Bucket List

When I started my PhD aged 22, I thought such a lengthy and focused study might consume so much time and energy that it could leave little room for other interests - so I wrote a list of ‘things to do before I turn 30’. Seeing the plans on paper helped determine whether they were to be pursued or discarded. The list grew into a fluid document arranged in two columns, and over time the ratio between items ticked off and those still to do has shifted. Over two decades later, this is that list. It might read more like a record of achievements than ambitions now, but it remains a work in progress never to be completed.

To do:

1. See the Easter Island statues

2. Ride the iron ore train in Mauritania

3. Cut down a tree with an axe

4. Stay in an ice hotel in Sweden

5. Visit Bhutan

6. Watch an NBA game at Madison Square Garden

7. Sail to Antarctica

8. Island hop across the Pacific Ocean

9. Watch a match at the Australian Open

11. Go to the Belgrade derby in Serbia

12. Watch an NHL game in Canada

13. Run a marathon

14. Drive the length of Norway

15. Go to Aintree Races

16. Do a safari in the Serengeti in Tanzania

17. Grow a garden

18. Watch Bayern Munich play at the Allianz

19. Travel from Quito to Cartagena overland

20. Visit Northwest Territories in Canada

21. Take a hot air balloon ride in Turkey

22. See Lake Bled in Slovenia

23.  Sail to the Lofoten Islands in Norway

24. Go to Oktoberfest in Munich

25. Drive through Death Valley in California

26. Visit the Guyanas

27. Cross to the Congo River from Kinshasa to Brazzaville

28. Drive from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska

29. Travel from Rio Gallegos to Ushuaia in Argentina

310 Visit Komodo National Park in Indonesia

31. Travel to Nunavut in Canada

32. Go to Ibiza

33. Build a house

 

Already ticked off:

