LIVE LIFE TO THE FULL

Paula believes in Living Life to the Full. She has done over 118 ‘things’ that she most wanted to do before she dies and she's nowhere near being dead!

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'My list helps me live life to the full, to feel alive and know that when I am drawing my last breath, it will be with no regrets.'

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THINGS I'VE DONE:
 

1. Abseiling

2. Acted as an extra in commercials & films

3. Amazon

4. Angkor Watt, Cambodia

5. Antarctica / South Pole

6. Arctic Circle

7. Arrested in Cambodia

8. Batik Course, Jogjakarta, Java

9. Bermuda Triangle, Golden Triangle

10. Bike Ride – London to Brighton x 8, fancy dress

11. Bog Snorkelling

12. Boogie Boarding

13. Bought round of drinks for pub of strangers

14. Bruges snow & ice festival

15. Buckingham Palace Garden Party

16. Bungee jump, The Pipeline, New Zealand

17. Caribbean Cruise

18. Caving

19. Ceremony of the Keys, Tower of London

20. China, Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Terracotta army

21. Chitwan National Park

22. Circumnavigated Cape Horn

23. Clay pigeon shooting

24. Climbed top 95′ mast

25. Climbed volcano, Mount Bromo, Java

26. Coasteering

27. Crewed for RNLI

28. Cycled length of UK, Poland, Malta, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Hungary, Slovakia

29. Daily Telegraph Correspondent

30. Death slides, Flying Fox

31. Desert – Gobi

32. Dragon boat racing

33. Dressed as Geisha in Japan & in Sari in India

34. Eiffel Tower

35. Florida Alligators & Hover boats

36. Fly fishing

37. Flying lesson

38. Full Moon Party, Thailand

39. Giant rugby game, the Haxey Hood

40. Giants Causeway, Ireland

41. Glacier trek

42. Gondola ride from St Marks Square, Venice

43. Gorge Scrambling & Waterfall climbing

44. Got married (at last!)

45. Grand Canyon in helicopter

46. Grand Prix: UK x 5, Australia, Spain

47. Great Barrier Reef

48. Great White Shark cage diving

49. Hadrian’s Wall, coast to coast

50. Held snakes & tarantulas

51. Helicopter flights x 3

52. Himalayas

53. Hiroshima & Nagasaki

54. Hot air ballooning

55. Husky dog sledding

56. Ice fishing

57. Inca Trail

58. Jet Boating

59. Karting

60. Kathmandu

61. Kayaked the Thames, source to sea, 150 miles

62. Lapland

63. Las Vegas

64. Le Luge

65. Macchu Picchu & Huana Picchu

66. Maldives water bungalow

67. Marathon, London

68. Mongolia

69. Mountaineering – Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Mont Blanc massif

70. Northern lights & Southern lights

71. Nuclear submarine

72. Opera in Sydney & Prague

73. Paddled 300 miles in dugout canoe – Srepok & Mekong rivers, Cambodia

74. Paddled dugout canoe, Nicaragua

75. Parapenting, tandem

76. Poems published

77. Pyramids & Sphinx

78. Quad biking

79. RedBull Soapbox race

80. Rode horse, ostrich, elephant, camel, donkey

81. Russia, Moscow, Red Square

82. Sailed across the equator twice

83. Sailed around the world, 35000 miles, the wrong way

84. Sand tobogganing

85. Scuba diving with bull sharks, rays, wreck dive & blue hole, Belize

86. Skied full distance from coast to South Pole

87. Skirmish Marshall

88. Stayed in a Lighthouse

89. Stayed in Riokan, traditional Japanese house

90. Steam Train (Peru) & Bullet Train (Shikansen, Japan)

91. Stroked tiger cubs & adult cheetahs

92. Surfing

93. Swam with dolphins

94. Swam with seals

95. Swam with sharks

96. Taj Mahal

97. Tandem sky dive

98. TED talk

99. Tekal, Guatemala

100. Tomatina Tomato throwing festival

100. Tornado, 100′ away (waterspout)

101. Trans-Siberian railway, Moscow to Beijing

102. Trekking – Inca trail, Hill Tribes Thailand, Hill tribes Sapa

103. Walked across England, from Coast to Coast

104. Walked across Ireland, from Dublin to Galway

105. Walked on hot coals – the firewalk

106. Water skiing

107. West Papua tribes & trek

108. Whale watching

109. White water rafting x 3

110. White water surfing

111. Wimbledon

112. Windsurfing

113. Worked in hospice as volunteer

114. World Body Painting festival

115. Written book: Live Life to the Full

116. Written & published four books

117. Xmas in Lapland

118. Zorbing

THINGS I WANT TO DO:
 

1. Alaska

2. Bagan, Myanmar

3. Black water rafting

4. Bob sleigh / Skeleton bob

5. Canada Canoeing

6. Mongol Rally

7. Caving / Canyoning

8. Colour festival, India

9. Covent Garden opera

10. Cuba

11. Cycle length of Italy

12. Dead sea

13. Dessert trek, Dessert camp

14. Easter Island

15. Egremont crab fair with gurning

16. Ethiopia trek

17. Flashmob

18. Galapagos

19. Gliding

20. Glastonbury festival

21. Gordon Bennett Cup hot air balloon race

22. Grand Prix: Monaco, Spa

23. Grizzly bears, Alaska

24. Hawaii, volcano national park

25. Hawk walk

26. Historic battle re-enactment

27. Ice Hotel, Sweden

28. Learn to whistle properly

29. Live to 100

30. Lost City, Columbia

31. Lowland Games, Wales

32. Maldon mud race

33. Motorbike test

34. Ngawala Cup, Zanzibar

35. North Pole

36. Paddle more than 2010 miles – Amazon or Mekong to break record or Paddle Top 10 rivers

37. Pakistan

38. Ride a horse in the sea

39. Ride a manta ray, Caymans

40. Sardine Run, S Africa

41. Scuba dive with Narwhals

42. Raise £100,000

43. Storm chasing

44. Streak!

45. Swim with Whale Shark

46. Swim the Arctic circle

47. Talisker Atlantic row

48. Three Peaks

49. Tibet – Mount Kailash

50. Tough Mudder

51. Trek the Peak of the Balkans

52. TV show

53. Up Helly Aa

54. Watch an erupting volcano

55. Wing walking

56. Worm charming contest