Plate VI · eight things
Close to home
A weekend doesn’t need a flight. The Close to home chapter is plate VI of Globestamp’s bucket list: eight things to do, 5 of which tick themselves from your photos. Tick all eight and its plate is pressed in plain ink.
- Take a day trip to a city nearbyA day trip to a city nearby means leaving in the morning, spending the day in a town an hour or three away, and sleeping in your own bed.Ticks itself from your photos · Easy to start
- Spend a weekend by the seaA weekend by the sea means two nights in a town on the coast: a Friday arrival, a long Saturday walking the shore, a slow Sunday breakfast looking at the water.Ticks itself from your photos · Easy to start
- Be a tourist in your own cityBeing a tourist in your own city means spending a day doing what visitors fly in for: the landmark you walk past, the guided tour, the view, the famous dish.Yours to tick · Easy to start
- See your city at nightSeeing your city at night means going out after dark on purpose, not to a bar but to look: the skyline from a hill at blue hour, a river lit up, a market that only exists after sunset.Yours to tick · Easy to start
- Visit a zoo or an aquariumVisiting a zoo or an aquarium means an afternoon up close with animals you’d otherwise only see on a screen: an orangutan swinging overhead, a whale shark gliding past the glass.Ticks itself from your photos · Easy to start
- Spend an afternoon in a botanical gardenAn afternoon in a botanical garden is a slow walk through the world’s plants: a palm house steaming in winter, a rose garden in June, an orchid with no common name.Ticks itself from your photos · Easy to start
- Go to a science museum or a planetariumA science museum or a planetarium is where you press the buttons, lie back under a dome full of stars, and leave understanding something you didn’t that morning.Ticks itself from your photos · Easy to start
- Ride a bike on a scenic routeRiding a bike on a scenic route means a day on a path built for the view, along a river, across islands or through vineyards, at a speed where you notice everything.Yours to tick · Easy to start