1. Bungi jump over Victoria Falls in Zambia

2. Get the train from Beijing to Liverpool

3. Build an igloo in the garden

4. Travel overland from Quito to Rio

5. See Bob Dylan perform in Auckland

6. Run half marathons in Paris, Cardiff and Edinburgh

7. Visit North Korea

8. Hike Macchu Pichu in Peru

9. Go to the Milan derby at the San Siro

10. Do a skydive over North Shore in Hawaii

11. Complete a PhD

12. Go to the World Cup (six times)

13. Get engaged at Cape Point in South Africa

14. Go around the world in 40 days

15. See a polar bear in Svalbard  

16. Visit the 50 American states

17. Go on safari at Kruger National Park in South Africa

18. Walk across Ireland from Dublin to Galway

19. Get married

20. Go snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef

21. Witness the birth of your child

22. Travel overland from Panama City to New York City

23. Sail the Atlantic

24. Visit every European Country

25. Watch Boca Juniors play at La Bombonera

26. Walk on the Great Wall of China

27. Abseil off the White Cliffs of Dover in England

28. Cover the Copa América in Chile for a magazine

29. Sail around the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador

30. Hitchhike across the Andes mountains

31. Watch the Red Sox play the Yankees at Fenway Park

32. See a game in all 92 football grounds in England (112)

33. Take a scenic flight over Mount Everest in Nepal

34. Become Head of Research at a professional football club

35. Sail through the Panama Ship Canal

36. Go on an African game drive in Zimbabwe

37. Ride the Calgary Olympic bobsleigh track in Canada

38. Go lobster fishing in Belize

39. Drive from San Francisco to Washington DC via 46 states

40. Stand on the Spion Kop in South Africa

41. Walk through Fox Glacier in New Zealand

42. See Liverpool win the European Cup – twice

43. Meet Dave Grohl on stage at Leeds Festival

44. Go white water rafting down the Zambezi River in Zambia

45. See the Taj Mahal in India

46. Teach English in an orphanage in Venezuela

47. Drive Route 1 around Iceland

48. Go to the European football Championships (five times)

49. Travel overland from Cairns to Perth in Australia

50. See Flamengo play at the Maracanã in Brazil

51. Fly a plane along the coast of Wales

52. Stand under the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio

53. Take a cruise to Madagascar

54. Stand on top of the World Trade Centre in New York

55. Swim with dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean

56. See the Grand Canyon in Arizona

57. Go parasailing in Spain

58. Straddle the equator in Ecuador

59. Walk around Angor Watt Temple in Cambodia

60. Run along Forest Gump Point in Arizona

61. Appear on television and radio

62. Run a coach education programme in Mozambique

63. Ride a Japanese Shinkansen train to Sapporo

64. Watch Rafa Nadal play at the French Open

65. See the State Circus in Moscow

66. Spend New Year’s Eve in Dominican Republic

67. Go inter-railing around Europe (four times)

68. See the sun rise at the Arctic Circle in Finland

69. See the sun set at the equator in Gabon

70. Encounter a wild Grizzly bear in the Yukon

71. Stand at Ground Zero at Hiroshima

72. Interview a cannibal in a Belarusian prison

73. See El Clásico at Camp Nou

74. Go on a house swap holiday to Holland

75. Sail through the fjords in Norway

76. Eat a guinea pig in Peru

77. Watch Messi play for Argentina at the World Cup

78. Spend New Year’s Eve in the British Virgin Islands

79. Buy, gut and renovate a house

80. Write an article for your favourite football magazine

81. Coach football in youth prisons in Ukraine

82. Chase a plane down a runway in Malawi

83. See Liverpool win the UEFA Cup in Dortmund

84. Sail around the Isle of Wight with a crew

85. Go to the Asian Cup in Qatar

86. Get taken around Auschwitz by a former inmate

87. Watch Juventus away with Liverpool

88. Do an American road trip in a sports car

89. Buy and sell an apartment and a house

90. Visit Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

91. Go on a Caribbean cruise (seven times)

92. Feed a family of black bears in the wild in the Yukon

93. Visit the DMZ in South Korea

94. Watch five League of Ireland derbies in one season

95. See the Blue Mosque in Istanbul

96. Watch a Shakespeare production in Central Park

97. Live in a converted barn in the English Lake District for three years

98. Ride a Harley Davidson in Boston

99. See Santa Claus in Lapland

100.  Go on 50 flights in a year

101. Read the Bible

102. Ride a camel in the Canary Islands

103. Visit the Amish communities in Pennsylvania

104. Walk 50km around Lake Windermere in one day

105. Learn to drive

106. Get interviewed by a national newspaper

107. Go tubing in a thunderstorm in Virginia

108. Make a documentary on the Sarajevo Derby

