LIVE LIFE TO THE FULL

Paula believes in Living Life to the Full.

She has done over 120 ‘things’ that she most wanted to do before she dies and she's nowhere near being dead!

Paula isn't sure about life after death, but she does believe in life BEFORE death. Her list helps her to grow, keep mentally & physically healthy, and to dig deep occasionally.

THINGS I’VE DONE:
  1. Abseiling
  2. Acted as an extra in commercials & films
  3. Amazon
  4. Angkor Watt, Cambodia
  5. Antarctica / South Pole
  6. Arctic Circle
  7. Arrested in Cambodia
  8. Batik Course, Jogjakarta, Java
  9. Bermuda Triangle, Golden Triangle
  10. Bike Ride – London to Brighton x 8, fancy dress
  11. Bog Snorkelling
  12. Boogie Boarding
  13. Bought round of drinks for pub of strangers
  14. Bruges snow & ice festival
  15. Buckingham Palace Garden Party
  16. Bungee jump, The Pipeline, New Zealand
  17. Caribbean Cruise
  18. Caving
  19. Ceremony of the Keys, Tower of London
  20. China, Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Terracotta army
  21. Chitwan National Park
  22. Circumnavigated Cape Horn
  23. Clay pigeon shooting
  24. Climbed top 95′ mast
  25. Climbed volcano, Mount Bromo, Java
  26. Coasteering
  27. Crewed for RNLI
  28. Cycled across UK, Poland, Malta, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovakia, Iceland, France, Ukraine
  29. Daily Telegraph Correspondent
  30. Death slides, Flying Fox
  31. Desert – Gobi
  32. Dragon boat racing
  33. Dressed as Geisha in Japan & in Sari in India
  34. Eiffel Tower
  35. Florida Alligators & Hover boats
  36. Fly fishing
  37. Flying lesson
  38. Full Moon Party, Thailand
  39. Giant rugby game, the Haxey Hood
  40. Giants Causeway, Ireland
  41. Glacier trek
  42. Gondola ride from St Marks Square, Venice
  43. Gorge Scrambling & Waterfall climbing
  44. Got married (at last!)
  45. Grand Canyon in helicopter
  46. Grand Prix: UK x 5, Australia, Spain
  47. Great Barrier Reef
  48. Great White Shark cage diving
  49. Hadrian’s Wall, coast to coast
  50. Held snakes & tarantulas
  51. Helicopter flights x 3
  52. Himalayas
  53. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
  54. Hot air ballooning
  55. Husky dog sledding
  56. Ice fishing
  57. Ice hotel stay
  58. Ice swimming
  59. Inca Trail
  60. Jet Boating
  61. Karting
  62. Kathmandu
  63. Kayaked the Thames, source to sea, 150 miles
  64. Lapland
  65. Las Vegas
  66. Le Luge
  67. Macchu Picchu & Huana Picchu
  68. Maldives water bungalow
  69. Marathon, London
  70. Mongolia
  71. Mountaineering – Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Mont Blanc massif
  72. Northern lights & Southern lights
  73. Nuclear submarine
  74. Opera in Sydney & Prague
  75. Paddled 300 miles in dugout canoe – Srepok & Mekong rivers, Cambodia
  76. Paddled dugout canoe, Nicaragua
  77. Parapenting, tandem
  78. Poems published
  79. Publish book on Adventure Psychology
  80. Pyramids & Sphinx
  81. Quad biking
  82. RedBull Soapbox race x 2
  83. Rode horse, ostrich, elephant, camel, donkey
  84. Russia, Moscow, Red Square
  85. Sailed across the equator twice
  86. Sailed around the world, 35000 miles, the wrong way
  87. Sand tobogganing
  88. Scuba diving with bull sharks, rays, wreck dive & blue hole, Belize
  89. Skied full distance from coast to South Pole
  90. Skirmish Marshall
  91. Stayed in a Lighthouse
  92. Stayed in Riokan, traditional Japanese house
  93. Steam Train (Peru) & Bullet Train (Shikansen, Japan)
  94. Stroked tiger cubs & adult cheetahs
  95. Surfing
  96. Swam with dolphins
  97. Swam with seals
  98. Swam with sharks
  99. Taj Mahal
  100. Tandem sky dive
  101. TED talk
  102. Tekal, Guatemala
  103. Tomatina Tomato throwing festival
  104. Tornado, 100′ away (waterspout)
  105. Trans-Siberian railway, Moscow to Beijing
  106. Trekking – Inca trail, Hill Tribes Thailand, Hill tribes Sapa
  107. Ukraine volunteering
  108. Walked across England, from Coast to Coast
  109. Walked across Ireland, from Dublin to Galway
  110. Walked on hot coals – the firewalk
  111. Water skiing
  112. West Papua tribes & trek
  113. Whale watching
  114. White water rafting x 3
  115. White water surfing
  116. Wild swimming, wild camping
  117. Wimbledon
  118. Windsurfing
  119. Worked in hospice as volunteer
  120. World Body Painting festival
  121. Written book: Live Life to the Full
  122. Written & published five books
  123. Xmas in Lapland
  124. Zorbing
THINGS I WANT TO DO:
  1. Alaska & grizzly bears

  2. Bagan, Myanmar

  3. Bhutan trail & Eagles Nest monastery
  4. Black water rafting

  5. Bob sleigh / Skeleton bob

  6. Bohemian Switzerland National park (Kamenice River)

  7. Canada Canoeing

  8. Colour festival, India

  9. Covent Garden opera

  10. Cuba

  11. Cycle length of Italy

  12. Cycle 50 countries

  13. Dead sea

  14. Dessert trek, Dessert camp

  15. Easter Island

  16. Egremont crab fair with gurning

  17. Ethiopia trek

  18. Galapagos

  19. Gliding
  20. Gordon Bennett Cup hot air balloon race
  21. Grand Prix: Monaco, Spa

  22. Hair freezing championship, Yukon, Canada
  23. Hawaii, volcano national park

  24. Hawk walk

  25. Historic battle re-enactment

  26. Ice climbing
  27. Kokoda trail, Papua new Guinea
  28. Learn to whistle properly
  29. Live to 100

  30. Lost City, Columbia

  31. Maldon mud race or Mud Olympics Germany
  32. Mongol Rally

  33. Ngawala Cup, Zanzibar
  34. Orangutans Sabah, Sarawak, Sepilok
  35. Pakistan

  36. Pennine Way

  37. Patagonia trekking
  38. Raise £100,000 for charities
  39. Rennsteig trek, Germany
  40. Silk Road, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara
  41. Snorkel with the Sardine Run, S Africa
  42. Scuba dive with Narwhals

  43. Skober Island, puffins

  44. Sleep in Natural History museum
  45. Storm chasing

  46. Swim with Whale Shark

  47. Tibet – Mount Kailash

  48. Thames Path

  49. Tough Mudder

  50. Trek the Peak of the Balkans

  51. Up Helly Aa

  52. Watch a rocket take off

  53. Westweig Trail
  54. Wing walking
  55. Worm charming contest

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