Showing posts with label bucket list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bucket list. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 July 2011

My travel "bucket list"

My baby brother  (he's 14 - so not such a baby) is currently on holiday travelling through Germany, Denmark and Sweden. My flatmate has just been on a Contiki tour through Europe where they visited 10 countries in 16 days and tomorrow  he's heading off to New York for a long weekend. I'm not even pretending that I'm not jealous! 

At the moment, the only travelling I have planned is my daily commute into Central London. 

All this talk of travel and holidays has got me thinking about the trips I want to take and the places I want to see in my life time. Essentially my travel bucket list. 

Currently on the list:
  • Iceland I really want to see the Northern Lights - hopefully I can fit this in before the end of the year.
  • Ireland (mainly because of the movie PS I Love You) 
  • Italy - my plan is to take minimal luggage and get around using the trains.  
  • Las Vegas...
  • New Orleans
  • Machu Picchu
  • The Greek Islands
  • Croatia
  • Hungary
  • Amsterdam
This list keeps changing and keeps getting longer. I think ideally I would win the Euromillions and just spend a couple years travelling the world. But as that is probably the most unrealistic dream I could ever have - I will just have to cross these places off one at time. At least then there is always something to look forward to.

On a different note, my friend El introduced me to such an awesome band today: Young the Giant. She told me to listen to the song Apartment  - which is fantastic. I would also recommend listening to  'My Body' - which I actually prefer. Other bands that I'm listening to at the moment are Band of Horses (Compliments is a stunning song) and White Lies. they were one of the opening bands for Kings of Leon so I added them to my Spotify library and their song 'Bigger than us' probably gets repeated 3 or 4 times an hour.
White Lies - Hyde Park London - 22 June 2011


Spotify has to be one of the best programs ever! You can find nearly any music and stream it for free. I really hope it will make it to South Africa, else I am going to have to work out how to keep my subscription going.

As this post started out as a list of all the places I still need to go to, I unfortunately don't have any photos to post. But I did go to Dussledorf in December and spent some time exploring the Christmas markets and thought I might share some photos from that trip. Enjoy!