109. See the Blue Mountains in Australia

110. Drive a speed boat through 1000 Islands in USA

111. Build a play park in a refugee camp in Azerbaijan

112. Sail a canal boat down the River Thames for a week

113. Get a degree in football

114. Run up Rocky’s steps in Philadelphia

115. Coach soccer for three months in USA (three times)

116. Take a helicopter ride over Victoria Falls in Zambia

117. Create a giant Cream Egg

118. Go whale watching in Brisbane

119. Spend Christmas Day in a Palestinian orphanage

120. Swim in an American Great Lake in Chicago

121. Gamble in a Las Vegas casino

122. Hire a hummer limousine for 24 hours

123. Have a pint of Guinness in Cheers in Boston

124. Ride the longest zipline in North America in Calgary

125. Make a documentary about The Animals in Bulgaria

126. Go caving in Spain

127. Watch an RSC Shakespeare play in Stratford-upon-Avon

128. See a drive-through movie in New York

129. Eat Spaghetti Bolognese in Bologna

130. See sunrise on a mountain top in Cumbria

131. Play in a midnight football match at the Arctic Circle

132. Go on an elephant ride in Zimbabwe

133. Score at the Kop End at Anfield

134. See the villages of Cinque Terra in Italy

135. Go to the Copenhagen derby in Denmark

136. Drive across Serbia without a map

137. Climb Mount Vesuvius in Italy

138. Go island hopping in the Maldives

139. Eat a curry in Mumbai

140. See Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina

141. Interview your boyhood hero

142. Visit Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh

143. Knock on the door of a famous actress in New York

144. Go to the Edinburgh Comedy Festival

145. Walk over a Serbian suspension bridge

146. Knock down and eat a coconut in Costa Rica

147. Ride on the outside of an Indian train

148. Attend the Walloon, Vienna and Prague derbies in one weekend

149. Drive around the Arc Du Triomphe in Paris

150. Play on the pitch at 20 professional football grounds

151.  Go to Niagara Falls

152. Swim a kilometre

153. See Andy Murray play in the US Open

154. Have a column on a football website for ten years

155. See Romeo and Juliet’s balcony in Verona

156. Play for a professional football club

157. Teach your child how to read

158. Learn how to play the guitar

159. See the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

160. Go to the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum

161. Visit Kosovo after the declaration of independence

162. Watch Millwall away with Cardiff City

163. Go sea kayaking in Malibu

164. Drive a tank through a German military base

165. Sail around Mauritius

166. Visit Monticello in Virginia

167. See the Ming Tombs in China

168. Give a lecture at AUB in Lebanon

169. Bottle feed a newborn lamb in Ireland

170. Take a photo of Christiania Freetown in Copenhagen

171. Go quad biking in California

172. Go on an Erasmus teaching exchange to Denmark

173. See Liverpool win the League Cup (five times)

174. Get off a plane in the wrong country

175. See 100 games of football in a year

176. Swim in Lake Geneva in December

177. Learn how to throw pottery

178. See the New York Jets train

179. Go to Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow

180. Swim under a Costa Rican waterfall

181. Make a music video in Kyiv

182. Drive through the Redwoods National Park in California

183. See lemurs in Madagascar

184. Go Christmas shopping in New York

185. Meet the Liverpool team

186. Watch Paul McCartney perform

187. Drive through a thunder storm in a convertible

188. Go on safari in Senegal

189. See Zidane play at the World Cup

190. Walk the Isle of Man coastal path

191. Eat jerk chicken in Jamaica

192. See walruses in the Arctic Ocean

193. Go to the African Cup of Nations in Ghana, Gabon and Ivory Coast

194. Ride a gondola in Venice

195. Visit Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco

196. See the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy

197. Go whale watching in Dominica

198. Fly to Scandinavia alone, and take it from there

199. Hit a fast ball in a New York batting cage

200. Visit Srebrenica in Bosnia

201. Sail to Bermuda

202. See the penguin colonies in Cape Town

203. Build and test a raft

204. Go to the CONCACAF Gold Cup in USA

205. See icebergs in Greenland

206. Learn how to mix cocktails

207. Stand on the Acropolis in Athens

208. See the Tour de France

209. Drive the Autobahn in Germany

210. See England play Argentina at the World Cup

211. Visit Chichén Itzá in Mexico

212. Walk through Beijing’s Forbidden City

213. Stay with a Mormon family in Utah

214. Watch Australia play in the rugby World Cup in Wales

215. Go husky sledding in Iceland

216. See the Coliseum in Rome

217. Visit Gangaramaya Buddhist Temple in Sri Lanka

