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I told my mother the other day that something (can’t remember what) was going on my bucket list and she made a face at me.
“You’re too young to have a bucket list. You shouldn’t be planning on kicking the bucket anytime soon.”
I had never really thought of it that way. To me, bucket lists are things that are submitted to Thought Catalog or written down and saved in a private file (depending on the person), but almost everyone I know has one in the back of their mind. Thing is, my bucket list is so long, if I don’t start it now there’s no way I’ll get all of it done before I die. This is pretty specifically a travel bucket list, and while I’ve left off some things like finishing a novel or getting married (I felt like I should stop once the list hit 60), there are so many things to do and so little time and money in which to do them!
- Train to Vernon and bike to Giverny on a spring morning to see Monet’s water lilies before the gardens become overrun with tourists later in the day
- Frolic in Marie Antoinette’s hamlet at Versailles when the wisteria is in bloom
- See an opera and a ballet at the Palais Garnier (and pretend that I’m Christine looking for my Raoul)
See the Crown of Thorns in Sainte-Chappelle- GO TO A FASHION SHOW. This one is a long shot- maybe next spring?- but would be SO AMAZING
- Visit St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican
Go to Lyon in December during the Fete des Lumieres- Visit a concentration camp
- Visit the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and bike out to more rural areas to see the tulips
- Go to Oktoberfest in Munich!
- Go back to Switzerland and go paragliding in Interlaken
- Go to the baths in Budapest
- Take a picture by the John Lennon Wall in Prague
- Visit the famous Christmas markets in Austria or southern Germany
- Scuba dive Green Lake in Austria
- Celebrity-stalk during the film festival in Cannes
- Wander through Monaco and pretend I have enough money to do anything there
- Visit Lisbon and some smaller seaside cities in Portugal (and drink a LOT of wine there)
- Visit the cave of Melissani in Greece
- Party in Ibiza
- Visit the Norwegian-knighted penguin Nils Olav in the zoo in Edinburgh
Visit Dublin- Visit Copenhagen
- Visit Stockholm
- Visit Anna in Finland
- Take a picture standing on the Kjeragbolten and Trolltunga in Norway
See the Cliffs of Moher- Kiss a sailor in Galway
- Visit the French Riviera
- Watch the sunset over the Adriatic Sea in Dubrovnik
- Hike at least part of the Sentiero Azzurro and visit the major towns of Cinque Terre
- Ride a gondola in Venice
- Buy a leather jacket from Massimo in Florence
- Take a picture with the Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Buy a pair of Repetto flats (or something else quintessentially Parisian)
- Explore the cool-looking glaciers in Iceland
- Scuba dive in Phuket, Thailand
- See the Floating Lanterns Festival in Chiang Mai
- Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
- See the glowworm caves in New Zealand
- Visit Japan when the cherry blossoms are in bloom
- Visit Bangkok
- Play with elephants at a nature preserve in Thailand
- Swim in the famous millennium pool in Singapore
- Visit Kuala Lumpur
- Visit Katmandu
- Hike in the Himalayas
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Visit Alexandria, Egypt
- Hang out on the beach in Tel Aviv
- Visit Jerusalem
- Visit Beirut, “the Paris of the Middle East”
- Visit the mosques in Istanbul…
- …and then party in Istanbul
- Kayak in the bioluminescent bay in Puerto Rico
- Dive the Great Blue Hole in Belize
- Go to Rio for Carnival
- See the salt flats in Bolivia during the rainy season
- Visit Buenos Aires
- Take an Antarctic cruise
You see why I have to get started as soon as possible? Anyone want to join me on any of these adventures?
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