Top Ten Events To Go To or Do Before You.....

joejoem

Get too old, or die etc....

I was talking to a friend about the top ten worldwide events that I would love to do. For this I'm talking about a pilgrimige of sorts, not just going to a music festival in a county beside dublin! I havent been able to complete my list, so far I have thought off

1)Running of the bulls in Pamplona
2)The Burning Man Festival (Find the Irish Pub!)
3)Monaco Grand Prix
4)The Chernobyl Appeal (Ali Hueson & Adi Roche) raise money every year to buy a few ambulences which are filled with medicine and driven to Chernobyl. I would love to drive one of them over. Good Karma.
5)A motorbike tour accross Route 66 before it gets too run down!

I'm stuck after that, I just can't remember the rest, perhaps thats the hangover???

joejoem

joejoem wrote:

Get too old, or die etc....

I was talking to a friend about the top ten worldwide events that I would love to do. For this I'm talking about a pilgrimige of sorts, not just going to electric picnic! I havent been able to complete my list, so far I have thought off

1)Running of the bulls in Pamplona
2)The Burning Man Festival (Find the Irish Pub!)
3)Monaco Grand Prix
4)The Chernobyl Appeal (Ali Hueson & Adi Roche) raise money every year to buy a few ambulences which are filled with medicine and driven to Chernobyl. I would love to drive one of them over. Good Karma.
5)A motorbike tour accross Route 66 before it gets too run down!

I'm stuck after that, I just can't remember the rest, perhaps thats the hangover???

Number 5 there is pretty easy to do these days. I want to do it next year.

The_B_Man

i know someone that did number 3 by accident!

i've been to monaco a few times. i dont see how u can isolate that. like why not Silverstone or nurbergring?

suppose swimming with dolphins or some other hippy stuff like that could be included.

Terrontress

Oktoberfest.

I have done it already and am going again this year. But I recommend it to everyone else.

xzanti

edit.. Sh1t sorry forgot I wasn't supposed to mention that particular Irish music festival in Kildare.. But haven't made it down to it yet..

whiskeyman

New Years in Sydney or Times Square in NY
Whats that tomato throwing festival in Spain? Tortalamino or something?
Go to an Olympic Games or World Cup Finals

I wouldn't even give that kildare music festival a mention. Waayy better ones around the world to go to.

xzanti

whiskeyman wrote:

New Years in Sydney or Times Square in NY
Whats that tomato throwing festival in Spain? Tortalamino or something?
Go to an Olympic Games or World Cup Finals

I wouldn't even give that kildare music festival a mention. Waayy better ones around the world to go to.

Actually thats true... The Berlin Love Parade.. (is that still going?) but I'm still ashamed I haven't been to the Irish one.. I'm the only one of my friends who hasn't been... I'm so uncool

Ooh ooh... and Mardi Gras

JIZZLORD

La tomatina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatina

whiskeyman

JIZZLORD wrote:

La tomatina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatina

yeah, that's the one. Gonna try and go next year. Looks crazy!

I suppose other events might be the solstice in Newgrange - doesn't Stonehenge have it too?

Run the NY or London Marathon.

Jigsaw

Get drunk by 2pm and play pool in Bundoran.

Collie D

Jigsaw wrote:

Get drunk by 2pm and play pool in Bundoran.

Jesus, you're easily pleased.

Orlee

A Bull Run in Spain was always one of mine and got to do it last year but never again.

It wasn't that major one in Valencia/Pamplona where they throw spears and kill the bull It was in the back arse of nowhere, a real Spanish town where no one spoke English, with the smaller travelling bull runs where the bull legs it around after you and impales his fair share of bodies!

The way they treat these bulls is unbelievable, they seem to have so much respect for the animals but there's still something wrong about the whole thing

Spud83

whiskeyman wrote:

New Years in Sydney

Done!!!

Nimbin Mardi Grass

AlmightyCushion

I'd love to see the aurora borealis.

Orlee

AlmightyCushion wrote:

I'd love to see the aurora borealis.