218. Camp on a professional football pitch in Switzerland

219. Stay in a capsule hotel in Japan

220. See the ruins of Pompeii in Italy

221. Do a boat tour on Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon in Iceland

222. See Liverpool win the FA Cup final (three times)

223. Go island hopping in Scotland

224. Climb the Tikal temples in Guatemala

225. Go cliff diving in Salt Lake in Utah

226. See Stonehenge in England

227. Go to a Russian ballet

228. Drive around the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland

229. Go to Beslan school and work with the survivors

230. See Liverpool win the Club World Cup in Qatar

231. Complete the Great North Run

232. Visit Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado

233. Help build a children’s playpark in Russia

234. See a West End musical in London

235. See Napoli win the league

236. Spend your 19th birthday in USA

237. Spend your 20th birthday in Canada

238. Spend your 21st birthday in Italy

239. Spend your 22nd birthday in Japan

240. Spend your 23rd birthday in India

241. Spend your 24th birthday in Portugal

242. Spend your 25th birthday in Belarus

243. Spend your 26th birthday in Venezuela

244. Spend your 27th birthday in Nepal

245. Spend your 28th birthday in Switzerland

246. Spend your 29th birthday in Dubai

247. Spend your 30th birthday in South Africa

248. Spend your 31st birthday in USA

249. Spend your 32nd birthday in Poland

250. Spend your 33rd birthday in Croatia

251. Spend your 34th birthday in Brazil

252. Spend your 35th birthday in Chile

253. Spend your 36th birthday in France

254. Spend your 37th birthday in the Netherlands

255. Spend your 38th birthday in Russia

256. Spend your 39th birthday in Scotland

257. Spend your 40th birthday in England

258. Spend your 41st birthday in Ireland

259. Spend your 42nd birthday in Northern Ireland

260. Spend your 43rd birthday in Finland

261. Spend your 44th birthday in Iceland

262. Go two years without drinking alcohol

263. Be a camp counsellor in USA

264. Go horse riding in Zimbabwe

265. Learn Spanish at night school

266. Go to Disneyland in Florida, Tokyo and Paris

267. Watch Sporting Portugal v Benfica in Lisbon

268. Go to the final of the Club World Cup in Japan

269. Make a documentary about Abkhazia in Georgia

270. Stay in Yosemite National Park in California

271. Make a film for the Faroe Island tourist board

272. Stay in an all-inclusive resort in Cape Verde

273. Stand in the lowest point on earth in Israel

274. See Mount Rushmore in South Dakota

275. Visit the Lagavulin distillery in Scotland

276. Hike Elephant Mountain trail in Taiwan

277. Go island hopping in Croatia

278. Volunteer on a child soldier project in Liberia

279. See the Mayan ruins at Altun Ha in Belize

280. Go up the CN Tower in Toronto

281. Stay with a Palestinian family in Bethlehem for Christmas

282. See the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles

283. Go skiing in Austria

284. Volunteer on an HIV/AIDS education project in Honduras

285. See Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone in Wyoming

286. Stay in a Kibbutz in Israel

287. See bison in Badlands National Park in South Dakota

288. Go to Christmas midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

289. Visit 1980s film locations in Astoria

290. See the ruins in Petra in Jordan

291. Meet tribespeople in Lesotho

292. Sail from Åland to Stockholm

293. See a landmine field in Syria

294. Visit Transdniestria in Moldova

295. Canoe down the River Jordan

296. See the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome

297. Do a GCSE in a subject in which you have a PhD

298. Send a message in a bottle in the Indian Ocean

299. Go to an Australian rugby league match in Sydney

300. Drive through Eswatini

301. Take an elephant ride through a jungle in Thailand

302. Have a cut-throat shave in Nepal

303. Spend Christmas in Puerto Rico

304. See the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem

305. Go to ‘The Beach’ in Thailand

306. See Brazil play in Brasilia

307. Visit SeaWorld Orlando in Florida

308. Take a train from Grand Central station in New York

309. Drive the Great Ocean Road in Australia

310. See the geyser erupt in Iceland

311. Watch Novak Djokovic play at the US Open

312. Go jet boating in New Zealand

313. Drive over the Hoover Dam in Nevada

314. Walk around the Isle of Wight

315. Take a tour of Ramsey Street with Margot Robbie

316. Ride a boat down the Mekong River in Laos

317.  Camp in a safari park in Malawi

318. Coach football with street children in India

319. Spend Christmas Day in Crete

320. Visit Horseshoe Bend in Arizona

321. See the Monkey Temple in Kathmandu

322. Watch Killing Fields in Cambodia and then visit the site

323. Sail around Iceland

324. Eat dog in Vietnam

