The Ultimate Bucket List

Scott's Ultimate Bucket List

Scott’s Bucket List

I started writing the ultimate bucket list in 2017 in Chichester, England when I was working away as a construction site manager. I was staying on my own and had nothing to do in the evenings other than sit on Facebook and scroll through videos, when one of those ‘travel inspiration’ videos came up. From then on, I decided to make the ultimate bucket list of over 100 experiences, which was one of the only things keeping me going through the stress of working away and staying on my own. Before I knew it I had well over 500 goals which is ever growing to this day.

As I complete them, I cross them off and take a picture of myself doing it (Alex bought me an engraved album for Christmas one year which I’ve started to fill). I’m posting this on here, as I’m hoping to inspire people in a similar situation who are either stressed out or a bit fed up to start your own list to work towards, so here are some of the ultimate bucket list ideas for you all. It changed my life!

Skydive - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Run my own business
  • Bungee Jump
  • See the northern lights
  • Fly in a hot air balloon
  • Visit Rome
  • Visit Hawaii
  • Ride a Gondola in Venice
  • Learn Polish until I am fluent
  • Swim with Dolphins
Swim with dolphins - The Ultimate Bucket List
Me and Bea, the dolphin, in Cuba
Hold a Koala - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Hold a monkey
  • Milk a cow
  • Shear a sheep
  • Witness a proposal
  • Sleep in an Igloo
  • Stand under a waterfall
  • Start a fire without matches or lighter
  • Be a bestman
Be a Best Man - The Ultimate Bucket List
Our friends Matt and Alice got married in 2018, and I was lucky enough to be best man
  • Take part in a carnival
  • Share a taxi with a stranger
  • Buy a property on my own
  • Jump into a pool fully clothed
  • Make an origami animal
  • Make something on a pottery wheel
  • Be on the Radio
  • Attend a darts match
  • Attend a boxing match
  • Visit Northern Ireland
  • Attend a wedding in a different country
  • Be in a TV show audience
  • Get hypnotised
  • Go on a cruise
  • Go on the London Eye
  • Go to the London Dungeon
  • Go to a drive in cinema
  • Watch F1 live
  • Play bingo at a bingo hall
  • Visit Las Vegas
  • Do a safari
  • Watch a live Wimbledon match
  • Have acupuncture
  • Have a mud bath in Turkey
  • Have a Turkish bath
  • See the grand canyon
  • Have my palm read
  • Visit Niagara Falls
  • Order room service
  • Stay in a 5* resort
  • Attend wine tasting
  • Bake a cake
  • Drive a tank
  • Catch, cook and eat a fish
  • Drink at an Ice bar
  • Pay for a strangers coffee
  • Eat Caviar
  • Be in a newspaper
  • Visit a beekeepers
  • Make beer
Make Beer - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Have a herb garden
  • Grow my own vegetables
  • Send a message in a bottle
  • Skinny dip
  • Be present at a birth
  • Do a random act of kindness
  • Visit an elderly person at a nursing home
  • Feed a homeless person
  • Plant a tree
  • Attend an olympics event
  • Shoot a gun
  • Skuba dive
  • Drive a speed boat
  • Drive a tractor
  • Fly first class
  • Ride a camel
  • Ride a jetski
  • Ride a segway
  • Ride in a limousine
  • Ride in a Tuk Tuk
  • Ride a rollercoaster
  • Climb a lighthouse
  • Sleep in a hostel on my own with strangers
