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Last updated; April 11th, 2024
Hi everyone! 🙂
After switching my social media strategy and now using Instagram as the main channel to document my Bucketlist progress, I have received several messages requesting a separate post displaying my Bucketlist progress alone (e.g. which Bucketlist points I have checked off). It’s very clear that people are interested in the topic of Bucketlist and it makes me really happy! 🙂 I have always loved Bucketlists and use them as a drive to do all the cool and fun things I want to do, and my goal is to use my experience to inspire others. Anyway, your wish is my command, so here is a separate blog post displaying all my checked off Bucketlist points;
- ✔️ First, star by writing my own complete Bucketlist!
- ✔️ Write a letter to myself & read it in one year (written 6/10/22)
- ✔️ Check into a hotel alone (Netflix, pajamas and a big bed alone!)
- ✔️ Live in a big city (San Francisco 2007 + Leiden 2016)
- ✔️ Live abroad for more than a year (3 in the U.S. + 1 in the Netherlands)
- ✔️ Have breakfast in bed
- ✔️ Visit a total of 20 countries
- ✔️ Have breakfast at Glassverket Bakeri
- ✔️ Drink coffee at Kaffehjørnet Palma
- ✔️ Lunch and coffee at Cafe Sliperiet
- ✔️ Visit San Fransisco
- ✔️ Work as an Au pair (San Francisco, 2007)
- ✔️ Ride the cable cars in San Francisco
- ✔️ See the sea lions at Pier 39
- ✔️ Explore the presidio of San Fransisco
- ✔️ Drive/walk across the Golde Gate Bridge
- ✔️ See the famous Mrs. Doubtfire house
- ✔️ See the Painted Ladies
- ✔️ Explore the famous LHBT district Castro
- ✔️See Lombard Street (the crookdedest street of San Fransisco)
- ✔️ Have a stranger buy you a drink
- ✔️ Celebrate Thanksgiving in the U.S.
- ✔️ Celebrate Kings Day Netherlands
- ✔️ Eat a colorful meal at Oslo Raw
- ✔️ Walk the Coastal Path in Stavern
- ✔️ Serve in the military (Royal Norwegian Air Force 2008-2009)
- ✔️ Shoot with a weapon
- ✔️ Try zip-lining (Down Holmenkollen skijump)
- ✔️ Visit Svalbard (Worked there in 2018)
- ✔️ See the Acropolis, Athens
- ✔️ Go island hopping in Greece (I’ve been to Paros, anti-Paros, Naxos, Paxos, Crete, Rhodes and Kos)
- ✔️ Greek food Bucketlist; tzatziki, lamb kleftiko, greek salad, Frappé, mythos, stifado beef stew, souvlaki, loukoumades, and gyros pita.
- ✔️ Do a staycation Farris Bad SPA Hotel
- ✔️ Spend an evening at the Farris Bad SPA
- ✔️ Become an organ donor
- ✔️ Go on a road trip in Norway
- ✔️ Dance my ass off at Stavernsfestivalen
- ✔️ Dance my ass off at Fjordfesten
- ✔️ Drink coffee at Bare Barista coffeeshop in Tønsberg
- ✔️ Drink coffee at 18 Café & Interiør in Horten
- ✔️ Go on a girlstrip abroad
- ✔️ Meet an online friend in person
- ✔️ Have lunch at Mønsj restaurant in Arendal
- ✔️ Read a book in a day
- ✔️ Read a book on the New York Bestseller List
- ✔️ Visit an UNESCO World Heritage Site in the world
- ✔️ Fly a helicopter (in the Air Force)
- ✔️ Eat gelato in Italy
- ✔️ Do the “Italian Aperitivo”
- ✔️ Visit Duomo di Milano (the Milan Cathedral)
- ✔️ Italian food Bucketlist; pesto, Parmesan, tiramisu, raviolli, carbonara, foccacia and Italian meat & cheeses.
