Tag: what to do with my life

35 Before 35 – The complete list

by Confuzzled Bev, posted in life

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.

  1. Visit the Ukraine
  2. Eat fondue in Switzerland (again)
  3. Learn Spanish
  4. See another musical
  5. Get over my fear of sewing machines and learn to use one
  6. Travel round Britain again
  7. Complete a cross stitch picture for myself
  8. Do 3 OU courses
  9. Make cheesecake
  10. Go whale watching
  11. Spend a night in a 5 star hotel and order room service
  12. Ride in a hot air balloon
  13. Read (or re-read) 50 non-fiction books (Read: 1/50)
  14. Go back to Austria and finally try Marillenknödel
  15. Read 20 books in German (Read: 3/20)
  16. Spend new year in Madeira and see the fireworks display (it previously held the record for the world’s largest!)
  17. See a Shakespeare play (not performed by Oddsocks)
  18. Bake 10 different kinds of biscuits (Baked: 2/10)
  19. Find a recipe for garlic soup and make it
  20. Attend a world cup rugby match
  21. 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)
  22. Visit the Postojnska cave in Slovenia
  23. See the Northern Lights
  24. Go to 5 different Christmas markets (other than Karlsruhe and Durlach)
  25. Either attend a cake decorating class or buy a book and teach myself at home
  26. Paintball!!
  27. Spend the night in a wine barrel (http://www.tourism-bw.com/Gourmet-Country/Spend-the-night-in-a-wine-barrel)
  28. Play blacklight (i.e. glow-in-the-dark) mini golf (Done on 8 April 2013, read about it here.)
  29. Visit a continent I’ve never been to before (following the seven-continent model, this means Africa, Asia, South America, Antarctica or Australia)
  30. Learn to crochet or knit (or both)
  31. Watch 15 films I haven’t seen before
  32. Start paying off my student loan
  33. Have a poem published
  34. Drink champagne in Champagne
  35. The KVV beer tour (drink a beer in each of the local breweries that can be reached by tram/S-Bahn)
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