  • Sleep in a treehouse
  • Sleep on a canal boat
  • Visit all 7 continents (5 done)
  • Throw a dart at a map and just go
  • Go on holiday on my own
  • Visit a temple
  • Visit a ghost town
  • Go to Glastonbury Festival
Go to Glastonbury Festival - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Do route 66
  • Visit Alaska
  • Stand under the Hollywood sign
  • Visit Times Square
  • See Mount Rushmore
  • Visit the Shard bar/restaurant in London
  • Watch an England rugby game live
  • See the great wall of China
  • Visit the Eiffel tower
  • Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
  • Go to the Royal Ascot races
  • Smoke weed in Amsterdam
  • Float in the dead sea- Israel/Jordan
  • Visit Monaco
  • Visit San Marino
  • Visit Stonehenge
  • Attend a foam party
  • Earn 6 figures in a year
  • Own a second property
  • Drink a bottle of Champagne that’s worth over £100
  • Stomp grapes
  • Have a ride in a Yacht
  • Adopt a pet that needs a home
  • Buy a Jacuzzi
Buy A Jacuzzi - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Go sea fishing
  • Have Reiki treatment
  • Visit Mexico
  • Visit Slovenia
  • Visit Bali
  • Visit Czech Republic
  • Visit Vietnam
  • Visit Bora Bora
  • Visit Ibiza
  • Follow England to a major football tournament
  • Hold a snake
  • Drink a bottle of wine that’s worth over £50
  • Go VIP at a festival
  • Ride a hot tub boat in London
  • Watch Coldplay live
  • Visit the liquid rainbow river in Colombia
  • Stay in the hotel villa honegg in Switzerland
  • Visit Auchwitz
  • Watch an England cricket game
  • Go in a mini submarine
  • Watch an Ice Hockey game
  • Watch an NBA game
  • Visit Jerusalem
  • Go whale watching
  • Stay in a forest for one night alone
  • Sleep under the stars
  • Learn a third language
  • Eat Kobe beef in Kobe, Japan
  • Visit lake Misurina in Italy.
  • Do worlds fastest zip wire in Wales.
  • Go paragliding
  • Do flyboarding
  • See the underwater waterfall in Mauritius
  • Go to Reading festival
  • Buy a brand new car outright
  • Buy a house in another country
  • Visit Norway
  • Visit Austria
  • Visit the Philippines
  • Visit Scotland
  • Visit Madagascar
  • Visit Dominican Republic
  • Visit Albania
  • Visit Armenia
  • Visit Barbados
  • Visit Cuba
  • Visit Denmark
  • Visit Fiji
  • Visit Luxembourg
  • Visit Slovakia
  • Visit Malta
  • Visit Romania
  • Stay in Jade garden resort in St Lucia.
  • Watch a baseball game
  • Go abseiling
  • Be in two countries at once
  • Become a parent
  • Climb a mountain
  • Fly a kite
  • Fly in a helicopter
  • Drink tea at a traditional Asian tea house
  • Watch a NFL game
  • Visit Machu Picchu, Peru
  • Visit St Marks Basilica
  • Visit Paris
  • Stay in the Ice hotel- Sweden
  • Visit the Pyramids of Giza
  • Edge walk around the CN tower- Toronto
  • Walk on top of the o2
Walk on Top of The O2 - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Do a colour run
  • Solve a Rubik’s cube
  • Volunteer at an animal shelter
  • See a war cemetery
  • Do a tour of the Normandy D-Day beaches
  • Get paid to travel
  • Eat truffles
  • Eat escargot
  • Eat frogs legs
  • Go on a slip and slide
  • Swim with manatees
  • Blow glass
  • Make soap
  • Make a candle
  • Attend a murder mystery dinner
  • Bet at the dog races
  • Visit Easter Island
  • Learn how to meditate
  • Volunteer for a charity
