our bucket lists
Everyone has a bucket list don’t they? Here are ours – from the weird to the wonderful and everything in-between!
The differences in our personalities, and in our reasons for travel, really come to the fore in these bucket lists – luckily there is enough overlap to keep us both feeling like we are winning!
Gill’s bucket list
Where do I get my travel inspiration from?
When time allows, I can be a bit of a book worm. I love a good travel book (Lonely Planet or Marco Polo) as well as fictional & non fictional novels. Especially ones which touch on the past, pull on the heart strings, or want to make you get up and go. You’ll see some of my book inspirations called out within my bucket list pages; why I like them, and where you can get a copy.
I used to travel a little bit with my old job – just quick flights to Belfast or Glasgow, and of course, when holidaying with Luke and family & friends. There’s nothing better than getting excited about your next adventure on the way back from your current one. Grab that in-flight magazine!
Luke and I like nothing more than to sit in front of the TV with a cuppa after dinner. We can mostly be found watching the latest travel programmes (Travel Man: 48 hours in…, the Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, or anything by Simon Reeve); programmes that happen to be filmed abroad (such as The Grand Tour, or Race Across the World); or Luke’s favourite, a fishing programme (if you haven’t watched it, I encourage you to please…Gone Fishing with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse. It’s a beauty!)
And last but by no means least… social media; there’s something special about getting ideas from family and friends who have been there and done that.
Luke’s must see places
My overall bucket list is much less thought out than Gill’s. Realistically you could throw a dart at a map of the world and land on somewhere I want to go! It’s strange how bucket list places change with time/experience – after visiting Thailand I really want to go to more of South East Asia for example.
For the purpose of this page I’ve just selected my top countries for each continent with reasons why I want to visit. This seems so much more considered than just stating ‘everywhere’!
I find inspiration can come from anywhere – pretty much all the same sources as Gill (although my book choices are always non fiction). I also love seeing Nasa Earth Observatory images for a totally different angle on the world – changing the angle, doing something different; that’s what exploring is all about!
My bucket list does contain some (currently) unrealistic destinations. Visiting these certainly won’t happen anytime soon but may do one day when the world is a calmer place. I guess visiting Chernobyl would have been seen as unrealistic but we’ve completed that!