30 for Thirty

This is my list of things I'd love to try and places I'd love to visit before my 30th birthday, or in my thirtieth year. I'll have a year and a little bit to work my way through as many as I can. I'll cross them off in turn and try to share the experience here.

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1. Explore my own city
2. Pass my advanced open water diving qualification
3. Finally visit Portmerion Village 
4. Make homemade pecan pie
5. Join a book club
6. Learn to ski
7. Knit something 
8. Get a first author research paper accepted for publication
9. Learn how to meditate
10. Visit Anglesey
11. Volunteer my time to a cause that matters to me
12. Learn how to take better photographs
13. Run a 10K
14. Attend a walk through or open air theatre performance
15. Visit Marrakesh
16. See a performance at the Shakespeare Globe in London
17. Eat something I've never tried before
18. Sing in front of a crowd
19. Swim alongside a turtle
20. Re-learn how to play the flute 
21. (Successfully) Make macarons from scratch
22. Stay in the Scottish Highlands
23. Watch an opera
24. Sleep in a cottage by the sea 
25. Host a five course dinner party
26. Take a flower arranging course
27. Dance until sunrise (well, into the wee small hours!)
28. Make a new friend
29. Own a pair of killer court shoes
30. Watch a movie at a drive in theatre

I also created a list of experiences I'd been able to complete before my 29th birthday. You can find it here.