Unwrapped travel

Rolf Potts has an excellent story on Why we buy dumb souvenirs that is well worth a read and a chuckle.

So what’s the dumbest souvenir you ever bought?

In my case it was a 3kg lump of lava from the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands — unfortunately I purchased it towards the start of an eight month trip and had to carry it the entire way.

I’ve still got it — buried in the bottom of a cupboard somewhere in my my parent’s house in Sydney.

What does a 3kg lump of lava look like you ask?

Oh a big rock more or less…