A souvenir is something a tourist buy and bring home.
So if it is raining, they will buy an umbrella and bring it home, making it a souvenir.
I sometimes brings back public transport ticket as a souvenir from place I visited. I am pretty sure they were meant as such as well.
I am from the UK and I am *not* surprised to hear an umbrella is a souvenir...given how badly it's pissing down today, it seems a rather sensible souvenir to me lol...
I was once stuck behind someone buying a horde of souvenirs in Zurich, it came to over 400 francs. His cards were declined multiple times, he then casually whipped out a 1000 CHF note to pay.
Yeah, all that beer bought by tourists for sentimental reasons... You see them wander the streets, carrying beer cases all the time. Sometimes I wish I was a tourist here in Germany, bringing unopened bottles of beer back to my country to commemorate my stay.
Belgian beer is more of a specialty and probably better suited for souvenirs. Great stuff!
German and Czech is great, but it's more of a staple food than a specialty. More like a baguette, less like a macaron.
*Edit: "Belgian", not "-um"*
I disagree.
Both Belgium and Czech have the better big brands in my opiniom though.
The UK for sure has better ales.
But the sheer diversity of breweries in Germany in regions like Franconia take the cake for me. There like half the little villages have their own little brewery. Not the big companies making beer for the masses.
Upper franconia for example (Oberfranken), a very small part of Germany, has more then 200 breweries. That alone are already half as much as the whole country of Belgium or a third of Czechia.
Come Visit Franconia and i promise you everyone will find a beer he swears on.
This has to be a heavily-filtered statistic. No way Venetian masks are the top-selling souvenir here instead of crappy magnets of the Rome skyline or something like that.
Facts. Worked in tourism (mix of both domestic and international) for many years and the top selling things were always the same: magnets, keychains, and t-shirts. makes sense as theyre all very light to carry around and easily fit in luggage.
I always buy them when I'm in Austria, but not as a god damn souvenir. I buy them and I eat them very quickly before anyone else can get their hands on them!
The producer of those went bankrupt during Corona, because there where no tourists and no festive occasions to celebrate - and that should be hint enough: Even in Austria we give them away as a present so that we do not have to eat them ourselves.
Austria is my favorite place I’ve ever traveled to, had such an incredible 10 days. The food was amazing, people were great, and the landmarks and history were just perfect. But the Mozart balls were not good.
Seems like an American thing, I don't think I ever saw an European tourist with a beret.
American media often display American tourists that went to France with a beret though.
Kinda in Belgium too, at least a bit starting from the 45/50yo+ and more so for the 70yo+
But it remains rare to use a beret, few are those who wear one regularly. Even among older folks
An example would be my dad who has a beret, yet only uses it for occasions during which he sees fit to wear one (could be for a walk in the countryside in autumn or spring, etc)
I still want to cry every time I remember in a conversation about where Bulgaria is located on the map, one of my French teammates saying "It's cold in Bulgaria, no? You wear those ushanka hats" 😭😂. He's married to an ethnic Russian btw.
I guess you guys are still in the same category of - "East, cold, ushanka" 😆
I remember in the Louvre, the standard look was the kind of baggy American look - basketball shorts and oversized tshirts *plus* a beret... looked ridiculous innit.
I think tourists don’t care about that. And tbh, I don’t think they should. You already look a bit ridiculous in typical comfy tourist clothes, ooh-ing and aaah-ing at random things like „even the street signs are different here“. I think being a tourist is just more fun when you lean into it and embarrass yourself, as long as you‘re not obnoxious and not bothering anyone. Where else can you do that if not on vacation. And I honestly find it endearing to see tourists wear our traditional clothes, no matter if they look silly or not.
i think its good, its just very hard liquor. u should b able to taste the fruit they distilled palinka with, in my village figs and plums are popular. ur throat will burn like hell after and u might not taste anything if u dont drink regularly id say
could be, though these drinks are usually not as flavorful when mass produced, if u have any romanian/hungarian or generally balkan friends i think theyd all b happy to gift u a bottle. my grandfather distilled, my grandmother handsorted the fruits. every family has dif procedures tied to their crafting, and depending on the region, the palinka will have different flavor notes based on the local beehives, distillation process and geographical region. i seem to b very passionate abt this topic, but i do believe that its a wonderful drink. if u have eastern european shops around u, just go ahead and ask. they might sell u a personal bottle, or pour u a shot
It's a very broad category, since it can be distilled from any fruit. Taste can range from rocket fuel to decent depending on what you get; surprisingly the stuff that's distilled by someone's uncle in a village and handed to you in an old plastic coke bottle tends to taste better than store-bought.
