An annual favorite: any travel-related Christmas presents from you or to you this year?
Dec 23rd, 2003, 05:37 PM
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An annual favorite: any travel-related Christmas presents from you or to you this year?
I just found a great one during my last minute dashing about tonight:
The Traveler's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You Must See in a Lifetime
Giving it to my brother and his wife. All three of our daughters browsed it and said "Wow, this is cool, you can give me this!"
Best wishes,
Rex
The Traveler's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You Must See in a Lifetime
Giving it to my brother and his wife. All three of our daughters browsed it and said "Wow, this is cool, you can give me this!"
Best wishes,
Rex
Dec 23rd, 2003, 06:34 PM
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I found the prettiest Christmas cards at Anthropologie a couple of months ago, 6 to a box, that are fashioned like French postcards. Fabric is over the card, and Joyeux Noel has been embroidered on the fabric. They are lovely. A friend emailed that she is going to frame hers!
Dec 23rd, 2003, 07:24 PM
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For Hanukkah, I got my neice a Paris Michelin Green Guide for her upcoming, long awaited Spring trip. Wouldn't mind finding some airline tix in my stocking this year(in my house, we celebrate everything!) Happy holidays to all!
Dec 23rd, 2003, 07:34 PM
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Mimi, Anthropologie is new to Pgh., just a few months ago. I've been getting their catalogs for a while, but it's nice to have the store. Most everything does seem to be a reproduction; the cards were actually made in China, I think.
Merry Christmas to you!
Merry Christmas to you!
Dec 25th, 2003, 08:21 PM
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My sister gave me "Paris - Then and Now", which is a book of photographs of Paris scenes; on the left, an old photo (some from 1800's) and on the right the same scene from current times. Really cool, some places have changed a lot, while others hardly at all. Includes a view from the Louvre courtyard toward the Arc but the Tuileries Palace is still in place (cutting off the view of the Arc).
Anyway, I love it!
Anyway, I love it!
Dec 26th, 2003, 10:20 AM
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Iregeo, your message reminds me: in San Francisco Bell Market stores they sell blue X-mas stockings with the Star of David on them.
And another one: from few years ago I remember an Easter/Passover card with a bearded bunny rabbit in a yarmulka with a basket full of eggs and matzot, and the inside of the card says: if it's not one thing, it's another!
And another one: from few years ago I remember an Easter/Passover card with a bearded bunny rabbit in a yarmulka with a basket full of eggs and matzot, and the inside of the card says: if it's not one thing, it's another!
Dec 26th, 2003, 10:26 AM
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- a nice art book: Treasures from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- a bottle of Vincent Van Gogh brand Dutch Chocolate Vodka (already have discovered is goes good with coffee, Baileys and a splash of cream!)
Dec 26th, 2003, 12:32 PM
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A kind person gave me a leather passport cover. Really fine leather, beautiful red cover. I just don't see myself using it because I already have a perfect (nylon) travel wallet that accommodates currency, credit cards, coins, AND my passport all in one place.
I feel ungrateful, and this is such a luxurious item, but I just don't feel I need it.
Hmmm..maybe it's smarter to keep the passport separate? I've never been robbed, but maybe that's prudent?
I feel ungrateful, and this is such a luxurious item, but I just don't feel I need it.
Hmmm..maybe it's smarter to keep the passport separate? I've never been robbed, but maybe that's prudent?
Dec 26th, 2003, 12:37 PM
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Elain, you want to send it to me and I'll add it to my drawer. I get a lot of travel gifts and I think I have two or three passport covers. I'm with you. What's the point? It just makes the passport thicker and heavier. So they go in the drawer with the various luggage tags, the multiple wallet, passport, credit card, hold everything cases, and the assortment of travel booklights, flashlights, etc.
Dec 26th, 2003, 12:38 PM
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I gave my husband The Most Beautiful Villages of the Dordogne, a DK book on French Cheeses, French Wines by Joseph, and A Traveler's Wine Guide to France. He gave me 2 Michelin Green Guides...one for Normandy and one for Dordogne, Berry, Limousin. We have been reading them off and on all day!
Dec 26th, 2003, 12:45 PM
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I did just see in a catalog a combination travel alarm clock AND
book light and it was one of those rare travel gadgets that actually interested me.
After the USA's east coast blackout last summer, I did buy a few small, thin, flashlights, and one goes with me everywhere now, except on fancy evenings when I carry one of those silly small dressy handbags. Which is not to say that I think another emergency won't occur while I'm dressed up.
Maybe we can organize a Fodorite gift swap among ourselves, agreeing to pay postage for whatever we send out.
book light and it was one of those rare travel gadgets that actually interested me.
After the USA's east coast blackout last summer, I did buy a few small, thin, flashlights, and one goes with me everywhere now, except on fancy evenings when I carry one of those silly small dressy handbags. Which is not to say that I think another emergency won't occur while I'm dressed up.
Maybe we can organize a Fodorite gift swap among ourselves, agreeing to pay postage for whatever we send out.
Dec 26th, 2003, 01:16 PM
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Gave away Murano glass pendants that I purchased in Rome, as well as metal bookmarks & pens from the Vatican museums. I have found that buying my Christmas gifts overseas over the summer is a great way to give unique gifts, and to be done WAY ahead of time!
