The Flip Side Of "I Have Never"

*In the middle of nowhere, drove passed a Chinese sign “No foreigners beyond this point” by a couple of mètres and was immediately surrounded by soldiers holding machine guns.
*In Bali, in a little three-person-boat, out looking for dolphins when up popped an orca and rocked the boat.
*Camped in a lone-tent in Death Valley but I was with someone.
*Landing gear down ready to land when a small plane suddenly flew in front and took the Beijing runway.
*I was driving and had car accident on the Beijing ring road.
*Lived through an earthquake in China.
*Pillion rode doing a ton, helmet-less, it was the 60s.
*Hitched hiked many times in the 60s.
*Driving when the engine died on Oxford ring road in a wet dark evening rush hour.
*Caught in freak storm on a small boat sailing between two Greek islands.
*Climbed Kings Canyon Australia.
*Swam near mantra rays and admired the coral reef snorkeling.
Nothing really naughty except a person asked me to look after an envelope for them for a week, in the 60s, which I innocently did …. fortunately I wasn’t stopped.

Hot air balloon flight
Helicopter trip over Table Mountain
Flight over NZ glaciers
Whitewater rafting in Canada
Rode an elephant in Nepal
Rode a camel in Oman
Had a flight in an old 2 seater Yak

This has made me realise that I should never again complain that my life’s been a bit dull !!

This is a great thread - so many intrepid grans

I can't beat sex in a zoo but have...

Been to the tops of the World Trade Centre, CN Tower in Toronto, Empire State Building and The Shard - all a bit tame I know as they only involve going up in a lift! So how about

Nursed a dictator - president Ne Win of Burma

Hiked in deserts of Saudi Arabia - the photo is stock but typical of the Riyadh region

I went face to face with a man at the railway station who was hitting and pulling his partner, she was clearly frightened. He walked away and she followed him after a few minutes?

I have paraglided(?) over lake Annecey.

I have ridden my motorcycle around a track at 156mph

Fall in love constantly
Had sex at the top of a mountain
Had a year eating trifle for breakfast.
Live a lot in my head
And love all my family to bits

Had various snakes round my neck.
Got to Blue Belt at Taekwondo.
Been up in a helicopter.
Been up.in a glider.
Fired a machine gun.

Thanks for getting on board with this, folks. Some amazingly brave people on here; also some crazy things! Lol.

I've thought of a couple of others after reading yours:

Thrown a snowball at a police car, which subsequently stopped and I got a dressing down!

Swam in Lake Taupo (NZ), Lake Garda (Italy) and climbed a mountain (again in NZ).

Pretended to be stinking rich in a Louis Vuitton handbag shop on the Gold Coast, Australia with my daughter. Then we came out and ate ice cream cones on the beach because that's all we could really afford!

I've thought of one at last!
Went tandem paragliding with a lady we met on holiday (the husbands did it first, and then persuaded us to do it). On landing in the sea she had a panic attack and I had to lifesave her back to the speed boat.

Oh, and went with husband and our 2 sons to the top of the World Trade Centre on 11 August 2001 - exactly a month before the terrorist attack.

I’ve got an Iron Butt certificate! 1000+ miles on a motorbike in less than 24 hours.

Travelled alone around Europe as part of my job.

Survived a brain haemorrhage

Had my marriage destroyed by a ‘celebrity’ who the public adore

Lost four stone in less than 12 months (not connected to the previous statement ??)

Have a wonderful family and, despite some heartbreak, have a marvellously happy life

My life has been very tame compared to all these but I am not unhappy about it or disappointed in myself.

The bravest thing I have done in recent years was do a church music course. I flunked the organ part, but held my own with conducting a choir and did really wel in the singing, which was the first time I had sung a whole piece on my own in front of anyone.

Walked across the Golden Gate bridge in San Franciso.
Thrown an engagement ring into the Grand Canyon (deliberately)
Slept in the car park at the Pentagon, in a camper van.
Slept under the Eiffel Tower, in a camper van.
Driven up a mountain in Switzerland in spite of the notice which said 'danger'. We moved the barriers.
Fed koalas and kangaroos in a nature reserve near Perth.
Spent a week entirely alone in Sydney.
My life is so tame now!.

