Part of me is like "dear god the sense of entitlement and privilege; I can't even ..." but part of me is going "That's what early retirement is for, even if that means dying in penury afterwards".
1. Taste Wood-Smoked Sorcery at Asador Etxebarri in Spain’s Basque Country
2. Search for Muslim Spain in Al-Andalus
3. Venture Into the Norwegian Night in Search of the Northern Lights
4. Journey Across Two Continents and Eight Time Zones on the Trans-Siberian Railway
5. Savor an Unforgettable Lunch at Ntounias in Western Crete
6. Join the Faithful in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a Different Kind of White Christmas
7. Traverse the Blossoming Oases and Ancient Desert Towns of Morocco’s Draa Valley
8. Come Face to Face With a Rare Marine Mammal Off the Coast of Southern Mozambique
9. Discover Paradise on Earth in the Secret Courtyard Gardens of Yazd, Iran
10. Swim in a Desert Oasis in Oman
11. Delve Into 6,000-Plus Years of History at Erbil Citadel in Iraq
12. Marvel at the Threatened Mud-Brick Skyscrapers of Yemen
13. Follow the Silk Road Through the Caravan Cities of Uzbekistan
14. Tour the Lofty Potala Palace in Lhasa, a Sacred Repository of Tibetan Artifacts
15. Explore the Architectural Syncretism in South India’s Deccan Plateau
16. Hike Japan’s Lore-Steeped Kumano Kodo Trail
17. Spend the Day in the Womblike Emptiness of the Teshima Art Museum in Japan
18. Take the Ultimate Road Trip: Drive the Pan-American Highway from Argentina to Alaska
19. Behold the Natural Wonders of Chile’s Atacama Desert
20. Feast on the Cuisines of Oaxaca City, Mexico
21. Dance Until You Drop at Carnival in Cuba
22. Take In the Magnificent Scale and Immutable Geology of the Colorado Plateau
23. Witness a Solar Eclipse in a Sleepy Fishing Village in Newfoundland, Canada
24. Labor on an Organic Farm in New Zealand
25. Float in a Zodiac to the Edge of Human Experience
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/t-magazine/travel-destinations-experiences.html
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going now further than 1. Most people I know who have visted the Basque region say San Sebastian aside it is a bit shit so the list does not inspire me with confidence
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Completed it, mate.
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I really want to go to Iran but am a moron and would inevitably end up as some kind of political prisoner. Also probably not right now specifically.
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I've been to Yazd (9), but I would hardly describe it as paradise on earth. I doubt anyone from the NYT has actually been there.
Travelling in Iran was mostly quite dull. Aside from some decent old stuff, the cities are polluted and congested, restaurants are limited and you can't get a drink anywhere (though my companion had a friend at the embassy where we got a G&T). People were friendly enough.
They have a sense of humour though. The British embassy is on Bobby Sands St.
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I want to go to the Basque country.
Bilbao looks cool, But does anyone know why the fvck they decided to put the Guggenheim there. Fvcking random place for it. Was graft involved?
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The list in borderline parody. As if any New Yorker is going to set foot in Iran, Iraq or Yemen in the next 20 years. Loving the 'rare marine mammal' in Mozambique too.
The Basque Country is cool though. Bilbao is a great city, much more real than San Sebastian. Honadaribbia and all the villages around it are gorgeous.
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the local government there offered a shit ton of money Laz, I understand their investment has been repaid many fold - good example of the value of investing in a cultural inistitution.
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On 3 clearly the Norwegian tourist board had more cash than the Aberdeen tourist board
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the Omani desert oasis is very cool - they grow watermelons and lots of other stuff in the middle of the desert (lots of underground fresh water in the south where they have a monsoon)
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can you still fly all over the world for leisure and pretend to give a shit about the environment? I am not so sure.
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26. Longleat Centreparks during Easter holidays
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I've done:
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3 (in Iceland)
4 (but only between Pyongyang and Dandong - I've never seen this route in any of the guidebooks)
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18 (not all of it, obvs, but I have been at the very start - or end - in Tierra del Fuego)
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23 (not in Newfoundland, but in Missouri)
25 (if edge of human experience = Antarctica)
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I am not convinced that spending a day in an empty museum is a top 25 experience either.
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I would like to see Northern Lights, knowing my luck I'd get solid cloud cover
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Does the museum only let 2 people in a day to preserve the emptiness or summat
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I don't think I'd want to complete any travel list compiled by the NYTs in case I encountered the sort of insufferable c*nts who read that dreadful rag.
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Isn't it basically a New York version of the Guardian? Or not quite that bad?
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Got most of those of those ticked off in my gap year, as I recall.
Or, did I?
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Sorry what re the zodiac? Like space?
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going on holiday is overrated imo
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Wot LA said.
Anti-British rag.
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13 sounds like a solid road trip. It's 6000 kms from here, google suggests going via Moscow. Dubious tbf.
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How tf come the yanks aren't sanctioning the trans Siberian also?
Oh yeah yeah slava ukraini but hey Brad wanna do the tour?
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Dominic Sandbrook described the NYT the best: "the world's most pompous newspaper"
It's like all the worst bits of the guardian turned up to 11.
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(I quite like the guardian)
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The Guardian is mostly awful these days
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Would love to do any one of these. I had to google the last one though, it’s a boat trip (I think).
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Let’s face it, this type of exotic International travel is nice to think about, but once you turn the lock in your home, it becomes generally crap.
Jabs before you go, and then Queues, delays, covid bollix, paperwork, language difficulties, losing luggage.
When you finally arrive, sweaty and exhausted, you find that the mystical mammal has not been seen for months.
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Southern lights are cooler as they’re harder to see.
You can see rare see mammals without going all the way to Mozambique.
There are much better things to do in NZ than provide cheap farm labour.
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The whole list is w**k
1) test series down under
2) test series in carrinbean
3) lions tour
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Driving the pan American highway would be a bit of a challenge, esp. the Darien gap
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Does meeting the legendary Perfidious Porpoise at a ROF drinks count?
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The trouble with 1001 places to see before you die is that it's completely unachievable unless you're a millionaire with time on his hands.
This list seems unbelievably poseur.
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They forgot the crowing glory:
26 Fly back in to JFK, enjoy bagels and coffee, Central Park, lunch somewhere sw**ky with some rich mate in finance, get home, plant your arse in a luxury Manhattan Apartment, get out your macbook and go online to lecture Deplorables about car use and Climate Change.
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