Update: London & Beyond Progress

I've never really been one for New Year's resolutions. New Year's day seems like such an arbitrary spot in my year to place a goal line since my calendar is generally dictated by a school. This year, Joe and I already have a list of goals and we've been working on them for four months already (conveniently approximately as long as school has been in session). Several of these items have been ticked off in the last few weeks since our moms have been in town, so stay tuned for the posts on those (or click the links if you're reading this later and I've already added them...) Here's a little reminder of our progress:

Cities

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Barcelona, Spain

Bath, England

Berlin, Germany

Bled, Slovenia

Brussels, Belgium

Budapest, Hungary

Cambridge, England

Copenhagen, Denmark

Dublin, Ireland

Edinburgh, Scotland

Florence, Italy

Geneva, Switzerland

Helsinki, Finland

Madrid, Spain

Milan, Italy

Munich, Germany

Normandy, France

Oslo, Norway

Paris, France

Prague, Czech Republic

Rome, Italy

Salzburg, Austria

Split, Croatia

St. Petersburg, Russia

Stockholm, Sweden

Stonehenge, England

Stratford-Upon-Avon, England

Venice, Italy

Vienna, Austria

Wales (not sure where yet)

Zagrab, Croatia

Tours & Activities

Abbey Road

American Thanksgiving (host or attend)

Anne Frank’s house (Amsterdam)

Beatles landmark

Bike tour of a major city (Helsinki, Berlin, Paris)

British Library

Buckingham Palace (kind of)

Charles Darwin landmark

Church on the Spilled Blood (St. Petersburg)

Cider mill tour

Collect a set of British edition Harry Potters

Collect an international set of multi-lingual Harry Potters

Cooking class (Sarah only)

Debussy landmark (France)

Drive “British”

Dutch flowers/tulips

Flying Fantastic class

Formal High Tea

Galileo landmark (Pisa)

Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia (Barcelona)

Go ice-skating

Guinness Brewery tour

Harry Potter studio set tour

Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg)

Hike 10+ miles somewhere

Holi festival

IceBar

Issaac Newton landmark

Jane Austen landmark

Led Zeppelin landmark

live dramatic performance (Sarah in October, Joe & Sarah with Moms)

live orchestra performance (Berlin, Prague)

live other sporting event (tennis, cricket, rugby)

live singer/band (Sarah - Vienna Teng; Joe - Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree)

live soccer game

London Museum of Natural History

Norwegian fjords

Pink Floyd landmark

Ravel landmark (France)

Richard Dawkins event

Ride the London Eye

See a live hockey game

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Swim in the Mediterranean

Take a spontaneous vacation (Paris - booked 5 days ahead)
Tate/Tate Modern

The British Museum

Travel by boat (Gothenburg; Baltic Cruise; Norwegian fjords)

Travel by train (Flam, Norway; Prague)

Use all of the fruits/vegetables that come in a VegBox

Van Gogh/Rembrandt museums (Amsterdam)

Westminster Abbey (front only, so far)

Winery tour