Our Bucket List

When I (Tania) was 17 I had a horrible accident that left me in the hospital for 3 months and in and out of hospital for many years after. I remember deciding that when I was better I would not just see the world but attack it with Lee and make the most of it. So on the back of about 12 pieces of paper, in a hospital bed, I wrote my bucket list. It’s stupidly long and a bit random but it means a lot to me . A lot have already been crossed off and a lot have been added over time.

If a item is crossed off we will eventually get around to putting a link to an article about it but for now , as this site is just taking its first tentative steps into the blogashere , here it is:

Our World Trip Bucket List :

• See the Northern Lights

• See the Great wall of China

• See the Forbidden City

• See Tiananmen Square

• See the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo

• See a Volcano in Indonesia

• See a sunrise over Angkor Wat

• See the Japanese Macaque snow monkeys

• See Monkeys in Indonesia

• Try weasel coffee (Luwak) in Indonesia

• See the Taipei 101 building

• See elephants in Thailand

• Eat the world’s best pad thai

• Eat a panang curry in Panang

• Stand on a frozen lake

• See Niagara falls

• Try poutine in Toronto

• Eat a burger in Texas

• Go to Times Square

• Go to Rockefeller centre at Christmas

• See the Statue of Liberty

• See the Effiel Tower

• See the Colosseum in Rome

• Drink in a Italian bar

• Eat real Italian food

• Eat real Gelato

• Eat real Kleftiko in Greece

• See the Greek ruins in Athens

• See St. Peters square in Russia

• See the Grand Canyon.

• See the Golden Gate Bridge
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• See the blue swirly waters of Whitsundays
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• See the Great Barrier Reef

• See Sumo in Japan

• See the bamboo forests of Kyoto

• See Red Panda’s in the Wild

• Go on Safari in Africa 

•  See the mountains of New Zealand

• Watch a rugby match in a New Zealand pub

• Watch the all blacks to the Hakka

• See Hobbiton in Wellington

• Try a Braai in South Africa

• See Table mountain in Cape Town.

• See Victoria and Angel falls in Africa

• See the American Redwoods

• See the Beach Penguins of South Africa

• Eat a Philly cheese steak in Philly

• Eat pizza in Naples

•  See a man in a kilt with bag pipes in Scotland

• Try Guinness in Ireland

• See Big Ben

• See an iceberg

• See the Sydney Opera house

• Go Whale watching in  Australia

• Go to Frasier Island in Australia

•  Eat street food in Hoi An , Vietnam

• See the remains of the Berlin Wall

• Have a beer at Octoberfest in Germany

• See the temples in Laos

• See the orangutans in the wild

• Climb  in Nepal

• See the Taj Mahal at sunrise in India

• Watch Lee play Cricket with kids in India

• Watch a rugby game in South Africa

• See the wild life in Sri Lanka

• See Lemurs in Madagascar

• See stone henge in England

• See a rugby game in the millennium stadium in Wales

• Drink with the locals in The Philippines

• Have a Thai massage

• See Seoul Tower

• Drink Soju with locals in Korea

• See the seaside city of Busan in Korea

• Go to Florence – Italy

• Go to Sicily

• Sip cocktails in the Caribbean

• Dance with a tribe in Fiji

• Have a luau in Hawaii

• Jump out of a plane in Australia (only Tania wants this)

• Swim with Sharks  (only Lee wants this)

• Have a cooking class in Thailand/ Indonesia/ Vietnam

• Eat redang curry in Redang Malaysia

• Have a Singapore Sling in Singapore Raffles. (we went to Singapore and DIDN’T do this…so we need to return)

• Visit Pixar in San Fransisco

• See autumn in New England America

• Travel the Chinese countryside

• Visit the unknown lands of Myanmar

• Visit a speak easy in Taiwan

• See the Marble gorges of Halien in Taiwan

•  Travel on the maglev train in Shanghai

• Travel first class for free

• Go to Amsterdam with friends

• See Venice

• Go to Hong Kong to see our friends family

• Go to an island with just us on it.

• See the Milky way

• Eat every local food in Vietnam (we ate the top 40 foods so  I think this counts)

• Try every local beer in Asia

• See Gorillas in the wild

• Go to Disney land with Tania’s baby sister.

• Dance to music in New Orleans

• Try Grits in Atlanta

• Go people watching at a real Walmart in America

• Celebrate Canada Day in Canada

• Throw paint for Holi Hai in India

• See Craggy Island in Ireland

• Stay in a temple over night.

• Do yoga on the beach at sunrise in Cambodia (Tania may be doing this alone as Lee likes sleep)

• Play roulette in Vegas

• Eat Spanish tapas in Madrid

• See if we can find a bear in Peru

• See the sloths in Costa Rica

• Take a dog sled in Norway

• Eat reindeer in Norway

• Visit the DMZ

• Stand on the equator

• Eat Mongolian lamb

• Eat Dim sum in China

• Try Peking Duck in the old land of Peking (now Beijing)

• Get to Everest Base camp

• See Rice Paddies

• Hike an active volcano

• See the Gilli Isles in Indonesia

• See the Fields of Temples in Burma

• Visit the Choco Hills in Bohol, Philippines (not made of Chocolate )

• See Halong Bay by boat

• See the mountain ranges of Guilin- China

• See our friends in Singapore

• Relax in Chiang Mai in Thailand

• Have a south east Asian cooking class

• Visit an empty island in Cambodia

• Eat real Pho in Vietnam

• Celebrate Saint David’s Day in Wales

• Visit the icebergs of Iceland

• See the Rockies in Canada