As I was exploring online culture experiences, I had a brainwave. I’ve had a desire to travel for years, and there are SO many places on my bucket list I would love to go to. But I’ve been unable to travel much due to a combination of health and finance restrictions. (And some places I would be very reluctant to visit until I can cope with hot weather better!)
But now, with so many things going online, I’ve decided to see how many places on my bucket list I can ‘travel to’ from the comfort of my own living-room. A virtual tour of the world! And I would encourage anyone who longs to travel further than to the supermarket or your workplace to do the same.
With all this discussion about holidays, I think it’s a good time for me to do this, as an alternative to physical travel. Obviously there are limitations doing anything virtually, but for those who would normally go abroad on holiday and are currently weighing up the risks and downsides of potentially booking one this summer, I hope this might satisfy your itch until it’s safer to travel.
I am going to list some of the places on my bucket list (I’ve never actually written it all down, so I’ll probably think of a lot more after posting this) and then later, when I’ve put it all together, I will post all the links—probably one country/city at a time! I will most likely start with Paris.
In no particular order:
- Paris
- New York City
- San Francisco
- Iceland
- Japan
- Greece
- Italy
- Egypt
- New Zealand
In the process of beginning my research, I came across a Youtube channel which does virtual walking tours (some of them hours long), documentaries and many other travel-related videos.
I actually drafted this post several weeks ago, before I wrote Culture From Home 2. Since then I’ve had the idea of doing this for places in the UK as well, for the benefit of anyone who wants to explore it a bit more, whether or not you live here. I personally have been to Wales a few times, but not to Scotland or Ireland, and though my family have almost always gone to different places in England for our summer holidays, there are plenty of places I either haven’t been to or would like to revisit.