What's the strangest thing you brought back from a holiday?

Unread post by **Dark Knight** » 05 Jul 2013, 09:31

People do tend to bring silly things back from holiday, such as bottles of glow in the dark booze, that they never drink again, straw donkeys and tee shirts etc, all pretty normal.
But what is the strangest or oddest thing you have ever brought back from a holiday?

Mine is a bottle of water from the river Styx in Greece, can anyone do better?

Unread post by **Dancing Queen** » 05 Jul 2013, 09:48

Not me ( but my husband ) brought back a large piece of rock from the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska

it's still kicking around in the garage somewhere I think, needless to say it was in the days before luggage restrictions were so stringent but I seem to remember they did put "heavy" labels on the case at the airport.

Unread post by **HK phooey** » 05 Jul 2013, 10:44

Paul brought back a couple of sea urchin spines from Hawaii...embedded in his foot

Unread post by **Holiday Planner** » 05 Jul 2013, 10:51

A grubby plastic Teletubby (given to me by a child in a Sri Lankan refugee camp, following the Boxing Day Tsunami).

Unread post by **GillD46** » 05 Jul 2013, 11:02

An excellent sweeping brush - as used by the hotel maids - from Krabi, in Thailand.

Unread post by **qbman1** » 05 Jul 2013, 11:50

A hearty cough, courtesy of Aurora, which lasted half the year

Unread post by **Susan Watt** » 05 Jul 2013, 12:25

It's not from a holiday but my husband retrieved a piece of the "Get Carter" car park when they were demolishing it. He made a stand for it and has it on display on the sitting room window sill

Unread post by **Onelife** » 05 Jul 2013, 13:01

Hi Darknightie,

Not exactly strange but we often come back with soap, shower gel, towels, pillow cases, loo rolls, silver cutlery (if we’re doing posh) indeed anything that will fit inside our daughter suitcase.

Oh yeah! and if Robbie wants his salt and pepper pots back he'll have to come and get them?

Other than that I did come back with a piece of drift wood which had moulded it’s self into the shape of a dolphin...it now hangs on the inside of our front door.

Regards

Keith

Unread post by **qbman1** » 05 Jul 2013, 13:23

You forgot to mention the biscuits OL !

Unread post by **Onelife** » 05 Jul 2013, 14:24

QB

There’s only so much you can cram into a child’s suitcase so we ditched the biscuits for handfuls of tomato ketchup sachets...

Regards

Keith

Unread post by **qbman1** » 05 Jul 2013, 14:34

Now, that's real class...!

Unread post by **Belle53** » 05 Jul 2013, 15:28

A Norwegian pine cone

Unread post by **Quizzical Bob** » 05 Jul 2013, 15:30

Is it pining for the fjords?

Unread post by **Belle53** » 05 Jul 2013, 15:31

No it seems quite happy here!

Unread post by **qbman1** » 05 Jul 2013, 15:33

Do you want me to take it back next week ?

Unread post by **Belle53** » 05 Jul 2013, 15:35

No I'd miss it too much!

Unread post by **qbman1** » 05 Jul 2013, 15:37

You're one sick puppy Belle !

Unread post by **Belle53** » 05 Jul 2013, 15:39

I know, there's no hope for me!

Unread post by **qbman1** » 05 Jul 2013, 15:46

...and I bet you shop at HK's Emporium of Tat when visiting the Isle of Wight

Unread post by **Stephen** » 05 Jul 2013, 16:03

The wife

Unread post by **Manoverboard** » 05 Jul 2013, 17:37

A baby ostrich

We were at the Highgate Ostrich Farm nr Oudtshoorn in South Africa and at that time you were allowed to buy a genuine ' stuffed ' baby one who had not survived. A little feller compared to daddy but perfect in every detail.

We gave it to our neighbour for looking after our house while we were away ... fortunately they loved it and still have it to this day.

Unread post by **Romig1** » 06 Jul 2013, 09:44

Dancing Queen wrote:
Not me ( but my husband ) brought back a large piece of rock from the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska it's still kicking around in the garage somewhere I think, needless to say it was in the days before luggage restrictions were so stringent but I seem to remember they did put "heavy" labels on the case at the airport.

I regularly fetch home lumps of rock/lava etc from my travels...as well as the occasional sea-shell/coral (but don't tell anybody about that)

Unread post by **Romig1** » 06 Jul 2013, 09:52

Stephen wrote:
The wife

I didn't realize you had been to Bangkok, Stephen.

I trust you drove a hard bargain with her parents?
Just one question...what did your existing missus think of your purchase?

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