Today is Wednesday 28th March 2018. In 1001 days it will be Wednesday 23rd December 2020. Why is that important? Well, I’m setting myself a challenge. It’s an idea shamelessly stolen from another blogger, I’ll admit but in the spirit of imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it’s an idea I really like and want to replicate for myself.

The idea is taken from blogger Becky Bedbug as she set herself a challenge to do 101 things in 1001 days. Hers range across all sorts of things such as reading a set number of books, seeing shows, visiting places etc. You can read all about hers here.

Mine is purely for visiting places. Aidan and I are forever saying ‘oh I really want to go there!’ so I’ve picked my top 101 and I’m going to aim to do as many of them as I can in the next 1001 days. I’m inevitably not going to be able to do them all but it will inspire me to keep adventuring and discovering more both at home and abroad. I’ve also added in some ‘bonus revisits’, they’re not counting towards my 101 places but they’re places I’ve already ticked off and would very much like to go back to again.

The majority are places within the UK, but I’ve included some European destinations. I’m unlikely to travel outside of Europe in the next couple of years and my list would probably have ended up with 1001 places if I hadn’t limited myself to Europe!

Everything is being listed alphabetically so I can find them to cross them off again and because I don’t want to put certain importance on certain places.

Each place name is a clickable link to the relevant website in case any areas pique your interest and you want to go and visit yourself. I’ll be keeping this post up to date, crossing off the ones I’ve manage to get to and referring back as I write blog posts about the places that I visit.

So here we go!

At Home (within the UK)

Cities

1. Brighton
2. Cardiff
3. Hereford
4. Lancaster
5. Leeds
6. Liverpool
7. Oxford
8. Truro
9. Wells

Bonus revisits:

• Bath
• Bristol
• Cambridge
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Manchester
• Newcastle
• York

 

Castles

10. Arundel Castle – West Sussex
11. Caernarfon Castle – Gwynedd
12. Carlisle Castle – Cumbria
13. Conwy Castle – Conwy County Borough
14. Corfe Castle – Dorset
15. Dover Castle – Kent
16. Eilean Donan Castle – Highlands, Scotland
17. Framlingham Castle – Suffolk
18. Goodrich Castle – Herefordshire
19. Harlech Castle – Gwynedd
20. Lancaster Castle – Lancashire
21. Leeds Castle – Kent
22. Middleham Castle – North Yorkshire
23. Old Wardour Castle – Wiltshire
24. Pendennis Castle – Cornwall
25. Warwick Castle – Warwickshire
26. Windsor Castle – Berkshire

Bonus revisits:

• Bodiam Castle – East Sussex
• Bolsover Castle – Derbyshire
• Castle Rising – Norfolk
• Edinburgh Castle – Scotland
• Farleigh Hungerford Castle – Somerset
• Helmsley Castle – North Yorkshire
• Kenilworth Castle – Warwickshire
• Scarborough Castle – East Ricing of Yorkshire
• Warkworth Castle – Northumberland

 

Historic Houses, Palaces & Gardens

27. Apethorpe Palace – Northamptonshire
28. Apsley House – Westminster
29. Banqueting House – Wesminster
30. Chatsworth House – Derbyshire
31. Eltham Palace – Greenwich
32. Hampton Court Palace – Richmond
33. Hardwick Hall – Derbyshire
34. Highclere Castle – Hampshire
35. Kensington Palacee – Kensington
36. Kenwood House – Hampstead
37. Kew Palace & Gardens – Richmond
38. Strawberry Hill House – Richmond
39. Tatton Park – Cheshire
40. Witley Court – Worcestershire
41. Wrest Park – Bedfordshire

Bonus revisits:

• Audley End – Essex
• Coleton Fishacre – Devon
• Croome – Worcestershire
• Haddon Hall – Derbyshire
• Saltram – Devon
• Tower of London – City of London

Transport & Maritime

42. Cutty Sark – Westminster
43. London Museum of Water & Steam – Richmond
44. London Transport Museum – Westminster
45. Merseyside Maritime Museum – Liverpool
46. National Maritime Museum – Greenwich
47. National Railway Museum – York
48. Porstmouth Historic Dockyard – Hampshire
49. SS Great Britain – Bristol