Gave birth three times with no painkillers
Survived cancer
Read out my report at the WI AGM although I have a stammer
I have flown long haul numerous times, mainly Heathrow to Sydney
Experienced a terrifying boat journey in the Indian Ocean during monsoon season

More!

Ridden the trolley car in San Francisco
Visited Alcatraz
Had a Singapore Sling in Raffles Hotel
Kissed the Blarney Stone

Gone down the cicular steps into the Padirac chasm in the Dorgogne and sailed on a boat in the undergrown river.
Sailed across the sea to Ireland and come back in a storm.
Been on the Salerno beaches and seen Monte Casino.
Sang,"London bridge is falling down",in the middle of it with DD getting looks as if we were mad.
Seen but didn't dare kiss the Blarney stone I got half way.

Finally stood up to my brute of a father who then broke my nose.
Rehearsed and sang a demanding operatic role heavily pregnant.
Nursed my mother to the end at home with cancer who refused to go to hospital or have any other help (why did I do that?)
Cancer twice myself.
Travelled the world alone (and U.K.) to sing, balancing family life.

This sure seems like boasting!

I have
Been on several long-haul flights
Been on a microlight aircraft
Had a flying lesson at 75
Had 5 speeding tickets - and I'm not proud of that
Been able to speak enough Swahili to 'get by'
Spent a week in San Francisco on my own
Enjoyed a few visits to Paris on my own.
Been married and divorced
Been on lots of Ramblers holidays
Had a hip replacement and partial shoulder replacement!

I went swimming with snakes in FNQ but I thought they were friendly eels. Wondered why everyone was watching me !
I have emigrated to a country where we knew absolutely no one.
I have zip lined high up across a rain forest
I have done the long haul flights many times
I have helicoptered over outback Australia
I have lived in north west Tasmania and collected and eaten many oysters .

Survived a "home invasion" by masked robbers
Traveled solo in Iran and Syria and the foothills of Everest
Worked in the USA for a year
Given talks as a "movivational speaker"
Sung in nightclubs
Worked on a chat (aka sex) line

movivational = motivational

I've driven round the Arc de Triomphe towing a camping trailer with 5 bickering children in the car and I didn't crash.

GN's, I salute you. I have a lot of catching up to do !

kittylester

I've driven round the Arc de Triomphe towing a camping trailer with 5 bickering children in the car and I didn't crash.

A true achievement!!! ??

Got on a train alone at Waterloo Station aged 20. After a train, ferry and another very, very long European train journey, almost 2 days later arrived at Roma Termini. My then boyfriend who on finishing his studies had taken off to Europe to visit extended family had asked me to meet him there. I can't remember if it had even occurred to me what I'd do if he hadn't been at the other end in retrospect I didn't have a plan b) who does at that age? Happily he was, we spent the next couple of months driving round Italy, Switzerland and France, I rather over extended the agreed time off from work by several weeks that I'd got my employers to agree to. I really only went back because I'd run out of money but didn't tell them that! I think I was lucky to walk back into my job with just a bit of huffing and puffing from my boss about taking liberties, however, I fronted it out and he got over it

Got pulled aside by Israeli security when I was exiting that country, didn't like the fact that I was travelling on a passport in my maiden name, my airline ticket was in my married name (1st marriage) and I was with my now husband who I wasn't married to then and he therefore a different name to me They went through all my stuff with a fine tooth comb before they decided I wasn't really a person of interest, how right they were !!

Did the trip of my dreams for my 60th birthday, Buenos Aires, Uruguay, Iguazu Falls which are amazingly extensive and to use that over used expression "awesome" and Rio de Janeiro. So glad I did all that then before Covid put paid to everyone's travel plans.

Nice work, kitty. Towing a trailer not easy at the best of times! Driving anything in Paris is a challenge. I didn't venture past the Peripherique.

To be fair, it was unintentional and very hair raising - even the children stopped arguing!!