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THE 12-HOUR WALK AND THE 10 LIFE LESSONS IT TAUGHT ME.
The 12-hour walk, a modern day pilgrimage, and the 10 life lessons I learnt during the 47.8kilometers and 70,000 steps from 5.00am to 5.00pm.
Tony Ilbery
Oct 11, 20255 min read


✅ FESTIVAL OF 50 🎂
50, half a century, five decades, no matter how you say it, it's a milestone, and that's a bloody good reason to celebrate. After the...
Tony Ilbery
Apr 10, 20243 min read


🍽️ EAT THE ANIMAL
🥩 Bucket List 9: eat an animal for every letter of the alphabet Sitting at a tiny restaurant in under the towering walls of Sienna in Tuscany, with a German lady running the floor and her Italian husband in the kitchen, I had the most incredible local speciality Wild Boar stew. Over that simple plate of Boar and white beans, a bottle, or two, of Chianti, I decided to try as many local specialities as possible, but in Italy that to often meant more pork, so to make in interes
Tony Ilbery
Jan 24, 20243 min read


✅ PLAYER OF THE YEAR
⚽️ Bucket List number 38: Win Player of the Year (13/10/23) Since returning to football 2013 at 39 years old, after a 23 year break from...
Tony Ilbery
Oct 13, 20232 min read


✅ PREMIERS AND GOLDEN BOOT
🥾 Bucket List 25: Win Golden Boot 🏆 Bucket List 26: Premiers Everyone that plays football likes to score, or get an assist, and most...
Tony Ilbery
Oct 15, 20202 min read


✅ 4 ROUNDS OF GOLF IN ONE DAY
⛳️ Bucket List 62: Play 4 Rounds of Golf in 1 Day For any golfers out there, they'll understand 4 rounds back to back to back to back, 72...
Tony Ilbery
Dec 20, 20192 min read


✅ THE THE IN CONCERT
Bucket List 64: see The The live in concert The The was in Sydney in 1989 and I missed it. The The stopped releasing music, and touring, in 2003 and I thought my chances of seeing them were wishful thinking. The ever reclusive Matt Johnson continued writing music, but now for for documentaries, film, theatre and art installation projects. But, ever optimistic I was still hopeful The The may do some tiny little gig in somewhere in London and I'd fly over. The suddenly in 2017
Tony Ilbery
Oct 3, 20181 min read


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CAN'T HAVE KIDS?
When Peter Munro asked me to be part of his article to men that weren't able to become fathers for The Sydney Morning Herald I never knew...
Tony Ilbery
Apr 12, 20145 min read


✅ SMOKE A CIGAR
I have never understood cigars, the love people have with them that drives an industry to smuggle them out of Cuba simply to light it,...
Tony Ilbery
Apr 9, 20142 min read


✅ MEET MICHAEL FRANTI
Michael Franti is one of the best concert experiences you'll ever have, his infectious positive energy and love of humanity floods across...
Tony Ilbery
Dec 28, 20131 min read


✅ LINKIN PARK IN CONCERT
Bucket List 42: See Park in Concert 26th February 2013 Sydney Entertainment Centre This concert will go down on one of the greatest...
Tony Ilbery
Feb 26, 20131 min read
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