What three things would you have liked to have done...

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but will never be able to, because the time has passed?

Me,
Been at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Sailed in one of the tea clippers racing back from China in the 1860s.
Been one of the first to ride a bike over the alps, in the days before colour photographs showed what to expect before you got there.
 

ComedyPilot

Secret Lemonade Drinker
but will never be able to, because the time has passed?

Me,
Been at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Sailed in one of the tea clippers racing back from China in the 1860s.
Been one of the first to ride a bike over the alps, in the days before colour photographs showed what to expect before you got there.

:thumbsup:

Like that one, especially the 'unknown' aspect of it.

Adventure and travel are getting too sanitised thanks to Lonely Planet and Google.
 

Archie_tect

De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Location
Northumberland
Been the one to break through the last bit of the Panama Canal and watched it fill up... wow, what an engineering achievement that was.
 

Archie_tect

De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Location
Northumberland
1. Learned how to play a guitar and started a band when I was 17.
2. Discovered at 14 that everyone else was as unsure about everything too.
3. Taken up the chance of adventures when they came up instead of listening to the voice of reason every time.
 

Brains

Legendary Member
Location
Greenwich
Been a mate of William the Conquerer - Recon I'd still have a slice of Blighty today if I'd kept my nose clean with the monarchs that followed.

Been an officer on board a number of the great global explorations and opening up of the new worlds
Mayflower, (Pilgrims)
Beagle, (Darwin)
Discovery, (Scott)
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria (Columbus)
Fram (Nansen)
Resolution (Cook)
Victoria (Magellan)
and a few more, but I might avoid Shakleton and Cortez

Been a Roman Senator (XX Legion Rtd.)
 

TheDoctor

Europe Endless
Moderator
Location
The TerrorVortex
Flown on Concorde.
Seen a Saturn-5 launch.
Flown on the Shuttle.

In the 70s we could go to the Moon, and fly supersonic.
Now we can't.
Why are we going backwards???
 

rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
Done a budget world tour on a bike in my twenties

Climbed an 8000m mountain

Not punched Paul Fisher when I was 15 - I'm sure that's why my right hand knuckles are arthritic


p.s. Note to Dayvo, 'teef and me - we'd be better off playing one season of T20 in the IPL
 

byegad

Legendary Member
Location
NE England
See Rome at the height of the reign of Caesar Augustus.

Walked on the moon.

Witnessed the opening of the Stockton Darlington Railway.
 

ChrisKH

Guru
Location
Essex
Ski - always wanted to, but never have. Now my knees are shot.

Cycled with my father.

Taken up a place offered to my at a private school when I was 11.
 

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
I'd have liked to have seen Elvis in about 1956.

Maybe something like a tour of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World when they were all still standing.

Bought all the Terry's Neopolitans I could find before they stopped making them.
 

J.Y.Kelly

New Member
1, Married Eileen Miles when I had the chance. ( She wouldn't now be Eileen Cummings).

2, Paid attention at school, at least more than I did!

3, Been more adventurous and taken more risks.
 
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