- ✔️ Celebrate Halloween in the USA
- ✔️ Go swimming at Miami Beach
- ✔️ Eat dinner at Sjøslag Restaurant
- ✔️ Eat my way around Oslo Street Food
- ✔️ Look for a bargain at a flea market
- ✔️ Visit a local farmers market
- ✔️ Go to the movies solo
- ✔️ Go to a restaurant solo
- ✔️ Make a meal out of random fridge leftovers
- ✔️ Explore Krakow’s Old Town
- ✔️ Visit the Auschwitz & Birkenau Consentration camps
- ✔️ Visit St. Mary’s Basilica
- ✔️ Explore Kazimierz (Krakow’s Jewish Quarter)
- ✔️ Have a “catpuccino” at the Kociarnia Cat Cafe in Krakow
- ✔️ Eat a meal from a food truck
- ✔️ Visit Hadeland Glassverk
- ✔️ Eat tapas and drink san miguel in Spain
- ✔️ Eat gyros and drink mythos in Greece
- ✔️ Eat tacos and drink corona in Mexico
- ✔️ Eat pasta and drink wine in Italy
- ✔️ Try parasailing
- ✔️ Ride a jet-ski
- ✔️ See the Northern Lights
- ✔️ Visit Skopje
- ✔️ Stroll around the Old Bazaar, Skopje
- ✔️ See Alexander the Great Statue & fountain
- ✔️ See the colorful Umbrella street
- ✔️ Visit a Stave Church
- ✔️ Have afternoon tea at Hotel Bristol in Oslo
- ✔️ Have a fish pedicure
- ✔️ Buy my first home alone (December, 2021!
- ✔️ Move into my first home alone (June, 2023!)
- ✔️ Go to a #huninvesterer event hosted by DNB
- ✔️ Pay off my credit cards
- ✔️ Pay off my car loan
- ✔️ Go to college abroad
- ✔️ Graduate from college (UND class of 2013 with a degree in Criminal Justice studies!)
- ✔️ Go back to school/take courses to further my education (Gokstad Akademiet 2023-2024)
- ✔️ Reach 1000 followers on Instagram
- ✔️ Sell something online
- ✔️ Be portrayed in the media for something I’m proud of
- ✔️ Go on a road trip in the U.S. (We drove from ND-FL)
- ✔️ Experience an American college keg party
- ✔️ Experience crazy spring-break in the U.S.
- ✔️ Climb Gaustadtoppen
- ✔️ Find the best homemade granola recipe
- ✔️ Find the perfect banana bread recipe
- ✔️ Be in two places at once (One foot in Florida, one in Alabama)
- ✔️ Build a (smart!) warderobe in my apartment
- ✔️ Find the perfect bar-cart for my apartment
- ✔️ Gamble in Las Vegas
- ✔️ Have a facial treatment
- ✔️ Get a Brazilian wax
- ✔️ See a dermatologist for skin care treatments and products
- ✔️ Go skinny dipping in the sea
- ✔️ Volunteer for a cause I’m passionate about (HOHV)
- ✔️ Go on a date
- ✔️ Go on a date in another country
- ✔️ Have a one night stand
- ✔️ Eat a meal at Jamie Oliver’s restaurant
- ✔️ Hand write a letter to a good friend
- ✔️ Stay in a 5 star hotel (Wyndham Alltra Playa del Carmen Adults Only All Inclusive, Mexico 2013)
- ✔️ Sleep outside in a hammock
- ✔️ Visit Heather, Evelyn and Gigi in the Netherlands
- ✔️ Visit Lillavendel (Alpaca walking and cafe!)
- ✔️ See a musical
- ✔️ Try “plogging”
- ✔️ Visit Fredrikstad Old Town
- ✔️ Try pole dancing
- ✔️ Ride a limousine’
- ✔️ See Big Ben, London
- ✔️ See Buckingham Palace
- ✔️ Go treasure hunting at Portobello Road Market, London
- ✔️ Take a hop-on-hop-off bus tour in London
- ✔️ See a drag show
- ✔️ Drive on autobahn
- ✔️ Go on a bike ride outside
- ✔️ Do something crazy and out of character
- ✔️ Visit the European Christmas markets
- ✔️ Ride a bike like a local in the Netherlands
- ✔️ Experience the madness of Red Light District, Amsterdam
- ✔️ Visit Rotterdam Markthall
- ✔️ Try stroopwaffles (Dutch specialty)
- ✔️ Eat pancakes at The Pancake Bakery (Amsterdam’s oldest pancake restaurant)
- ✔️ See the Windmills at the Zaanse Schans
- ✔️ Visit Polarberry (the most Instagram friendly cafe in Amsterdam)
- ✔️ Admire the beautiful architecture in the streets of Amsterdam
- ✔️ Eat dinner at SMAK av Stavern (Re-opening April, 2023!)
- ✔️ Eat dinner at Solsiden
- ✔️ Visit the Easter exhibit in Stavern
- ✔️ Visit Norsk Folkemuseum
It was so much fun writing this post, because it made me realize I’ve actually done lot’s of cool things throughout the years and I’m even more exited for what’s to come! 🙂
Bucketlist of a Norwegian Girl 
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