Today – My family bucket list destinations – the top one hundred places I want to visit with the kids before they leave home.
I turn 40 this year. I’m happy to report I’m feeling pretty sanguine about my milestone birthday. No existential angst or desire to buy a sports car (not as yet anyway).
My only slight panic has come from the reminder that it doesn’t leave us all that long to travel as a family. With less than eight years until E is likely to be heading off to Uni and so many places I still want us to go it’s only just hit me that I might have to get a bit organised to make that work.
I thought in honour of my 40th I might try making a list of 40 bucket list destinations I wanted to try and visit together but once I started that was nowhere near enough. In the end, I’ve managed to get it down to 100. What do you think? Have I missed anything huge?
I’ve tried not to over think it too much and have ended up with a selection of cities, regions and countries depending on how clear I am on exactly where we want to go. There’s certainly a lot more research to be done on some of them and I’d imagine some will end up being swapped in the future but I think it’s a good start.
Family bucket list destinations
UK
- London – Done
- York – Done (see Things to do in York with kids)
- Cardiff – Done
- Edinburgh
- Cotswolds
- Birmingham
- Scottish Highlands
- West Wales
- Norfolk – Done
- Cornwall – Done (see Bosinver Farm Cottages)
- Peak District – Done (see Things to do in Buxton)
- Isle of Wight
- Oxford
- Greenwich
- Warwick
- Stratford upon Avon – Done (see Stratford upon Avon Restaurants)
- Devon & Exmoor
- Jersey
- Loch Ness
- Brecon & Mid Wales
- Hadrian’s Wall
- Burgh Island
- Manchester (see Christmas Days Out in Manchester)
- Harrogate
- Ludlow – Done
- Lundy Island
- The Hebrides
- Cambridge
- Bath
- Giants Causeway
Europe
- Valencia
- Riga
- Normandy
- Stockholm
- Munich
- Copenhagen
- Madrid
- Berlin
- Vienna
- Venice
- Bruges
- Croatia
- Palermo
- Dublin
- Warsaw
- Bucharest
- Budapest
- Zurich
- Iceland
- Oslo – Done (see Things to do in Oslo with Oslo Pass)
- Eurodisney
- Barcelona
- Cologne
- Salzburg
- Bratislava
- Milan
- Lapland
- Naples & the Amalfi Coast
- Athens
- Carcassonne
- Lisbon
- Black Forest
- Provence
- Greek Islands
- Ibiza
- Nice
- Cagliari
- Florence
- Paris
- Santiago de Compostela
Worldwide
- St Petersburg/Moscow
- Seattle – Done
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Pyramids at Giza
- California
- Morocco
- Thailand
- Singapore (See Gardens by the Bay)
- Las Vegas & Grand Canyon
- Florida & the theme parks
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Madagascar
- Japan
- Bali
- Hawaii
- Petra
- Isreal
- A safari (Kenya? Botswana?)
- Boston & NE USA
- Iran
- Istanbul
- Galapagos Island
- Vancouver
- India
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- New Orleans
- Brasil
Hmmm, so 100 family bucket list destinations in 8 years. That’s doable, right? *panic face*
Ok, maybe we won’t get to them all but it can’t hurt to try. I hope you’ll follow along and see how we do.
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