My Life To-Do List
"The meaning of life is to live it. Are you living yours?"
Places to visit
Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
Grand Bazaar (Istanbul, Turkey)
Stonehenge (UK)
The Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
The Pantheon (Rome, Italy)
The Colosseum (Rome, Italy)
Big Ben (London, England)
The Vatican (Rome, Italy)
Gaudi Park (Barcelona, Spain)
Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy)
Guinness Brewery (Dublin, Ireland)
Rennes-Le-Chateux (France)
Tiananmen Square (Beijing, China)
Forbidden City (Beijing, China)
Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
Las Vegas (USA)
The 7 Wonders of the World (4/7)
Moai Statues (Easter Island, Chile)
All 7 Continents (6/7)
Timbuktu (Mali)
Eiffel Tower (France)
Skydive into Machu Picchu
Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)
Serengeti (Tanzania)
Sahara (Egypt)
St Basil's Cathedral (Russia)
Oahu, Hawaii (USA)
Tibet
Dracula's Castle (Romania)
Amazon Rainforest
Australian Outback
Things to Eat
Pizza (Italy)
Absinthe (Italy)
Lemoncello (Italy)
Sangria (Spain)
Buffalo Mozzarella (Italy)
Tarantula (China)
Greek Salad (Greece)
Shawarma (Turkey)
Gyro (Greece)
French Onion Soup (France)
Dog (China)
Pho (Vietnam)
Cobra Blood with Still Beating Heart (Vietnam)
Curry (India)
Kangaroo (Australia)
Haggis in Scotland
Paella in Spain
Something I hunted and cooked myself
Things to do
Throw a coin in Trevi Fountain (Rome, Italy)
Bare it all at a nude beach (Orient Bay, St Maartin)
Walk on the Great Wall (Badaling and Mutianyu, China)
Oktoberfest (Munich, Germany)
Ride a Jet Ski (St Maartin)
Learn to toss and cook pizza in a wood oven (Italy)
Ski in the Alps (Cormayeur, Italy)
Ride a camel in the desert (Egypt)
Live in another country (South Korea, USA, Italy, China)
Get a vasectomy
Touch a Castle (Italy, France, Germany, UK)
Watch a Cirque du Soleil show (Quidam - Canada)
New Year's Eve at Times Square (New York, USA)
Smoke a cigar on a beach in Mexico
Ride a gondola through the canals of Venice
Climb Mount Vesuvius
Ride a donkey up a mountain (Santorini, Greece)
Smoke a hookah (Istanbul, Turkey)
Cliff dive (Barbados)
Get out of debt (Debt-Free May 17, 2012!)
Ride on an elephant's shoulders (Thailand)
Learn to pull noodles (China)
Go ziplining (Mexico)
Memorable things that weren't on my list
Ate live baby octopus (South Korea)
Ate dog ears (South Korea)
Ate scorpions (China)
Ate silkworms (China and South Korea)
Ate a bowl of chicken hearts (China)
Ate a chicken head (China)
Watched a man get crucified during Easter (Cebu, Philippines)
Visited one of the oldest magic shops in the world (Barcelona, Spain)
Was caught in a flash flood (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
Visited Christopher Columbus' home (Corsica, France)
Enjoyed 3 bottles of Solaia wine (Tuscany, Italy)
Had the boat break down in the middle of parasailing (Aruba)
Didn't finish first in a beer drinking contest (Barbados)
Ate balut (Philippines)
Slept overnight on the side of a highway (London, England)
Flew on a private jet (Ireland-UK/UK-China)
Drank cat poop coffee (Indonesia)
Discovered my most favourite restaurant in the world - Chez Hien (Villefranche, France)
Slept overnight on a bench in front of a cafe (Livorno, Italy)
Ate a baby chicken (China)
Ate bull penis and testicle soup (Philippines)
Played with tigers (Thailand)
Climb a live volcano (Indonesia x2)
Climbed and went inside pyramids (Egypt)
Flew First-Class (China-Canada/Canada-Ireland)
Rode a camel (Egypt)
Swim with dolphins
Spend a night in jail
Participate in a food fight festival
Skydive
Live with a tribe
Take a Segway tour of Paris
Ride a hot air balloon
Hang glide in Rio, Brazil
Get a Kakau tattoo (Polynesia)
Carnivale in Rio, Brazil
Holi Festival (India)
Open a Swiss bank account
Full Moon Festival (Thailand)
Watch a Women's beach volleyball tournament
Ride a horse on the beach
Get LASIK surgery
Practice Kung Fu in a Shaolin Temple (China)
Try Fencing
Spar with a female professional boxer
Samba in Brazil
Salsa in Spain
Learn to Surf
Live in a Tuscan Villa
Firewalk
Have a Russian woman drink me under the table
Run with the bulls (Spain)
Ride a dune buggy
Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway
Zorbing (New Zealand)
Connect with a primate
Go on an African Safari
Have a back breaking massage in Morroco
Work in a sex hotel (Japan)
Watch Penn & Teller live
Be a human sushi platter (Japan)
Carnival in Venice, Italy
Get lost in Tokyo
Ride a cable car in San Francisco (USA)
Arrive at an airport with no itinerary
Window shop in Amsterdam
Remember to use sunscreen effectively
Place a $1000 bet at a roulette table in Las Vegas