China’s having a six-minute solar eclipse in July, Berlin’s celebrating 20 years of reunification in November, French Guiana is still amazingly diverse, and Bintan Island is emerging as the place to be among the 3,200 islands in the Riau Archipelago — take that Rempang.

The other six to-do’s are kind of lame, and like most of your to-do lists that you’ve made over your lifetime, will likely be discarded and forgotten soon thereafter. But there’s always 2010.

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Matt Stabile