30 before 30: No. #10 – Have visited 30 countries

Medical school finals have taken up a lot of my attention recently and thus my #thirtybefore30 list has taken somewhat of a backseat. But i’m back on it, and hoping to be posting a bit more regularly now! Here’s a reminder of the list:

1. Learn to ride a motorbike
2. Go skydiving
3. Learn how to ski/surf
4. Eat a vegetable that you’ve grown from seed
5. Deadlift 100kg
6. Pay for a stranger’s meal
7. Swim Boscombe to Bournemouth pier
8. Learn how to play poker
9. Do the splits
10. Have visited 30 countries
11. Cycle London to Brighton
12. Go to the opera
13. Read the bible entirely
14. Get a tattoo
15. Sleep under the stars
16. Repair a bike puncture
17. Go to a life drawing class
18. Engage in a clinical trial
19. Go to Shakespeare’s Globe
20. Go to an outdoor screening of a film
21. Sell a piece of artwork you’ve created 
22. Carve a pumpkin
23. Do a pull up 
24. Go stand up paddle boarding
25. Climb the three peaks
26. Write and record a song
27. Learn to play chess
28. Visit someone in prison
29. Read a famous trilogy 
30. Become a doctor

This one on the list has to be my most favourite one to have completed so far! I love to travel. I think it’s the best possible way to spend time and money in this lifetime and it may be my singular greatest passion.

I am fully aware that some cynics amongst you will consider it a bit of a stretch that I have separated out the United Kingdom into it’s individual constituencies, that said, if you’ve ever attended a pub in the UK during the Six Nations you would not be able to disagree that the people are quite passionate about these being different countries, or if you’ve ever tried to pay for anything in England with a Scottish note, you know exactly what I’m talking about!

So the thirtieth country I visited was Cuba.

I have my mum to thank for this one, as she took us over for my dad’s birthday. Known for good rum, cigars, and the missile crisis, this adventure was certainly no ordinary one, and I came back with a lot of food for thought! Anyways, here are the countries i’ve been fortunate enough to visit over the years (in alphabetical order) …

1. Australia
2. Belgium
3. Canada
4. Cuba
5. Croatia
6. Czech Republic
7. Denmark
8. France
9. Germany
10. Hungary
11. Indonesia
12. Ireland
13. Italy
14. Laos
15. Malaysia
16. Malta
17. Morocco
18. Netherlands
19. New Zealand
20. Poland
21. Portugal
22. Scotland
23. Singapore
24. Spain
25. South Korea
26. Thailand
27. Turkey
28. USA
29. Vietnam
30. Wales