Bucket list

Yeoldhammer

Ticked off one of mine, whilst i was in Germany i saw an Ice Hockey game Live

Yeoldhammer

Hantshammer said:

Crikey Eski-Sweden and Japan are not cheap!

If you look around you can get some really good deals.

This year i have (done Germany Jan) (Greece, Athens in March) (Germany again in July) (Iceland in November)

And all of that set me back at 750 Flights + Hotels, Granted all of these holidays are 5 days or less.

MunichHammer

Yeoldhammer said:

Ticked off one of mine, whilst i was in Germany i saw an Ice Hockey game Live

Who did you watch?

Yeoldhammer

eisbachen ? the polar bears or something was in the mercedes benz arena in Berlin

MunichHammer

Eisbären. So it was even a top flight team. My brother used to play for the Solent Devils when he was doing his apprenticeship.

Yeoldhammer

yeah they seemed like they are the Man United of the Ice Hockey league. They won like 8 titles since 2005 or something (judging by the banners they had with different years on them) but haven't won a title in 2 or 3 years now and are in the bottom half of the table last i looked.

chicagohammer

Got to say that I enjoy ice hockey, as you can imagine it is huge here in Chicago. The speed and skill factor is astonishing.

Frankly, I enjoy any live sporting event but as for the game itself, of all the major sports here in the US, the one I struggle most with is basketball.

#hoopsarenotmything

MrsGrey

Love 'em.

Ironduke

Mrs G, bearing in mind the subject of this thread, is it your wish to eat all 3 flavours at once?

MunichHammer

chicagohammer said:

Got to say that I enjoy ice hockey, as you can imagine it is huge here in Chicago. The speed and skill factor is astonishing.

I come from an ice hockey town and every now and again one of my home town's youth players end up playing in the States. Only a few weeks ago one of hem signed for the Canadians de Montral and I remember Alexander Sulzer (he played for a variety of teams stateside) from the time he still went to school

AdMeus_CaputFilius

At some point I am hoping to take up my globe trotting again once sonof is a bit more independent. I started off about 45 years ago building an alphabet, so far I have visited (many on more than one occasion - I have not included the names of islands that belong to some of those countries, e.g. Crete, Corfu, Lanzarote, Majorca, Magarita and others):

Austria, Argentina.
Belgium, Belize, Bolivia.
Cuba, Chile, Canada, Cyprus
Denmark
El Salvador
France
Greece, Germany, Guatemala
Holland
Italy, Ireland
J-
Kenya
Lebanon
Mexico
Nicaragua, Norway
O-
Panama
Q-
Romania
Switzerland, Spain
Turkey
USA
Venezuela
W-
X-
Y-
Z-

Although Q and X might take some doing.........

Brother_Sledge

Visited the Hindu Temple in Neasden recently - wasn't on my list but definitely should have been - Wow ! ( BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir )

Hoping to see starling murmuration again over Canterbury this evening - that's in the 'on repeat' section of my list

Golfing ticks - Watching Seve Ballesteros play (at the Belfry)
- Playing Royal St George's in 2011 then watching The Open there.
- First hole in one ( June 2016 ) having played 30 years !

Admeus - Qatar 2022 world cup ?

NEoldiron

Admeus, this is my list so far, although I don't think I'll be adding too much to it now:

Andorra, Austria, Argentina, Australia
Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria
Cuba, Canada, China
Denmark, Dubai
El Salvador, Egypt
France, Finland
Greece, Germany,
Hong Kong, Hungary
Italy, Ireland, Israel, Iran, India
Lebanon, Liechtenstein
Malta, Mexico, Maldives, Malaysia
Norway, Netherlands
Poland, Portugal (+Madeira)
Q-
Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Singapore, Scotland ;-)
Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey
USA
V-
Wales ;-)
Yugoslavia (Croatia)
Z-

Yeoldhammer

Haven't done Ireland or Northern Ireland (keep saying i need to go to them both)

IronHerb

You could have a day trip. ;wahoo

Kuchinghammer

Yeold: Wales & Ireland in a day, just take the ferry from Pembroke to Rosslaire.
and Admeus: Z - Zimbabwe. It's in a mess, but you could see Victoria Falls (which is on my bucket list) I'm curious about Saudi - a work permit or visit to Mecca? I tried to get my daughter on a week's visit when I worked there. It took 5 months before I gave up.

Hantshammer

AdMe/NE oldiron ;bowdown respect! All those countries visited! Each one with a memory or two I bet? I'd love to visit Japan personally.

IronHerb

Hants, they were pilots. ;biggrin

chicagohammer

Ok here goes

Austria, Australia
Belgium, Bulgaria
Canada, Czechoslovakia
Denmark, Dutch Antillies
France
Greece, Germany, Grenada
Ireland
Mexico, Maldives, Mauritius, Majorca
New Zealand
Portugal
Switzerland, Scotland
USA
Wales

Not a bad effort, am very aware that I have never been to the Far East and more surprisingly Italy, must put that right one day ;ok

AdMeus_CaputFilius

Brother Sledge ;ok good point - think I might just have to consider that one - how goes things.

KH - did consider Zimbabwe but possibly in a few years when things improve. Fortunately for a few of those countries (particularly some of the South American ones) I had an official 'Back Door' access.

Herb, unfortunately not, looking at NE's list I suspect he has a similar background to me for some of those visits. Whilst a few of the destinations (Mainly European) have been long weekends and one - three week holidays, a lot of the others have been work related visit of 4 - 8 weeks, in some cases 3 or more months and in others 6 or more months. Although there was a lot of 'play' time involved, I used to crew yachts at one time sailed from the Caribbean up to Cancun in 1982 and back again, and as I had an interest (still do) in natural history I would often find myself studying the environment and ecology of the places I visited, particularly South America, not to mention the night sky without the light pollution. I count myself extremely lucky to have experience a lot of things that others have not and probably never will.

Hants, you're not wrong - wifeof keeps telling me to write a book about my 'Adventures'.