50 places to see before you die, according to 20,000 viewers of the BBC’s “Holiday” programme (2003?). See also interesting article “things to do-before-you-die-ism“, and my travelblog(I never quite finished the text – I blame the chest infection I got on Europe Tour! Decided to make myself feel grateful for all the opportunities I have already had to travel – and you can pretty much assume if I haven’t been somewhere, I want to go there…
- The Grand Canyon, USA
- Great Barrier Reef, east coast of Queensland, Australia Been here!
- Florida and Walt Disney, USA Been here!
- South Island, New Zealand Been here!
- Cape Town and Table Mountain, South Africa
- Golden Temple at Amritsar, Punjab, India
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Sydney, Australia Been here!
- New York
- Taj Mahal
- Canadian Rockies
- Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia Been here!
- Chichen Itza, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
- Machu Picchu, Peru Been here!
- Niagara Falls
- Petra, Jordan
- The Pyramids, Cairo
- Venice Been here!
- Maldives, Indian Ocean, 450 miles SW of Sri Lanka
- Great Wall of China
- Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
- Hong Kong
- Yosemite National Park
- Hawaii
- Auckland, New Zealand Been here!
- Iguassu Falls, Argentina and Brazil Been here!
- Paris Been here!
- Alaska
- Angkor Wat, Cambodia Been here!
- Nepal, Himalayas
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Been here!
- Masai Mara, Kenya
- Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
- Luxor, Egypt
- Rome Been here!
- San Francisco
- Barcelona Been here!
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Singapore Been here!
- La Digue, Seychelles, 1000 miles E of Kenya.
- Sri Lanka, S of India
- Bangkok, Thailand Been here!
- Barbados, 100 miles E of the Caribbean chain
- Iceland
- Terracotta Army, Xi’an, China
- Zermatt, Switzerland
- Angel Falls, Venezuela
- Abu Simbel, Egypt
- Bali, in the Indonesian archipelago
- French Polynesia (Bora Bora), 165 miles NW of Tahiti
List from here, wonder what it would look like in 2010. I am looking at going to Amsterdam with Fiona at Easter. Here is some of the places I have said I want to go, what do you think I’m missing?!
After taking 15hours to move about 4 miles along the M20 in Dover, finally made it to Lauterbrunnen where I’ve been cooking for 50 people all week (along with John P, who is in charge!). Christmas Eve was my day for skiing – didn’t quite work, so just enjoyed the train ride/apple fritters in Brandegg on Christmas Day, before we came back and cooked up a storm…
Heading back into the UK 27/28 December, so here’s praying you had a great Christmas, and are looking forward to 2010 - who knows what it will hold. For those of you who have lost track of what I’m up to, and are interested, I am doing the following (I was going to do this on my blog, but the database seems to have a problem, so I can’t get in…), mostly at the University of Winchester:
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- 2 day per week Modern History Lectureship (til June 2010)
- Hourly (but around 2 day per week) teaching Media Studies (til June 2010)
- Completing my own studies: PGCLTHE (trying to finish by Febraruy 2010…)
- Setting up the socialmedia strategy for Super Fun Days Out (love some blog entries if you have time!), alongside ownsocial media consultancy.
- Other bits & bobs…Getting myself in the New York Times was probably a bit of a highlight for last year!
Air France, what a great airline…
I was excited all the way up until getting on the plane… I'd been planning the trip for nearly a year, as part of my "Gap Year" – I'd never flown before, and as it was Air France, it stopped in Paris, so my Mum came with me for that bit. The short flight was fine – hadn't seen enough stuff on TV etc to be too worried about crashing, etc., so it was just another new experience (yes, I like those) to savour… First landing was fine too!
Said goodbye to my Mum, I think finally realising that I was going to a strange country for 5 months and didn't really know what was going to happen! If I was on the same flight now (the long one), I'd probably kick up a whole lot more. The films didn't seem to work – so we watched that little plane move across the screen veeeeeeeeeeery slowly, and when the meals came round, looked like someone had been sick in it… but that actually did all tie in with what people had said about airline food! We flew into Rio for refuelling and to get rid of some passengers, at which point someone drove into one of the propellors/engines – but gave me a chance to talk to a Brazilian couple who tried to teach me some Portuguese and then invited me to stay in the Pantanal – which I did about 4 months later…
Be open to those new experiences!
Haloumi Cheese, Zaatar & Tomato Pizzas by avlxyz
No need to edit the default title!
Italian: pasta, pizza, gelato all with in many different (and delicious) flavourings… what more could you want! Well, maybe to find the real cuisine rather than whatever I could afford for 2-3 Euro last summer: http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-330501.html
What This is About:
Just stumbled across ‘Plinky’, a site which provides random questions, to which you can provide an answer in any way you choose (and it just demonstrates the different ways in which people’s minds think!). I linked it to this blog, and next thing I know, it’s posted what I’ve written… (and the prompt acts as the blog title) that’s one way to get creative with the blogging (was actually trying to work out how to post the days tweets as a blog, not worked that one out yet!). Unfortunately it doesn’t post images or give an option to add labels/keywords, but I can (and am) re-editing afterwards to add those elements, although where possible leaving the article as is! Done a couple of entries, but don’t want to a) use them all up b) overwhelm with entries!
The Upload from Plinky:
Talk, talk, talk…
Sitting in silence ALL day would drive me completely up the wall, although if they distracted me from taking photos out of the window they’d be in trouble! I’ll pretty much talk to anybody and can find interest in most conversations… although the irritating voice may get to me in the end… maybe I’d have to try and pace my conversation to theirs!
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