Souvenirs for Lyn

Before our trip, my sister-in-law Lyn asked us to bring her home a souvenir for her desk at work.  She already had a few there and wanted to add a memento from our trip.

We took this task seriously.  We were on a mission.  We really had fun collecting a few items from various countries we visited.

Our first selection was purchased in Prague.  This little wooden doll is in Czech national costume.

This little Mozart statuette caught Robert's eye, to represent our time in Austria.  We went to a Mozart concert whilst staying in Vienna, where all the musicians were in traditional dress of Mozart's time.

We were trying to avoid the Eiffel Tower from France but there was no other souvenir that screams "Paris" quite as much as a sparkly little tower.  Turns out Lyn already has a mini Eiffel Tower on her desk.  Maybe this second one will start a trend and she will end up with a dozen of them???

Lace-making and Chocolate were tourist favourites in Brugge, Belgium.  We could not bring back chocolates, although we sampled quite a few on Lyn's behalf.   Whilst I was at the hairdressers in Brugge, Robert was set the task of choosing a suitable souvenir for his sister.  He found this framed image in lace of a lace-maker.

I don't care if Dutch clogs are a cliche for The Netherlands.  Our tiny little painted clogs are so cute and even have windmills on them.  Double cliche!  Ker-ching!

Somehow we overlooked Scotland, so we next found this little musician character in Ireland for her.

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Which only left England to scour for the perfect souvenir.  This cheery red post box not only in a typical English item, but this particular one doubles as a pencil sharper!  I think we really hit the jackpot here.

So here they all are below.  They now live on Lyn's desk, along with the three items she had already received from the trips of others.   Lyn was one of this blog's most loyal and dedicated readers.  She had asked for one memento to add to her collection ... and seemed pleased when we gave her all these.