Summer has finally reached my neck of the woods and I’m enjoying the blog posts everywhere about vacations near and far.
Since I’ve already taken my big trip for the year, I want to share one of my favorite travel traditions.
We always bring back a piece of art, usually inexpensive street art. We like having something on our wall that reminds us of where we’ve been and there’s usually a story around the hunt for the right piece.
In Paris, we bought from an artist on the right bank of the Seine near the Louvre. We couldn’t agree on which drawing we wanted. The artist thought we were trying to haggle and kept dropping the price while the husband and I continued our disagreement. We ended up with two!
During this last trip in Cairo, we found ourselves in a giant papyrus shop pouring over stacks of drawings. The drawing we loved was framed in a display. The shopkeeper pulled out piles of drawings, thumbing through them, saying he had one exactly like it ready to go. Each one he pulled out was just slightly different, the geese were a different color, the lotus flowers looked different, etc. He finally pulled the one out of the display, wrapped it for us and we skipped out of the store.
Did I mention our place is tiny? We may run out of walls.
Want to see more pictures of the papyrus shop and the drawings we bought in Paris? Head over to my Facebook page to see a special photo album. Don’t have a Facebook account? You can still click the link and see the pictures!
Almost Never Clever 
That’s a great tradition! Love the photos you shared 🙂 We usually collect fridge magnets!
Thanks! We also collect fridge magnets! We get pieces of art from really “big” trips but magnets from pretty much every place we go. You’ve reminded me that I forgot to pick something up during the last long weekend trip I went on!
We always bring back a christmas ornament from each place we visit. Once a year when we decorate our tree, we remember where each one came from. It’s a fun tradition! http://kelocity.com/2010/12/03/christmas-tree-time/
We try to do the same too! I’m thinking about saving that for a post near December. I can’t wait to show you what we picked up in Cairo – it’s pretty awesome. On a separate note, I’ve found when it’s hard to find a good Christmas ornament when we are visiting somewhere, we can find a cool keychain and turn it into an ornament!
Good idea! I definitely want to hear about what you got in Cairo!