Never would have thought of that - That has to be Number 1

Andy-Pandy

If i dont get to see Neil Young play live I shall spend eternity in mourning.

AlmightyCushion

Orlee wrote:

Never would have thought of that - That has to be Number 1

Neither would I but there is a thread over on the Astonomy and Space forum about it.

L1011

AlmightyCushion wrote:

I'd love to see the aurora borealis.

Done, easily done if you live in Donegal...

Thread discussing this in Astronomy & Space at the moment:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=53760929

Of course if you live in North Kildare you can do the cheapseat option - go to the RTÉ 252 mast at about 6am in fog, when they crank it up to 300kW for the daytime it creates a corona through the fog. Was much better in the Altantic days when they ran at 500kW though.

gucci

Golden eye bungee jump....havent done it yet, but please buddha 2008

http://www.trekking.ch/eng/007.asp

oops i guess its not an "event" oh well, my bad

video

Orlee

AlmightyCushion and MYOB - thanks, Im heading over to that forum now

AlmightyCushion

MYOB wrote:

Done, easily done if you live in Donegal...

Thread discussing this in Astronomy & Space at the moment:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=53760929

Of course if you live in North Kildare you can do the cheapseat option - go to the RTÉ 252 mast at about 6am in fog, when they crank it up to 300kW for the daytime it creates a corona through the fog. Was much better in the Altantic days when they ran at 500kW though.

Any pics of that. It sounds cool.

keevita

I second the Love Parade idea.

AlmightyCushion

Orlee wrote:

AlmightyCushion and MYOB - thanks, Im heading over to that forum now

Glad I could help. I really should have put a link to the thread but MYOB did so it's not too bad.

tampopo

Yeah, Running with the Bulls in Pamplona was the most exhilerating thing I've done. It was brilliant. Was only going to stay one day but stayed three in the end.

Visiting the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima was the most moving tourist site I've visited, though lots of the dolmens and passage tombs in Ireland are good too, esp that one in Sligo that are like beehive huts on the tops of hills at the end of a stony road.

I'd always wanted to do the Oktoberfest when I was young but my drinking capacity is drastically reduced nowadays, kinda a waste to go now, apart from the food...

Tomatina would be good. I think in Valencia at Easter there is a big bonfire type festival. They make loads of papier mache models, huge they are. Then at the end of the festival they burn them all except the winning model. Imagine the St. Patrick's Day parade where they burn all the floats at the end of it!!! I was at the museum where they keep the winning 'float' one time and there were photos of previous festivals, it looked pretty good.

My favourite place that I visited in the US was Monument Valley at NW Arizona. The Grand Canyon's a hole in the ground, (shrugs shoulders.)

zuutroy

Saw the Aurora. It's cool. Drove Route 66 (most of it). Can't think of too many others I'd like to do now. Imagination dying with age!

joejoem

tampopo wrote:

The Grand Canyon's a hole in the ground, (shrugs shoulders.)

I was mostly unimpressed by this also

zuutroy

tampopo wrote:

The Grand Canyon's a hole in the ground, (shrugs shoulders.)

:eek: It's awesome!....Beats Niagara Falls anyway

AlmightyCushion

tampopo wrote:

Visiting the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima was the most moving tourist site I've visited,

I'd never have thought of that. I'd say it's amazing though. Some day.

Orlee

How about Venice? Maybe not as wild and adventerous but amazing none the less?

Such a beautiful place, no cars, no rushing. It's just so calm

red_ice

AlmightyCushion wrote:

I'd love to see the aurora borealis.

its such an anti climax.

Right so im in iceland. I look up, there it is.... Pint?

b_beep

Love Parade was cancelled this year, was truly incredible last year 1.5 m people dancing in Tiergarten. Aurora Borealis was visible a few years ago over Kildare, would love to go to Iceland though and may enjoy a full moon party in Thailand before I die....

jester77

xzanti wrote:

Actually thats true... The Berlin Love Parade.. (is that still going?)