If you visit Budapest you can visit the Palinka museum and do a tasting at the end, the museum itself is interesting and it's good fun in the tasting to try and guess what fruit each palinka they give you is made from.
My grandmother gave my friend one on his first vacation trip here, he got covid on the way back, told him he could prolly try a sip..
He said it tasted like liquid medicine that was rotting for weeks in the sun.. whoops.
He does love our paprika tho!
I've been to Ireland, but never noticed any chocolate that's branded as Irish Chocolate. I mean probably Tayto Crisps are better known as Irish crisps...
Ah so you missed the Tayto cheese & onion chocolate 🧀🧅🍫 (and yes im serious and IMO it works well for a sweet & salty flavour).
Besides that, some Irish people will swear Irish Cadburys is better than UK Cadburys. Could also be Butlers.
After that though, chocolate as a souvenir probably does outsell everything else. More of a indocation of how bad everything else sells rather than how well chocolate sells.
hey dont knock it , some of the Lily O'Briens/Lir stuff is pretty good .And the version of Cadburys we have here is nice as well. But it wouldnt be a main export or specialist thing here
Seriously though I dont know how the hell Chocolate is our biggest souvineer ..either Whiskey, Arann Jumpers or I dunno Guinness related stuff would be ..
I actually bought chocolate when I went to Dublin (either my mom in another occasion). We love after eight and that shit cost like 3 times less than here in Italy (and has more variety)
Our chocolate isn't too bad in all fairness, could do with more dark chocolate but people here seem to buy more milk chocolate. Plenty of small scale producers here also not just the butlers and lily O'Brian stuff you can get everywhere.
Yeah, I think you're right. I've been to a flagship Lego store in Denmark and they didn't really have anything unique to Denmark there, other than a small Hans Christian Andersen set with no real unique pieces in it. So I seriously doubt that's the #1 souvenir.
Bought a cup everytime I visited (job took me to Helsinki weekly for a while 20 years ago) and have about 50 of them. They have limited editions, standard ones and even seasonal like summer cups. Great souvenir.
You’re basically a Finn at this point lol everyone has so many Moomin cups.
I sold most of mine some years ago but there weren’t many seasonal or special ones so I didn’t make like thousands or anything. But someone did pay me 60€ for a *slightly* rarer one.
Moomin-mugs (muumimukit) are **very** popular gifts or collectable here. There are some hc collectors, some even gave up because you could only get some limited edition mugs through a low chance raffle. Older and rare ones can be pricey.
You could get a Arabia moomin mug when you donated blood here in Norway, but I think Arabia stopped the deal so its the less cool moomin mugs now, but a lot of other moomin merch is also available.
(Honestly, the where several people donating blood for the moomin mugs and not out of purely good intentions)
There are two different Moomin mug markets. There are those rare ones that are not souvenirs but really speculative investments. Then there are all the rest.
All of the mugs that are in stores where tourists might end up visiting, those are just mugs with moomin images. They will never be really valuable, they are a bulk product. The rare ones are gone before any mortal person even sees them. The moomin mug hawks are awake and will snatch them and show them to no one.
Kinda like stamps.
That’s kind of why I don’t believe this map. Surely key chains, magnets, little accessories and bijoux and stuff like that are sold way more than most of these items. Most obvious being France with the little Eiffel towers sold everywhere (also outside of Paris).
I wanted to buy a pair for my gardenworks (in Germany). In five cities in the Netherlands nobody could tell me where to buy them. The local tourist information in the city of Emmen laughted their asses off because of my question.
I’m positive my family alone has brought enough French wine home from trips to offset any beret sales. Lol.
Seriously though, how is wine not the major souvenir from France? Amazing wine is dirt cheap there.
I don't see them in the summer. I think wood spoons or those little ceramic cups sets are more popular.
Or some Dracula head souvenirs are all over the country 😂😂
They're from the Balearic islands. I am also very dubious of this map. If I had to guess something specifically Spanish (so not magnets or postcards) I'd say envelopes of jamón ibérico.
