Holiday souvenir…. what do you bring home?

A suntan and and happy memories :0)

For a few years when we were reoeat visitors in the same area I was buying hand made pottery- a mug or two here, a jug, fruit bowl...but then they closed and that was that.

Hand made soap is another one. I'll bring several bars home with the intention of giving them as gifts and then keep them all for me!!

Maybe something edible as well.

Herbs & Spices, pebbles & shells, seed pods, a giant land snail shell. Local crafts on occasion - and yes, sometimes a Christmas decoration - when I can find one I like. Local liqueurs.

Need to go on holiday again. ??

Little pottery jugs or pots. Always had camping holidays so couldn’t get anything big. Still have little jug from Lake Lugano in 1951.

A beer mat or menu from quirky restaurants and bars we visit. I keep them in scrapbooks. Also, I know somewhat corny, but fridge magnets from places we visit. In 2016 hubby and I did a 2100 mile roadtrip down the Pacific highway from Seattle to Los Angeles (and lots of places in-between) and we bought magnets from cities and towns we stayed in. They're displayed in order. Best things to bring back from anywhere however, are memories - always individual and very very special.

Somerset cider ?
Purple scarf from a charity shop in Hungerford
A lovely blue shoulder bag from Compton Acres
A hand made brightly coloured brooch from Lymington
A tiny Japanese free-standing mobile from the Isle of Wight
A punnet of local raspberries from the New Forest
10 nasty insect bites all over my legs ?

Just come back from a week's holiday in a caravan on a holiday village in Devon with my daughter and young grandchildren both under 5 years old. Had a lovely week but am now shattered ! Bought a souvenir for daughter of a bottle opener with Billy beach ball motif on it. He was the dress up character of the park.
Feel we both need alcohol bottles opened !!

I bring home any beautiful silk scarf. They all go with my little black dresses and are easy to pack.

Fridge magnets and tea towels, and, if I can afford it, another addition to my Lilliput Lane collection.

Fridge magnets and beach towels

Something for the garden or something for the home.So when l use them they bring back lovely memories.

Heart-shaped stones. On beaches DH and I collect small stones in the shape (however vaguely) of a heart. At the end of the holiday we go through them and take home with us our two favourites (the best heart shapes). We now have a glass bowl full of them.

Gin
Rugs
Fabric
Art

Usually some kind of 'local produce' that we can't get around here. We holiday in Scotland and there seems to be a shortage of foodstuffs from there, but no problem in importing specialist food items fruit / veg / meat / fish / dairy products from The Continent though! Orkney Cheeses are particularly good, as are 'Organic Aberdeen Angus Steaks'.

I also like to buy coasters with pictures of local places on them - especially if I can find a pottery making them individually.

Quite like a new Tea Towel, or two, as well .

Like a poster upthread I too have a beautiful scented hardy geranium taken from a snipping in gardens opposite the Miro museum in Barcelona. Its grown and grown. I have loads of seashells from New Zealand dotted around garden. Always get a fridge magnet for AC. I often come home from local beaches with interesting small pebbles.

A bit of local pottery - we mainly holiday in the UK and I have a nice collection from some lovely places. A friend who holidays in the UK used to take a little bit of sand from the beach wherever they were staying, as a memento. She stopped after someone told her that all sand on UK beaches belongs to the queen and she could be prosecuted !!

My DH has a thing for red glass,told me his mum said it was lucky. So always bring a bit back ,from local glass factory or hunt markets for something different

Something from the sea. Have shells and coral from many exotic places as well as countries with very cold climates. If not near a sea and that would be rare, something from a lake eg a pebble. Have them in bathrooms either stand alone or in glass pots. GC have loved hearing where they are from.

Deeda - strega! My Dad's Italian heritage meant he loved the stuff.I drink it whenever I see it
One of the mothers in my teaching days brought home a husband....( not the one she left with)

Christmas tree decorations, fridge magnets, pasta (one shape I can’t get in UK), Parmesan. I have been known to take empty jam jars and make apricot jam to bring home.

We always holiday in the same place, our caravan in Devon so I don't really need souvenirs as we're back there every few weeks. I do occasionally pick up an interesting piece of flint or pine cones from the woods surrounding our site, and more frequently, buy lace bobbins from the museum in Honiton (one of my favourite places to visit), as I make lace and enjoy collecting and using them. Apart from that, just lots of pictures of the surrounding woods as the seasons change.

We always try to buy a Christmas tree ornament wherever we go, then, when we put the tree up we also have a wonderful walk down memory lane.

That sounds beautiful Nannan.

Always at least one cookery book with recipes from the country visited.

Other things depend on which country we have been to.

I never go shopping on holiday! I can’t bear it at home.