Your holiday souvenirs

RowenaBCAMC
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edited September 2017 in Caravan & Motorhome Chat #1

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if on you travels you've managed to pick up any keepsakes that you treasure, reminding you of a special holiday or destination?

I remember when I was a child on my first visit to Beddgelert I bought a leather bookmark which told the story of Gelert, the faithful hound of the medieval Welsh Prince Llewelyn the Great. It was such a beautiful location, a wonderful holiday and such an emotional story I still have the bookmark to this day. 

What's your favourite souvenir and why? 

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  • Oneputt
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    edited September 2017 #2

    We don't tend to buy tourist stuff, like Spanish donkeys, sombrero's etc.  Our holiday souvenirs the photographs we take, memories in an albumlaughing

  • Navigateur
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    edited September 2017 #3

    At one time I would buy for each expedition the Ordnance Survey 1" to a Mile map of the area, and had built up coverage of most of the central part of the UK when they went fashionably metric with the 1:50000 edition and any new additions didn't fit. Slowly I built a new collection and was doing slightly better than with the 1" when they brought out digital mapping.

    So my two collections are now in a drawer in the attic and I have my mapping on a tablet.  Maybe I should start on CC Site plaques?

  • Bakers2
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    edited September 2017 #4

    Rather like Oneputt but I have a small two tone bear that sits on my dressing table. Bought in Ostend at the start of a secondary school trip to Germany. It was collectively named by our group as Blootch - this being the sound of removing marmalade with a spoon (we were a well bought up lot 😉) from the container. You did ask! Also on the same trip I bought a tiny TV shape with photos of the Rhine area which change as you press the button, and for my parents 2 carved candles from Koblenz which still live on the front room mantlepiece. 

  • JVB66
    JVB66 Forum Participant Posts: 22,892
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    edited September 2017 #5

    Our marriage certificates from Gretna Green one officialsmile the other from the Blacksmithswink,while staying at Englethwaite Hall

  • peedee
    peedee Club Member Posts: 9,387 ✭✭✭
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    edited September 2017 #6

    I collect small models of boats in the style of those mostly used or were used in the countries I have visited. Sometimes they have the name of the country on the bow or stern, and some, like the the viking long boat, are easily recognisable as to where they were purchased. I have 16 of them. One of them brings back special memories because I used to own a similar one.

    peedee

  • GROGGY64
    GROGGY64 Forum Participant Posts: 18
    edited September 2017 #8

    Your wife sounds exactly like my OH.  smile

  • Metheven
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    edited September 2017 #9

    My wife purchases nothing regarding souvenirs, but for every place visited both here and abroad she brings home a small stone or a pebble. This is put into our garden and we have many now, looks nice amongst the bushes but no idea now as to their origin laughing

  • twotwitchers
    twotwitchers Forum Participant Posts: 37
    edited September 2017 #10

    As my hobby is folk art painting I look out for objects from the countries we visit - my favourite is my Dala horse from Sweden, followed by my Russian doll set from Estonia, a cast iron Barcelos cockerel from Portugal and a little wooden clog from Holland. 

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