Travel Bucket List...

Well hello!

Sorry it's been a while since I last blogged (is two years a while or just me forgetting about it?) but I hope you're all okay out there (assuming people actually ever read this).

I suppose if you're one of my friends on Facebook (FB) or Twitter you probably haven't missed much in those two years as I've pretty much lived my life through the two mediums, more-so Twitter in the last six months or so.
If you didn't follow me on either and just randomly found me on the net, then I apologise with as much vigor as I can muster at 8 AM on a Friday morning.

Anyway, the reason for my blog this morning is that I got into the office and was looking for a file on my memory stick. It wasn't in the most obvious places I looked so I started looking in random files and found an old Travel folder. Now, when I say old, it probably hasn't been updated since I went to the US in 2008. At the time I had just broken up with someone and decided it was time to "sort my life out", not that there was anything terribly wrong with my life, but I felt I'd been lagging on a few things and been putting other things off. So I created an action list and one of the items was to travel more, which lead me to create a sort of travel bucket list.

Now, for all of you who don't know what a bucket list is, it's a list of things you want to do before you die. Now, just for the record (and as far as I'm aware) I'm not dying anytime soon, but I think it's good to make a list like this. You put down all the things you want to do, things you want to see, places you want to visit and then as you go through life you can check them off. I suppose it's like a Life To-Do list. And it's not meant to be a finite list, you can keep adding to it as life goes along and you hear of new or exciting things. And the best thing about it is, it doesn't have to be big, life-changing things like climbing Mount Everest or running a marathon. It could just be lying under the stars on a summers evening and looking at constellations or going for a walk in Hyde Park (I lived in London nearly three years and never once got to Hyde Park). You make the list what you want it to be. After all, for once, it's meant to be all about you.

Anyway, I put together a list of places I'd like to visit. Now there is no order to the list except me looking at google maps and going 'oh, yeah, I'd like to go there'. A lot of my list is European cities, but that's because I visited many places in the Far East when I lived over there, whereas Europe is still pretty new to me in terms of travelling. So, below is my Travel Bucket List from 2008

Okay, so for some reason I'm not allowed to copy-and-paste into here from Word. Urgh, how annoying. So I'll just have to type it in...

Paris
Prague
Berlin
Munich
Amsterdam
Oslo
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Vienna
Rome
Madrid
Dublin
Naples
Lisbon
Marseilles
Cannes
Monaco
Turin
Casablanca
Helsinki
Budapest
Istanbul
San Marino
Nuremberg
Zurich
Milan
Florence
Pompeii
Sicily
Barcelona
Seville
Grenada
Bordeaux
Toulouse
Lyon
Le Mans
Gothenburg
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Bali
New York
San Francisco
New Orleans
Easter Island
Cook Islands
Sydney
Melbourne
New Zealand
Alto Plano (South America)


Actually, as I started going through this list I realised it couldn't have been from 2008 as by that point I had been to a couple of these places. So, checked the file properties and it was actually from May 2007!

Since creating this list I've been to a few of these places and added a few more too. As I said, it's a fluid list and will be ever-changing. I now just need to get my ass into gear and start doing a few more trips a year to see all these lovely places.