Bucket Lists

I became aware of the Travel list challenge a couple of weeks ago - one of those facebook-showing-off-I-bet-you-haven't-been-to-the-great-mosque-of-cordoba-app-things (40 out of 100, since you ask). It send me into a spiral of wondering (I won't relate the full thought process but it ended up as) what bucket list stuff have I ticked off this year?

Now I don't mean to brag but I've ticked off a fair few of the things on the list in previous years (detailed at length in previous blogs, so no need to be tedious), but what about this year, what have I done that's new and exciting? Am I losing my edge?

Now I've done a couple of firsts that I'm quite proud of - fallen down a cliff; received my first letter from environmental health; had to dig a car out of a sand dune - but I'm not sure they're on everyone else's to-do lists. If you take things like that off the list then I'm not left with much. In fact I'm left with exactly three:

1. Worked abroad. I reckon this is quite a big one, probably something that every one should do. But then I'm not sure that I did it properly - shouldn't I really be living in an apartment, rather than hotel hopping?

2. Went up the world's tallest building. And that was mediocre. Nothing against the Burj Khalifa (it's tall and shiny) but the viewing platform called 'At The Top' is a bit of a misnomer - 'Halfway Up' would have been more appropriate, or even more appropriately 'Just taller than the one in Shanghai so that we can call it the highest viewing platform in the world.' I hope that that new clocktower in Mecca does have a viewing platform at the top so can blow raspberries all over Dubai's smugness. For the record - I think that that tower in Mecca is ace. It's really, really tall, but looks like a real building. Why's no one done that before?

3. Climbed a Himalayan Peak. A good solid Bucketlist item this one. But somewhat sullied by getting so sunburnt that my face leaked which, incidentally, is another first, and another item not on most people's lists.

So yeah, all the interesting bits of my year can be summed up in three paragraphs none of which were interesting. Please can you provide suggestions of what I should do in 2012, I'm gonna boxtick its face off.