[Quiet Man Cometh]

Not weird in itself, but I brought a colouring book back from Sweden. On the cover was a princess on a swing with a handlebar mustache. There were other pictures like oblong animals, people with arms coming out of odd spots on their bodies, and a bald headed person with a tiny man on his head, with a tiny mallet, hammering away on the guy to make a mo-hawk-like row of bumps like the ones you see in old cartoons when someone gets bashed in the head. At the end of the book is a picture of a vase with flowers and an apology note.


The most useful things I've brought with me when traveling have been the DK brand colour travel guides. They're heavy, but I would refer to them all the time to decide what I was going to do. I had the regular sized hand books for Ireland and Sweden, the little Top Ten books for Rome and Copenhagen, and an Italian phrasebook. Very useful things.