My Travel Bucket List

After quite a bit of discussion I've finally convinced Marco that travelling is a great idea. He seems to be warming to my idea of why it's so good to broaden your mind but the next steps is where to travel too.

I said ideally I'd like to visit three countries a year. Yes I know that sounds utterly spoilt to some people but travel is my hobby (well one of!) so I like to do it often.

Marco has agreed that I need to limit my travel to 'risky' countries to once per year and the other two times maybe more safe places like Europe (because there hasn't been any issues in France and Belgium lately...!).

No doubt we'll 'debate' those risky countries but I've made a list and I have 42 new countries on my list to visit. Obviously this is over my lifetime but it's so exciting to have a plan of all the countries I'd like to visit.

I thought I'd share my list with you and see if it inspires you to want to visit any of them too. I'll start with what I believe are the 'risky' countries.

1. Cape Verde - Beautiful African beach resort.
2. Gambia - again lovely African beach resort and nature.
3. Madagascar - again because of Africa.
4. India - sadly various issues with crime but so much to see.
5. Israel - middle east (enough said!).
6. Jordan - as above.
7. Russia - again so many beautiful places but it's pretty corrupt in places.
8. Bolivia - high poverty so also high crime rates.
9. Chile - as above.
10. Colombia - as above.
11. Venezuela - as above.
12. Argentina - as above.

I know some of those places won't interest Marco at all so I'm happy to find a well organised tour to visit with. I always feel so comfortable with those tours as the guides are so knowledgeable and experienced.

The rest of my list is equally as exciting but hopefully seen as 'less risky'. Some of these will make amazing long weekend breaks and others require a bit longer to visit. Here the list continues;

13. Mauritius.
14. Morocco (could be argued a little risky).
15. Turkey (also a tad risky depending where).
16. Seychelles.
17. Japan.
18. Maldives.
19. Hungry (I'm starving actually!!).
20. Austria.
21. Croatia.
22. Gibraltar.
23. Iceland.
24. Monaco.
25. Norway.
26. Poland.
27. Montenegro.
28. Sweden.
29. Vatican (and lots more of Italy).
30. Antigua.
31. Aruba.
32. Bermuda.
33. British Virgin Islands.
34. Turks and Caicos.
35. Puerto Rico.
36. Panama (perhaps don't go canoeing).
37. Cayman Islands.
38. The Bahamas.
39. Australia.
40. Cook Islands.
41. Fiji.
42. New Zealand.

A lot of the places I want to visit are faraway shores and would be ideal for when I'm retired. But there are also lots of amazing places I can visit now.

Marco hasn't travelled much at all so it'll be nice going to places like Spain with him and of course seeing far more of Italy.

I find dreaming and 'planning' these holidays is sometimes just as much fun as actually being on holiday.

Here's a few pictures of the incredible places I wish to visit.

Vatican City.

Trolltunga, Norway. 

Columbia. 

Salto Angel, Venezuela.