Scottish Footprints

A few travel musings of places/things I would like to see:

Island hop around the Date line

Explore some Pacific islands – Samoa and Tonga first on the list

• Road trip Ireland

• Drive the Nullabor Plain

• Go to Japan. Visit many friends and eat lots of sushi!

• See a Shakespeare play in the Globe Theatre in London
• Stand in Pompeii before it disappears
• Step foot onto a new continent
• Be able to scratch Germany off my scratchy map
• Sail through Antarctica
• See a giant tortoise on the Galapogas Islands

Previous Bucket Lists

Places/things I would like to achieve on my travels.

2014 Bucket List

• Throw myself out a plane skydiving on the east coast
• Scuba Dive the Great Barrier Reef
• Road trip the Northwest of Australia from Shark Bay to Darwin
• Go to Cairns and sail up to Cape York
• Go to Japan. Visit many friends there and eat lots of sushi!
• Find the Blue Mountains, Kangaroo Valley and Canberra
• Drive the Nullabor
• Become settled somewhere and live in an actual flat rather than a hostel
• Buy a round the world multi city ticket for the way home to Scotland
• Step foot onto a new continent

Australia Bucket List

With a plan to do a ‘figure of 8’ round Australia, up the east coast, through the middle then up the west, my list of places to see when I left the UK was:

• Melbourne
• Brisbane
• Uluru
• Whitsunday’s
• Cairns
• Port Douglas
• Sydney
• Kangaroo Island
• Philip Island
• Great Ocean Road (Geelong to Warrnambool)
• Sapphire Coast (New South Wales coast)
• Grand Pacific Drive (Sydney to Woolongong)
• Blue mountains and Katoomba falls
• Bondi beach
• Kangaroo Valley

Things to do:

• Skydive
• Learn how to scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef
• Learn a language
• Take a yoga class in Byron Bay
• See an Aussie Rules Match

Melbourne Bucket List

What I hope to achieve whilst staying in Melbourne:

• Scale the heights of the Eureka Tower
• See the penguins on Philip island
• Find the Southernmost point at Wilson promontory
• See a film in ACMI and the Rooftop cinema
• Eat a meal on Degraves Street
• Visit Yarra bend park
• Stand in the Shrine of remembrance
• Take a day trip to Queenscliff
• Eat all you can eat dumplings in the Dumpling house
• Get chilly in Chill on Ice
• Do a free yoga class in Federation Square
• Do a neighbours tour

European Bucket List

• Watch a Shakespeare play in the Globe Theatre in London
• Go to Saint Jorioz in France with timtams in hand
• Take a Campervan trip round Scotland. This has to include a stop at Applecross
• Stand in Pompeii before it disappears
• Visit many Tasmania Tour buddies in various countries