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

[Hover Fly]

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]

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.

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

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

 

[Archie_tect]

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]

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.

 

[Dayvo]

1) Seen Sydney harbour prior to Australia being colonised

2) Played professional cricket

3) Got serious with Jacqui Roberts

 

[Brains]

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]

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???

 

[Aperitif]

Joined the Lords groundstaff
Done my MA at The Slade
Absorbed more during school years - it might have made the biggest difference!

 

[rich p]

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

 

[Firestorm]

Seen my Dad race

Ridden on a train diven by my Grandad

Got a 250cc bike when I was 17

 

[byegad]

See Rome at the height of the reign of Caesar Augustus.

Walked on the moon.

Witnessed the opening of the Stockton Darlington Railway.

 

[ChrisKH]

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]

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]

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.