Back in 2013, over my second cup of coffee one morning, I decided to calculate the average age of my immediate ancestors and my current age, statistically I found that I had very few years ( four to be precise) to live. In reality this calculation (hopefully) has nothing to do with my life expectancy, but it did get me thinking that for too long, I had been saying “one day I want to do that or go there”. The epiphany being, that if I was to die any time soon, then unless I stopped making excuses, I would never achieve any of these ambitions. These then are some of the things I have crossed off the list.