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Above, I have a very big list of stuff I want to do before they take me to a Funeral Parlour and don't bring me back alive such as..

Visit Legoland in either Windsor or Denmark.
Attend WWE Wrestlemania in the US
Visit Disneyland Paris in France
Win enough money on the Lottery to set up Trust funds for my Nephew and Niece (that they can't have till they're 18, and my Nephew's just turned 14 last Sunday)
Swim with Dolphins
Achieve a First Aid certificate and actually use the skills to save somebody's life
Pass a driving test in an Automatic and get a Motability car
Visit the Neighbours set in Australia and meet all those hot, gorgeous women such as April Rose "Chloe Brennan" Pengilly, Jackie "Susan Kennedy" Woodburn etc.
Visit the Coronation St set in Manchester (technically I've already done it, about 14 years ago I walked through the Rovers to attend an audition for a Lottery quiz show in Manchester)
Visit the Emmerdale set in Leeds and kiss Lucy "Chas Dingle" Pargeter.
Attend an AEW Dynamite or Rampage taping in the UK (Anywhere other than London, but they're not big enough yet)

Big list, how about you guys? Anything cool on your to do lists?
 
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I want to go and see the great whales swimming:)
 
I've achieved everything I wanted to really, the stuff that matters.
Good job.
Own house.
Children.

I just want to see my children happy now and carry on with my hobbies, continue to travel to places.
 
I sometimes think I'm passed a bit of it now.....

Late teens children both doing well.
Awesome other half - is girlfriend not the right phrase for people of our age? :ROFLMAO:
I 'lost' the family house in a amicable divorce about 10 years ago and in the current situation right now we're both a bit old to buy a house now so......

I'm tempted with some sort of camper van or day van.
I want to do more adventure photography either car sleeping or wild camping.
Ohh, I'd also like to go camping for a weekend in the Mk1 Escort and pretend it's the 1980's again.....!
Photography...... There are quite a few places I want to shoot and reshoot night skies and the Milky Way at - Durdle Door, the Brecons, Stonehenge, Avebury, North Somerset coast, etc
We're not really into foreign holidays but a little tour of Italy would be nice!
I also wouldn't mind an astrophotography workshop with someone like Alyn Wallace etc
Edinburgh would be a nice place to spend some time too.

Most of my stuff seems to be around photography and some adventure. I guess that isn't a bad thing!
 
Another 25 years on the planet would be nice ..
 
I usually settle for waking up thinking "Oh good - another day!"
 
Something else on my list, I wanted to meet Meat Loaf and sing Bat out of hell to him, sadly he left us the other week! :crying:
 
From your list I think passing your driving test would be the most useful thing to do.
 
I usually settle for waking up thinking "Oh good - another day!"
And then being free to do whatever you (I) like (y)
 
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I'd struggle to find 50 things.

I'd like to see Table Mountain again.
I'd like to cover an Ashes Test as a 'tog
See the Northern Lights
 
for me hopefully in about 12 months just chucking in work and moving to the greek house and applying for our initial 5 years residency permit :-)
 
I was thinking about the famous 'bucket list' just last week because we've been thwarted for 2 years re Covid and still are.

Three already mentioned..Costa Rica, Northern Lights and Iceland ..[Iceland is giving up whaling in 2024 so that makes me happier]

Morning Glory cloud https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/...ry-australias-rare-meteorological-phenomenon/

To listen to the Mozart Requiem in St Stephen's cathedral, Vienna.

Vienna.

Lake Como. Visited Lake Garda in 2018 .

To visit St Stephen's Cathedral, Passau, Germany . I've tried three links and none show live. It's worth a Google: Pipe Organ St Stephen's Cathedral-Passau.

Go to an André Rieu concert.

A train journey through the Swiss Alps.

Nazaré, Portugal. 60 miles north of Lisbon..Oct > March but I don't think my wife would join me. :)


Visit Cinque Terre..Italy https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/planning-visit-cinque-terre


Visit Monterey Bay, California. Sea/Wildlife including Sea Otters.
 
