Scott’s bucket list

I started writing my bucket list in 2017 in Chichester, England when I was working away as a construction site manager. I was staying on my own and had nothing to do in the evenings other than sit on Facebook and scroll through videos. One of those ‘travel inspiration’ videos came up, followed by countless more. From then on, I decided to make my own bucket list of around 100 things! This was one of the only things keeping me going through the stress, hard times of working away and staying on my own, and before I knew it, I had well over 200 goals which is ever growing to this day.

As I complete them, I cross them off and take a picture of myself doing it (Alex bought me an engraved album for Christmas one year which I’m hoping to start filling soon!). I’m posting this on here, as I’m hoping to inspire people in a similar situation who are either stressed out or a bit fed up, to start your own list to work towards. It changed my life!

• Visit America
• Visit Australia
• Visit New Zealand
• Visit Thailand
• Visit Bahamas
• Visit Maldives
• Visit Jamaica
• Visit Croatia
• Visit Iceland
• Visit Japan
• Visit India
• Visit Sri Lanka
• Visit Peru
• Visit Mauritius
• Visit South Africa
• Visit Belgium
• Visit Finland
• Visit Sweden
• Visit Lithuania
• Visit Estonia
• Skydive

• Run my own business
• Bungee Jump
• See the northern lights
• Fly in a hot air balloon
• Visit Rome
• Visit Hawaii
• Ride a Gondola in Venice
• Learn Polish until I am fluent
• Swim with Dolphins

• Go white water rafting
• Go zorbing
• Give blood
• Go to the La Tomatina festival in Spain
• Touch an Elephant
• Hold a Koala

• Hold a monkey
• Milk a cow
• Shear a sheep
• Witness a proposal
• Sleep in an Igloo
• Stand under a waterfall
• Start a fire without matches or lighter
• Be a bestman

• Take part in a carnival
• Share a taxi with a stranger
• Buy a property on my own
• Jump into a pool fully clothed
• Make an origami animal
• Make something on a pottery wheel
• Be on the Radio
• Attend a darts match
• Attend a boxing match
• Visit Northern Ireland
• Attend a wedding in a different country
• Be in a TV show audience
• Get hypnotised
• Go on a cruise
• Go on the London Eye
• Go to the London Dungeon
• Go to a drive in cinema
• Watch F1 live
• Play bingo at a bingo hall
• Visit Las Vegas
• Do a safari
• Watch a live Wimbledon match
• Have acupuncture
• Have a mud bath in Turkey
• Have a Turkish bath
• See the grand canyon
• Have my palm read
• Visit Niagara Falls
• Order room service
• Stay in a 5* resort
• Attend wine tasting
• Bake a cake
• Drive a tank
• Catch, cook and eat a fish
• Drink at an Ice bar
• Pay for a strangers coffee
• Eat Caviar
• Be in a newspaper
• Visit a beekeepers
• Make beer

• Have a herb garden
• Grow my own vegetables
• Send a message in a bottle
• Skinny dip
• Be present at a birth
• Do a random act of kindness
• Visit an elderly person at a nursing home
• Feed a homeless person
• Plant a tree
• Attend an olympics event
• Shoot a gun
• Skuba dive
• Drive a speed boat
• Drive a tractor
• Fly first class
• Ride a camel
• Ride a jetski
• Ride a segway
• Ride in a limousine
• Ride in a Tuk Tuk
• Ride a rollercoaster
• Climb a lighthouse
• Sleep in a hostel on my own with strangers
• Sleep in a treehouse
• Sleep on a canal boat
• Visit all 7 continents (5 done)
• Throw a dart at a map and just go
• Go on holiday on my own
• Visit a temple
• Visit a ghost town
• Go to Glastonbury Festival

• Do route 66
• Visit Alaska
• Stand under the Hollywood sign
• Visit Times Square
• See Mount Rushmore
• Visit the Shard bar/restaurant in London
• Watch an England rugby game live
• See the great wall of China
• Visit the Eiffel tower
• Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
• Go to the Royal Ascot races
• Smoke weed in Amsterdam
• Float in the dead sea- Israel/Jordan
• Visit Monaco
• Visit San Marino
• Visit Stonehenge
• Attend a foam party
• Earn 6 figures in a year
• Own a second property
• Drink a bottle of Champagne that’s worth over £100
• Stomp grapes
• Have a ride in a Yacht
• Adopt a pet that needs a home
• Buy a Jacuzzi

