BUCKET
LIST

I think a bucket list is the perfect excuse to think up anything interesting, strange, or crazy to do and somehow make it seem like a good idea.

Some ideas last an afternoon. Others turn into lifelong obsessions.

From drinking 1,000 different beers and photographing iconic locations to national dishes from A-Z, concerts, breweries, and endurance challenges, this page is less about ticking boxes and more about collecting stories.

THE LIST

✅ Run 1,000 kms
✅ One final season of football before turning 40
✅ Get married
✅ Buy a house
😔 Have children
✅ Published Photographer
✅ The The in Concert
🍺 1,000 Different Beers
🍷 100 Bottle of Great Wine
✅ Michael Franti and Spearhead in Concert
✅ Photograph La Jolla Pier in California
✅ 4 Rounds of Golf in 1 day (The Longest Day)
🍽️ Eat the Animal
✅ Linkin Park in Concert
✅ Golden Boot
✅ Smoke a Cigar
✅ Soccer Premiers
🌏 National Dish from A-Z of countries
✅ Bob Dylan in Concert
✅ Player of the Year
✅ Limp Bizkit in Concert
✅ Own a Brewery
✅ 50th Birthday Week long celebrations
Photograph the Eiffel Tower
Soccer awarded Player's Player
Start a New Business
✅ Visit 15 Breweries in 2025
Tool in Concert
Captain a Soccer Team

ARTARMON | SYDNEY A-Z

The Sydney A–Z challenge begins in Artarmon. A hidden brewery inside a café, a tiny family-run Chinese restaurant, a trip down memory lane at the local tennis club and a brewery to finish the afternoon. One suburb down, twenty-five to go.

Tony Ilbery

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

✅ 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

🍽️ 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