What do we have in common with Royal Ascot, Stonehenge and The International Antiques and Collectors Fair in Newark, Nottinghamshire?

It turns out we’re included, like them and quite a few others, in the UK section of ‘1,000 Places To See Before You Die’.

This book was first published in 2003 and was a ‘No.1 New York Times Bestseller’. Well, now the author, Patricia Schultz, has re-researched, retravelled and rewritten it, so now it’s apparently longer, bigger and better than ever.

And we’re in it!

We’re alongside not only the aforementioned International Antiques and Collectors Fair, but we’re also rubbing in-demand shoulders with Voodoo Nights at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and, er, cruising the Mekong in Laos.

Now that’s what we call a Bucket List …