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!

'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:

Abseiling
Acted as an extra in commercials & films
Amazon
Angkor Watt, Cambodia
Antarctica / South Pole
Arctic Circle
Arrested in Cambodia
Batik Course, Jogjakarta, Java
Bermuda Triangle, Golden Triangle
Bike Ride – London to Brighton x 8, fancy dress
Bog Snorkelling
Boogie Boarding
Bought round of drinks for pub of strangers
Bruges snow & ice festival
Buckingham Palace Garden Party
Bungee jump, The Pipeline, New Zealand
Caribbean Cruise
Caving
Ceremony of the Keys, Tower of London
China, Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Terracotta army
Chitwan National Park
Circumnavigated Cape Horn
Clay pigeon shooting
Climbed top 95′ mast
Climbed volcano, Mount Bromo, Java
Coasteering
Crewed for RNLI
Cycled length of UK, Poland, Malta, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Hungary, Slovakia
Daily Telegraph Correspondent
Death slides, Flying Fox
Desert – Gobi
Dragon boat racing
Dressed as Geisha in Japan & in Sari in India
Eiffel Tower
Florida Alligators & Hover boats
Fly fishing
Flying lesson
Full Moon Party, Thailand
Giant rugby game, the Haxey Hood
Giants Causeway, Ireland
Glacier trek
Gondola ride from St Marks Square, Venice
Gorge Scrambling & Waterfall climbing
Got married (at last!)
Grand Canyon in helicopter
Grand Prix: UK x 5, Australia, Spain
Great Barrier Reef
Great White Shark cage diving
Hadrian’s Wall, coast to coast
Held snakes & tarantulas
Helicopter flights x 3
Himalayas
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Hot air ballooning
Husky dog sledding
Ice fishing
Inca Trail
Jet Boating
Karting
Kathmandu
Kayaked the Thames, source to sea, 150 miles
Lapland
Las Vegas
Le Luge
Macchu Picchu & Huana Picchu
Maldives water bungalow
Marathon, London
Mongolia
Mountaineering – Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Mont Blanc massif
Northern lights & Southern lights
Nuclear submarine
Opera in Sydney & Prague
Paddled 300 miles in dugout canoe – Srepok & Mekong rivers, Cambodia
Paddled dugout canoe, Nicaragua
Parapenting, tandem
Poems published
Pyramids & Sphinx
Quad biking
RedBull Soapbox race
Rode horse, ostrich, elephant, camel, donkey
Russia, Moscow, Red Square
Sailed across the equator twice
Sailed around the world, 35000 miles, the wrong way
Sand tobogganing
Scuba diving with bull sharks, rays, wreck dive & blue hole, Belize
Skied full distance from coast to South Pole
Skirmish Marshall
Stayed in a Lighthouse
Stayed in Riokan, traditional Japanese house
Steam Train (Peru) & Bullet Train (Shikansen, Japan)
Stroked tiger cubs & adult cheetahs
Surfing
Swam with dolphins
Swam with seals
Swam with sharks
Taj Mahal
Tandem sky dive
TED talk
Tekal, Guatemala
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:

Alaska
Bagan, Myanmar
Black water rafting
Bob sleigh / Skeleton bob
Canada Canoeing
Mongol Rally
Caving / Canyoning
Colour festival, India
Covent Garden opera
Cuba
Cycle length of Italy
Dead sea
Dessert trek, Dessert camp
Easter Island
Egremont crab fair with gurning
Ethiopia trek
Flashmob
Galapagos
Gliding
Glastonbury festival
Gordon Bennett Cup hot air balloon race
Grand Prix: Monaco, Spa
Grizzly bears, Alaska
Hawaii, volcano national park
Hawk walk
Historic battle re-enactment
Ice Hotel, Sweden
Learn to whistle properly
Live to 100
Lost City, Columbia
Lowland Games, Wales
Maldon mud race
Motorbike test
Ngawala Cup, Zanzibar
North Pole
Paddle more than 2010 miles – Amazon or Mekong to break record or Paddle Top 10 rivers
Pakistan
Ride a horse in the sea
Ride a manta ray, Caymans
Sardine Run, S Africa
Scuba dive with Narwhals
Raise £100,000
Storm chasing
Streak!
Swim with Whale Shark
Swim the Arctic circle
Talisker Atlantic row
Three Peaks
Tibet – Mount Kailash
Tough Mudder
Trek the Peak of the Balkans
TV show
Up Helly Aa
Watch an erupting volcano
Wing walking
Worm charming contest