What travel momentos do you like to collect and display

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Too late! Now that you've admitted they are G-rated gift shop items

I'm guessing women's underwear

I have an idea what Drewbles collects, I may have brought one for him on one of my Trans Tasman travels, and no it wasn't women's underwear.

Bundy Bear needs to take that star rating sticker off the fridge too :)

Someone actually looks at the pictures, good one, and I removed it for you, are you happy now, more space for more fridge magnets.
 
Hard Rock Cafe shot glasses (only the original syle however)

I started out with a collection of Pilsner & Hurricane glasses from Hard Rock but started to run out of room to store them, so switched over to shot glasses about 5 years ago. On my recent trip I collected another 5 which takes the collection to about 50 I think.


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Collect AND display?

Over the years I've collected tourist guides, like This week in..., but also picture books about the city. Like San Francisco, Dusseldorf, etc.
 
T shirts, fridge magnets, stuffed toys, and hotel shampoo.

When your having a bad week...wash your hair in the scent that reminds you of brazil, san fran. miami etc
 
I started out with a collection of Pilsner & Hurricane glasses from Hard Rock but started to run out of room to store them, so switched over to shot glasses about 5 years ago. On my recent trip I collected another 5 which takes the collection to about 50 I think.
Do you ever quietly examine your mementoes, recalling the places you bought the shot glasses, with the aid of a crate of bourbon?
 
T shirts, fridge magnets, stuffed toys, and hotel shampoo.

When your having a bad week...wash your hair in the scent that reminds you of brazil, san fran. miami etc
LOL! You must stay at far more upmarket joints than I do! I shove these little thingies into my bag on the chance they might come in handy, and years later clean out the dribbles from the ones I've forgotten at the bottom which have worked their way under a seam or behind some flap. Last year's five week fast food chain hotel driving odyssey netted me a fine haul, and there's a few sturdy survivors grouped in the recesses under the bathroom basin, unlikely ever to feel hair in their wind.
 
An experience that drewbles would be impressed with that is most certainly not G-Rated. Mrs here2go and I were visiting an Aussie expat friend (formerly of Canberra), who was telling us that at the end of a meal at Chinese restaurants in Luxembourg, you are presented with nightcap. Lychee wine for the ladies in a pleasant cup, and a shot of "rice wine" for the men. However, when you look at the bottom of the rice-wine cup is a photo of a very naked female. When you finish the shot, the optics of the cup means she disappears once there is no liquid.

Expat friend insisted that these were by far the best souvenir of Luxembourg, so proceeded to take us to a Chinese Supermarket in the CBD to get our souvenirs. We found the cups, and presented our six little cups to the old Chinese woman at the counter, who then asked us in good English why we wanted ones with boys. Suddenly, all 20-odd cups in the store were out, she had a water bottle, and she was squirting water into each of the cups to see what was at the bottom of each cup. We walked away with two boys for my wife and two girls for me.
Lots of giggling at dinner parties subsequently BC with those little cups.

A totally wrong experience, but a memory cherished along with:
* alking to his wife's Uncle who was six during the Battle of the Bulge, who was given his first orange by a GI - and still had pock marks from the battle in his house
* visiting the American war cemetery and admiring the spectacle of the white marble crosses and stars
* Having a conversation expat friend and wife with some Moselle wine-makers friends of theirs where German, French, two different dialects of Luxembourgish, and English were all spoken at the table, with only one person able to translate for all.
 
Christmas decorations. A new one from each country visited. They are small and light and I get to look at them each year and remember the places visited.
 
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Do you ever quietly examine your mementoes, recalling the places you bought the shot glasses, with the aid of a crate of bourbon?

No but I think that's a great idea!


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I would collect pearls and jade from China, gold and diamonds from South Africa, sapphires from Sri Lanka and Thailand, rubies from Burma, amber from the Baltic, emeralds from Columbia and tanzanite from Tanzania.

And I would have these items set in Hong Kong.
 
I collect Starbucks coffee mugs. They're big enough to be used as a soup mug and they remind me of good travels.

(I don't drink their coffee)
 
I collect Starbucks coffee mugs. They're big enough to be used as a soup mug and they remind me of good travels.

(I don't drink their coffee)
Can you just buy them or do you have to drink their coffee to get the mugs :?: :shock: :rolleyes: :lol:
 
Always a fridge magnet. We need a new fridge!!


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