Is there a hole in your bucket list that you really want to fill? If you’ve hopelessly trawled all the newspaper supplements and online listicles for travel inspiration, and are fed up of TV ads pushing cruises and beach holidays, maybe a travel blogger or two could help you out. Or even 56 of them? “WARNING: this post contains serious travel inspiration**” says Emma Julia who blogs at Adventures of a London Kiwi…

Bucket wishlists and serial wanderlust

With our monthly travel linkup running for over 3 years and attracting an astounding 1000+ posts from wanderlusting bloggers around the world, we’ve made it a tradition to begin the year with our Travel Wishlists and plans for the year of adventures ahead (and perhaps even include a few of our favorite 2016 travels). Forget the usual New Year’s resolutions of stopping bad habits, going to the gym more or being healthier – it is pure unadulterated Travel. Like the brilliant bloggers who participate when they can or as the topic interests them, the posts are as varied as the destinations explored.

Pure unadulterated travel

Co-host and definitive lady of luxury, Angie of Silverspoon London managed to tick 6 countries off her bucket list in 2016 – and 2017 doesn’t seem to be any less exciting. With plans so far of the Maldives, a taste of Dubai and a long weekend in Vienna not to mention her eye on the exotic minarets of Russia, witnessing the Northern Lights and a pampering break in Budapest, her adventures are going to be incredible.

Faced with the travel blogger’s quandry of too much mischief and not enough time to write about it, author Becky at Casa Caudill let readers into a sneak peek of her travel wishlist. With destinations planned and dreamt of including Greece, Prague, the Baltics, Russia and Slovakia – not to mention sun dappled grape vines in amongst the flights – it’s going to be another busy year.

Not just content with a surprise birthday road trip around America, short breaks to Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Turkey and around the UK, in 2016 Ayla (from Mrs Ayla’s Adventures) and her husband also decided to take on the exciting challenge of parenting a mini-traveller who is likely to be just as addicted to plane journeys – sharing the incredible escapades they already planned for the new year. It’s in the genes.

Silver-tongued (or should that be silver-keyboarded in modern parlance?) Shikha from Why Waste Annual Leave wrote a thoroughly entertaining and refreshingly honest post gathering her 10 of her most bizarre travel memories from 2016. Stumbling upon nudist beaches in Croatia, being told to indulge in a little cliff edge jumping and dancing on a carousel in Harajuku, Tokyo – just par for the course of this intrepid traveller.

Mr Fresh and Fearless himself not only explored beautiful nooks and crannies of the UK and Europe in 2016, but has dreams of more exotic climes in 2017. With destinations such as the Algarve, Abu Dhabi, Egypt and Austria on his bucket list, Aftab’s wanderlust is growing by the year.

Binny (of Binny’s Kitchen) had a cornucopia of escapades in 2016 that will inspire the most hardened travel hater. Finding herself in the middle of an Indian Ocean in Mauritius enjoying a BBQ on a Catamaran, making her own pizza in Naples, Italy, Climbing the Pyramid of the Sun, Mexico City and seeing the Gateway of India in Mumbai. Just what will the new year possibly bring?

In a year that brought forth brought forth a new job, new friends, new opportunities and a few accentuated philosophies, Honey (the boss lady of Girl Next Shore) took a more introspective approach to greeting the New Year, and wrote a lovely list of what will be important to her. Oh and included a few of the sun filled destinations where she’d like to work on those aspects of her life (and practice a few more of her infamous jump shots).

Starting the new year in style, with good friends, bubbles and cosiness, Claire (of CMC Travels) and her husband are currently weighing a year of adventuresome little jaunts – possibly Italy, Oslo, Lisbon, Berlin, Barcelona, Stockholm and Santorini as it’s such fun throwing ideas around – whilst exploring as much of London as possible in between.

A full list of the 56 posts written can be found at the end of 2017 thinkings on Adventures of a London Kiwi. Where will this year take us? P.S. Each month a new travellinkup topic is picked for inspiration (posts go up between the 1st and 7th of each month) and we notify everyone by email & on Twitter – do let us know if you’d like to be added to the emailing list of topics each month!