My Bucket List

For every school year, I typically create a short bucket list of what I want to accomplish and/or experience before the end of my school year. Coming to a new school, in a new country, for a whole year, I figured that a bucket list was in order. As opposed to just experiencing and accomplishing certain goals and aspirations, I also decided that I would expand my bucket list to accommodate specific celebrations that can only be experienced within certain times of the year in certain places across the world. Since I’m already in Europe, why not experience significant events that originated or are only offered in specific locations across the globe. This expansion (that I would less likely to do in Canada) includes accomplishes and experiences from going to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, to kissing the blarney stone in Ireland.

Ryan’s Bucket List

1. Experience London, England
2. Go to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
3. Visit family relatives in the Netherlands
4. See the Aurora Borealis (Northern lights)
5. See the Mona Lisa
6. Visit as many Harry Potter sites as possible
7. See one of the Wonders of the World
8. Backpack across Europe
9. Experience a zombie apocalypse
10. Go skiing in Europe
11. Face one of my fears
12. Make international friends 
13. Live in the moment, not the past or future
14. Experience an English Film Festival
15. Out-live the “end of the world” on December 21, 2012
16. Meet Emma Watson
17. Keep a Video Diary of my travels
18. Experience St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland
19. Go to a premiere of a British film in England
20. Find an authentic Banksy work of art
21. Climb the Eiffel Tower
22. Kiss the blarney stone
23. Re-visit Italy 
24. Work on a film with British students
25. Go to a VIP event
26. Visit a fairytale-like town/city
27. Have a Guinness at the Storehouse Factory in Dublin, Ireland
28. Walk Water Balls on Lake Alster in Hamburg, Germany
29. Visit the cafe shop where JK Rowling began writing Harry Potter
30. Ride a camel
31. Cross Abbey Road
32. Sleep In A Castle
33. Ride a Hot Air Balloon
34. Make a Spontaneous trip anywhere in the world

To be continued…

If you have any other suggestions of what should be on my bucket list, or what I should experience on my travels anywhere in the UK or Europe, post a comment! I’d love to hear other people’s bucket list achievements!

Most of the sites and cities I want to go to are on my pinterest travel board, so if you would like to see the places I plan to visit over the year, check out:
http://pinterest.com/ryanthomaswoods/cometraveltheworldwithme/