Emma's Bucket List

(This is actually a catch up post as we did this back in February 2005) My partner is a keen skier, and although I have always wanted to try skiing, my family never went skiing when I was growing up.  When my partner suggested it shortly after we met, I had mixed feelings; the thought […]

So after the hassle of being scammed by a spa con (see my post below).  I researched spa hotels in Brighton a little more thoroughly, and settled on Lansdown Place, which is a boutique hotel in Brighton… Well, the website says it is-in fact it is in Hove, about 20 minutes walk from the centre […]

Okay, so not all experiences on my bucket list live up to my expectations or are worth repeating, as this experience proved.  I had heard such great things about this festival, so I was looking forward to it in a major way.  V Festival run the festival simultaneously at two sites, Weston in Staffordshire (in […]

I have always wanted to fly whilst standing on the wing of a plane, ever since I first saw Crunchie ‘wing-walking’ display team at air show years ago… Seeing the girls standing up there on the planes looking like they were loving every mad-minute of it, I was green with envy! it’s been high on […]

We ended up missing our flight home from Las Vegas, but Virgin Atlantic were very good and allowed us to transfer our flights home for the next available flight. There was some sort of holiday weekend going on, so the next day’s flight was already fully booked, as were many of the hotels. In the […]

I first saw the iconic Dam in person when we flew over it on our way to the Grand Canyon a few days earlier.  It is a pretty spectacular feat of human engineering.  We were told that there was enough cement in the Dam to put a sidewalk around the equator! It’s actually as wide […]

One of the things we wanted to do during our stay in Las Vegas was take a few days out to visit the Grand Canyon. We um-ed and ah-ed about whether to hire a car and drive down, or whether to take a helicopter tour, but I thought it would be awesome to fly through […]

The Maldives is one place I have wanted to visit ever since I first saw pictures like the one above of some of the islands.  There are literally hundreds of them in a series of Atoll formations in the clearest, bluest water you have ever seen in the Indian ocean.  In the UK, it is […]

Many of you may find it hard to conceive of the fact that I waited until I was in my 30s to go to my first camping music festival. It has always held some appeal for me, but I had my first child whilst I was still at university, so it somehow always escaped me […]

Bootleg Canyon Flightlines – Zip Lining Experience from The Top of Red Mountain Before we left, for our trip to Las Vegas, I did a ton of research on the Internet about cool things we could do whilst we were out there, since we didn’t want to spend an entire week on the Strip.  You […]

Well, I think everyone should visit Las Vegas once in their life… It’s never been a place that tops my personal list, but we had the opportunity of a holiday away from the kids in May of this year (3 months ago now), and decided to go somewhere that we couldn’t go with them normally. […]

We tried most of the well reputed Casino Buffets, our favourites (for food quality and variety) in this order were The Encore/The Wynn and Cosmopolitan, followed by The Bellagio.  I was disappointed by the buffet at Mandalay Bay, as I expected it to be on a par with the others for some reason, possibly because […]

Having visited Disney World in Orlando with my partner and daughter, whilst the boys were away with their father. I couldn’t allow the experience to escape my sons; and since we were lucky enough that my partner had been allocated a block of leave during the school Easter holidays, I took the opportunity to escape for […]

After our day out at Sea World, we got up bright and early and took our gigantic mini-van off to The Animal Kingdom.  My partner had done most of the research for this holiday as it was his treat, so I wasn’t aware that each kingdom was actually a separate theme park prior to going. […]

Soon after Dad passed away, my partner and I had a trip planned to Orlando Florida to visit Disney World with our little girl.  I remember thinking at the time, that I would rather go and lie on a beach and do nothing so that I could unwind after the events of the previous month, […]