Goal 138 (Renovate my unit with air-conditioning, new oven and new paint job) is rather a boring one, but one that I would like to do to improve the condition of the apartment I own in St Kilda (near Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne).

There are three parts to this goal, which are to install air-con, install a new oven, and give the whole place a new coat of paint, to cover up some of the cracks in the wall.

Part 2 is now done – brand-spanking new oven is now installed, and the current tenant is loving it. Certainly a nice change from the one that I used to have there, which was from the 1970s and had no temperature gauge.

Thus ends an extremely boring post!

On July 7, 2007 (07.07.07) the results of a worldwide vote were announced at the Declaration Ceremony, proclaiming what the world has chosen as the new seven wonders of the world.

Being a keen traveller, I decided that to see each of these new wonders would be a great goal to achieve as part of Project 183. So I made it Goal 40 on my list.

Here are the seven new wonders in no particular order. Luckily, I had already done one before they were announced, so there were just six to go.

1. Macchu Picchu in Peru

2. Taj Mahal in India – Completed January 2004, on a visit with a friend to India and Nepal. This is very deserved of its place as a new wonder.

3. Chichen Itza in Mexico

4. Christ Redeemer in Brazil

5. Great Wall of China in China

6. Colosseum in Italy – Completed July 2007, on a trip to Europe with Nat. So much history attached to it, as well as the rest of the Roman Forum that surrounds it. Didn’t bump in to Russell Crowe though.

7. Petra in Jordan