Holiday souvenir…. what do you bring home?

Elspeth45 I buy key rings too sometimes - all our different keys for the house, garage, shed and cars have a different keyring attached so we always know which one we are taking off the key rack. We also know which of the spares we have lost! Some of them are beautifully enamelled.

The trouble is Mattsmum2 as he wants me to put it in my bag I am complicit ?

I can wander off and pretend he’s not with me but then I’ve got the evidence nestling in my bag!

JenniferEccles

Probably shouldn’t admit it but my husband is of the same mindset as your mum Mattsmum2 ?
He’s quite knowledgeable about plants and if something takes his fancy, out comes the penknife and after a quick look around him, takes a small cutting.

I of course then have to put it, suitably wrapped, in my bag!

I guess it’s nice to know my mums not the only one!

Nothing at all

Usually foodstuffs Bara brith and cheese from this year's staycation.

fatgran57 that's my type of cat no feeding and no mess?

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Enjoying reading all these. I am extremely materialistic and always brought nice things home from overseas.

My items ranged from chocolate biscuits to large pieces of china with everything else in between!

Will try to post a picture of a very large and heavy china cockatoo which accompanied us back to Tasmania from San Francisco in a backpack wrapped in OH's pyjamas.

Also a large and quite solid cat cushion from the Hermitage museum shop in St Petersburg. I love them both and I am looking at them now in my sitting room.

Perhaps some of you can post photos of your souvenirs I like seeing your pics!

Usually food products pickles or preserves cheese or liquor if produced there.

Jewellery. My favourite is a coral necklace from the Isle of Capri.

Hopefully not the Delta variant. ?

Fridge Magnets , look for different ones .
Even on day trips to shows etc do same .
But if in Harrogate , buy tins of Harrogate toffee .
Mick

Probably shouldn’t admit it but my husband is of the same mindset as your mum Mattsmum2 ?
He’s quite knowledgeable about plants and if something takes his fancy, out comes the penknife and after a quick look around him, takes a small cutting.

I of course then have to put it, suitably wrapped, in my bag!

I have a lovely selection of tea towels. I have never had a fridge with a magnetic front or anything magnetic anywhere in the house, except radiators.

Tea towels are really interesting. Souvenir tea towels are just not a thing in Germany, but everywhere else you can find lovely ones, some with recipes on.

Italian ones are as large as tablecloths, Spanish and Portuguese ones are square.

Many years ago we brought a lump of volcanic rock back from Mount Etna, no problem putting it through airport scanner in those days. It now sits in our rockery among other curious things we've brought from various places.

We only travel with hand luggage, so we bring back very little - usually just a fridge magnet, or occasionally some spices.

Seems there are a lot of Christmas decs. My mum, much to my horror, will always try to bring a cutting from an unusual shrub that takes her fancy. Wraps it in wet tissue and then a plastic bag. She’s never been stopped and has a unique collection of plants in her conservatory. ?

We don’t go abroad these days, but in this country it’s usually the local delicacy; kippers and smoked salmon from Robsons smokehouse in Northumberland, cheese from the Wensleydale creamery, Cornish Yarg, and wonderful cheeses from Pant Mawr and Caerfai Farm cheese makers in Pembrokeshire. Glass from Jo Downes in Cornwall; sometimes hand made pottery, and always bits of sea glass if I can find some. Our days of dragging home local tatt ended when the children grew up, but now my grandson always brings me something back from wherever he has been. I have a string of tiny yellow beads he found in a flea market on a school trip to Paris, and which for some reason is always wound around my wrist when we or they are travelling. Yesterday it was a stained glass window hanger from Salisbury Cathedral. Treasures anew!?

On our last trip to Italy, I stocked up with different shapes and colours of pasta for the GC. , who all love pasta.

To my horror I had bought men’s genitalia pasta and didn’t realise. My Dd and DIL messaged to say ‘Nanna, what have you given our children ‘ ?. We did all laugh about it though. The little ones were oblivious.

Millions of tourists to our beaches every year, if each one takes a pebble it wouldn’t help coastal erosion problems.
Sign on our beach asks people to leave only footprints and take only memories.

Usually a Christmas tree ornament for my tree of memories. My friend started the tradition many years ago after a trip to America bringing me one back. Then my son would bring one back from his travels since then I always look for one. Each Christmas I'm when decorating tree I'm transported back to many lovely places.

Boringly nothing only memories

Fridge magnets, Christmas decorations, cookery books, art books, postcards, wine and patisserie (if in France with our car)…

Keyrings!

Xorigeur gin and ‘Eau de Menorca’ eau de toilette .
Both remind me of lovely holidays in Menorca - but perfume lasts a lot longer than the gin!

I never bring anything back from holidays as a rule but we went for breakfast in a small diner in California that was full of locals who seemed to think it was odd to see 2 English tourists.
I admired a 1950s style sugar shaker on the table and at the end of the meal the lovely owner gave it to me!