With the start of the New Year, it is time to update and reassess my bucket list.
I crossed off a few things this year:
- 1 new country – Slovenia
- Photography course locally and dawn workshops in Venice and London
- Learned to draw at a beginner’s course in Manchester (needs more practice but it really did work!)
- Attended Spanish evening class – but needs a lot more work!
My new list is below:
General
- Visit at least 1 new country each year (2011 – China; 2012 – Croatia, Bosnia; 2013 – Botswana, Zambia; 2014 – Slovenia; 2015 – Singapore)
Journeys
- Road trip around Spain
- Royal mail ship to St Helena
- Ferry Tarifa to Tangier
- Boat on Canal du Midi
- Trans-Siberian railway
- West Highland railway
- Copper Canyon rail journey
Places
- Sossuvlei Dunes in Namibia
- Malawi
- Brazil, including Angel Falls
- St Helena
- Easter Island
- Angkor Wat
- Macchu Pichu
- Tikal, Guatemala
- Kiev (including Bulgakov museum)
- Rome
- Fez and/or Rabat, Morocco
- New Orleans
- Galapagos Islands
- Houseboat in Kerala
- Sri Lanka
- Cuba
- See street art in Los Angeles
- Wyoming
Sports
- Monaco F1
- Royal Enclosure at Ascot
- Kentucky Derby
Events
- Northern Lights
- Edinburgh Festival
- Holi in India
- New Year in New York
- Venice Biennale
- Carnival, somewhere
- Hay Book Festival, or one abroad (Segovia, Budapest or Nairobi)
- White Nights in St Petersburg
- Holland in bloom
Animals
- Tigers in India
- Orang Utans in Malaysia
- Gorillas in Uganda or Ruanda
- Elephants in Sri Lanka
- Polar bears in the wild
- Spanish Riding School, Vienna
- See Lipizzaners in Lipica
Travel with Intent 
Slovenia looks great from the photo.
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Great list of what you would like to do. A wonderful way to keep you focus.
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Great shots and an interesting list with a good amt. of diversity. If you go to Brazil and want to see Angel Falls, you’ll probably have to fly up to Venezuela. It would take a lot of time to go by road, but it would be an adventure! If you go to Angel Falls I’d recommend spending time in Ven and doing a separate trip to Brazil. I spent a month in Venezuela and it was jam-packed. Tikal is a mystical place. Good luck!
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more than interesting, Debbie!
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Wow, that’s quite a list!! I think Angkor Wat is a MUST DO if you love photography. It’s magical. Good luck with the list!!
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Thanks for that recommendation. I’ll try to get organised for 2016
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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That’s an impressive list! Better get started now! Happy new year to you!
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First trip on 15th Jan 🙂
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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I enjoyed skimming your list – and whew – looks like some great places too photograph – and the one I have in common is new year’s in new york – we have decided that it is something we must do at some point – even through we dread the crowds and actually prefer new york in fall. but just seems like a must experience type of thing….
oh and with your list- I have never seen the categories like that so I feel like I learned a bit with this – very cool !
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Maybe I’ll see you in New York 🙂
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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now that would be cool. we though about going this year, cos it is only 6 hours from us, but just needed to stay local. but that would be way cool… so we shall see….
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I haven’t been for a while and was hoping to get there this Spring, but looks too busy a year already! It’s only 7 hours for us – half way pretty much! If New Year comes off I’ll let you know 🙂
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Love the beautiful night shot and thanks for the list to now inspire mine!
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Happy New Year to you too!
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Great list – Happy New Year!
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Good job you’re not attempting all of those in a year, Debbie, but there are some seriously inviting options. 🙂 Your Lublijana shot is superb.
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It was a beautiful place. And although I haven’t put it on my list, I want to back and do a bit of a tour of Slovenia. There are mountains, lakes and sea, and it’s close to venice
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Quite a list!
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Ljubljana – one of my most favourite cities!
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One of mine too now !
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What an inspiring list! I may add a few to my bucket list 🙂
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Feel free 🙂
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Impressive! Good luck!
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Great pictures and lists! What a blast to work towards all of those and you’ve accomplished a lot last year.
janet
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Amazing pictures….Good luck for fulfilling your bucketlist 🙂
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Thanks Ady
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Oh, and were the photography courses good? Who did you use??
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Good luck with the list….. I think you need to live quite a long time, and/or have inexhaustible supplies of cash! And health….Angkor Wat was on my list, I was due to go last November but was ill at last minute. Because of MS, I rethought and decided I won’t get there after all :(. BTW, what is this year’s country going to be?
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I probably won’t complete it. I did revise it slightly this year to make it a little more realistic. That’s a shame about Angkor Wat but there are so many closer and easier wonderful places. I haven’t decided on my country yet. Maybe Sri Lanka. Or Iceland, Estonia, Latvia or Cuba. Talk about indecisive!
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Indecisive, maybe…but I am wondering where my next must go is! I can recommend Cuba. I went almost a decade ago, would love to return…maybe one day. I know there have been changes – Fidel Castro Ruz was in power when I was there – but I wouldn’t imagine it will have changed that much.
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With Obama opening up US access I think it will change soon. Looks like this year will be fine, but then the influx of tourists may hit 😦
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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😦 indeed!
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Good luck 🙂
And great night photograph
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