  • Eat horse
  • Eat rabbit
  • Eat ostrich
  • Eat crocodile
  • Eat kangaroo
  • Visit a castle in Wales
  • Go to a farmers market
  • Eat pheasant
  • Do the three peak challenge
  • Eat Gelato in Italy
  • Watch a United game at Old Trafford
  • Visit a tea plantation
  • Hold a bird
Hold a Bird - The Ultimate Bucket List
Me in Venice, Italy holding a bunch of pigeons
  • Do the Taunton Ciderthon
  • Watch Man United play away
  • Watch England play at Wembley
  • Visit Chernobyl
  • Write a will
  • See one of the Queens guard in person
  • Eat at a 1 Michelin star restaurant
  • Get a tattoo
  • Visit all 50 US states (1 done- Florida)
  • Visit the Hoover dam in Nevada
  • See the Colosseum in Rome
  • Visit Dubai
  • Explore Petra in Jordan
  • Visit the Taj Mahal
  • Do the London Aquarium
  • See an African tribe
  • Host a foreign exchange student
  • Do the ‘Worlds deadliest hike’ on Mt Huashan, China
  • Dive in the ‘Worlds deepest pool’ in Dubai
  • Climb the Dune de Pilat, France
  • Research my family tree
  • Read 500 books
  • Run a half marathon
  • Do a food challenge
  • Stand on the equator
  • See the statue of liberty
  • Visit Angkor wat in Cambodia
  • Visit the statue of Zeus in Olympia
  • Visit the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus
  • Visit the Colossus of Rhodes
  • Visit the Chichen Itza in Mexico
  • Ride a motorbike
  • Do parasailing
  • Visit Aphrodite’s bath in Cyprus
  • Have dinner in the Coppa club igloos in London
  • Eat Pigeon
  • Cuddle a big cat. Baby tiger etc
  • Experience a full day of darkness in a northern country
  • Go to pig beach in the Bahamas
  • Use a swim up bar
  • See a theatre show at the west end
  • Have a meal at a dark/blackout restaurant
  • Visit Moldova
  • Eat bear
  • Visit a prison
  • Watch Snow Patrol live
  • Do a gingerline food event
  • Do a restaurant in the sky
Do a Restaurant in the Sky - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Go to the edge of space in a MIG plane
  • Do the predator adventure seabreacher in London
  • Do a shark dive
  • Visit Pearl Harbour in Hawaii
  • Go to the Henley Royal Regatta
  • Visit Giethoorn Village in the Netherlands (No cars allowed)
  • Smoke a Cuban cigar in Cuba
  • Drive a snowmobile
  • Eat sea urchin
  • Go blob jumping
  • Swim in the blue lagoon, Iceland
  • Visit Dracula’s castle in Romania
  • Become a godparent
  • Cut down my own Christmas tree
  • Eat Smørrebrød in Denmark
  • Dog sled
  • Sleep in a yurt
  • Go to the cinema by myself
  • Relax in a sensory deprivation tank
  • Make ice cream
  • Make wine
  • Eat heart
  • Eat tongue
  • Eat brain
  • Eat reindeer
  • Eat snake
  • Find a four leaf clover
  • Do paddleboarding
Do Paddle-boarding - The Ultimate Bucket List
Alex and I paddleboarding in Kotor, Montenegro
Get Engaged - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Attend a stag do
  • Do a brewery tour
  • Have a pizza in Italy
  • Navigate my way somewhere using only a compass and map
  • Be a captain of a football team
  • Win a football league
  • Go to a school prom
  • Stay on ‘No Man’s Fort’ in the Solent
Stay on No Man's Land in the Solent - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Visit the Eden Project
  • Visit the pink lagoon in Yallabatharra in Australia
  • Go Glamping
  • Visit Serbia
  • Eat a tomahawk steak
  • Visit Dolomites, Italy.