It's **** now compared to 7 or 8 years ago, was even cancelled for a few years. I think it was after 2001 that it went downhill, the law in Germany claimed that the parade was a commercial event and this meant the organisers would be held legally responsible for all costs. Was much better before when they weren't

Oh, and it won't be in Berlin either as they couldn't get permission from the relative authorities to hold it there.

jester77

b_beep wrote:

a full moon party in Thailand before I die....

That's something I want to do again, best party I've been to. It's amazing dancing in the morning on sunrise beach watching the sun come up over the ocean. Even as drunk as I was I still couldn't jump in the water and swim considering everyone on the beach had been using it as a toilet for the previous 12 hours :eek:

Smellyirishman

Everyone should skydive, it's a blast.

Colonel Sanders

3some with a black girl and an asian girl

pickarooney

Il Palio in Siena, Italy. Been to it a couple of times - insane excuse for a pissup.

Hydroquinone

tampopo wrote:

I'd always wanted to do the Oktoberfest when I was young but my drinking capacity is drastically reduced nowadays, kinda a waste to go now, apart from the food...

Hold the phone - There's FOOD at the Oktoberfest?!?!?!
So that's where I went wrong. I'll remember that this year.

Jigsaw

Collie D wrote:

Jesus, you're easily pleased.

It's better that way. It means you're disappointed less.

JIZZLORD

i really want to go to the oktoberfest this year.

Collie D

I've always wanted to climb Everest, maybe not all the way but base camp is still 8,000 feet up. That bull-run would be cool too, I'd say it really gets the adrenaline flowing

CantGetNoSleep

xzanti wrote:

Actually thats true... The Berlin Love Parade.. (is that still going?) but I'm still ashamed I haven't been to the Irish one.. I'm the only one of my friends who hasn't been... I'm so uncool

Ooh ooh... and Mardi Gras

No it's not on in Berlin anymore, this is the first year it has moved, it's now in Essen in Germany, on next Saturday in fact and i'm going, must start working into my own to do list

I'll report back on what it's like in the new city

User45701

Well one event not mentioned that is a must go to would be the Cannabis Cup in amsterdam

Miguel_Sanchez

Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con

I hear it's awesome. Although it is full of nerds.

Takeshi_Kovacs

Collie D wrote:

I've always wanted to climb Everest, maybe not all the way but base camp is still 8,000 feet up. That bull-run would be cool too, I'd say it really gets the adrenaline flowing

Yeah thats something that would love to do as well. Also Base camp is a bit higher than that as well, ~17,000 feet.

Tha Gopher

Colonel Sanders wrote:

3some with a black girl and an asian girl

I would say "QFT" but QFT is one of the most retarded internet phoenomena (sp) since that kid dancing to that numanumanomayyayyy song.

HammerHeadGym

Have a threesome with two members of the opposite sex.

Oh yeah.

Pigman II

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con

I hear it's awesome. Although it is full of nerds.

So it's exactly like boards after-hours then? (except for the awesome part)

Zebra3

Go to a top footie match in Italy or eastern europe.

Nuts. :cool:

keefg

win a huge jackpot in a Vegas casino (been trying for years now with no luck :mad: )

shane86

Go to Vegas, get paralytic drunk and wake up next to a stripper I had met at 7pm and married before midnight.

Run into Eamonn Dunphy in a bar/club in town and chat about Rafa, Jose, Keano, Stan/Ireland and of course, Cristiano and John Delaney (work once held a Friday night do in Renards nightclub for us, was disappointed the mouth wasnt there as hes a regular i think )

Appear on tv rubbered (happy Sky 1 Ibiza Uncovered type drunk, not giving abuse/making an arse of myself like the knobs you see on that Bouncers show on ITV )


Rattle the arse off either the young blonde bird from Heroes or Catalina from My Name is Earl.

Either.

Or preferably both.

At the same time

Terry

I'd like to travel the world and meet people.




Most likely I will sell my house as soon as I hear I'm dying and go on the bender to end all benders.
In mexico, of course.