Fiiiinally I’ve finished gathering things for my 35 Before 35 list. It does have its own page (which you can click on at the top), but for those of you who don’t bother with them tabs up there I thought I would repost the entire list. Here are the 35 things that I want to achieve before I turn 35 (in 5 years time… minus two months). Items that are crossed out (okay, one item…) have already been achieved.
- Visit the Ukraine
- Eat fondue in Switzerland (again)
- Learn Spanish
- See another musical
- Get over my fear of sewing machines and learn to use one
- Travel round Britain again
- Complete a cross stitch picture for myself
- Do 3 OU courses
- Make cheesecake
- Go whale watching
- Spend a night in a 5 star hotel and order room service
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Read (or re-read) 50 non-fiction books (Read: 1/50)
- Go back to Austria and finally try Marillenknödel
- Read 20 books in German (Read: 3/20)
- Spend new year in Madeira and see the fireworks display (it previously held the record for the world’s largest!)
- See a Shakespeare play (not performed by Oddsocks)
- Bake 10 different kinds of biscuits (Baked: 2/10)
- Find a recipe for garlic soup and make it
- Attend a world cup rugby match
- Read all those books from the BBC Big Read Top 200 list of books that I haven’t before (132 books – I had read 68 before starting) (Read: 7/132)
- Visit the Postojnska cave in Slovenia
- See the Northern Lights
- Go to 5 different Christmas markets (other than Karlsruhe and Durlach)
- Either attend a cake decorating class or buy a book and teach myself at home
- Paintball!!
- Spend the night in a wine barrel (http://www.tourism-bw.com/Gourmet-Country/Spend-the-night-in-a-wine-barrel)
Play blacklight (i.e. glow-in-the-dark) mini golf(Done on 8 April 2013, read about it here.)- Visit a continent I’ve never been to before (following the seven-continent model, this means Africa, Asia, South America, Antarctica or Australia)
- Learn to crochet or knit (or both)
- Watch 15 films I haven’t seen before
- Start paying off my student loan
- Have a poem published
- Drink champagne in Champagne
- The KVV beer tour (drink a beer in each of the local breweries that can be reached by tram/S-Bahn)
Confuzzledom 
Ooooh! I can help you with garlic soup! Courtesy of the way back machine, from a long gone website http://web.archive.org/web/20071013171137/http://www.bernhards.at/recipes/garlicsoup.php
Yum yum yum! Donßt forget backerbsen, and I add a bit of sprüh sahne as well on top. 🙂
Oooh, thank you. That looks amazing!
That’s quite a list!
You’ve seen my Mum’s cheescake recipe, right?
I have! I didn’t make this cheesecake though – it was at a café 😉
Well, once you get making your own… 😉
Wow, you have a lot to accomplish! For Christmas markets, we have a nice one here in Frankfurt or if you can go a little further, the ones in Paris are beautiful. That’ll take you up to almost completing that one!
I went to the Frankfurt one once. It was nice, but sooo busy. Interesting flavoured Glühweins though! I’m thinking maybe Speyer this year 🙂
You could always come over to the UK and try the Bath Christmas Market!
A hot air balloon ride? Brave girl! I couldn’t do it. They scare me to death! 🙂
You’ve just knocked 5 years off your age, you cheeky thing 😉 Great list! 🙂
Haha, I didn’t even notice that typo! I’ve corrected it now 😉
That’s why you’ve got old Eagle Eye here. Just making sure everything is on the straight and narrow 😉
I like your list! There are some things on it that I really really want to do too. Like a ride in a hot air balloon and learn how to use a sewing machine. Good luck with everything and have fun!
Love this KVV beer tour idea!
We came up with the idea last year but didn’t get round to doing it, so I decided to add it to the list.
I love this list! Loads of things on there I’d like to do as well, sometimes when you see things written down like this it makes you think, woah! There’s sooooooo much to do and see and experience! Good luck, I’m glad I’m along for the ride! 🙂
I’m hoping having a list will encourage me to actually do things and not just talk about wanting to!
They all look achievable! Good luck 🙂
Thanks. I was aiming for achievable in the hope that I will actually complete the list 😉
A sensible approach 🙂
If drinking champagne in Champagne is something you want to do, then while visiting the Slovenian caves (which are great by the way) you can head down the Adriatic coast to Bar and drink in a bar
I wish I could use a sewing machine. I’d love to make my own clothes. I love looking at all the fabrics in the stores.
I’ve actually bought fabric in the past, but I can’t do anything with it! It just sits there and looks pretty…
Ah I can help with the crochet part, I just learned within the last couple months, thank you YouTube. Here are a couple of the first crochet projects I did (I had zero experience). Let me know how it goes.
Keep it Sassy & Classy,
B
http://msultimatesophistication.wordpress.com/
Oh, thanks for that. We’ll see when I manage to get round to it 😀