325. See ‘the Goonies’ house in Oregon

326. Watch a Maho beach plane landing in St Maarten

327. Go jet skiing in Guatemala

328. Visit Havana in Cuba

329. Stay in a castle in England

330. Watch Liverpool win the Super Cup (twice)

331. Take a cruise through Sydney Harbour

332. Go whale watching in New Zealand

333. Hitchhike through Israel

334. Drive across the Hamptons to Montauk in a Mustang

335. Watch the Mostar bridge divers in Bosnia & Herzegovina

336. Take a boat tour in Brunei

337. Go zorbing in South Africa

338. Swim with turtles in Barbados

339. Go to the War Remembrance museum in Vietnam

340. Float in the Dead Sea

341. Camp at the Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan

342. Land in the largest airport in the world in Saudi Arabia

343. Visit the ancient city of Carthage in Tunisia

344. Watch Ajax v Feyenoord in Amsterdam

345. Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

346. Learn to Tango in Lima

347. Visit the Reunification Palace in Saigon in Vietnam

348. Visit the Statue of Liberty in New York

349. Go snorkelling in the Seychelles

350. Get a Tour of S-21 Prison in Cambodia by a former inmate

351. Watch a Muay Thai match in Phuket in Thailand

352. Have a poem published

353. Visit the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC

354. Travel overland through Patagonia

355. Go to 50 consecutive Liverpool European away games

356. Visit Cusco in Peru

357. See the Old City of Tallinn in Estonia

358. Ride the ferry from Hong Kong to Macau

359. Sail on Titicaca – the world’s highest navigable lake

360. Take a tour of Wrigley Field in Chicago

361. See killer whales in the Shetland Islands

362. Sunbathe on Coco Cabaña and Ipanema beaches

363. Visit the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

364. Volunteer in an orphanage in El Alto, the world’s highest city

365. Go wine tasting in Chile

366. Watch St Etienne v Lyon in France

367. Camp in a teepee in Arizona

368. Drive the Coast Road 500 in Scotland

369. Complete a Men’s Health body transformation

370. See the Northern Lights in Alaska

371. Do a master’s degree in performance analysis

372. Sail to Kotor in Montenegro

373. Sleep in Ottawa Jail in Canada

374. Visit the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest

375. Get a ferry to Morocco alone and see what happens

376. Visit Tagaytay volcano in Philippians

377. See turtles being hatched in Costa Rica

378. Eat lama in Peru

379. See Coldplay in concert

380. Drive around Fraser Island in Australia

381. Get voted ‘best lecturer’ at your university

382. Write a book

383. Sleep in a rainforest in Costa Rica

384. See Wineglass Bay in Tasmania

385. Visit Masaya Volcano National Park in Nicaragua

386. Go whale watching in Maine

387. Make a film on the conflict in North Cyprus

388. Visit a Grand Designs project in Skye

389. Go to the Rugby League World Cup final in England

390. Volunteer on a sport project in Albania

391. Drive from Seattle to Fairbanks

392. Shoot a machine gun in Arizona

393. See black bears in Glacier National Park in Montana

394. Move abroad

395. Go horse riding in the Bahamas

396. Go wine tasting in the Hunter Valley in Australia

397. Watch the New York Yankees play at Yankee Stadium

398. Feed kangaroos at Australia Zoo

399. Visit Kök-Töbe park in Kazakhstan

400. Eat shark, puffin and whale in Iceland

401. Run a sport project in a Tibetan refugee camp in India

402. Visit the Tsitsernakaberd genocide memorial site in Armenia

403. Watch an AFL game at the MCG in Melbourne

404. See the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland

405. Drive the Florida Keys to Key West

406. Experience a braai in South Africa

407. Ride the Wellington Cable Car in New Zealand

408. Watch AFC Wimbledon win at MK Dons in England

409. Buy a listed building

410. Take an airboat tour in the Florida Everglades

411. Drive the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland

412. Attend a traditional Chinese tea ceremony in Shanghai

413. Watch Celtic beat Rangers at Hampden Park

414. Make a fire without matches

415. Test-drive a Ferrari

416. Get the train from Beijing to Ho Chi Minh City

417. Go to a rodeo in Cody in Wyoming

418. Live in a riverside holiday home in Ireland for two years

419. See the Ypres World War One battlefields in Belgium

420. Sail to Aruba

421. Go zip wiring in Portugal

422. Watch the Basque derby between Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao

423. Go to the Home and Away Set in Sydney and meet the cast

424. Travel overland across the Stans

425. Drive through Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado

426. Go to the London Olympics

427. See the puffin colonies at Borgarfjörður in Iceland

428. Watch a Man United v Liverpool game in the home end