• Go sea fishing
• Have Reiki treatment
• Visit Mexico
• Visit Slovenia
• Visit Bali
• Visit Czech Republic
• Visit Vietnam
• Visit Bora Bora
• Visit Ibiza
• Follow England to a major football tournament
• Hold a snake
• Drink a bottle of wine that’s worth over £50
• Go VIP at a festival
• Ride a hot tub boat in London
• Watch Coldplay live
• Visit the liquid rainbow river in Colombia
• Stay in the hotel villa honegg in Switzerland
• Visit Auchwitz
• Watch an England cricket game
• Go in a mini submarine
• Watch an Ice Hockey game
• Watch an NBA game
• Visit Jerusalem
• Visit Moscow
• Stay in a forest for one night alone
• Sleep under the stars
• Learn a third language
• Eat Kobe beef in Japan
• Visit lake Misurina in Italy.
• Do worlds fastest zip wire in Wales.
• Go paragliding
• Do flyboarding
• Do the longleat safari
• Go to Reading festival
• Buy a brand new car outright
• Buy a house in another country
• Visit Norway
• Visit Austria
• Visit the Philippines
• Visit Scotland
• Visit Madagascar
• Visit Dominican Republic
• Visit Albania
• Visit Armenia
• Visit Barbados
• Visit Cuba
• Visit Denmark
• Visit Fiji
• Visit Luxembourg
• Visit Slovakia
• Visit Malta
• Visit Romania
• Stay in Jade garden resort in St Lucia.
• Watch a baseball game
• Go abseiling
• Be in two countries at once

• Become a parent
• Climb a mountain
• Fly a kite
• Fly in a helicopter
• Take a connecting flight
• Watch a NFL game
• Visit Machu Picchu
• Visit St Marks Basilica
• Visit Paris
• Stay in the Ice hotel- Sweden
• Visit the Pyramids of Giza
• Edge walk around the CN tower- Toronto
• Walk on top of the o2

• Do a colour run
• Solve a Rubik’s cube
• Volunteer at an animal shelter
• See a war cemetery
• Do a tour of the Normandy D-Day beaches
• Get paid to travel
• Eat black truffles
• Eat escargot
• Eat frogs legs
• Go on a slip and slide
• Swim with manatees
• Blow glass
• Make soap
• Make a candle
• Attend a murder mystery dinner
• Bet at the dog races
• Visit Easter Island
• Learn how to meditate
• Volunteer for a charity
• Eat horse
• Eat rabbit
• Eat ostrich
• Eat crocodile
• Eat kangaroo
• Visit a castle in Wales
• Go to a farmers market
• Eat pheasant
• Do the three peak challenge
• Eat Gelato in Italy.
• Watch a United game at Old Trafford
• Visit a tea plantation
• Hold a bird

• Do the Taunton Ciderthon
• Watch Man United play away
• Watch England play at Wembley
• Visit Chernobyl
• Write a will
• See one of the Queens guard in person
• Eat at a 1 Michelin star restaurant
• Get a tattoo
• Visit all 50 US states (1 done- Florida)
• Visit the Hoover dam in Nevada
• See the coliseum in Rome
• Visit Dubai
• Explore Petra in Jordan
• Visit the Taj Mahal
• Do the London Aquarium
• See an African tribe
• Host a foreign exchange student
• Read 500 books
• Run a half marathon
• Do a food challenge
• Stand on the equator
• See the statue of liberty
• Visit Angkor wat in Cambodia
• Visit the statue of Zeus in Olympia
• Visit the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus
• Visit the Colossus of Rhodes
• Visit the Chichen Itza in Mexico
• Ride a motorbike
• Do parasailing
• Visit Aphrodite’s bath in Cyprus
• Have dinner in the Coppa club igloos in London
• Eat Pigeon
• Cuddle a big cat. Baby tiger etc
• Experience a full day of darkness in a northern country
• Go to pig beach in the Bahamas
• Use a swim up bar
• See a theatre show at the west end
• Have a meal at a dark/blackout restaurant
• Visit Moldova
• Eat bear
• Visit a prison
• Watch Snow Patrol live
• Do a gingerline food event
• Do a restaurant in the sky

• Go to the edge of space in a MIG plane
• Do the predator adventure seabreacher in London
• Do a shark dive
• Visit Pearl Harbour in Hawaii
• Go to the Henley Royal Regatta
• Visit Giethoorn Village in the Netherlands (No cars allowed)
• Smoke a Cuban cigar in Cuba
• Drive a snowmobile
• Stay in the Kong house in China
• Go blob jumping
• Swim in the blue lagoon in Iceland
• Visit Dracula’s castle in Romania
• Become a godparent
• Cut down my own Christmas tree
• Eat Smørrebrød in Denmark
• Dog sled
• Sleep in a yurt
• Go to the cinema by myself
• Relax in a sensory deprivation tank
• Make ice cream
• Make wine
• Eat heart
• Eat tongue
• Eat brain
• Eat reindeer
• Eat snake
• Find a four leaf clover
• Do paddleboarding

