I Don’t Do Bucket Lists But If I Did It Would Look Something Like This
I have never been one for writing a bucket-list, simply because there are so many things I would like to do, so many places I would like to visit and so many people I would like to meet that I couldn’t possibly write it all down but as a little taster I thought I would share with you today just 50 things that I would like to see, do and experience here in Blighty.
1. Enjoy a dawn walk around the famous sites of London
2. Go paragliding in the Peak District National Park
3. Have a photo published in the National Geographic
4. Climb Scotland’s Ben Nevis
5. Attend a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society
6. Fly in a World War 2 plane
7. Travel from London to Scotland on the Caledonian Sleeper train
8. Rent a beautiful cottage in the countryside
9. Take a road trip right the way around Britain and Northern Ireland
10. Learn to Ski in Scotland
11. Walk the Pembrokeshire coastal path in Wales
12. Spend a week camping at the War & Peace show
13. Take my first ever hot air balloon ride
14. Drive a steam train
15. Publish a guide to World War 2 sites in Britain
16. Meet Michael Palin
17. Complete an adventure challenge to raise money for Anxiety UK
18. Visit South Georgia in Antarctica
19. Spend the night in a castle
20. Get married in beautiful stately home
21. Visit Gibraltar
22. Run a marathon and survive
23. Cycle the famous end2end route across Britain
24. Have lunch on the Orient Express
25. Raise money and awareness for Crohn’s & Colitis UK
26. Finally work out how to use my Nikon DSLR camera
27. Explore the Orkney and Shetland Islands
28. Watch Liverpool beat Manchester United at Anfield
29. Buy a camper van or at least rent one for a holiday
30. Visit Chartwell house, the family home of Winston Churchill
31. Arrange and play in a charity Cricket match
32. Explore the Lake District National Park
33. Learn to surf in Corwall
34. Visit the Falkland Islands
35. Take on a mountain bike race or challenge
36. Enjoy fish & chips on a beautiful, sunny evening on the beach
37. Buy a house in the country
38. Search for the Northern Lights in Scotland
39. Take a cruise around the British Isles
40. Visit all of Britain’s Unesco’s World Heritage Sites
41. Go swimming in one of Britain’s great lakes
42. Travel on the ‘Night Riviera’ sleeper train between London & Cornwall
43. Pay my respects to the WW1 & WW2 war dead at a cemetery in Europe
44. Trek the 95 miles West highland Way in Scotland
45. Hire a canal boat
46. Discover the history of Titanic in Belfast
47. Spend a weekend in London as the ultimate tourist – visiting the famous sites, double decker bus tour, union jack hat and singing the national anthem. Ok, maybe not that extreme but you get what I mean.
48. Join a WW2 re-enactment group and attend a 1940s weekend.
49. Go book shopping in the second-hand-book capital of the world, Hay-on-Wye
50. I have left the last one for you to fill in. I would love to know what would be on your British bucket list, feel free to drop me a comment below.
Photo by Linda Cronin,