429. Go wine tasting in Napa Valley in California

430. Drive around Germany in a campervan

431. Hire a fishing cabin in England

432. See the marketplace in Algiers

433. Spent Christmas Day in Anguilla

434. Watch Gaelic football and hurling at Croke Park

435. Visit Cape Cod in Massachusetts

436. Walk the length of Hadrian’s Wall in England

437. Complete a master’s degree in Sport Management

438. Sail to New York

439. See the ruins of the Yugoslav Army Headquarters in Serbia

440. Walk under Skogafoss waterfall in Iceland

441. Smoke a cigar in Cuba

442. Watch Oman v Palestine in Muscat

443. Plant a tree in an old people’s home in England

444. See Oasis in concert

445. Swim with stingrays in Antigua

446. Visit the Murambi genocide site in Rwanda

447. Drive through the mountains in Andorra

448. Sail through Auckland Harbour in New Zealand

449. Walk on the Capilano Suspension Bridge in Canada

450. Stand on Borussia Dortmund’s Yellow Wall in Germany

451. See the Manama Souq in Bahrain

452. Transport a wheelchair to an orphanage in Malawi

453. See the Golden Triangle in Myanmar

454. Go snorkelling in Grenada

455. Watch an opera in a cathedral in England

456. Get a tattoo

457. Bathe an elephant in Bangladesh 

458. Camp in a yurt in Scotland

459. Cycle around Stanley Park in Vancouver

460. Stay in the penthouse of the Clarence Hotel in Dublin 

461. Soak in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland

462. Live in a 17th century cottage in Southampton for two years

463. Get your passport stamped in Liechtenstein

464. Make a film in Rocinha favela in Rio

465. Drive through Arches National Park in Utah

466. Spend Valentine’s Day in Luxembourg

467. Stand in 50°C heat in Kuwait

468. Bathe in a natural spa in Hungary

469. Go on a cultural tour in Haiti

470. Do a layover in Papua New Guinea

471. Stay in the Sky Den at Kielder Forest in England

472. Take a boat tour around Malta

473. Walk around Macedonia Square in North Macedonia

474. Spend Christmas in St Vincent and the Grenadines

475. Walk through Riga Old Town in Latvia

476. See the Monte Carlo casino in Monaco

478. Go to Universal Studios in Florida

479. Take a boat tour of Norfolk Broads National Park in England

480. See Passo Delle Streghe in San Marino

481. Camp in Olympic National Park in Washington

482. Go to a music carnival in St Kitts

483. Visit Cerro Verde National Park in El Salvador

484. Eat lobster in Arcadia National Park in Maine

485. Ride the Aiguille du Midi cable car to Chamonix in France

486. Drive to B0tswana

487. Go on a bird safari in the Gambia

488. See the Burj Khalif in Dubai

489. Drive through Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah

490. Visit Hell in the Cayman Islands

491. Ride the Skyride gondola up Grouse Mountain in Vancouver

492. See the Soviet sites of Vilnius in Lithuania

493. Climb the ‘three peaks’ in Britain

494. Drive Route 66 in USA

495. Go Snorkelling in Bonaire

496. Listen to bluegrass in Nashville

497. See the Pope deliver mass in Vatican City

498. Take a tour of Sun Studio in Memphis

499. Watch a Wimbledon match on Centre Court

500. Kayak on Lake Louise in Canada

501. Swim in Lake Tahoe in Nevada

502. Eat seal in Norway

503. Do an A Level aged 28

504. Climb the Statue of Liberty in New York

505. Help build a playpark in Ryazan in Russia

506. Drive along Big Sur in California

507. Watch Messi play against Ronaldo

508. Hike through Ala Archa National Park in Kyrgyzstan

509. Visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland

510. Climb Victoria Peak in Hong Kong

511. Watch an MLS game in New York

512. Sail around the British and Irish Isles

513. Travel from Paraguay to Iguaçu Falls

514. Conduct a commissioned player welfare report for FIFPRO

515. Swim in the Red Sea

516. Fly in a floatplane over Rotorua in New Zealand

517. Drive through the Tunnel of Death in Tajikistan

518. Stand on Monument Valley in Arizona

519. See the Che Guevara memorial in Cuba

520. Make a commissioned film for the Matabeleland football team

521. Hike 20 peaks in the Lake District in England

522. Spend New Year’s Eve in Aruba

523. Visit the Embera tribe in Darien in Panama

524. Spend Christmas in Savannah in Georgia

525. See Manatees in the wild in Florida

526. See sloths in the Veragua Rainforest in Costa Rica

527. See the Egyptian pyramids

528. Watch Orlando Magic v Miami Heat in the NBA

529. Go snorkelling in Zanzibar

530. Go bamboo rafting in Jamaica

531. Survive a weekend in the Comoros Islands

532. Do a family road trip around Florida

533. Go on a safari to Mikumi National Park in Tanzania

534. See a toucan in Colombia

535. Visit the Mohamed Salah mural in Cairo

536. Watch Tiger Woods play at the PNC Championships in Orlando

537. Set up a GAA sport project in Uganda