The List

1. See the Pyramids and climb inside one
   


2. Climb to Macchu Pichu
   


3. Go to Istanbul and have tea & haggle with a carpet seller
   


4. Walk from Coast to Coast - St Bee’s to Robin Hood Bay (190 miles)
   


5. Walk part of the Camino de Santiago
   


6. Write a story & have it published
   


7. Have a photo I took published in a book or magazine
   


8. Learn to paint/draw
   


9. Learn to play an instrument – piano/guitar/bass/violin (haven’t picked one yet)
   


10. Spend a year working for a charity in a third world country
    


11. Run a small pub that has live bands
    


12. Cruise along the Nile
    


13. Take a trip on the Orient Express
    


14. Go for a balloon ride over Cappadocia
    


15. Attend a dawn service at Gallipoli (I've been to Gallipoli and stood on the pebbly beach of Anzac Cove in the pouring rain, but I'd like to go back for a dawn service)
    


16. Go to the South Pole
    


17. Learn to pull a pint – properly
    


18. Walk the streets of London
    


19. Take the Trans-Siberian railway
    


20. Brew a batch of Scotch that tastes good
    


21. Elope
    


22. Get lost in the British Museum
    


23. Go on a dig
    


24. Learn Spanish
    


25. Go to Stonehenge
    


26. Keep a close friendship for 20 years or longer
    


27. Learn to belly dance
    


28. Have my portrait painted
    


29. Be the most important person in someone’s life, even if it’s for a short time
    


30. Kiss the Blarney Stone
    


31. Walk across the Giants Causeway
    


32. See the sun rise from Mount Sinai
    


33. Spend a winter in the Highlands of Scotland or on one of the Orkney Islands
    


34. Go to Jerusalem
    


35. Take singing lessons
    


36. Learn to recite Yeats
    


37. Visit the Andes
    


38. See the Himalayas
    


39. Go to Easter Island and see the statues (I've seen one in Chile but havent been to Eater Island yet)


40. Fly over the Nasca Lines in a small plane pretending to be aliens
    


41. Go on Safari
    


42. Watched a meteor shower
    


43. Learn to make my own ear rings
    


44. Venture into the jungle to see Mayan and Aztec ruins in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
    


45. Go to Rome
    


46. Spend some time in a concentration camp
    


47. Milk a cow
    


48. Ride a camel into a desert
    


49. Make someones wedding cake
    


50. See the Pope (JP II)
    


51. Take a gondola ride in Venice
    


52. Go to China & see the Statue Army and Great Wall
    


53. Say ‘I love you’ and really mean it - unconditionally, with all my being
    


54. Get a tattoo
    


55. Followed my favorite band on tour
    


56. Live on a canal boat for a month
    


57. Fly over an active volcano
    


58. Attend an Olympics
    


59. Take a trip down the Amazon
    


60. Make a short film (been the subject of one, but havent made one yet)
    


61. Take a pilgrimage to Lourdes
    


62. Get a masters degree before I’m thirty
    


63. Visit the big galleries of the world – Musee du Lourve in Paris, The Prado in Madrid, Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Egyptian Museum in Cairo, The Rijks Museum in Amsterdam, Musee d’Orsay in Paris, Tate Modern/Britain in London, The Kunsthistoisches Museum in Vienna, The Vatican Museums in Rome
    


64. See an Ashes Test at Lords (been there, seen the urn, stood on the balcony, supped in the long room but not seen an Ashes test there yet)
    


65. Pick up and move to another city knowing no one, just to start over
    


66. Walk through the ruins of Pompeii
    


67. Visited all 7 continents in the world (Australia, Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, South American, Antarctica)
    


68. Swim in all 5 oceans of the world (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic)
    


69. See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
    


70. Float in the Dead Sea
    


71. Be invited to join a Board of Directors of a company
    


72. Spend more than a week in Paris
    


73. Visit Buckingham Palace & stand on the garden party lawn and have tea
    


74. Make paper
    


75. Walk on a beach watching the sun rise, having not been to bed yet.
    


76. Catch a fish, cook it straight away and eat it
    


77. Live in a quaint little village
    


78. Own a bookstore and run it the way I imagined
    


79. Own a house with an attic, a long kitchen, a library room and a magic walled garden
    


80. Learn how to build my own webpage
    


81. See a ghost
    


82. Make a difference in someone’s life
    


83. Be content within myself
    


84. Walked in the rain
    


85. Study at Oxford or Cambridge
    


86. Visit Shakespeare’s birthplace
    


87. Make someone cry of happiness
    


88. See a play at The Globe (been there a few times but not seen a play yet)
    


89. Raise a child
    


90. See Petra
    


91. Go to Glastonbury Music Festival
    


92. Drive across America
    


93. Have hair down to my bottom - once
    


94. Do my family tree
    


95. Own a new car
    


96. Read the books of Charles Dickens from start to finish
    


97. Travel around the Lakes District
    


98. Watch my nephew play guitar on one of the big stages of the world
    


99. Go to a Rugby Union World Cup final with the Wallabies
    


100. Live with no regrets

That was fun, I struggled a little at the 80 mark and had to think a little harder about what I really wanted to do, but I'm pretty happy with the list.

I've marked the ones I've done in Purple