Bucket list

My travel todo-list contains a wide range of interesting places to see and things to do. It is always changing – so maybe you have a great idea I should add? My current goals are:

#1 Discover magical places and do unusual things:

  • Visit one of the countless bunkers in Albania
  • Dance at a concert of Die Toten Hosen at Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Make a Radio Yerevan joke at Yerevan, Armenia
  • Have a look at Mount Ararat from Armenia
  • Eat an original Wiener Schnitzel at Wien, Austria
  • See swimming pigs at the Bahamas
  • Climb the Siegessäule at Berlin, Germany
  • Cruise on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, Peru
  • Understand the Yugoslav Wars at Priština, Kosovo, Sarajevo and Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • See the giant waterfalls of Iguaçu in Brazil and Argentina
  • Watch some penguins at Chile
  • Get access to the Forbidden City, China
  • Visit the Terracotta Army, China
  • Walk on the Great Wall, China
  • Enjoy nature at the Plitvice Lakes National park, Croatia
  • Visit the eastern part of Cuba to have the full picture
  • Be frightened of ‘dinosaurs’ on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
  • Take a picture of the pyramids, Egypt
  • Cross the Baltic region from north to south, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
  • Look down at the Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela, Ethiopia
  • Think about love at the Taj Mahal, India
  • Have a pint of beer at Dublin, Ireland
  • Enjoy nature at Iceland
  • Get to see L’Ultima Cena of Leonardo da Vinci, Milano, Italy
  • Visit the Città Eterna, Italy
  • Climb on top of the Mount Etna, Napoli, Italy
  • Walk along the channels of Venezia, Italy
  • Swim at the Dead Sea, Israel
  • Have a relaxed time at Jamaica
  • Experience the ancient Japan
  • Walk through the old town of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Play Indiana Jones at Petra, Jordan
  • Have a Christmas party at Beirut, Lebanon
  • Cross the Tower Bridge at London, England
  • Have some Pastel de Nata at Lisboa, Portugal
  • Visit the home of the Penguins of Madagascar
  • See the Valle de los Caídos and El Escorial near Madrid, Spain
  • Go to Timbuktu, just because of its funny name
  • Do some exercise in Kotor, Montenegro
  • Sweat in the desert of Morocco
  • Visit the Giant’s Causeway at Northern Ireland
  • Have a look at the Panama channel
  • Visit the Tour Eiffel at Paris, France
  • View Machu Picchu from above, Peru
  • Visit the former home towns of my grandmothers, Wrocław/Olsztyn, Poland
  • Remember the past at Oświęcim, Poland
  • Experience ferry tales at Gdańsk, Poland
  • Spend days between artworks at the Eremitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Take photos of onion domes, Moscow, Russia
  • Drive through the Highlands, Scotland
  • Climb on top of table mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Visit Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga and The Six Bullerby Children, Sweden
  • Spend seven days at Tibet
  • Swim at Pamukkale, Turkey
  • Drink a beer on Hawaii, United States
  • Visit the Statue of Liberty, New York, United States
  • Walk over the Golden Gate Bridge in mist, United States
  • Cross the English Channel with the Eurostar

#2 Travel through eastern Europe and destroy prejudices:

  • Albania
  • Belarus
  • Bulgaria
  • Estonia
  • Kosovo
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Moldova
  • Montenegro
  • North Macedonia
  • Romania
  • Ukraine

#3 See all capital cities in Europe:

  • Amsterdam
  • Andorra la Vella
  • Astana
  • Athens
  • Belgrade
  • Bern
  • Berlin
  • Bratislava
  • Brussels
  • Bucharest
  • Budapest
  • Chisinau
  • Copenhagen
  • Dublin
  • Helsinki
  • Kiev
  • Lisbon
  • Ljubljana
  • London
  • Luxemburg
  • Madrid
  • Minsk
  • Monaco
  • Moscow
  • Oslo
  • Paris
  • Podgorica
  • Prague
  • Reyjkjavík
  • Riga
  • Rome
  • San Marino
  • Sarajevo
  • Skopje
  • Sofia
  • Tallinn
  • Tirana
  • Vaduz
  • Valletta
  • Vatican City
  • Vienna
  • Vilnius
  • Warsaw
  • Zagreb

#4 See as many UNESCO world heritage sites as possible:

  • Cathedral, Aachen
  • Cathedral and Michaeliskirche, Hildesheim
  • Roman buildings, cathedral, Porta Nigra and Liebfrauenkirche, Trier
  • Castles and parks, Potsdam / Berlin
  • City centre, Bamberg
  • Fagus-Werk, Alfeld
  • Karolingisches Westwerk and Civitas Corvey, Höxter
  • Great Barrier Reef, Australia
  • Fraser Island, Australia
  • Semmering Railway, Austria
  • Walled City of Baku, Azerbaijan
  • Old Bridge Area of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Okavango Delta, Botswana
  • Angkor, Cambodia
  • Rapa Nui National Park, Chile
  • The Great Wall, China
  • Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
  • Mount Huangshan, China
  • Palace of Diocletian, Split, Croatia
  • Old City of Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
  • Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
  • Historic Cairo, Egypt
  • Historic Centre of Tallinn, Estonia
  • Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela, Ethiopia
  • Meteora, Greece
  • Taj Mahal, India
  • The Persian Garden, Iran
  • Petra, Jordan
  • Historic Centre of Riga, Latvia
  • Vilnius Historic Centre, Lithuania
  • Timbuktu, Mali
  • Natural region of Kotor, Montenegro
  • Medina of Marrakesh, Morocco
  • Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
  • León Cathedral, Nicaragua
  • Machu Picchu, Peru
  • Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow, Russia
  • Robben Island, South Africa
  • Pamukkale, Turkey
  • Yellowstone National Park, United States of America
  • Grand Canyon National Park, United States of America
  • Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
  • Victoria Falls, Zambia

#5 Visit all continents.

  • Africa
  • Antarctica
  • Australia
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America