My Bucket List

Things to do in this life:

1. See the Northern Lights
2. Vistit Alberobello (Italy) to see trulli houses!
3. Take part in an obstacle / adventure run
4. Feel the omnipresent smell of roses during Bulgarian Festival of Roses in Kazanlak
5. Buy a bottle of Moldavian vine in Mileştii Mici or Cricova vine cellar!
6. Volunteer on a mission in Africa
7. Take part in historical reconstruction
8. Take a pilgrim’s journey on the Camino de Santiago
9. Meet face to face with a giant tortoise!
10. Find a sea turtle nesting beach
11. Spend some time with an autoharp players from the Isle of Man
12. Spend Mardi Gras in Louisiana
13. Take a ride in Moscow Metro with „Metro 2033” in my hand
14. Spend a night in a monastery or buddhist temple
15. Go on a train journey in Benelux during the tulip blooming season
16. Spend Easter or Christmas in Jerusalem
17. Take my sister to the Holy Land
18. See the Holy Week Procession in Cordoba
19. Pick one tea leaf from the tea plantation and take it home in my wallet 🙂
20. See the flowers & feel the fragrance of blooming orange trees
21. See the terraced rice paddies in Asia (actually I even planted it! 🙂 )
22. Touch a big baobab tree growing on savanna
23. Hear the sounds of African night
24. Visit at least 10 European open air folklore museums
25. Count stars on a desert sky
26. Spend one night in Mongolian yurt
27. Listen to the New Year’s Concert in Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
28. Eat one Haribo teddy bear directly from the production line
29. See toucans in the wild (the effect of watching too many Nat Geo documentaries in the childhood 😉 )
30. See The Lion King musical on Broadway (OK, I did it the other way – I’ve seen the Lion King Broadway musical in Tokyo 😉 )
31. Follow the steps of Basho Matsuo with his Narrow Road to the Deep North in my backpack (Japan)
    
32. Make photos of the Hashima Island (Japan)
33. Participate in the New Year’s, Tanabata’s and Obon’s festivals and rituals in Japan
34. See the burning hills in Nara during Wakakusa Yamayaki (Japan)
35. Spend a day in Nagoro (Tokushima Prefecture, Japan), the dying village where dolls outnumbered living residents…
36. Visit Tashirojima, the Cat Island (Japan)
37. Visit Shirakawago in Winter (Japan)
38. Go hiking in Japanese Alps (Japan)
39. Go hiking in Julian Alps (Slovenia)
40. Visit Trinity College Library in Dublin (Ireland)
41. Buy a Morning Glory on Iriya Morning Glory Market (Japan)
42. See the real brachiosaurus skeleton!
43. Walk the Hadrian’s Wall path in Great Britain
44. Take the Transsib (Trans Siberian Express) journey
45.  Sing Tam Lin tale in Scottish Borders’ „Carterhaugh” forest
46. Visit all 47 prefectures of Japan (24 prefectures visited so far)
47. Travel to Madagascar
48. Visit Museo della Fisarmonica in Castelfidardo, where the accordion industry was born
49. Visit famous Kew Gardens in London
50. Spend a Constitution Day (May 17th) in Oslo and see all the beautiful folk costumes of Norway
51. Visit Berlin’s urban gardens: Prinzessinnengarten & Tempelhof
52. Visit Samarkand in Uzbekistan
53. Hike the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail
54. Visit Isola Bella in Italy (island on the Maggiore lake)
55. …

Festivals bucket list ❤

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) Fasching
• Tokyo (Japan) Iriya Asagao Matsuri
• Dublin (Ireland) St Patrick’s Day
• Yakutia (Russia) Yhyach
• Valréas (France) Lavender Festival
• Tuluza (France) Fete de la Violette
• Lerwick (Shetland Islands) Up Helly Aa
• Kazanlak (Bulgaria) Festival of Roses
• Ptuj (Slovenia) Kurentovanje
• Guča (Serbia) Trumpet Festival
• New Orleans (USA) Mardi Gras
• Nara (Japan) Wakakusa Yamayaki
• Gujo (Japan) Bon Odori
• Cordoba (Spain) Holy Week Procession
• Łowicz (Poland) Corpus Christi Procession
• Łyse (Poland) Palm Sunday Procession
  
• Kraków (Poland) Three Kings’ Processions
• Stockholm (Sweden) Valborgsmässoafton
• Gennetines (France) Les grands bals de l’Europe
• Pernik (Bulgaria) Surova
• Spreewald (Germany) Weihnacht
• Vienna (Austria) Krampuslauf
• Rome (Italy) Feast of Our Lady of Snows (Santa Maria Maggiore)

Bucket list of cities, regions and states:

Jerusalem, the Balkans, Taizé (France), Georgia, London, York, Ireland & Scotland, Isle of Lewis and Harris (Scotland), Fingal’s Cave (Scotland), Stockholm (Sweden), Lviv, Odessa, Kiev, Pripyat (Ukraine), Riga, Tallinn (Estonia), Guadelupe (Spain), Brussels, Bruges, Vienna, Paris, Budapest, Vilnius, Bratislava, Barcelona, Kutna Hora, Prague, Adršpašskoteplické skály (Czech Republic), Marrakech, Easter Island, Istanbul, Greece, Mongolia, Romania, Bukhara & Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Astana (Kazakhstan), Petersburg, Moscow, Yakutia – Sakha Republic (Russia), Norway, Finland, Bornholm (Denmark), Iceland, El Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James), Canary Islands, Canada, Western States’ National Parks (USA), Louisiana (USA), Johannesburg (RSA), Cuba, Japan, Tanzania, Prison Island (Zanzibar), Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, India, Philippines, Indonesia.

What would YOU add to this list?
Share your ideas in the comments below ♥