  • Eat at Rick Steins
  • See a Haka performed live
  • Do the Old Trafford Stadium tour
  • Do Alphabet dating
  • Eat at a 2 Michelin star restaurant
  • Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
  • Use an E-bike
  • Visit Buckingham Palace
  • Do a Police chase experience
  • Do the herbal chef experience USA California
  • Visit Lake Brienz in Switzerland
  • Visit the Faroe Islands
  • Drive the ‘Road to nowhere’ in Norway
  • Go Ice fishing
  • Have a cheese fondue in Switzerland
  • Make my own cheese
  • Visit Switzerland
  • Visit Poland
  • Visit Turkey
  • Throw boiling hot water in the air; somewhere that it freezes instantly
  • Eat 100% Iberian ham (black label)
  • Do Sea Kayaking
  • Eat eel
  • Eat in a medieval restaurant
  • Eat moose
  • Visit Malaysia
  • Visit Singapore
  • Buy a property in an auction
  • Feed a kangaroo
  • Eat emu
  • Eat wallaby
  • Visit Cape Verde
  • Get a PADI license
  • Snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef
Snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Go to a travel agent, book a holiday and just go
  • Ride a horse
  • Eat an authentic hotpot in Asia
  • See the ‘light up’ blue plankton
  • Experience a full day of daylight in a northern country
  • Visit Ireland
  • Visit Hungary
  • Visit Germany
  • Visit Latvia
  • Visit Belarus
  • Visit Ukraine
  • Visit France
  • Visit Italy
  • Visit Bulgaria
  • Visit Kosovo
  • Visit Greece
  • Visit North Macedonia
  • Visit Russia
  • Visit China
  • Visit Azerbaijan
  • Visit Iran
  • Visit Israel
  • Visit Jordan
  • Visit Lebanon
  • Visit Kyrgyzstan
  • Visit Uzbekistan
  • Visit Nepal
  • Visit Mongolia
  • Visit Cambodia
  • Visit Indonesia
  • Visit Taiwan
  • Visit Hong Kong
  • Visit The Gambia
  • Visit Senegal
  • Visit Nigeria
  • Visit Ethiopia
  • Visit Kenya
  • Visit Botswana
  • Visit Cameroon
  • Visit Uganda
  • Visit Rwanda
  • Visit Zambia
  • Visit Tanzania
  • Visit Zimbabwe
  • Visit Namibia
  • Visit Seychelles
  • Visit Puerto Rico
  • Visit Brazil
  • Visit Argentina
  • Visit Uruguay
  • Visit Paraguay
  • Visit Chile
  • Visit Colombia
  • Visit Papua New Guinea
  • Visit Tonga
  • Visit the Solomon Islands
  • Visit Tasmania
  • Visit Greenland
  • Visit Bolivia
  • Visit Ecuador
  • Visit Venezuela
  • Visit Costa Rica
  • Visit Guatemala
  • Visit St Lucia
  • Visit Nicaragua
  • Visit Trinidad and Tobago
  • Do a free Open University course
  • Make my own pickled onions/eggs
  • Eat pig’s ears
  • Visit Cyprus
  • Ride a quad bike
Ride a Quad Bike - The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Try the best breakfast in the world at Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico
  • Go to a Spa
  • Visit the Roman Baths in Bath
  • Eat cactus
  • Go to a casino in Las Vegas
  • Visit a cattle ranch in southern USA and do a cattle drive
  • Eat testicles
  • Go to the sunset boulevard in LA
  • Eat buffalo mozzarella in Campania, Italy
  • Visit Canada
  • Visit Netherlands
  • Visit Portugal
  • Visit Spain
  • Watch a rodeo in America
  • Visit the Blue Mountains in Sydney, Australia
  • Play chicken sh*t bingo in Austin, Texas
  • Cruise along the Ha Long Bay in Vietnam
  • Visit the Galapagos Islands
  • Go on an expedition in Antarctica
  • See a polar bear in the Arctic
  • Do the jet boat ride in the Shotover River, New Zealand
  • Do a Luge ride
  • Visit St Tropez
  • Eat oysters in Arcachon Bay, France
  • Go whiskey tasting in Scotland
  • Go to a Highland Games in Scotland
  • Do fly fishing
  • Do a rage room experience
  • Eat lamb from Mustapha’s in Marrakesh in Morocco
  • Eat at one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants
  • Do river tubing
  • Do jury service
  • Sleep in a fale
  • Meet someone famous
  • Write a thank you letter/email to a company that treated me well
  • Knit something
  • Make a calendar with my own photos
  • Get a fish pedicure
  • Flip a property
  • Fly in a private jet