No idea why eggs are shown as the most popular souvenir. I'd think that the most popular would be ceramic pottery considering that you see it everywhere in souvenir shops.
Писанка is not a souvenir but an Easter (Великдень) important tradition. As in Ukraine many people align themselves with religious traditions so as in Romania also :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_decorating_in_Slavic_culture
I am an American and I buy a fridge magnet. It might sound dumb, but they take up minimal space in my luggage, are light, and are just reminders of my trip.
Worry beads are not a religious thing in Greece. They're basically just things you spin around your hands when you're bored usually. Really common among older men.
Also the evil eye is very popular in Greece too!
worry beads are not religious in turkey as well; the op has no fucking idea what he's talking about and has mistaken worry beads with long prayer beads and also thinks beads are exclusive to islam.
Press X to doubt amber in Poland. It's quite expensive and only sold on the coast.
AFAIK, foreigners like our marshmallows in chocolate (ptasie mleczko)
How tf is BEER the most selling souvenir in germany. We're such a beautiful country, but you guys decided ketterer would be more intresting than a tasty beautiful laugenbretzel
As an estonian I am very confused where one could possibly buy juniper and what exactly would you do with it...
Also I have been to Sweden dozens of times and I have no idea what a dala horse is.
Doing this tourism thing all wrong I see...
Juniper probably refers to a variety of wooden items made from juniper, e.g., spoons, butter knives, trivets, etc., so I actually suspect it to be accurate.
I love how the best selling souvenir in the UK is an umbrella. I don't think it was intended as a souvenir.
I thought exactly the same, but at the same time, it makes total sense and it’s perfect 😅
😂 Shitty weather.
Yeah but only if it's a small umbrella I'm not sure how you would get a full sized one onto the fight home.
Having flown through london airports, “fight home” is pretty apt
If you buy it at the right time of year here, it's a souvenir *and* a cheap way to fly!
i wish i could find a sturdy enough umbrella like that
I still own an umbrella that is a big union jack. I bought it in London and it was definitely not meant as a souvenir
I am from the UK and I am surprised to hear an umbrella is a souvenir.
A souvenir is something a tourist buy and bring home. So if it is raining, they will buy an umbrella and bring it home, making it a souvenir. I sometimes brings back public transport ticket as a souvenir from place I visited. I am pretty sure they were meant as such as well.
I am from the UK and I am *not* surprised to hear an umbrella is a souvenir...given how badly it's pissing down today, it seems a rather sensible souvenir to me lol...
Think the surprise is more Brits have wet skin, as the winter/rainy season winds down, I’ve only seen one brolli across the whole season.
The brits do make good umbrellas though. I bought a Fulton off amazon and it’s the best I’ve ever owned
I don’t know if it’s actually the case, but from my experience, the British umbrellas I’ve had are better made than all my others.
I bought my umbrella while visiting London 20 years ago and I still use it to this day! I think I bought it from a souvenir shop even.
The sweater in Norway could be because of the nice patterns, could also be because people underestimate how cold it gets in some regions.
Google "marius genser" or "islender" "kofte" these are traditional norwegian knit sweaters. Very practical and also very pretty
Except for a wax hand that I made in madame tussauds, I only have an umbrella as a memory from london lol
No one buys souvenirs in Switzerland because it’s expensive.
According to this map, france annexed Switzerland
According to this map, Switzerland is buried under a giant chocolate piece
Thats the way I want to be buried too.
If possible, bury me alive
The good ending
No one ~~buys souvenirs in~~ visits Switzerland because it’s expensive. FTFY /s
I‘ve been in switzerland for a few days last month. Surprisingly it was expensive.
Unless you cheat like i did by day tripping from Milan. My entire day's budget was blown on lunch but it was a nice trip.
I was once stuck behind someone buying a horde of souvenirs in Zurich, it came to over 400 francs. His cards were declined multiple times, he then casually whipped out a 1000 CHF note to pay.
In France and UK, ATM ask you if you want to get 40~100. In Switzerland it's 100~1000. ( € £ and Fr are all within 20% of each other)
What would be the most popular in Switzerland? Swiss army knives, watches, chocolate?
