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Africa
Africa 2012
Africa 2019

Antarctica
Australia
Europe
Europe 2009
Europe 2014
Scandinavia 2017
Europe 2019

North America
USA 2007
Mexico 2010
Cuba 2010
USA 2015
Canada 2015


Central Asia 2016
India 2019
Japan 2023
South Korea 2023


South America 2006


Places / countries / cities already ticked:
  1. Walk on the Golden Gate bridge
  2. See the Grand Canyon
  3. Gamble in Las Vegas
  4. Drive a car in the USA
  5. Have a holiday in Hawaii
  6. The Isle of Skye
  7. The Tower of London
  8. Visit Stonehenge
  9. Loch Ness
  10. Henry V111's cod-piece
  11. Drive through / stay in Death Valley
  12. San Francisco cable car
  13. Take a harbour cruise in Singapore
  14. See the moai on Easter Island
  15. Visit Machu Pichu
  16. Fly over the Nasca Lines
  17. Reed boats of Lake Titicaca
  18. Take a boat ride on the Amazon River
  19. See the White House in Washington
  20. Drive through Monument Valley
  21. Get sprayed on at Niagara Falls
  22. Cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde
  23. Empire State building
  24. Statue of Liberty
  25. See the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  26. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
  27. See the Mona Lisa in the Louvre
  28. Stand on the Rialto bridge in Venice
  29. Cruise on the Danube
  30. St Peter's Square in Rome
  31. Walk in the Colosseum
  32. Visit Gallipoli
  33. Cuba before the Castros die
  34. See the Mayan / Aztec culture
  35. Go back to New York
  36. Visit a South Pacific Island (Rarotonga)
  37. Safari in Lake Ngorongoro crater
  38. Stay on Zanzibar
  39. See the deserts of Namibia
  40. Lake Victoria & Victoria Falls
  41. Balloon ride over Masai Mara
  42. Table Mountain in Capetown
  43. Check out the geysers of Iceland
  44. Phallic museum in Reykavik
  45. St Petersburg & Moscow
  46. Stay in southern France
  47. Go for a cruise in Alaska
  48. Check out the "stans" : Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
  49. Visit the Forbidden City
  50. See the terracotta soldiers
  51. Walk on the Great Wall of China
  52. Go as far north as North Cape - the very top of Europe
  53. Visit Scandinavia
  54. Go to Spain, Morocco, Portugal
  55. Baltic countries
  56. See the Berlin Wall, and Checkpoint Charlie
  57. Taj Mahal
  58. Rajastan
  59. Japan
  60. South Korea - specifically the DMZ
Places / countries / cities unticked:
  1. South America: Brazil, Argentina, Eduador, Bolivia (some of these would be good)
  2. Colombia - specifically Catagena
  3. Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia (but having second thoughts about that in terms of heat)
  4. Jordan, Israel, Egypt - supposed to visit in 2023
  5. Antarctica - second thoughts. Should tourists really be going there?
  6. Greece: some islands and the Acropolis
  7. Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (maybe not bearing in mind their current situation)
  8. some Scottish islands
  9. southern Italy - ideally with a week's stay somewhere
  10. Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
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Things to try / do - ticked:
  1. go to a strip club
  2. picked up by a guy who's 30 years younger than me
  3. sailing
  4. drive a racing car
  5. drive a car in Europe
  6. ride on a Harley
  7. a roller coaster
  8. own my own home
  9. ballooning (Canterbury Plains AND Kenya)
  10. walk off the Sky Tower in Auckland
  11. learn to play jazz on a piano
  12. fly any class except "cattle"
  13. dirt-bike riding
  14. be a bridesmaid
  15. Nevis Swing
  16. have a helicopter lesson
Things to try / do - unticked:
  1. Sky-dive (booked 3 times; weather had other ideas)
New Zealand list: (from 2020, this became a "thing"!)
and I've already seen an lot of New Zealand
  1. Farewell Spit (top of South Island)
  2. Southern Alps train trip
  3. stay at the Hermitage (Mt Cook)
  4. Doubtful Sound cruise
  5. Dart River Jet boat
  6. Marlborough Sounds via the Mail Run
  7. Drive around Catlins (Slope Point and Curio Bay)
NewZealand list - unticked:
  1. Helicopter onto a glacier in Southern Alps
  2. Cape Reinga - I've been there briefly, but it was raining heavily

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