Emma's Bucket List

I have been fascinated The Northern Lights have me ever since I have known about them.  It’s hard to imagine seeing the night sky alight with streaks of colour dancing like some amazing freak-of-nature induced acid trip.  Like many others-this has featured high on my bucket list for a long time.  This desire was reignited again […]

I had somehow never heard of this show until I read about it on a blog I follow recently! I IMMEDIATELY added it to my bucket list! It looked positively mesmerising! She put spoiler alerts in, so I guess I should warn you that I’m detailing the full show too… But for me-this is what […]

Back at the end of September I was contacted by a lady called Kristina from Caters news via my Latitude post with the following message: Of course, I was very flattered, and because it was such a lovely message-I accepted.  It is lovely to think I might inspire even one other person who is going through […]

Anyone who is a regular reader, will know that the event that kicked off my bucket list was my charity sky-dive for the hospice who cared for my Dad, Nick. After I completed my charity sky-dive for the hospice, my then 4 year old daughter proclaimed that she wanted to do a sky-dive too.  Clearly she is […]

Some time ago, I read about Archipelago in a blog about the Top 10 unusual restaurants in London… I checked out the website and knew immediately it had to be added to my gastronomic bucket list for the sheer WTF novelty value! I like to consider myself fairly adventurous, but the thought of eating scorpions, […]

I had to post this… I like a lovely self-indulgent bubble bath as much as the next person, but a hotel in Knightsbridge (same area of London as Harrods for those not in the know) The Cadogan Hotel has launched a Champagne bath menu, offering a Dom Pérignon 2002 bath for £25,000!  Other more measly […]

Okay people… I was in two minds about sharing this with you, as I have been entering the competition daily in an attempt to win this fab looking holiday for myself, and didn’t want any unwelcome competition, but I figure the chances have to be better than the lottery, and maybe by sharing the dream, […]

Some of you might have noticed that bungee jumping wasn’t actually on my original bucket list, but on a recent trip to Phuket in Thailand (more post on this to follow shortly) I happened to see the words “Jungle Bungy Jump” written on a tourist map in the Kathu area.  I felt a sudden, massive […]

Some years ago, we bought one of my Dads a helicopter flying lesson for his 60th birthday gift. He had a PPL for a fixed wing plane, and had always wanted to try it. He enjoyed it a great deal, though admitted afterwards that he preferred flying fixed wing to rotor. At the time, I’m […]

Zorbing… It’s a great word isn’t it? It certainly captured my imagination when I first heard of it about 3 or 4 years ago. A friend of mine had booked for her husband to do it, and I had also seen it on a number of experience sites. It just looked like so much fun! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]