What’s your favourite souvenir?

[MARTINE]

As per all the AFF posters - I love travel and momentos mean I can keep enjoying (especially during lockdown). My favorite is my white Matrushka (some call these Babushka but former correct) doll from the Four Seasons Hotel Moscow which takes pride of place in my bathroom!
What is your favourite souvenir ?

 

[Cossie]

SWMBO likes to collect christmas tree ornaments, I'm a little different, I try to get used number plates from places visited.

My favourite is this one that I got in Damascus in 2010, it dates from the thirties when Lebanon and Syria were a French Protectorate, There are only 2 known examples although the other one owned by musician Jimmy Fox (aka The James Gang) is black on white.

 

[MARTINE]

SWMBO likes to collect christmas tree ornaments, I'm a little different, I try to get used number plates from places visited.

My favourite is this one that I got in Damascus in 2010, it dates from the thirties when Lebanon and Syria were a French Protectorate, There are only 2 known examples although the other one owned by musician Jimmy Fox (aka The James Gang) is black on white.

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That’s amazing - fantastic memory

 

[VPS]

Good idea for a thread - I have quite a few things that give me great memories of when and where I bought them but if I had to nail it down to one I would struggle but I will consider it

 

[Pushka]

Good timing. In SA lockdown now on a freezing wet day. I bought two fluffy wraps in Helsinki that have an elk pattern. MrP borrowed one this morning as it's freezing. It usually sits on my chair in winter. I found him a pink bunny rug and gave that to him instead (WFH in a 3 hour team's meeting so not moving = cold feet) and told him it reminds me of cruises and holidays in Europe and I need those memories right now.

 

[Franky]

I gave up long ago buying dust collectors, and started buying quality polo shirts in lieu of 'been there' T shirts. Moved home recently, and had to do a stocktake and tossed out some oldies, but still had to find room for 104 that were keepers...

 

[Spongbob]

I collect pumice and ash from volcanos I have visited.

 

[MARTINE]

I collect pumice and ash from volcanos I have visited.

 

[AisleSeat]

It's hard to pick an absolute favourite, but these gloves I bought in Iceland in 2008 I think come close. They're still going strong and when I dig them out every winter its a nice reminder of somewhere I want to revisit.

 

[Stealthflyer]

My Venice Biennale catalogues, purchased on my pilgrimage to the biennale every second year. Sadly it was delayed this year until 2022. I’m not sure I’ll be able to go next year if it goes ahead so I’ll have a gap

 

[Bundy Bear]

I have a few fridge magnets that live on my fridge, although for actual souvenir would be my Conrad Singapore bears, I have collected 2 over the years.

 

[Denali]

Gosh, where do I start.

Hubby's might be the custom made Fender and Gretsch guitars he got when we visited Fender in Corona CA or the Les Paul he got in Memphis or his vintage Hendrix Flying V from Normans Rare Guitars on our last stop over in LA. Seeing a theme with him? Martin and Taylor is on his wish list for our next (when/if) USA trip.

Me? I like Christmas decorations because theyre easy to pack and somewhat useful and easy to pack away. I guess my favourite souvenir are the memories.

 

[Scarlett]

Mine are coins. One piece of local currency from each country visited. They're blu-tacked to the pantry door so a constant reminder of many trips to many places.

In separate lines are also the ~20 x €1 coins with the national sides displayed, as well as the 17 state quarters from the different US states visited.

I will admit that for two or three countries I did have to go online and buy a coin due to them not really being used in circulation anymore: pretty certain Vietnam was one example due to basic staples costing many thousand dong and everyone only using notes rather than coins. Every shopkeeper I asked had no coins.

I don't really have a favourite amongst them as they all represent something different, so just foreign coins as my souvenir.

 

[RooFlyer]

My consistant souvenir from places I visit are books, usually on the history or architecture. But my favourite is my telpek sheepskin hat (not a wig) from Turkmenistan. Means I can also now do a mean Boris Johnson impersonation.

 

[MARTINE]

My consistant souvenir from places I visit are books, usually on the history or architecture. But my favourite is my telpek sheepskin hat (not a wig) from Turkmenistan. Means I can also now do a mean Boris Johnson impersonation.

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I wish I could borrow for my Melbourne lockdown walks… superb! My husband bought me a beautiful Dr Zhivago hat in Moscow for a birthday but when he went to pay the quickly told him ‘No American Express’ so had to pay myself…..!!

 

[MARTINE]

..and here she is… and I’ve realised the adjacent receptacles came from a hotel in Vienna (things just fall into my luggage…)

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..and here she is… and I’ve realised the adjacent receptacles came from a hotel in Vienna (things just fall into my luggage…)

I did pay for Mayrushka!

 

[Ikara]

I collect pumice and ash from volcanos I have visited.

Whow.........................that rocks!

 

[RooFlyer]

I collect pumice and ash from volcanos I have visited.

Excellent! I have some ash from Mt St Helens somewhere.

 

[garybatz]

I have a collection of fridge magnets - small, inexpensive, easy to carry, not too fragile - and every time I go to the fridge I'm reminded of many of the places I've been lucky enough to go to

 

[MARTINE]

Especially those ones that also have a bottle opener attached… style and utility!