Ranked 96 on the IMDB Top 100 Movies.
Watched August 2017.
Cast: James Stewart (L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jefferies), Grace Kelly (Lisa Carol Fremont), Wendell Corey (Det. Lt. Thomas J. Doyle), Thelma Ritter (Stella), Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
My rating: 8 / 10
Danelle’s rating: ? / 10
Ranked 97 on the IMDB Top 100 Movies.
Watched July 2017.
Cast: Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Orson Welles (Harry Lime), Trevor Howard (Major Calloway), Bernard Lee (Sgt. Paine)
Director: Carol Reed
My rating: 8.5 / 10
Danelle’s rating: ? / 10
Ranked 98 on the IMDB Top 100 Movies.
Watched July 2017.
Cast: James Dean (Jim Stark), Natalie Wood (Judy), Sal Mineo (John ‘Plato’ Crawford), Jim Backus (Frank Stark), Ann Doran (Mrs. Carol Stark), Corey Allen (Buzz Gunderson)
Director: Nicholas Ray
My rating: 6.5 / 10
Danelle’s rating: ? / 10
Ranked 74 on the IMDB Top 100 Movies.
Watched January 2019.
Cast: Woody Allen (Alvy Singer), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall), Tony Roberts (Rob), Carol Kane (Allison), Paul Simon (Tony Lacey), Shelley Duvall (Pam)
Director: Woody Allen
My rating: 9 / 10
Danelle’s rating: ? / 10
2018 was definitely an unusual year for me as it included two overseas trips. I closed off 2017 while still on an African tour, the last days of 2017 had me camping under the stars in Chobe National Park (Botswana) before heading off to Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) for a stunning helicopter flight over the falls, this meant 2018 would be hard pressed to be even better!
Way back in May 2015 I wrote a blog entry “2016 and Beyond” that outlined possible travel over the next four years as I moved beyond 52 countries. I listed eight possible tours and I’ve ended up doing three of these (or similar tours) to Sri Lanka, Indochina (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) and High Road to Tibet (Nepal and Tibet).
I also ended up doing The Great African Expedition from November 2017 to January 2018.
Now it’s time to work out what’s the plan for the next few years and whether I should aim to move from 70 countries I’ve already seen to 100 countries. To start I’d need to work out if there are 30 countries left that I’m interested in and which line up with my Bucket List – To Do , for example seeing Petra in Jordan.
Well my short trip to Hong Kong, Nepal and Tibet is over and it’s time to reflect. This trip was basically three parts:
The Nepal and Tibet experience were mostly undertaken via the G Adventures High Road to Tibet tour (review here).