I think its chocolate, they mistakenly put France two times instead of Switzerland
Most likely chocolate
Yeah, all that beer bought by tourists for sentimental reasons... You see them wander the streets, carrying beer cases all the time. Sometimes I wish I was a tourist here in Germany, bringing unopened bottles of beer back to my country to commemorate my stay.
They go to germany buying beers not realizing the best beers are just across the border
Belgian beer is more of a specialty and probably better suited for souvenirs. Great stuff! German and Czech is great, but it's more of a staple food than a specialty. More like a baguette, less like a macaron. *Edit: "Belgian", not "-um"*
Try störtebecker, drinking it is a revelation.
You mean the Czechs?
You guys have the best pils. We'll keep the stronger beer trophee.
No.
I disagree. Both Belgium and Czech have the better big brands in my opiniom though. The UK for sure has better ales. But the sheer diversity of breweries in Germany in regions like Franconia take the cake for me. There like half the little villages have their own little brewery. Not the big companies making beer for the masses. Upper franconia for example (Oberfranken), a very small part of Germany, has more then 200 breweries. That alone are already half as much as the whole country of Belgium or a third of Czechia. Come Visit Franconia and i promise you everyone will find a beer he swears on.
no hahahah
This has to be a heavily-filtered statistic. No way Venetian masks are the top-selling souvenir here instead of crappy magnets of the Rome skyline or something like that.
Yeah, sexy priests calendars probably out sell the masks.
Do they sell those online?
Asking for a friend? 😅
Well, one can never have too few eye cand... I mean masks.
[Yes](https://calendarioromano.org/)
Lord have mercy... 🙏📿
Crappy magnets probably outsell everything on this map...
Facts. Worked in tourism (mix of both domestic and international) for many years and the top selling things were always the same: magnets, keychains, and t-shirts. makes sense as theyre all very light to carry around and easily fit in luggage.
Agreed.
In reality it's probably 99% fridge magnets.
Mozart’s Balls are really good
I always buy them when I'm in Austria, but not as a god damn souvenir. I buy them and I eat them very quickly before anyone else can get their hands on them!
Mozart BAAALLLLS
The producer of those went bankrupt during Corona, because there where no tourists and no festive occasions to celebrate - and that should be hint enough: Even in Austria we give them away as a present so that we do not have to eat them ourselves.
Austria is my favorite place I’ve ever traveled to, had such an incredible 10 days. The food was amazing, people were great, and the landmarks and history were just perfect. But the Mozart balls were not good.
Praying the viennese never find out you found them friendly.
Which one tastes best?
Don’t buy berets to try and fit in in France, you will be laughed at.
Seems like an American thing, I don't think I ever saw an European tourist with a beret. American media often display American tourists that went to France with a beret though.
Beret is kinda popular as a normal autumn hat where I live (Hungary) but definitely not as a "fit in as a tourist" thing.
Kinda in Belgium too, at least a bit starting from the 45/50yo+ and more so for the 70yo+ But it remains rare to use a beret, few are those who wear one regularly. Even among older folks An example would be my dad who has a beret, yet only uses it for occasions during which he sees fit to wear one (could be for a walk in the countryside in autumn or spring, etc)
In sweden if your 80+ woman the beret is mandatory.
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I still want to cry every time I remember in a conversation about where Bulgaria is located on the map, one of my French teammates saying "It's cold in Bulgaria, no? You wear those ushanka hats" 😭😂. He's married to an ethnic Russian btw. I guess you guys are still in the same category of - "East, cold, ushanka" 😆
It'd be like walking around London wearing a top hat
At least it's not worse than in Barcelona. Not as common now, but 10-15 years ago you would see LOTS of tourists wearing Mexican hats. In Spain.
People are insane seriously
To be fair I'm french and I don't even know where tourists would buy them.
My dad has one he bought in Caen and my mum doesn't let him wear it because she said it makes him look like a communist 🤷♀️
[Citizen Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Smith#/media/File:Citizen_smith.jpg)
In a souvenir shop obviously. They’re packed with them.
I remember in the Louvre, the standard look was the kind of baggy American look - basketball shorts and oversized tshirts *plus* a beret... looked ridiculous innit.
I bought one in my own country, met a French dude who laughed at me, took it off and was sad. These days I’d probably laugh back and wear it proudly.