Bonus revisits:

• Chatham Historic Dockyard – Kent
• Imperial War Musem, Duxford – Cambridgeshire

Museums & Galleries

50. Brunel Museum – Southwark DONE! Read here.
51. Imperial War Museum, Churchill War Rooms – Westminster
52. Household Cavalry Museum – Westminster
53. Science Museum – Kensington
54. Wallace Collection – Westminster

Bonus revisits:

• Imperial War Museum, London – Southwark
• National Gallery – Westminster
• Natural History Museum – Kensington
• Tower Armouries – Leeds
• Victoria & Albert – Kensington

Miscellaneous

55. Clifton Suspension Bridge – Bristol
56. Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust – Gloucestershire
57. Tower Bridge – City of London
58. Westonbirt Arboretum – Gloucestershire

Bonus revisits:

• Ironbridge – Shropshire
• RSPB Ynys-hir – Ceredigion

Parks, National Parks, Forests & AONBs

59. Ashdown Forest – East Sussex
60. Breacon Beacons National Park – South Wales
61. Cairngorms National Park – Scotland
62. Hampstead Heath – Hampstead
63. Lulworth Cove – Dorset
64. Malvern Hills AONB – Worestershire/Herefordshire/Gloucestershire
65. New Forest National Park – Hampshire/Wiltshire/Dorset
66. Norfolk Coast AONB – Norfolk
67. North York Moors National Park – North Yorkshire
68. Richmond Park – Richmond
69. Snowdonia National Park – North West Wales
70. Yorkshire Dales National Park – North Yorkshire

Bonus revisits:

• Cotswolds AONB – Gloucestershire/Oxfordshire
• Dartmoor National Park – Devon
• Exmoor National Park – Devon/Somerset
• Lake District National Park – Cumbria
• Northumberland National Park – Northumberland
• Shropshire Hills AONB – Shropshire
• West Wales Coast – Ceredigion

Further Afield (outside of the UK)

Cities

71. Berlin – Germany
72. Florence – Italy
73. Ljubljana – Slovenia DONE! Read the first post here.
74. Lisbon – Portugal
75. Madrid – Spain
76. Rome – Italy
77. Vienna – Austria

Bonus revisits:

• Athens– Greece
• Barcelona – Spain
• Hamburg – Germany

Castles & Palaces

78. Bled Castle – Bled, Slovenia
79. Castell de Montjuic – Barcelona, Spain
80. Chateau de Fontainebleau – Fontainbleau, France
81. Ljubljana Castle – Ljubljana, Slovenia DONE! Read here.
82. Neuschwanstien Castle – Southern Germany
83. Palace of Versailles – Versailles, France
84. Palazzo Farnese – Rome, Italy
85. Schonbrunn Palace – Vienna, Austria
86. The Alhambra – Granada, Spain

Bonus revisits:

• Carcassonne – Occitanie, France
• Chateau de Bonaguil – Saint-Front-sur-Lemance, France

Abbeys & Cathedrals

87. Almudena Cathedral – Madrid, Spain
88. Church of St. Ouen – Rouen, France
89. Girona Cathedral – Girona, Spain

Bonus revisits:

• Amiens Cathedral – Amiens, France
• Sagrada Familia – Barcelona, Spain

Museums & Galleries

90. Deutches Historiches Museum – Berlin, Germany
91. Kunsthistoriches Museum Wien – Vienna, Austria
92. Museu d’Historia de Catalunya – Barcelona, Spain
93. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – Barcelona, Spain
94. Museu Nacional del Predo – Madrid, Spain
95. Rijksmuseum – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
96. Spanish Riding School of Vienna – Vienna, Austria
97. The Louvre – Paris, France

Bonus revisits:

• Museu Maratim de Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
• National Historical Museum – Athens, Greece

Natural Spaces

98. Bavarian Alps & Lake Chiemsee – Bavaria, Germany
99. Dordogne Valley – South West France
100. Lake Bled – Bled, Slovenia
101. Loire Valley – Central France

Bonus revisits:

• Barage de Malpasset – Var, France
• Lac de Saint Cassien – Var, France
• Lycabettus Hill – Athens, Greece
• Park Guell – Barcelona, Spain

1 down, 100 to go!