My Travel Bucket List

Hey guys! In this week's blog, I'm going to be sharing my travel bucket list with you. This is only a small list of places I want to visit because there are, of course, hundreds of places I would love to go. Remember to tell me in the comments what your travel bucket list is!

Italy

Italy has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember. I have always wanted to go to Rome to see the Colosseum. Italy is such a romantic and magical place. I would love to eat real pizza in Rome and see the Colosseum at night, all lit up.

I also want to go to Venice and have a ride on a canal boat down the waterways. I would ideally love to do a tour of Italy, going around all the places I'd love to visit such as Rome, Venice, Naples and Sicily.

Canada

I would love to visit Canada and I've always wanted to go to Banff and see the magical lakes. It's so beautiful, it looks like Photoshop. I would love to go to Toronto and Vancouver as well. Both me and Oliver would love to move to Canada one day. Life's too short to stay in one place.

I mainly want to go to see the wildlife in Banff and all the scenery. I bet it must be a big contrast between the city and countryside there!

Germany

I mainly want to visit Germany just for the Cologne Christmas market! It looks so cosy and cute.

I've also seen that they have some rather unique castles in Germany that I'd like to visit, such as the Neuschwanstein Castle which is also called "The Castle of the Fairytale King." Disney also used it in their fairytale, Sleeping Beauty and the real Disneyland Castle was inspired by the Neuschwanstein Castle.

Kenya/South Africa

I want to go to Africa so that I can just go on a Safari trip! I love animals and seeing them in the wild would be a truly wonderful experience.

There's this hotel in Kenya called The Ark which sounds amazing, but extremely expensive, obviously. It's pictured above and you get to see all the wildlife outside!

Japan

I would like to go to Japan, mainly to see all the beautiful buildings. I would also love to find out more about the Japanese culture so seeing a country so different from the UK would be an experience in itself.

I would love to go to Tokyo during the cherry blossom season. It's so idyllic.

Egypt

Egypt is also on my bucket list because I've always been interested in the history and hieroglyphs.

I'd love to visit the Pyramids and ride a camel! What an experience that would be.

Disneyland

I have been to Disneyland Paris, but my aim is to do all of the parks. I had such a lovely time, and even though I hate roller coasters, I really enjoyed the themes and shopping and the overall experience. I had never been as a kid but Oliver took me and we had a magical few days visiting his family and Paris.

For once, this photo is actually mine. I loved seeing the Disney Castle! I hope one day we get to stay at Disneyland overnight and see the fireworks.

I hope you all enjoyed this post; it's something different I rarely do and would love to write about travel more! Please share your travel bucket lists with me, I'd love to get ideas on where to go.

Until next time, love, Vee x

A Trip to France

Hello!

Oliver and I have been planning to go to France for a while for my 18th birthday. So Oliver bought our channel tunnel tickets, booked our hotel and off we went!

We drove to the tunnel after Oliver finished work and we spent thirty five minutes traveling underground (which I was overly nervous about for no reason). Oliver's uncle and aunt own a home near the Somme so we traveled late to stay with them. After a long drive with Oliver driving on the other side of the road for the first time and his mum hilariously slipping over and giving us a laughing fit, we spent the night with his family.

In the morning, after having real French croissants, Oliver drove us to Paris in one piece (apart from a huge lorry nearly squashing us, we managed to survive).

Once we arrived at our Ibis hotel, we settled in and got ready to go to the centre of Paris. We weren't even a two minute walk to the station so we managed to get there in under forty five minutes.

Once we got there, we came out right in front of the Arc de Triomphe and then made our way to the Eiffel tower. It wasn't too far to walk and all the buildings and restaurants were so pretty and elegant.

Once we were in sight of the Eiffel tower, I couldn't quite believe it was that! It looked so different to the photos I have seen. We took some pictures and then couldn't resist the smell of churros or chichis as they are called in France (I love that word now!). We had churros and Nutella before Oliver dragged me very reluctantly to see how much tickets were to go up the tower. I have a fear of heights so looking up made me feel ill!

When we got through security, we were expecting the tickets to cost 30$ each but they only cost 5$ as we were classed as juniors (16-24)!

I refused to get the elevator so we headed up for a long long long walk to the second floor. We stopped on the first floor where I had my first ever espresso, which I may add, was awful. But we went to the second floor as the summit was closed. We spent a while gazing at the city and it even became dark. We walked back down to the first floor and to my dismay the stairs were closed so I had to get the elevator which I hate!

But afterwards, I was rewarded with a McDonald's on the Champs Elysees. And then we headed back to the hotel and spent the rest of the night watching Revenge before we had to get some rest to go to Disneyland the next day.

So after a well rested night and still feeling tired in the morning, we left early and headed to Disneyland. We managed to get in early and completed two rides within an hour.

I managed to go on Star Wars Hyperspace and Rock'n Roller Coaster (I hated that one). We also went on It's A Small World, Crush's Coaster, Big Thunder Mountain and Pirates of the Carribbean. I did, however, refuse to go on Twilight Zone as it looked terrifying!

I think the worst rides were Big Thunder Mountain, Rock'n Roller Coaster and Crush's Coaster.

My favourites were probably Pirate's of the Carribbean and Star Wars Hyperspace as they were more tame than the others!

We went and had some pizza for lunch and did some Disney shopping where Oliver bought me Minnie ears and a Minnie cuddly toy.

We had to catch the tunnel afterwards so we rushed out of Disneyland and back home to bed at 11PM. But the funniest thing that happened that day was when our croissants got hard in the heat in the car and instead of taking it with us or putting it in the bin, I flung it like a frisbee out of the car window.

So there you have it! Our two day holiday in France was amazing and I can't wait to go back again.

My favourite parts of the trip were going up the Eiffel tower, seeing the Disney castle and having a lot of laughing fits with Oliver.

Have you been to Disneyland? If so, let me know what your favourite ride was!

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