a couple of old sticks

VANDOO · 21st July 2010, 07:16 PM

NICE WALKING STICKS

, I SEE A FEW OF THESE FROM TIME TO TIME BUT MOST HAVE A CROOKED TOP AND ARE TOO LIGHT FOR DEFENDING ONE'S SELF. THE BADGES ARE FROM PLACES VISITED AND MOST I HAVE SEEN WERE FROM GERMANY OR AUSTRIA. I WONDER WHEN THIS FIRST STARTED AND IF THE BADGES ARE STILL AVAILABLE AS SOUVINEERS TODAY.?

Maurice · 21st July 2010, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by VANDOO

THE BADGES ARE FROM PLACES VISITED AND MOST I HAVE SEEN WERE FROM GERMANY OR AUSTRIA. I WONDER WHEN THIS FIRST STARTED AND IF THE BADGES ARE STILL AVAILABLE AS SOUVINEERS TODAY.?

I don't know when this first started, but they are still available as souvenirs, and indeed people who visit some place around the Alps for holiday and walking/skiing, bought themselves such badge and put it on their walkingstick, just as souvenir that they visited that place.
In the past people had stickers also on the rearwindow of their car, for everyone to show which place they visited allready in a former vacation..

However I don't see what the point is of all that fuzz, but everyone his own I guess..

21st July 2010, 07:16 PM	#1
VANDOO (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: OKLAHOMA, USA Posts: 3,138	NICE WALKING STICKS , I SEE A FEW OF THESE FROM TIME TO TIME BUT MOST HAVE A CROOKED TOP AND ARE TOO LIGHT FOR DEFENDING ONE'S SELF. THE BADGES ARE FROM PLACES VISITED AND MOST I HAVE SEEN WERE FROM GERMANY OR AUSTRIA. I WONDER WHEN THIS FIRST STARTED AND IF THE BADGES ARE STILL AVAILABLE AS SOUVINEERS TODAY.?