chain Bridge between Buda and Pest (Budapest) Hungary
- 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
- ☑ Walk over Sydney Harbour Bridge
- ☑ Walt Disney home in Marcelline, Missouri – one of my favourite places!
- Wanderlusts Gypsy Caravan adventure, Ambleside, Cumbria UK http://www.wanderlusts.co.uk/
- Warley Museum, world’s smallest museum, UK
- ☑ Washington DC, USA
- ☑ Watch an African version of Hamlet – yes, you read that correctly!
- Watch a performance (ballet) at London’s Royal Opera House UK
- ☑ Watch the sun rise and set at the horizon while at the Beach (obviously not at the same beach! LOL!)
- ☑ Wear a blindfold for a whole day
- ☑ Weekly massages and facials
- Wentworth Woodhouse, Wentworth, Rotherham, UK
- Westbury White Horse geoglyph UK
- Westminster Abbey, UK
- Wexford Lighthouse – oldest operational lighthouse in the world, UK
- Whitby Abbey Ruins, UK
- ☑ White Cliffs of Dover – from the water!
- White Pass and Yukon Railway (Skagway AK to Whitehorse, Canada)
- White Turf Race, St Moritz
- Whiteford Lighthouse, Wales UK
- Wiblingen Monastery Library, Germany
- ☑ Wiener Riesenrad Ferris Wheel, Vienna, Austria
- Wigtown – Scotland’s National Book Town, Scotland UK
- ☑ Wild Atlantic Way, Ireland
- Wilhelmstein Island, Germany
- ☑ Willard Hotel in Washington
- Wilton’s Music Hall is a traditional Victorian music hall in its original condition UK
- Willy Wilcox Cave, Quay Road, Polperro, Looe, PL13 2QZ, Cornwall UK
- ☑ Win Awards for my Photography
- Winchester Mystery House USA
- Windsor Castle, UK
- Windsor Great Park UK
- ☑ Windsor Ruins
- Wine Cellar of Strasbourg Hospital – oldest wine barrel in the world
- Winter in Lapland, Finland
- ☑ Winter Olympics in Whistler, Canada
- Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Winter – Scotland’s Enchanted Forest, UK
- Wistman’s Wood, Devon UK
- Witchery by the Castle, Castlehill, Edinburgh, Scotland UK
- Wonderful Barn, Celbridge Road, Barnhall, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland
- World Alternative Games in Wales, August UK
- ☑ World’s oldest surviving Ferris Wheel – it is in Vienna and is BEAUTIFUL!
- World’s shortest street at Ebenezer Place, Wick, UK
- Working Textile Museum, Matlock Bath UK
- ☑ Woven a basket from scratch, including creating the base in wood, drilling holes for the stays
- ☑ Wrap a Snake Around My Neck
- ☑ Wren’s Nest House, home of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit author, Joel Chandler Harris
- ☑ Write a song and record it
- ☑ Write an Amazon #1 Best-Seller
- Ye Olde Trip to Jersulem – the oldest inn in England – Nottinghamshire, UK
- Yester Castle, East Lothian, Scotland, EH41 UK
- York Minster, UK
- York Shambles – walk through the medieval streets – UK
- York’s Chocolate Story, York UK
- Yorkshire Living History Museum of Farming, UK
- Zermatt, Zwitzerland
- Zugspitze Beer Garden, Bavaria, Germany – highest beer garden in Germany
- ☑ Zurich, Switzerland
Do you have a Bucket List?
Whatever you do, have FUN with it!
~ Bella
Budapest Fisherman’s Bastion and Castle Hill
I have only been in Budapest a week and already I have decided it is my second-favourite place on the planet! This morning I ventured out and up to Budapest’s magnificent Castle Hill and the amazing Fisherman’s Bastion and have quickly put the photos into a video for you, as opposed to… Read more
Goodbye England, Hello Slovenia!
After a lovely night in a pretty little old hotel… …and after getting yet another covid test… It was time to fly from Manchester to Ljubljana via Frankfurt… I wondered at first about my grey dessert – turn out to be a delicious chocolate covered creamy thing… yum… View from… Read more
Ruins of the Petit Trianon Palace – Sinaia-Busteni-Predeal-Brasov Road Trip 1 of 9
Heading out on another wonderful road trip with Max, little did I realise there would be soooo many things to see and soooo many photos as a result! To be, or not to be……. 🙂 First stop… Petit Trianon Palace – no, not in Versailles – this one is in… Read more
Cullins Yard Bar and Restaurant in Dover, UK
If ever you are in Dover, do yourself a favour and go to the Cullins Yard Bar and Restaurant. I am yet to add the additional information to this post – but wanted to at least get the photos up… Read more
Michelangelo Piazza
Michelangelo Piazza – the location for all those amazing vistas of Florence that have become so famous. The Piazza is a fairly recent addition to Florence, being designed in 1869 by architect, Giuseppe Poggi. This wall is (I think) Torre del Belvedere. There are three statues of David in… Read more
Transfăgărășan Birthday – 3 of 4
My friend Florin knew of an amzing place for lunch… Where? Right next to the road, perched on the edge of the cliff! Lunch at the edge of the world… Yes, if you look to the left, and it looks like a looooooong way down – it is!!! Bâlea… Read more
Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot
Another item checked off my rather extensive bucket list – attending Royal Ascot, in the Royal Enclosure nonetheless, thanks to an invitation from my dear friend, Noreen. It was a glorious day, but I will let the photos tell the story… ~ Bella Read more
Urriðafoss Waterfall and Walter Mitty bridge
Harry Hyundai and I decided to go hunting for a couple of Walter Mitty filming locations, as well as a particular waterfall – and we succeeded on both accounts… After navigating a road that almost swallowed up poor Harry (he’s such a trooper!)… … we arrived at the Urriðafoss Waterfall… Read more