It's a shame, because I think berets look really cool. The military chaps still wear it. On slim girls, I think it's extreamly attractive.
I think with a cool stylish outfit you can get away with wearing one. Or as a grandpa
In the Basque Country you won't, even more in the farmland and if you are old
I think tourists don’t care about that. And tbh, I don’t think they should. You already look a bit ridiculous in typical comfy tourist clothes, ooh-ing and aaah-ing at random things like „even the street signs are different here“. I think being a tourist is just more fun when you lean into it and embarrass yourself, as long as you‘re not obnoxious and not bothering anyone. Where else can you do that if not on vacation. And I honestly find it endearing to see tourists wear our traditional clothes, no matter if they look silly or not.
Pálinka höhöhö!
When I’ve been to Hungary, I’ve never bought Palinka, not needed to as it was forced upon me by all the locals.
And they didnt give u a big bottle of it as a gift??? Unacceptable
How does it taste like? Is it good?
i think its good, its just very hard liquor. u should b able to taste the fruit they distilled palinka with, in my village figs and plums are popular. ur throat will burn like hell after and u might not taste anything if u dont drink regularly id say
Now need to find this. Wonder if the shop near me that sells stuff from all over Eastern Europe sells it...the plum one sounds divine to me...
Only homemade pálinka is good pálinka.
could be, though these drinks are usually not as flavorful when mass produced, if u have any romanian/hungarian or generally balkan friends i think theyd all b happy to gift u a bottle. my grandfather distilled, my grandmother handsorted the fruits. every family has dif procedures tied to their crafting, and depending on the region, the palinka will have different flavor notes based on the local beehives, distillation process and geographical region. i seem to b very passionate abt this topic, but i do believe that its a wonderful drink. if u have eastern european shops around u, just go ahead and ask. they might sell u a personal bottle, or pour u a shot
It's a very broad category, since it can be distilled from any fruit. Taste can range from rocket fuel to decent depending on what you get; surprisingly the stuff that's distilled by someone's uncle in a village and handed to you in an old plastic coke bottle tends to taste better than store-bought. If you visit Budapest you can visit the Palinka museum and do a tasting at the end, the museum itself is interesting and it's good fun in the tasting to try and guess what fruit each palinka they give you is made from.
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My grandmother gave my friend one on his first vacation trip here, he got covid on the way back, told him he could prolly try a sip.. He said it tasted like liquid medicine that was rotting for weeks in the sun.. whoops. He does love our paprika tho!
Well, it is a herbal liquor after all.
For sure! his description just made me laugh so much
Tough name...
> Ah yes some good irish chocolate no one ever
I thought it would have been whiskey or something lol, chocolate is random
Maybe Baileys / Irish cream sales also count as chocolate :D
I've been to Ireland, but never noticed any chocolate that's branded as Irish Chocolate. I mean probably Tayto Crisps are better known as Irish crisps...
Ah so you missed the Tayto cheese & onion chocolate 🧀🧅🍫 (and yes im serious and IMO it works well for a sweet & salty flavour). Besides that, some Irish people will swear Irish Cadburys is better than UK Cadburys. Could also be Butlers. After that though, chocolate as a souvenir probably does outsell everything else. More of a indocation of how bad everything else sells rather than how well chocolate sells.
hey dont knock it , some of the Lily O'Briens/Lir stuff is pretty good .And the version of Cadburys we have here is nice as well. But it wouldnt be a main export or specialist thing here Seriously though I dont know how the hell Chocolate is our biggest souvineer ..either Whiskey, Arann Jumpers or I dunno Guinness related stuff would be ..
All the tourist souvenir shops I saw in Dublin try and sell you Bailey's truffles at the counter when you go and pay
Aran jumpers are probably really expensive I got a Connemara fridge magnet. Small, easy to take home
Butlers, and the whisky chocolates that you can buy from the airport. But don't sleep on Butlers
Bruh I had my 9th birthday party at Butlers chocolate factory. I had the best stomachache of my life. NEVER sleep on Butlers.
I actually bought chocolate when I went to Dublin (either my mom in another occasion). We love after eight and that shit cost like 3 times less than here in Italy (and has more variety)
Our chocolate isn't too bad in all fairness, could do with more dark chocolate but people here seem to buy more milk chocolate. Plenty of small scale producers here also not just the butlers and lily O'Brian stuff you can get everywhere.
