Help me compile a list of 50 things to do before I turn 50!

[Austrianmilk]

Ok so I've come up with the above idea and wondered if any of you have done similar before a milestone birthday? If so I am looking for ideas and I have until May 2024 to complete.
My interests are horse riding, reading, walking/hiking, eating out and going to the gym. I don't really drink alcohol unless it's a special occasion.
So far I've got...

1. Visit Iceland
2. Climb Ben Nevis
3. Climb Snowden
4. Long weekend away with best pal abroad

As you can see I am 46 ideas short 😂😂 please help!!

Could a gym one be to do with a new pb like a certain max weight for a lift? Or if you like cardio could you enter a local 5k running race?

Climb Scafell.

What about going to a festival? Even if just for a day?

If you like eating out there is the big feastival which is a bit of a foodie one so if you like eating out you could get to try certain banquet dining or see a celebrity chef. It's in August though but if it's your 50th you could have 2024 as a celebration year and spread the challenges out.

Watch shooting stars on a beach
The zip wire thing in Wales
sky dive
swim with sharks
overnight ghost watch in a prison/ abandoned hospital.
Wing walk
Time Iceland trip to hopefully see the Northern Lights.

Drive a racing car
drive a tank
off road scrambler bike
off road dirt buggy racing
tea at the Ritz
bungee jump
if you’re going high up mountains how about how low can you go in potholes, cavern, cave complex
Scuba dive

( Guess who’s having a bad night and can’t sleep)

Eat in a Michelin starred restaurant.

Ride on a beach.

Visit the stables at Newmarket to see the foals.

Have a gulet holiday in Turkey.

Have a trip in a helicopter.

Go to Wimbledon.

Go to the last night of the proms.

Learn to sail.

learn to scuba dive.

Go to the Badminton horse trials.

Have a trip in a hot air balloon.

Do a parachute jump.

Visit El Rocio in Spain where horses are the only way to get about, no cars.

Go riding with these guys, it’s amazing
https://donanahorseadventure.com/DonanaHorseRides.html

How about a visit to the David Austin Gardens and Tea Room, for a nice cuppa and slice of cake and you can pick up a beautiful David Austin rose to remind yourself of your milestone birthday.

https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/pages/plant-centre-and-gardens

i wouldn't do the pot holing one above, not if you want to see your 50th birthday

Eat in a Michelin starred restaurant

if you make that Le Manoire Aux Quatre Saisons, I'd be happy to accompany you.

These all seem to be going places experiences. How about learning something new? I know these sound old lady-ish but they don’t have to be!

• learn to knit/ crochet
• make a something you can wear (sew)
• take an art class
• Learn Italian

Section hike a long distance path

Love the idea of picking up a new craft or skill. Personally I'd like to do Willow weaving and also make my own coracle

Join a choir
Do a 10k/half marathon
Photography course
Cookery classes (Indian? Chinese?French?)

Visit a horse sanctuary
Find a dog sanctuary that needs volunteer walkers and make a new friend.
Look up taster sessions at your nearest beach, rowing, paddle boarding etc and try one.
Visit one of the many islands around the UK
There's postcode generators on the net, do one and visit the place that randomly comes up.
I'm still saving up for Solihull.

Learn to cook a dish which you’ve only eaten in a restaurant.
Do a wine tasting course
Make cheese from scratch
Try food from a cuisine you’ve never eaten
Taste 50 things you’ve never tried before

Walk a Llama
Read a complete series of books by an author your friend / oh has chosen for you.
Wild swim naked.
Go for a night walk in a wood.
Learn to do something on a car . Change a wheel , oil change etc.
Do a kindness every month leading up to your birthday - pay for someone's coffee , leave a bunch of flowers on a bench with a note etc.
Go up the Shard.

Learn to sail, definitely!
Stick a pin in a map and go there.
Go to pottery class and make your own mug for your morning cuppa.
Go skiing.
Buy yourself a first edition of your favourite book.

There's scratch off posters you can get with 100 best books to read/100 greatest books of all time etc. Maybe you could get one of those and aim to read all of the books on the poster.

I recently started making a similar list for 50 (though I have a few years to go)- so far just have:
Learn Spanish on duolingo
Take surfing lessons

If you like reading, have you been to Hay on Wye for the Hay Festival? Or that book shop Airbnb where you get to temporarily run a book shop (The Open Book in Wigtown)?

I have been thinking of going to Ardnamurchan Point after a friend raving about how amazing the beaches were. It is mentioned on the shipping forecast on Radio4 - the inshore waters
Then I thought it would be nice to visit all of the places mentioned-

Cape Wrath – Rattray Headincluding Orkney
Rattray Head – Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed – Whitby
Whitby – Gibraltar Point
Gibraltar Point – North Foreland
North Foreland – Selsey Bill
Selsey Bill – Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis – Land's End including the Isles of Scilly
Land's End – St David's Headincluding the Bristol Channel
St David's Head – Great Orme Head including St George's Channel
Great Orme Head – Mull of Galloway
Isle of Man
Lough Foyle – Carlingford Lough(covers the entire coastline of Northern Ireland)
Mull of Galloway – Mull of Kintyreincluding the Firth of Clyde and the North Channel
Mull of Kintyre – Ardnamurchan Point
Ardnamurchan Point – Cape Wrath
Shetland Isles

Oooh. I have a list. I'll update later. Need to go to work now.

From memory DH's list included

Go around the Houses of Parliament
Go to a live radio recording (BBC)
Read a classic novel. He read a Charles Dickens, (usually a non fiction reader).
Learn Spanish (still a work in progress!)
We never got round to a hot balloon ride or aquarium dive but he fancied those.
Learn some family history.

Fjord pony riding in Norway
learn piano?
get in touch with an old friend
creative writing course
art history course
(these are on mine :))

Visit Iceland

That's all that belongs on your list imo.

I visited in June and I ran out of words to describe the beauty within 2 days.

I have never been so moved by nature before, I was moved to tears especially at Múlagljúfur Canyon.

It's hella expensive so plough your money into saving for that. I recommend a hiking trip along the south coast and also a trip north.

Go skinny dipping
Have a one night stand
Get up to watch the sunrise on the beach/peak of a mountain
Go to choral evensong in a cathedral
Visit the Tower of London
Ski
Paddleboard
Go to Paris for lunch (eurostar)
Visit 5 places that share your first initial
Volunteer in a soup kitchen

Gym goals?

The things people are suggesting sound great but generally quite substantial in terms of visiting places/learning things. If you make a list of 50 things to do before May next year you’d need to be ticking them off at the rate of about two each week!

if you want to actually achieve the things on the list, I’d make the list a 50th birthday present to yourself - 50 things to do in the decade after you turn 50. Spend time properly planning it.

Walk a long distance path?