Ever been lucky enough to take a holiday around the world, and not had to dish out a penny? 12 countries, 3 continents, good company and the holiday album delivered to your doorstep? No?
Has this started to sound like a lame Holiday package commercial yet? No? I'll go on then. Fancy a swim with turtles of the Great Barrier Reef, a desire to scale a glacier in New Zealand or to tour the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat... ahem! don't know where that is?
Well, if you're thinking no man is so lucky, or no tourist company is foolish enough to spend this kind of bread; you're right. No MAN is so lucky! But, (*drum beats*), a garden gnome in England was. Stolen from outside his house this little 10 incher seemed like an avid traveller to some random fella walking by the gnome's home, a little garden. Off went Murphy (that's what the family fondly called him) on a world tour, while the family imagined him to be stolen. Thinking of this being nothing more than a prank the family went on about their life only to find him back in the garden 11 months later with a note and a package. Once unwrapped it revealed a leather-bound photo album containing 48 pictures of the gnome Barrington's (now named fondly by his travel companions) trip around the globe along with a note putting his impromptu world tour down to 'itchy feet'.
Now, the reason I write this blog is that... well, apart from the fact that I fell in love with Murphy aka Barrington; its great to know that there no dearth in the existence of fools who would take garden gnomes for a holiday. This is the kinda world I would like to live in any day!
For more on the story and some fabulous holiday pictures check out http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043552/Gnome-Stolen-garden-elf-returned-7-month-adventure-world.html
Take your inanimate possessions for a holiday today, and if you don't own em, steal em!!
3 comments:
haha! Thats an interesting story! damn that gnome was lucky!I might try that on myself. maybe some traveler will notice me too.
And since you've suggested to take some inanimate possession for a holiday.. I think of my orange (partially orange.lol) floaters. My mom wants to throw them away, 'cuz obviously they are old and broken. And I am sure they would love to breathe again!
Keep posting bitch!!
Un bloody believable.We here keep wondering how to kick start one dhasu holiday and the ceramics are doing their rounds.And do you think Kanika will fit under the gnome?
Yes Adi. I am not very tall. and I'll bury my bottom half in the garden to look even shorter and do some gnome-ish make-up if that helps!
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