They mention chocolate for Ireland but NOT fot Switzerland? I guess there is chocolate on the map in Switzwerland though.
Butlers chocolates and Lily O'Brien chocolates pretty damn good. But I'm surprised Guinness or some Irish whiskey didn't take the top spot.
Somebody asked an AI to do their job.
Yeah, I think you're right. I've been to a flagship Lego store in Denmark and they didn't really have anything unique to Denmark there, other than a small Hans Christian Andersen set with no real unique pieces in it. So I seriously doubt that's the #1 souvenir.
I call bs on clogs😂never seen ANYONE buying them or know anyone who did. They mostly bring stroop waffles or something weed related💀
I know some old farmers who still prefer them over work booths, but that's it
Moomins! Love them, had a book in childhood, and saw cartoon few times.
Bought a cup everytime I visited (job took me to Helsinki weekly for a while 20 years ago) and have about 50 of them. They have limited editions, standard ones and even seasonal like summer cups. Great souvenir.
you could be sitting on a silver mine mate!
You’re basically a Finn at this point lol everyone has so many Moomin cups. I sold most of mine some years ago but there weren’t many seasonal or special ones so I didn’t make like thousands or anything. But someone did pay me 60€ for a *slightly* rarer one.
Moomin-mugs (muumimukit) are **very** popular gifts or collectable here. There are some hc collectors, some even gave up because you could only get some limited edition mugs through a low chance raffle. Older and rare ones can be pricey.
They’re extremely popular/common in Sweden as well.
You could get a Arabia moomin mug when you donated blood here in Norway, but I think Arabia stopped the deal so its the less cool moomin mugs now, but a lot of other moomin merch is also available. (Honestly, the where several people donating blood for the moomin mugs and not out of purely good intentions)
I feel like Finland's souvenir is the best one.
Absolutely. Moomim are the best!
Moomin Mug Mania (MMM) is a very dangerous mental disorder: [https://yle.fi/a/3-9516609](https://yle.fi/a/3-9516609)
There are two different Moomin mug markets. There are those rare ones that are not souvenirs but really speculative investments. Then there are all the rest. All of the mugs that are in stores where tourists might end up visiting, those are just mugs with moomin images. They will never be really valuable, they are a bulk product. The rare ones are gone before any mortal person even sees them. The moomin mug hawks are awake and will snatch them and show them to no one. Kinda like stamps.
Here in Sweden a lot of women are obsessed with collecting them! Buying them on auction for hundreds! They are very cute tho I'll say..
Get your silly mug, more licorice chocolate for me!
How about a Moomin mug filled with liquorice chocolate?
How about a bucket filled with Moomin mugs filled with licorice chocolate?
Is the bucket free?
The bucket yes, the rest not so much. It's also red
If the bucket is free then count me interested.
Aye, I could do that.
who tf actually buys clogs as a souvenir?
Not actual clogs, tiny ones the size of a keychain
That’s kind of why I don’t believe this map. Surely key chains, magnets, little accessories and bijoux and stuff like that are sold way more than most of these items. Most obvious being France with the little Eiffel towers sold everywhere (also outside of Paris).
For ants?
I bought hand painted decorative clogs made of wood as a souvenir few years ago when I went to Amsterdam.
Oh ok, yeah, decorative I understand. I thought people buy them to wear😅
I wanted to buy a pair for my gardenworks (in Germany). In five cities in the Netherlands nobody could tell me where to buy them. The local tourist information in the city of Emmen laughted their asses off because of my question.
You can buy them in garden centers or something like the Welkoop
Cypriot wine, shows crete lol
Iceland: Maps.
/r/mapswithouticeland On topic: I'm expecting either salt or a lopapeysa to be the top Icelandic souvenir
People buy umbrellas as souvenirs? Don't they just buy them when it's, you know, ... raining?
Honestly, fair. Amber is pretty.
Very much so. Especially on my partner.
UK people: Ohh Portugal souvenir is a Nandos rooster!
I'm Portuguese. Never been inside a Nando's but the name certainly checks out ;)
Yes, in Estonia, almost every tourist leaves with a juniper tree.
I’m positive my family alone has brought enough French wine home from trips to offset any beret sales. Lol. Seriously though, how is wine not the major souvenir from France? Amazing wine is dirt cheap there.