  • Leave 100% tip for excellent service
  • Make jam
  • Eat alpaca
  • Eat bone marrow
  • Eat chicken feet
  • Eat guinea pig
  • Eat haggis in Scotland
  • Eat octopus
  • Eat scorpion
  • Complete 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle
  • Rope swing into water
  • Stay awake for 24 hours
  • Go off-roading
  • Go on an overnight train
  • Stay in an underwater hotel
  • Snorkel/scuba dive in an underwater museum
  • Swim in Lake Bled, Slovenia
  • Experience St Patrick’s day in Ireland
  • Rescue a wild animal
  • Do yoga
  • Do goat yoga
  • Write The Ultimate Bucket List
  • Eat crow
  • Do hang-gliding
  • Walk 100,000 steps
  • Eat guinea fowl
  • Visit The Vatican
  • Watch the Pope do a speech at the Vatican

  • Eat oxtail
  • Eat sweetbreads
  • Eat fermented shark in Iceland
  • Go ice swimming
  • Do canyoning
  • Do a mountain rollercoaster
  • Go on an F1 H2O ride
  • Drive a monster truck
  • Eat poutine in Canada
  • Do a wing walk
  • Eat Camembert in Normandy
  • Eat a Cornish pasty in Cornwall
  • Go crabbing
  • Have a true Cornish cream tea
  • Eat oysters
  • Eat lobster
  • Eat turbot
  • Do an escape room
  • Play golf
  • Eat goat
  • Do an indoor skydive
  • Visit the Minack Theatre
  • Walk across to St Michael’s Mount
  • Visit Land’s End
  • Go Fishing
  • Visit John O’Groats
  • Eat duck hearts
  • Eat pigs tail
  • Eat pigs trotter
  • Eat a traditional kebab in Turkey
  • Eat Squirrel
  • Spend Christmas in New York
  • Do an Alpaca experience
  • Stay in an Ayder Rize cabin, Turkey
  • Watch the hot air balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey
  • Do a skyscraper swing
  • Visit Hobbiton in New Zealand
  • Drink Port in Porto
  • Spend an evening at Elephant Rock, Saudi Arabia
  • Visit Athens
  • Have a hot stone massage
  • Eat stag
  • Do axe throwing
  • Eat woodcock
  • Buy a property off-plan
  • Stay in Villa Zlatorog at Lake Bled
  • See a live volcano
  • Do a Monte Sledge ride in Madeira, Portugal
  • Watch a Football World Cup Final live
  • Learn to play the guitar
  • Eat pie, mash and liquor in London
  • Eat at one of ‘Salt Bae’s’ restaurants
  • Do beer tasting in Belgium
  • Visit Grand Place and Mannekin Pis in Brussels, Belgium
  • Do a cruise down the River Nile
  • Camp in Wadi Rum, Jordan
  • Do desert star gazing
  • Watch sumo wrestling live
  • Eat Puffin
  • Visit South Korea
  • Ride a rail bike
  • Eat a black egg in Owakudani, Japan
  • See the cherry blossoms in Japan
  • Do the soccer Saturday challenge
  • Eat a Vindaloo
  • Do the NC500 route in Scotland
  • Travel on a bullet train
  • Visit Lisbon for a Portuguese tart
  • Eat at Bar Nestor, San Sebastian, Spain
  • See the tulip fields in the Netherlands
  • Take in the view of Salar De Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia
  • Cross the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo, Japan
  • Eat sushi at the Tsukijus Fish Market in Tokyo, Japan
  • Go up the worlds tallest tower, Skytree, Tokyo, Japan
  • Swim in the blood river, Russia
  • Visit penguin beach, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Eat squid guts
  • Write a letter to your future self
  • Visit the Ivory Hills, China
  • Eat noni (vomit) fruit
  • Visit Clarkson’s Farm
  • Visit The Golden Bridge in Vietnam
  • Do bamboo rafting
  • See the Great Blue Hole, Belize
  • Visit Tuvalu
  • Eat ray wing
  • Visit the Waitomo glow worm caves in New Zealand
  • See a glacier
  • See a geyser
  • Visit Samoa
  • Do aqua karting
  • Witness the summer solstice at Stonehenge
  • Eat gecko
  • Visit the underground cities of Cappadocia, Turkey
  • See the chocolate hills in The Phillippines
  • Have a floating massage
  • Visit a black sand beach
  • Stand in two continents at the same time
  • Eat at the Iris restaurant in Hardangerfjord, Norway
  • Visit Vanuatu
  • Make a sand bath at Hot Water Beach in New Zealand
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