If you are new to my blog you are probably not aware of the story behind why I started this blog and podcast. A wine tasting. A good one will explain so much about the vino that you never knew before. A great one will let you take wine home too. If you are always on the go, perhaps you need to unwind and lose yourself in a great book. Make sure you have several titles on hand so that the odds of immersing yourself in one of them are high. 20.- Watch your favorite movies all day This time last year I was busy planning how to celebrate the big 5-0. I am not a party person but had planned to do 50 things in 2020 split across several different categories. Of course things didn’t work out as expected. And just up the road from Cheddar Gorge is the amazing cathedral city of Wells, which I highly recommend you visit.

In a year when many of us took solace in the wildlife around us this was one of the easier sections to complete. That said, I didn’t see a bittern, otter or purple emperor, all of which were on my original list. Take a different view. Lots of our destination prints have featured The Shard or The London Eye as a much loved location for the big 5-0. Enjoy a delicious birthday meal and a panorama to boot. Then make a shortlist of the most important or significant ones so that you can set goals to achieve them.Grab your honey and book a room in the nicest hotel in your area for the weekend. Stay in bed all day and enjoy room service or play “tourist” in your own city. 12. Go shopping. Go on a yoga retreat. A day, a weekend, a week - whatever you need! A wonderful gift for body and mind! Digging for fossils isn’t something you can do every day and that’s exactly why it makes this list!

Lying in the north of Wales, the national park that surrounds this mountain is also well worth exploring. Make plans to travel to Tokyo, Beijing, or Paris for one of the next three Olympic games. Here’s to 50 More Years Spend your 50th birthday floating peacefully above the countryside in a hot air balloon. Not only will you see the world from a whole new angle, but you will also be able to take the most amazing selfies ever. Grab a bottle of champagne and your favorite person, and celebrate the second half of your life in style 20. Learn to dance. Otherwise, Edinburgh is a fab city you can use as your starting point before heading out to enjoy the Scottish Highlands and islands. Scotland’s answer to Route 66, this is an iconic drive you can’t miss for the scenery, the isolation and the whiskey tasting – it’s a winning combination!I want to help so many people but right at this moment, I am not at the level yet where I have sufficient skills and resources to be as effective as I can be. Mental My preference would be to immerse myself in the language by living in Spain, Mexico or Panama for a few months. Help And king (or queen) of the Welsh climbers, Snowdon is hard to overlook when it comes to the highlight summits you want to scrabble to the top of in this country. There is no better time than your birthday to really show yourself some self-love and what better way to do so than exchanging somewhat drastic amounts of money for material goods and services? Yes, we know you’ll be getting lots of lovely presents from your family and friends. However, no one really knows you better than you! By age 50, a lot of us experience a thinning of the eyebrows. I microfeathered mine a year and a half ago and it makes a huge difference in my appearance. Microblading gives you a new shape of eyebrow, and micro feathering fills in the gaps of your existing eyebrow. These require touch-ups every year or two. Worth the money for sure. 38.- Sign up to a wine-tasting course

And if you’re into your food, then why not pair it with a great wine care of the growing number of English vineyard tours that are popping up.And while we’re on the foodie theme, you can’t miss out on a bit of UK seaside food while you’re touring either. Now that we have YouTube, you have no excuse for not knowing how to play the piano or guitar. Don’t let your kids or spouse make fun of your desire. You have to start somewhere - even if it means you play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star ten times a day for the first week. 25. Make amends with an estranged family member or friend.

It is during these mini-retirements that he did things like learned to dance the Tango, took German lessons as well as Spanish lessons. Stretching 73 miles from coast to coast, you can walk the whole length of it as part of an amazing 5 day adventure. On holiday, take a photo of 10 strangers (with their permission). Try to get a little story or snippet to go with each. At the start of 2020 I attended the Adventure Travel Show to hear explorer Benedict Allen (who inspired me to visit Mongolia many years ago), wildlife cameraman Doug Allan and TV presenter Julia Bradbury. The only other talk I attended in person was an archaeological talk at a local dig. Create your own signature scent. Another fab activity that you can do solo or as part of a group. In your fifties, you want to smelling AMAZING.Plus there’s nothing better than showing up to your low-key 50th birthday meal with family and friends in your new shoes! 2) Have A Birthday Dinner At A Fancy Restaurant