BUCKET
LIST

Some bucket list items are one-off moments, others become ongoing obsessions. This list isn’t polished or perfect, it’s constantly evolving through life, travel, experiences, football, music, food, wine, beer and curiosity.

Some items take years. Some happen accidentally. Some turn into traditions or long-term challenges.
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 remembering the people, the places and the moments.

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

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