Thursday, March 17, 2011

Bucket list: part II

To continue with my bucket list... I was thinking last night that most of the things I put on my list yesterday require a fairly substantial amount of cash – of which a large part would be airfare. So I’ve been trying to think of some things that don’t require spending too much money (although my mind wanders and certainly some things will creep in to this list which would require at least air fare).

34) Read Ulysses by James Joyce
35) Read À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
36) Read Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
37) Attend a murder mystery party
38) Be an extra in a movie or television show
39) Ride a yak
40) Walk the Chartres pilgrimage
41) Try a 30 year-old scotch
42) Go truffle hunting
43) Take my mother on a holiday in Southern France
44) Go on a gourmet picnic in a picturesque location (wines, cheeses, salads, breads)
45) Go biking in Amsterdam and the Netherlands
46) Bike from Lhasa to Kathmandu (this is V’s bucket list item which I may be roped into)
47) Volunteer at an orphanage (although I know that this will likely break my heart)
48) Go sea kayaking
49) Build a miniature village & train set (possibly with the houses out of gingerbread) for Christmas
50) Play in a Scrabble tournament
51) Write and direct a play
52) Visit St Basil’s in Moscow
53) See Angel Falls, Venezuela
54) See a volcano up close
55) Visit all 7 continents
56) Step on the equator and the prime meridian (not at the same time)
57) Visit Iceland
58) Knit a curling cardigan
59) Learn to play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata well
60) Be part of a Sing-along Messiah
61) Attend a Sing-along ‘Sound of Music’, in costume
62) Grow a tree from a seed
63) Put a letter in a bottle and throw it out to sea
64) Visit New Orleans
65) Sit on a jury (V has summons and we both wish I could take his place)
66) Take part in a triathlon or a biathlon (and yes, I know that these are different things, just keeping my seasonal options)

1 comment:

  1. 67) Tame a bee
    68) Learn to see ultraviolet light (get pet bee to teach you)
    69) Eat an ortolan; hide your shame from God
    70) Win a duel
    71) Touch someone's soul (literally)
    72) Touch the dalai lama (not literally)
    73) Play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata...on a theremin
    74) Visit the hottest place on Earth at that exact moment
    75) Do the cat litter this weekend
    76) Sing another country's national anthem, in its original language
    77) Create a 10:1 scale model of St Peter's Basilica in a bottle
    78) Join hands, start a love train (love train)
    79) Beat Ghosts'n'Goblins without dying (in real life. have you played this game? it's ridiculous)
    80) Fly unaided

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