My most favourite souvenir is from my first girls holiday in 2024, we went to Kos which is the most perfect island in all of Greece, and I will love it forever. On one of our last nights, I was desperately searching for a ring- THE ring, the ring of my hopes and dreams.
It was getting very late and I was worried I wouldn’t be successful in my hunt, but then I came across this jewellery shop that was open at 11pm, the lights were fluorescent and blinding and on one of the outside tables I had a bit of a mooch and saw it. The ring is a spiral, the symbol I have become obsessed with both in meaning and aesthetic, it was the largest size they had, silver and perfect. It was the start and end of my chunky ring journey because simply nothing could come close to her.
The ring started a mini tradition of mine to purchase a ring on every holiday
I have worn this ring every single day since I bought it, every night out, every lecture, through suntans and frostbite the ring has been there. The ring started a mini tradition of mine to purchase a ring on every holiday so I would have a subtle reminder to myself of that holiday, the place and the memories I got with it. It might be a little scuffed and bent in a way where I’m never truly sure if it is or not but I love it all the same.
The fact that I bought the ring on my first girls’ holiday, a core memories of anyone’s twenties, and in my favourite country (being a classics student) it really is my favourite thing that I own. I would run into a burning building for this ring, I would jump off a boat for it, there is nothing I won’t do to not lose this ring.