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

Festivals bucket list ❤
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) FaschingTokyo (Japan) Iriya Asagao MatsuriDublin (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 YamayakiGujo (Japan) Bon Odori- Cordoba (Spain) Holy Week Procession
Łowicz (Poland) Corpus Christi ProcessionŁyse (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?
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