Bucket List

[KungFooBob]

We've no had a bucket list thread for a while.

I've just watched a video of the Ariane-6 launch and thought I'd really like to experience that in person.

How much are tickets to French Guiana?

What you got?

[weeksy]

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Which i think we may work on putting into place next year as the boy has shown an interest.

I'd also like to visit 'places' after several series of watching Race Around the World, i have a hankering to experience some other cultures, places and sights. But i must admit it's a pretty vague plan at this stage. Mostly involves places like Thailand etc though.

[Mr. Dazzle]

We've no had a bucket list thread for a while.

I've just watched a video of the Ariane-6 launch and thought I'd really like to experience that in person.

I've been to Kennedy Space Centre quite a few times but I've never seen a rocket launch Luckily for me they launch a lot more often now, so hopefully I'll see one next year

In the same vein, ultimate bucket list of me would be to go into space. Feels a bit unlikely!

[weeksy]

I'll go with swimming with the fishies... but in a good way. A coral reef type dive with manta rays, clownfish and everything inbetween.

[KungFooBob]

I'll go with swimming with the fishies... but in a good way. A coral reef type dive with manta rays, clownfish and everything inbetween.

That would be a kind of torture for me. I don't go in the sea, crazy shit lives there!

[Yorick]

I'll go with swimming with the fishies... but in a good way. A coral reef type dive with manta rays, clownfish and everything inbetween.

I dived the Great Barrier Reef and saw all that kind of stuff. Amazing

[MyLittleStudPony]

I'd like to take my kids to dive Raja Ampat.

They don't want to go though, so I might just take my g/f.

Probably not for a year or two though. It's a bit of a cunt to get to.

I'd like to go to Japan with my g/f too.

[Mussels]

I'll go with swimming with the fishies... but in a good way. A coral reef type dive with manta rays, clownfish and everything inbetween.

I've done limited snorkelling and scuba in the tropics, the most interesting dives I had were near the surface with a snorkel so don't think you need loads of gear and training.

[Taipan]

Go to Havana. I really don't know why I haven't.

[Yambo]

Not much on my list now: space, Patagonia and Antarctica.

I was planning for Patagonia a few years ago and it was getting longer, lonelier and more expensive when M sent me details of a Southern Africa trip. That whole trip was cheaper than flights to Buenos Aires and back home from Santiago. We went to Africa.

Space ain't gonna happen and Antarctica would have to be a cruise but they're hugely expensive (a lot depart from Tierra del Fuego . . . )

This winter's trip is Vietnam and Cambodia to finish off last winter's trip (Thailand, Laos and Hanoi/Ha Long Bay).. I'm not overly fussed as the Far East was never on my list but hey ho.

There are no 'activities' on my list nowadays. I got through the last of them a few years ago.

[gremlin]

Go to Havana. I really don't know why I haven't.

I have. It was mega-interesting. We had a brilliant local guide. Makes all the difference.

As for my bucket list. I'm grab a bike from somewhere in northern Italy and ride it the length of the country, criss-crossing the Apennines, all the way to Sicily.

I might even come all the way back up again.

It's not a case of if, it's a case of when.

(Runs off to see the staff handbook re sabbaticals and stuff)

[gremlin]

This winter's trip is Vietnam and Cambodia

Same. Share you're itinerary. I know nowt about Vietnam so would appreciate some pointers.

[Sunny]

My 'things to do' list is mostly about visiting countries. I find new places, food and cultures endlessly interesting, and try to go somewhere new on every holiday.

In each country on my seemingly endless list I have things I'd like to see and do - like cross the Denmark to Sweden bridge, for example.

I used the 'Countries Been' app recently to tot up where I've been so far - 34 countries so far (I find it annoying that places like Madeira aren't considered countries in their own right ).

I'll be adding number 35 later this month, and hopefully number 36 by the end of the year.

[Yambo]

This winter's trip is Vietnam and Cambodia

Same. Share you're itinerary. I know nowt about Vietnam so would appreciate some pointers.

We're doing the length of Vietnam (N to S by train probably) and just 4 or 5 days in Cambodia. M is in charge of the itinerary and hasn't started it yet as she's had a lot going on but will get on with it soon, I'm sure. She loves planning this sort of stuff. The places I'd like to visit are names from the Vietnam wars (Dien Bien Phu, Da Nang, Long Phuoc etc) but they're not really tourist sites and M won't have a lot of interest - she loves street markets!

You quite welcome to the itinerary when it's done though.

[Slenver]

I still plan to be a rock star and to die at 27.

[KungFooBob]

My 'things to do' list is mostly about visiting countries. I find new places, food and cultures endlessly interesting, and try to go somewhere new on every holiday.

In each country on my seemingly endless list I have things I'd like to see and do - like cross the Denmark to Sweden bridge, for example.

I used the 'Countries Been' app recently to tot up where I've been so far - 34 countries so far (I find it annoying that places like Madeira aren't considered countries in their own right ).

I'll be adding number 35 later this month, and hopefully number 36 by the end of the year.

Loser, I'm at 36 :p

[Felix]

Just a dirty weekend with Natalie Imbruglia would do me. OK this was a 20 odd year old bucket list but i think she is around 50 now and probably still a stunner.

[Mr Moofo]

My 'things to do' list is mostly about visiting countries. I find new places, food and cultures endlessly interesting, and try to go somewhere new on every holiday.

In each country on my seemingly endless list I have things I'd like to see and do - like cross the Denmark to Sweden bridge, for example.

I used the 'Countries Been' app recently to tot up where I've been so far - 34 countries so far (I find it annoying that places like Madeira aren't considered countries in their own right ).

I'll be adding number 35 later this month, and hopefully number 36 by the end of the year.

Loser, I'm at 36 :p

Rough count was 45 for me!
Bucket list - see the Northern Lights (I was in Wales when everyone else got them - other than Wales) again.
Go to Iceland
Make sure I never go to Nigeria again
Own a Ducati 999
MTB in Morzine again - but learn how to jump before I go

Most of the other stuff I have done

[v8-powered]

Make use of our recently acquired yacht skipper tickets - probably charter a few times before looking at purchasing a floaty money pit. Ideally I'd like to take a chunk of time off work and sail to somewhere pleasant and warm.

Wife has her PADI scuba ticket so keeps nagging on about a dive holiday, but means I'd have to qualify in the cold murky UK waters before we go.....

[gremlin]

Wife has her PADI scuba ticket so keeps nagging on about a dive holiday, but means I'd have to qualify in the cold murky UK waters before we go.....

I qualified in the murky depths of a man-made lake some years ago. I figured I would get the PADI Open Water here, rather than take up holiday time (when I say holiday time, I mean splitting my time between my two loves: Mrs. G and beer, of course) when we got there.
I hindsight, learning in the clear, warm waters of the Indian Ocean would have been the wiser choice.