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
Bonus revisits:
Castles
- Arundel Castle – West Sussex
- Caernarfon Castle – Gwynedd
- Carlisle Castle – Cumbria
- Conwy Castle – Conwy County Borough
- Corfe Castle – Dorset
- Dover Castle – Kent
- Eilean Donan Castle – Highlands, Scotland
- Framlingham Castle – Suffolk
- Goodrich Castle – Herefordshire
- Harlech Castle – Gwynedd
- Lancaster Castle – Lancashire
- Leeds Castle – Kent
- Middleham Castle – North Yorkshire
- Old Wardour Castle – Wiltshire
- Pendennis Castle – Cornwall
- Warwick Castle – Warwickshire
- 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
- Apethorpe Palace – Northamptonshire
- Apsley House – Westminster
- Banqueting House – Wesminster
- Chatsworth House – Derbyshire
- Eltham Palace – Greenwich
- Hampton Court Palace – Richmond
- Hardwick Hall – Derbyshire
- Highclere Castle – Hampshire
- Kensington Palacee – Kensington
- Kenwood House – Hampstead
- Kew Palace & Gardens – Richmond
- Strawberry Hill House – Richmond
- Tatton Park – Cheshire
- Witley Court – Worcestershire
- 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
- Cutty Sark – Westminster
- London Museum of Water & Steam – Richmond
- London Transport Museum – Westminster
- Merseyside Maritime Museum – Liverpool
- National Maritime Museum – Greenwich
- National Railway Museum – York
- Porstmouth Historic Dockyard – Hampshire
- SS Great Britain – Bristol
Bonus revisits:
- Chatham Historic Dockyard – Kent
- Imperial War Musem, Duxford – Cambridgeshire
Museums & Galleries
- Brunel Museum – Southwark DONE! Read here.
- Imperial War Museum, Churchill War Rooms – Westminster
- Household Cavalry Museum – Westminster
- Science Museum – Kensington
- Wallace Collection – Westminster
Bonus revisits:
- Imperial War Museum, London – Southwark
- National Gallery – Westminster
- Natural History Museum – Kensington
- Tower Armouries – Leeds
- Victoria & Albert – Kensington
Miscellaneous
- Clifton Suspension Bridge – Bristol
- Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust – Gloucestershire
- Tower Bridge – City of London
- Westonbirt Arboretum – Gloucestershire
Bonus revisits:
- Ironbridge – Shropshire
- RSPB Ynys-hir – Ceredigion
Parks, National Parks, Forests & AONBs
- Ashdown Forest – East Sussex
- Breacon Beacons National Park – South Wales
- Cairngorms National Park – Scotland
- Hampstead Heath – Hampstead
- Lulworth Cove – Dorset
- Malvern Hills AONB – Worestershire/Herefordshire/Gloucestershire
- New Forest National Park – Hampshire/Wiltshire/Dorset
- Norfolk Coast AONB – Norfolk
- North York Moors National Park – North Yorkshire
- Richmond Park – Richmond
- Snowdonia National Park – North West Wales
- 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
- Berlin – Germany
- Florence – Italy
Ljubljana – SloveniaDONE! Read the first post here.- Lisbon – Portugal
- Madrid – Spain
- Rome – Italy
- Vienna – Austria
Bonus revisits:
Castles & Palaces
- Bled Castle – Bled, Slovenia
- Castell de Montjuic – Barcelona, Spain
- Chateau de Fontainebleau – Fontainbleau, France
Ljubljana Castle – Ljubljana, SloveniaDONE! Read here.- Neuschwanstien Castle – Southern Germany
- Palace of Versailles – Versailles, France
- Palazzo Farnese – Rome, Italy
- Schonbrunn Palace – Vienna, Austria
- The Alhambra – Granada, Spain
Bonus revisits:
- Carcassonne – Occitanie, France
- Chateau de Bonaguil – Saint-Front-sur-Lemance, France
Abbeys & Cathedrals
- Almudena Cathedral – Madrid, Spain
- Church of St. Ouen – Rouen, France
- Girona Cathedral – Girona, Spain
Bonus revisits:
- Amiens Cathedral – Amiens, France
- Sagrada Familia – Barcelona, Spain
Museums & Galleries
- Deutches Historiches Museum – Berlin, Germany
- Kunsthistoriches Museum Wien – Vienna, Austria
- Museu d’Historia de Catalunya – Barcelona, Spain
- Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – Barcelona, Spain
- Museu Nacional del Predo – Madrid, Spain
- Rijksmuseum – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Spanish Riding School of Vienna – Vienna, Austria
- The Louvre – Paris, France
Bonus revisits:
- Museu Maratim de Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
- National Historical Museum – Athens, Greece
Natural Spaces
- Bavarian Alps & Lake Chiemsee – Bavaria, Germany
- Dordogne Valley – South West France
- Lake Bled – Bled, Slovenia
- 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!
Super awesome!! It’s going to be an amazing 1,001 days!!!
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