Things to do before I go

To date: 26/125 done.

1. Finish my accounting degree
2. Live abroad
3. Attend my graduation***
4. Get married
5. Have my photo taken in front of a Pyramid in Egypt
6. Attend a Professional Ballet performance
7. Buy a cottage/estate in the country
8. Have children
9. Read every book written by Jane Austen
10. Stand in the Red Square, Russia
11. Go to a movie alone
12. Ride an elephant
13. Trek to Machu Picchu, Peru
14. Grow and eat my own vegetables
15. Volunteer, teaching children in an impoverish area in Africa
16. Eat in one of Gordon Ramsay’s or Jamie Oliver’s restaurants
17. Stay up all night long and see the sun rise
18. Visit the Sistine Chapel
19. Ride in a hot air balloon
20. Work in the UK
21. Buy an investment property
22. Go skinny dipping
23. Learn to surf
24. Walk the Great Wall of China
25. Be invited to attend an art exhibition
26. Celebrate a white Christmas
27. Visit Alaska
28. Visit Cappadocia in Turkey
29. Take a cruise
30. Holiday in the Hamptons
31. Go camping
32. Stay in a five star hotel
33. Go to Disneyland
34. Host a dinner party
35. Make cupcakes for my love for Valentines
36. Drive a VW Beetle
37. Eat a chocolate croissant for breakfast in France
38. Drink a whole bottle of wine by myself
39. Fly first class
40. Ride in a limo
41. Celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
42. Fire a rifle***
43. Invest in shares
44. Travel through the US and step in at least 10 states
45. Host a baby shower
46. Be interviewed on the radio***
47. Bump into a celebrity on the street
48. Cook a three course meal
49. Read a novel in French
50. Adopt a breakfast-in-bed-on-Sunday’s rule
51. Sail on a yacht around Greece
52. Milk a cow
53. Have a photo published in a book, magazine or newspaper ***
54. Speak in front of an audience of 100+
55. Attend the Cannes Film Festival
56. Own a Nikon camera
57. Visit Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
58. Work for a large company
59. Visit Trump Tower
60. Visit Stone Henge
61. Climb a volcano/mountain
62. Take a cooking class
63. Visit Borough Market in London
64. Feed a tarantula
65. Have a Guinness in a pub in Ireland
66. See Les Miserables live
67. Swim with dolphins
68. Visit von Trapp Villa in Austria from The Sound of Music film.
69. Celebrate St Patrick’s Day in Ireland
70. Join in at La Tamatina (tomato throwing festival) in Spain
71. Go on the London Eye
72. Learn another language
73. Take a photography course
74. Stay in a bed & breakfast in the English countryside
75. Host cocktail parties regularly, when I get my own house
76. Reach my 68kg goal weight
77. Visit Barnes & Noble
78. Have only popcorn for dinner
79. Be present at the ANZAC Day memorial at Gallipoli, Turkey
80. Get a job where I have my own office
81. Put a bet on the roulette wheel in Las Vegas
82. Write a book
83. Visit the Grand Canyon
84. Go up the Empire State Building
85. Visit one or all of the wine regions of France; Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne
86. Be interviewed for an article for a magazine/newspaper/TV show***
87. Visit Great Barrier Reef
88. Learn to snowboard***
89. Visit Ayers Rock
90. Visit Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve in Alaska
91. Go streaking ***
92. Shop at Piccadilly Circus
93. Attend a football match in England
94. Visit Dover Castle, Kent, UK
95. Visit Yosemite National Park, California
96. Attend an American football game
97. Buy a villa-style house and renovate it
98. Ride a camel
99. swim in the Marina Bay Sands pool, 55 storeys high, in Singapore
100. Visit Hever Castle, Kent, UK
101. Learn to drive manual
102. Spend a summer in Italy, take a gondola ride, eat gelato
103. Sleep in a castle
104. Own a little beach house
105. Go white-water rafting
106. Go to the airport and book a random ticket away
107. Go on a retreat
108. Dress up in 1940’s attire
109. Learn about wine
110. Go on a wildlife safari
111. Sip a cocktail in the Bahamas
112. Ride on the back of a motorcycle
113. Wakeboard
114. Cook my way through one of Jamie Oliver’s cookbooks
115. Complete a Half Marathon
116. Attend the Glastonbury music festival
117. Travel with a tour group
118. Learn to sail
119. Enjoy a traditional English afternoon (high) tea
120. Eat Spanish churros and percebes
121. Learn to salsa dance
122. Buy a pretzel from a NY street vendor and eat it in Central Park.
123. Get my dive license.
124. Freedom camp
125. Complete a women’s triathlon

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