• Stay in a capsule hotel
• Visit a glass beach
• Eat a Philly cheese steak in Philadelphia
• Walk the Nyhavn waterfront in Copenhagen
• Walk through the crooked forest in Poland
• Visit the tunnel of love in Ukraine
• Go to a cat cafe
• Visit Montenegro
• Visit Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Visit Lichtenstein
• Visit Kazakhstan
• Visit Morocco
• Visit Georgia
• Visit Egypt
• Witness a miracle
• Make paper
• Go naked on a nudist beach
• Get a shout out on the radio
• Retire
• Change a tyre
• Do wakeboarding
• Make bread
• Learn first aid
• Drive a bus
• Drive a lorry
• Get married
• Fall in love
• Get engaged

• Attend a stag do
• Do Wadworths Brewery Tour
• Have a pizza in Italy
• Navigate my way somewhere using only a compass and map
• Be a captain of a football team
• Win a football league
• Go to a school prom
• Stay on ‘No Man’s Fort’ in the Solent

• Visit the Eden Project
• Visit the pink lagoon in Yallabatharra in Australia
• Go Glamping
• Visit Serbia
• Eat a tomahawk steak
• Visit Dolomites, Italy.
• Eat at Rick Steins
• See a Haka performed live
• Do the Old Trafford Stadium tour
• Do Alphabet dating
• Eat at a 2 Michelin star restaurant
• Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
• Use an E-bike
• Visit Buckingham Palace
• Do a Police chase experience
• Do the herbal chef experience USA California
• Visit Lake Brienz in Switzerland
• Visit the Faroe Islands
• Drive the ‘Road to nowhere’ in Norway
• Go Ice fishing
• Have a cheese fondue in Switzerland
• Make my own cheese
• Visit Switzerland
• Visit Poland
• Visit Turkey
• Throw boiling hot water in the air; somewhere that it freezes instantly
• Eat 100% Iberian ham in Spain (black label)
• Do Sea Kayaking
• Eat eel
• Eat in a medieval restaurant
• Eat moose
• Visit Malaysia
• Visit Singapore
• Buy a property in an auction
• Feed a kangaroo
• Eat emu
• Eat wallaby
• Visit Cape Verde
• Get a PADI license
• Snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef

• Go to a travel agent, book a holiday and just go
• Ride a horse
• Eat an authentic hotpot in Asia
• See the ‘light up’ blue plankton
• Experience a full day of daylight in a northern country
• Visit Ireland
• Visit Hungary
• Visit Germany
• Visit Latvia
• Visit Belarus
• Visit Ukraine
• Visit France
• Visit Italy
• Visit Bulgaria
• Visit Kosovo
• Visit Greece
• Visit North Macedonia
• Visit Russia
• Visit China
• Visit Azerbaijan
• Visit Iran
• Visit Israel
• Visit Jordan
• Visit Lebanon
• Visit Kyrgyzstan
• Visit Uzbekistan
• Visit Nepal
• Visit Mongolia
• Visit Cambodia
• Visit Indonesia
• Visit Taiwan
• Visit Hong Kong
• Visit The Gambia
• Visit Senegal
• Visit Nigeria
• Visit Ethiopia
• Visit Kenya
• Visit Botswana
• Visit Cameroon
• Visit Uganda
• Visit Rwanda
• Visit Zambia
• Visit Tanzania
• Visit Zimbabwe
• Visit Namibia
• Visit Seychelles
• Visit Puerto Rico
• Visit Brazil
• Visit Argentina
• Visit Uruguay
• Visit Paraguay
• Visit Chile
• Visit Colombia
• Visit Papua New Guinea
• Visit Tonga
• Visit the Solomon Islands
• Visit Tasmania
• Visit Greenland
• Visit Bolivia
• Visit Ecuador
• Visit Venezuela
• Visit Costa Rica
• Visit Guatemala
• Visit St Lucia
• Visit Nicaragua
• Visit Trinidad and Tobago
• Do a free Open University course
• Make my own pickled onions/eggs
• Eat pig’s ears
• Visit Cyprus
• Ride a quad bike

• Try the best breakfast in the world at Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico
• Go to Bath Spa
• Visit the Roman Baths in Bath
• Eat cactus
• Go to a casino in Las Vegas
• Visit a cattle ranch in southern USA and do a cattle drive
• Eat testicles
• Go to the sunset boulevard in LA
• Eat buffalo mozzarella in Campania, Italy
• Visit Canada
• Visit Netherlands
• Visit Portugal
• Visit Spain
• Watch a rodeo in America
• Visit the Blue Mountains in Sydney, Australia
• Play chicken sh*t bingo in Austin, Texas
• Cruise along the Ha Long Bay in Vietnam
• Visit the Galapagos Islands
• Go on an expedition in Antarctica
• See a polar bear in the Arctic
• Do the jet boat ride in the Shotover River, New Zealand
• Do a Luge ride
• Visit St Tropez
• Eat oysters in Arcachon Bay, France
• Go whiskey tasting in Scotland
• Go to a Highland Games in Scotland
• Do fly fishing
• Ride a camel
• Eat lamb from Mustapha’s in Marrakesh in Morocco
• Eat at one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants

Please leave a comment if you have any other suggestions for me to add!

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