What would you take of 10 items, music or books?

[MrGongGong]

kindle
mobile fone
laptop
brief encounter (dvd)
goodall's ring
swiss army knife
girlfriend (unless going with wife)
Diary of a Nobody
Colman's mustard (jar)
crocs

I think you will find that it's a Phone not a Fone (touché )

Not recorded music though
I spent a month camping in France last year listening to frogs, the sea, wind and rain ........ no need to fill my head with other things !

Chilli sauce goes everywhere though
usually this one

http://www.melindas.com/sauces/xxxx.html

[Beef Oven]

My tottering pile of unread books makes a Kindle somewhat unnecessary and as for mustard I'll buy it on location.

How am I supposed to get mustard on me nosh in Armenia!?

[Beef Oven]

I think you will find that it's a Phone not a Fone (touché )

Not recorded music though
I spent a month camping in France last year listening to frogs, the sea, wind and rain ........ no need to fill my head with other things !

Chilli sauce goes everywhere though
usually this one

http://www.melindas.com/sauces/xxxx.html

No way GG, you aint getting away with that! I spelt it that way deliberately.

Anyway, if yer gonna split hairs, it's 'phone, not phone.

[MrGongGong]

No way GG, you aint getting away with that! I spelt it that way deliberately.

Anyway, if yer gonna split hairs, it's 'phone, not phone.

I think there is some kind of "disconnect" here ?

(I spelt it that way deliberately )

[Beef Oven]

I think there is some kind of "disconnect" here ?

(I spelt it that way deliberately )

weather you could of spelt it that way is neither hear nor their, you aint having no points for it.

[Beef Oven]

Your domestic arrangements must be chaotic if you think those items are CDs or books.

Have you not read 'The Man That Mistook his knife for a CD'?

[french frank]

Make sure you don't take this on an aeroplane. Frau Alpensinfonie had hers confiscated at Stansted.

Hmmmm. Looks as if she's arrived here to keep you in order EA!

Thomas Cook European Timetable
Small (15cm) ruler
Travel alarm clock
Phrasebook (depending on where I'm going)
Guidebook (depending on where I'm going)
Swiss Army knife
Barnaby Rudge (Oxford India paper edition)
Small glass
Appropriate book on wild flowers (perhaps Mediterranean Wild Flowers by Marjorie Blamey and Christopher Grey-Wilson)
Hand lens

[Edit: Oh, yes. Remove the items that are not books. ]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

1) Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery
2) The latest BBC Music Magazine

... and that's it. Holidays are for holidaying (I only ever go to places in the UK) - walking, swimming, visiting. The book would be one I'd not read before, for the evenings; the magazine for the CD (just in case) and crossword.

(I trust we're allowed to take a change of clothes as well? )


EDIT: And, if we're allowed a "luxury item", a pair of binoculars for bird, fauna and star gazing.

And a camera.

[Beef Oven]

Ouch!

Beware the wrath of the Original Poster, beefy!

Oops! I didn't read the rubric!

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[MrGongGong]

Oops! I didn't read the rubric!

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You can borrow the boxed set of Christine Balfa if you want when it arrives

[antongould]

Well salymap as you know I rarely go on holiday or even leave the coalfields but if I did..........

Books
Have His Carcase - Dorothy L Sayers
Last English Summer - Duncan Hamilton
Eleven Minutes Late - Matthew Engel
Bleak House - Charles Dickens

CDs
The Goodall Ring Sampler
Nielsen Symphonies 4-6 Herbert Blomstedt / Danish National Radio SO
John Ireland Piano Concerto and Lennox Berkley Trio for Violin Horn and Piano / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Colin Horsley, Dennis Brain and Manoug Parikian
Bruckner 9 Gunter Wand Munich Philharmonic
Glenn Gould and Serenity
Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon

[vinteuil]

a CD of Amalia Rodrigues
a CD of Charles Trenet
a CD of Georges Brassens
a CD of Tomas Luis de Victoria
a current Red Michelin
a 1920s Hachette Guide Bleu
a volume of the Mémoires of Mme Beausergent or of the Correspondance of Mme de Sévigné
a volume of the Œuvres Diverses of Pierre Bayle
a corkscrew and a small unbreakable glass
an emergency bottle of cheap Spanish or Greek brandy
a set of watchmaker's screwdrivers

[EdgeleyRob]

Blimey Saly, I usually take an i pod full of music on holiday so 10 cds will be difficult.

An RVW Symphonies (maybe 5 or 9)..
An Elgar symphony.(no 2 probably)
A George Lloyd symphony.(no 4 or 7)
A Mendelssohn chamber music cd.(string quartets)
A late Beethoven quartet.(probably op 131)
A Brahms chamber music cd.( piano quintet?)
An opera bt Britten.(maybe Gloriana)
A couple of prog rock cds, maybe by Yes and Genesis.

No room for books!

[Nick Armstrong]

a CD of Amalia Rodrigues
a CD of Charles Trenet
a CD of Georges Brassens
a CD of Tomas Luis de Victoria
a current Red Michelin
a 1920s Hachette Guide Bleu
a volume of the Mémoires of Mme Beausergent or of the Correspondance of Mme de Sévigné
a volume of the Œuvres Diverses of Pierre Bayle
a corkscrew and a small unbreakable glass
an emergency bottle of cheap Spanish or Greek brandy
a set of watchmaker's screwdrivers

This is a fascinating thread... and saly, I have to say the wider brief of items of all kinds (as opposed to just CDs, books etc) is very interesting.

Vinteuil's vademecum is wonderful...

Like EdgeleyRob, I would have an iPod stuffed with music and so don't travel with CDs anymore.

I'd have some trouble coming up with 10 other essentials - I travel light. Essential are:

• A number of sets of yellow foam earplugs (I can sleep just about anywhere as long as I have Formula 1 calibre earplugs)

• A sufficient supply of Alka Seltzer tablets (in case of over-indulgence in local produce)

• Reading glasses

• (At the moment - it's been on the go for months) "Les Faux-Monnayeurs" by André Gide.

More anon.

[cloughie]

In the absence of my mp3 player full and computer speakers for can-free listening:
CDs
Ravel:Daphnis & Chloe/Scheherazade
Elgar Sym 1
Tchaikovsky Manfred Sym
Mozart Sym 38/39
Schubert Sym 5/9
Mahler Sym 2
Rachmaninov Sym 2
R Strauss Heldenleben/Four Last Songs
King Crimson:In the Court of the Crimson King
Manhattan Transfer:Mecca for Moderns

and a book of 16x16 Sudoku puzzles.