Sometimes I find it hard to differentiate which goals are ‘travel’ and which are ‘experiences’.   So I’ve gone with the idea that a place is travel, but an activity is an experience.  Which makes sense, right?  

Experiences 2018

 Go on at least one really big rollercoaster
 Try something new

Experiences bucket list

 Meet my friend Beth (I met her on Livejournal in 2001 and she lives in the USA)
 Meet my friend Teresa (I met her on Writing.com and she lives in NZ)
 Meet my friend Gaby (I met her on Writing.com and she lives in the USA)
 Meet my friend Rhonda (I met her on Writing.com and she lives in Canada)
 Do a motorbike tour of New Zealand’s South Island with my husband
See the Exponents perform live
 Go to a strip club/show
 Go to the Last Night of the Proms in England
 See Oliver! performed live on stage
See the Phantom of the Opera performed live on stage
 Buy and wear a pair of knee high boots
 Learn sign language
 Ride a horse
 Take dancing lessons
 Go camping
 Make cheese
Make soap
Make candles
 Make wine
 Go canoeing
 Build a house
 Have a psychic reading
 Volunteer for a charity
 Dance at a ball as an adult
 Do one tramp or walk every month for a year
 Camp in the Australian outback
 Do a fishing trip in Niue with my husband
 Get my colours done
 Get my photo taken crossing Abbey Road in England
 Drive the Glossglockner High Alpine Road in Austria
 Do Auckland’s Coast to Coast Walk
 Do the Round The Bays Walk
 Do the Colour Run
 Do all of New Zealand’s Great Walks
 Lake Waikaremoana
 Tongariro
 Whanganui Journey
 Abel Tasman
 Heaphy Track
 Routeburn Track
 Milford Track
 Kepler Track
 Rakiura Track
 Try Pernod Anise
 Try Ricard Pastis
 Try Chartreuse
Try 42 Below Feijoa Vodka
 Try 8th Tribe Feijoa Liqueur
 Try 8th Tribe Dark Spice Liqueur
 Try creme de cacao
Try Royal Dragon Chocolate Vodka
 Try Santa Marta Chocolate Liqueur
Try sake
 Try shochu
Try black sambuca
 Try white sambuca
 Try Triple Rock Liquorice Vodka
 Try Triple Rock Jaffa Vodka
 Try cognac
Try sherry
 Experience a medieval feast
 Eat at one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants
 Eat pumpkin pie
 Eat haggis in Scotland
 Drink wine on Waiheke Island, New Zealand
 Drink Lemon & Paeroa in Paeroa, New Zealand
 Eat a Chelsea bun in Chelsea, England
 Eat a Cornish pasty in Cornwall, England
 Eat Shrewsbury biscuits in Shrewsbury, England
 Eat Yorkshire pudding in Yorkshire, England
 Eat cheddar cheese in Cheddar, England
 Eat stilton cheese in Stilton, England
 Eat Welsh rarebit in Wales
 Eat a Black Forest gateaux in the Black Forest, Germany
 Eat a frankfurter in Frankfurt, Germany
 Eat a hamburger in Hamburg, Germany
 Eat Bavarian cream in Bavaria, Germany
 Eat Turkish delight in Turkey
 Eat Baked Alaska in Alaska, America
 Eat Boston baked beans in Boston, America
 Eat Buffalo wings in Buffalo, America
 Drink Mississippi Moonshine in Mississippi, America
 Eat colby cheese in Colby, America
 Drink a Long Island iced tea on Long Island, America
 Drink a Manhattan in Manhattan, America
 Eat bolognese sauce in Bologna, Italy
 Eat Brussels sprouts in Brussels
 Eat French fries in France
 Eat French onion soup in France
 Eat French toast in France
 Eat brie cheese in Brie (now Seine-et-Marne), France
 Eat camembert cheese in Camembert, France
 Drink a burgundy wine in Burgundy, France
 Drink a chablis in Chablis, France
 Drink armagnac in Armagnac, France
 Drink cognac in Cognac, France
 Drink champagne in Champagne, France
 Eat Madeira cake in Madeira, Portugal
 Drink Madeira wine in Madeira, Portugal
 Drink port in Porto, Portugal
 Eat parmesan cheese in Parma, Italy
 Eat Gruyère cheese in Gruyère, Switzerland
 Eat Emmental cheese in Emmental, Switzerland
 Eat edam cheese in Edam, Netherlands
 Eat gouda cheese in Gouda, Netherlands
 Drink shiraz in Shiraz, Iran