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From your list I think passing your driving test would be the most useful thing to do.
Least likely to happen though, it'll be 20 years next year since I was refused a second Provisional license by the DVLA, I wouldn't mind but I got one about 7 years previous but I wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's till about 3 years later, I had driving lessons in a manual car for several months from the same bloke who taught my Brother, until the guy eventually turned round and gave up and said I'd never pass a test!
 
Build an Ultima
Go to Le Mans for the 24h again
Go to Bathurst for the 1000km
Go to NASCAR Cup races at Talladega, Martinsville and the Bristol night race. That's Bristol, Tennessee, not the city and county of Bristol
Do my own "Grand Tour" of Italy to see all the renaissance art and Roman Empire sites
See the Northern Lights
Visit Göbekli Tepe and many other archeological sites
Learn the piano well enough to play comptine d'un autre été by Tiersen
Visit the Kennedy Space Center and watch a rocket launch

I've been to Rome, seen the Colosseum and Pantheon, put my hand in the Bocca della Verita; walked hand in hand with a woman I was in love with along the banks of the Seine after spending the day at the Musee d'Orsay; seen The Night Watch in the Rijksmuseum and seen Steve Reich and musicians perform Drumming and Music for 18 Musicians at the Carnegie hall, so those have been crossed off.

And then when I kick the bucket (or get Dignitas to do it for me, as I'm keeping the fee in the bank, just in case), if I haven't been able to spend everything, leave my house / savings to Mermaids, Liberty and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

 
Learn the piano well enough to play comptine d'un autre été by Tiersen



It's a lovely piece. If you can play the piano at a reasonable level,with practice, as ever with anything, you should achieve your goal.
 
Seeing all these wonderful things people want to do reminds me - I need to buy a new bucket…… :)
 
Visit Angkor Wat and Gawilghur. Possible, but unlikely.
Visit Skeleton Coast National Park, including the northern (restricted) part. Maybe, particularly the first part.
Kolmanskop and Pomona. Maybe.
Fire a .600 NE. Very doubtful, a .577 may be on the cards though.
Shark cage dive in Gansbaai. Definitely.
 
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My only "plan" in life has been to take every interesting opportunity that comes along and it has worked out pretty well. So no bucket list as such but one thing I am keen to do but seems quite hard to organise is getting close to an active volcano.
 
I've been very fortunate to have been able to achieve many ambitions in life despite the best machinations of my ex-wife. However some things that I'd love to have done but now probably won't:
- get my co-pilot rating on the DC-3
- live in Hong Kong again (even with the current difficulties, I would)
- have a small ranch in the USA with a bunch of horses to ride
More prosaically, and achievable:
- go back to Namibia for safari and photography, flying myself around the place
- move to France
...
 
My only "plan" in life has been to take every interesting opportunity that comes along and it has worked out pretty well. So no bucket list as such but one thing I am keen to do but seems quite hard to organise is getting close to an active volcano.


How close and how active? It's possible to walk on Nea Kameni which is in the middle of the Santorini crater and that last erupted in 1950 (IIRC). Plenty of gas vents and hot springs (a bit smelly by a great place for a swim!) but no gushing lava. Getting too close to an erupting volcano seems a little foolish to me since they're at best a little unpredictable!
 
Getting too close to an erupting volcano seems a little foolish to me since they're at best a little unpredictable!
That's the thing, the authorities seem to close them off when they are pouring out lava. Working full time means jumping on a plane to Iceland or La Palma when they are active is difficult and even if I got there, getting close could be a problem. One for when I retire and covid is long gone
 
Shark cage dive in Gansbaai. Definitely.

:eek::eek::eek:

I've Googled shark cage diving....Gansbaai too ..(Great Whites and Copper sharks, I see) and yes, it's safe but....it's not for me :D. I'll stick with the likes of that wonderful pipe organ in Passau....and an André Rieu concert....:D
 
I'm not brave enough to get into a cage with a Shark, it'd eat me alive probably! *shudders*

I'm sure I've read somewhere that Dolphins, despite being incredibly cute, can be dangerous in certain situations.
 