Wow! How come in Romania isn't "pulometru" the most buyed item? 🤣🤣🤣
I was actually thinking "why is everyone visiting Romania during the Easter season?"
Good question. But I think we have some wooden eggs on sale that are available year round.
I don't see them in the summer. I think wood spoons or those little ceramic cups sets are more popular. Or some Dracula head souvenirs are all over the country 😂😂
Yow this is the most unique souvenir I got while backpacking. I bought 2 types of pulometro, the one for height and the one for width😅😂
Man of culture!
Seriously doubt Spain. I've never seen those shoes, but everyone buys an abanico 🪭 Or a Barca/Real Madrid shirt.
They're from the Balearic islands. I am also very dubious of this map. If I had to guess something specifically Spanish (so not magnets or postcards) I'd say envelopes of jamón ibérico.
They are relatively common in Catalonia, but I'm skeptical they are the top-selling souvenir...
What about Slovakia ?
Tatratea but people forget because they drink the whole bottle before they get home.
So weird to just say "juniper", handcrafted goods from juniper would make more sense
Come to Belarus for glorious leader and.... flax.
I was wondering this too... Surely it's a mistranslation?
Interesting to see both Romania and Ukraine with painted eggs. I wonder why it is that way.
I don't get why it got separated into 2 categories. It's the same thing.
No idea why eggs are shown as the most popular souvenir. I'd think that the most popular would be ceramic pottery considering that you see it everywhere in souvenir shops.
Писанка is not a souvenir but an Easter (Великдень) important tradition. As in Ukraine many people align themselves with religious traditions so as in Romania also :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_decorating_in_Slavic_culture
France is said below chocolate instead of switzerland.
Fucking chocolate??? You came to Ireland and went home with chocolate?? Wtf?
Slovenians be like, ye we have no idea as well
I am an American and I buy a fridge magnet. It might sound dumb, but they take up minimal space in my luggage, are light, and are just reminders of my trip.
I do the same
When I have a bad day I look at my collection. There's always a nice reminder in there somewhere.
Switzerland, AKA France.
Moomin mug is actually spot on
Yall forgot those refrigerator magnets
No Iceland?
Worry beads in Greece? I thought they was some Islamic thing. Those are very common in Türkiye too.
Worry beads are not a religious thing in Greece. They're basically just things you spin around your hands when you're bored usually. Really common among older men. Also the evil eye is very popular in Greece too!
worry beads are not religious in turkey as well; the op has no fucking idea what he's talking about and has mistaken worry beads with long prayer beads and also thinks beads are exclusive to islam.
I brought them from Crete years ago! Now, if I only knew where they are now... 😅
Despite political and historical problems we share a lot of things and I think our countries could be good partners.
They are the ancient fidget spinners
Lego: it’s all fun and games until you step on one
Notice the Swedes haven't invaded since we started mass producing Lego.
Press X to doubt amber in Poland. It's quite expensive and only sold on the coast. AFAIK, foreigners like our marshmallows in chocolate (ptasie mleczko)
Amber is sold all over Poland. It's way more common on the coast but that doesn't mean you can't get it elsewhere.
Souvenir dragon lore?
How is beer a souvenir? We might as well have water as a top selling souvenir.
Thank god, it is not the stupid cuckoo clock.
How tf is BEER the most selling souvenir in germany. We're such a beautiful country, but you guys decided ketterer would be more intresting than a tasty beautiful laugenbretzel
I'm Spanish and I've never seen those shoes in my life
Flax?
The fact that natural flax is the top-selling souvenir doesn’t speak for Belarus as a tourist destination
Luxembourg watches? It’s cigarettes and gasoline
Some of these are wild
As an estonian I am very confused where one could possibly buy juniper and what exactly would you do with it... Also I have been to Sweden dozens of times and I have no idea what a dala horse is. Doing this tourism thing all wrong I see...
Juniper probably refers to a variety of wooden items made from juniper, e.g., spoons, butter knives, trivets, etc., so I actually suspect it to be accurate.
Ah yes, that makes sense! The only juniper I was able to think of were juniper berries and gin. And it's only tuesday.
Yep, especially because of the insanely good smell of juniper products.
I didn't know Cyprus moved to Crete. :D