Living the Gourmantic Life usually means ticking a few items off the wish list after a trip abroad peppered with culinary experiences. Yet after each holiday, the list of places we would like to visit and the restaurants where we would like to dine grows slightly more; a delicious catch-22 if ever there was one.
In keeping with the Gourmantic theme, the list is divided into Travel and Food categories. Items in bold are those that we have already achieved. Some of the hyperlinks take you to our reviews.
Travel
- Travel on the Venice Simplon Orient-Express
- Stay at the Hotel Danieli (Venice)
- Stay at the Ritz Hotel (London)
- Stay at the Hotel Negresco (Nice)
- Stay at the Carlton Hotel (Cannes)
- Fly Business Class on a long haul flight
- Take a romantic ride in a gondola (Venice)
- Holiday in the Greek Islands (incl. Santorini) during summer (Greece)
- Spend a summer touring around the Mediterranean (Various)
- Stay in Positano (Italy)
- Visit Capri in summer (Italy)
- See Portofino (Italy)
- Fly First Class as a couple on a long haul flight
- Visit Petra (Jordan)
- Visit Tunis (Tunisia)
- Island hop in the Caribbean (Various)
- Stay in a luxury overwater bungalow in Bora Bora (Tahiti)
- Visit Venice during Carnevale (Italy)
- Celebrate Bastille Day in Paris (France)
- Experience an audience with the Pope (Vatican)
- See Istanbul and visit the Hagia Sophia mosque (Turkey)
- See Coppadocia (Turkey)
- See the pyramids (Egypt)
- See the aurora borealis
- Walk on an active volcano in Hawaii (Big Island)
- Return to Paris every 2 years (France)
- Stay at a luxury resort in the Maldives (Maldives)
- Stay on the Algarve coast (Portugal)
- Visit Mauritius, Madagascar and Reunion Island
- Travel to outer space (Space)
- Spend two months in Tuscany in a rented villa with friends (Italy)
- Visit Mont St-Michel and photograph it in high tide (France)
- See the Trulli in Alberobello (Italy)
- Sun worship on the sands of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- See Christ the Redeemer, statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro and ride in the cable car (Brazil)
- Go on an African safari (Africa)
- See Stonehenge (England)
- See San Marino (San Marino)
- Return to the French Riviera in summer for a few weeks (France)
- Visit Andorra (Andorra)
- Visit Liechenstein (Liechenstein)
- Return to Club Med Moorea if it ever reopens (Tahiti)
- See the ancient ruins of Palmyra (Syria)
Food
- Dine at La Tour D’Argent (Paris)
- Dine at Tetsuya’s (Sydney)
- Dine at Paul Bocuse (Lyon)
- Dine at Maxim’s (Paris)
- Have afternoon tea at the Ritz Hotel (London)
- Cook at home with fresh Périgord truffles
- Cellar some Château d’Yquem
- Have a Bellini at Harry’s bar (Venice)
- Lunch at Locanda dell’Isola Comacina (Lake Como)
- Dine at Le Grand Vefour (Paris)
- Dine at Arzak (Spain)
- Have drinks at the Peninsula Hotel (Hong Kong)
- Dine at Le Carré des Feuillants (Paris)
- Have afternoon tea at Burj al Arab hotel (Dubai)
- Dine at Le Jules Verne in the Eiffel Tower (Paris)
- Dine at Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant in Padstow (England)
- Dine at Petrossian (Paris)
- Dine at La Tour d’Argent one more time.
And it continues…
What a fun list! I wrote a list recently myself on the 25 food & travel destinations to visit in the next 5 years. I love lists…
Helen: Here’s to making both our lists come true! And welcome 🙂
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Just came from Istanbul and Cappadocia. I would say a must in Cappadocia is to see it from a hot air balloon. Great experience!
That would be awesome! Though I’m scared of heights, especially being in the open… but the photos would be magnificent!
Just read your list – should keep you busy for a while! 🙂 Cappadocia and Istanbul are amazing (but then we’re biased). Aya Sofya is just fabulous. We’ve not done much fine dining but we did treat ourselves to Rick Stein’s restaurant in Padstow a few years ago. The best seafood meal we’ve ever eaten!
Do you think you’ll achieve number 30 on your travel list?
I hope I get to tick off this list, the only problem, I keep adding to it 🙂
Rick Stein’s restaurant would be an unforgettable experience. I met him in Sydney a few years ago and he is quite an enchanting man.
As for no 30, if Richard Branson gets to realise it, it’s a possibility. But I think affordability becomes the issue…
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