I've been very fortunate to have been able to achieve many ambitions in life despite the best machinations of my ex-wife. However some things that I'd love to have done but now probably won't:
- get my co-pilot rating on the DC-3
- live in Hong Kong again (even with the current difficulties, I would)
- have a small ranch in the USA with a bunch of horses to ride
More prosaically, and achievable:
- go back to Namibia for safari and photography, flying myself around the place
- move to France
...

As with the majority on here, we don't know each other's circumstances but from that list and if I were you, the one outstanding aspiration would be the move to France and the sooner, the better. Preferably in the south (coastal areas) and near the south of the Bay of Biscay..so..near the border with Spain or the Mediterranean side..(not Marseilles, though).... Perpignan, Occitanie ? This location is within reasonable distance of Monaco, NW Italy, Switzerland and Austria for mini-breaks or a touring (driving) holiday or even travel to the islands Corsica and Sardinia. Infact, I looked at Spain from Perpignan and depending on which route you take it's a 2hr 15 minute drive or a 2hr 50 minute drive to Barcelona and Gerona is only 1hr 15 minutes away . Really cheap train fares too 30-45 euros and a 40 min journey. The options are just fantastic ! If had my time again I'd have gone to live in central/southern Europe .Southern Germany appeals as I lived in Frankfurt-am -Main for three years and speak German...still..:)
 
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@JohnC6 France is definitely on the cards, but Br***t has made it tricker as local prefectures don't always take savings capital into account when assessing your financial self-sufficiency in order to grant a long term visa; no more freedom of movement. But I may be able to swing that. Alternatively, plan B is to move to Ireland for 5 years to get citizenship first, and if we still want to go to France then we will have regained EU freedoms. My preference though is either Brittany, because I love the coasts there amongst other things, or Charente for the weather and style of houses. Perpignan area is lovely, but too hot in summer! We want an area where we can have horses, and that's more affordable further north.
 
:eek::eek::eek:

I've Googled shark cage diving....Gansbaai too ..(Great Whites and Copper sharks, I see) and yes, it's safe but....it's not for me :D. I'll stick with the likes of that wonderful pipe organ in Passau....and an André Rieu concert....:D

Yes, I did a due diligence on one of the cage diving outfits in Gansbaai for a client a few years ago, with an emphasis on possible risks, and concluded that they were just about negligible providing the operators know what they're doing. I'm going to do this next time I'm in SA, and my daughter is keen to go too. Wife is less so ...

Having said that, my daughter wants to invite her sister in law. Knowing a bit about their relationship, I do have some concerns about the role she envisages for her!

Check this if you like André Rieu:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2p__cU23NM&ab_channel=TheKingOfWaltz
. I'm not particularly sentimental but it brings back a lot of memories ...
 
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Only safe if you use the skyhook that came with it. (Often "forgotten" when packed by ebay sellers...) ;)
 
Yes, I did a due diligence on one of the cage diving outfits in Gansbaai for a client a few years ago, with an emphasis on possible risks, and concluded that they were just about negligible providing the operators know what they're doing. I'm going to do this next time I'm in SA, and my daughter is keen to go too. Wife is less so ...

Having said that, my daughter wants to invite her sister in law. Knowing a bit about their relationship, I do have some concerns about the role she envisages for her!

Check this if you like André Rieu:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2p__cU23NM&ab_channel=TheKingOfWaltz
. I'm not particularly sentimental but it brings back a lot of memories ...

Excellent anthem...(y)
 
2 more for my list.

Attend New York and/or San Diego Comic Con in the USA (probably never gonna happen! :crying: )
Attend Liverpool Comic Con in May (bit more achievable but expensive, £14 each for event tickets plus £63 return Train tickets Sheffield to Liverpool and back)
 
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