
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