The letter opener

Before I go on about the letter opener I'd like to thank you all for the responses to my fog - mist question!  Your answers were very helpful, thank you very much! 

Now. The letter opener. This Monday I have a kind of team building day with the team I work in. We'll start the day in little groups with something to warm up. We have to bring a holiday souvenir, photo, postcard or something that's attached to a precious holiday memory and share the story in the little group. 

I went looking in my house, racked my brain and couldn't come up with anything. Usually I have all kinds of stories to tell,  but when it's a kind of command I draw a blank...

Until I saw my letter opener. More than 30 years a precious and practical keepsake. Don't know the location I bought it but I do remember the holiday. An international bus tour with young people through England, Wales and Scotland. 

A wonderful trip. I've always been interested in the UK. Now I got to see all those things I heard of or had seen on TV. Stonehenge, Bath, Gretna Green, Loch Ness, the image of a horse in the hills somewhere. And wonderful other things.  Castles, a Welsh railway station with an immensely long name that we couldn't pronounce, the house of Beatrice Potter, spending the nights at castles, hostels, mansions and a narrow boat! 

The organisation had made reservations for tickets for the Edinburgh Tattoo. That was awesome. My father always sang a few lines of a Scottish song.  "You'll take the high road and I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland aforrre you! ". That was all he sang, we all sang it at home, exaggerating the emphasis on the r. While at the tattoo a Norwegian band sang that song! Goose bumps! I guess that was the highlight on an already impressive holiday!