My hat was probably sitting at that booth at Tollwood, Munich's "alternative" (read: hippie) Christmas market, all December. Probably overlooked for the admittedly quite cute two-person mittens (for holding hands). Then I came along, and knew we were meant for each other. I put it on, and hey! suddenly my head was warm. And it has ear flaps, so my ears snuggled in its fleece-y wool goodness as well. C picked up its twin. All throughout Germany and Prague, we wore our matching hats together, and I don't doubt they saved our lives plenty of times. After all 90% of your body heat escapes through your head (I mean that might not be true but it's one of those good principles to live by). It served as an eye mask too; when I wanted to go to sleep early at the hostel, I would pull it all the way down to my nose.
In Toulon it's not freezing cold anymore, but I still wear it to wait for the bus, since it gets very chilly when you're not moving around. Plus it doubles as a non-religious hijab--I look unquestionably unattractive enough in my hat such that I can walk around without fear of attention from drageurs (except when they decide they want to make fun of me, or maybe I am still getting looks for being Asian).Now I am using it to teach prepositions to my kids! The hat is over the water bottle. The water bottle is in the hat.
Yay hat!
OHH! I like this post! When I was hopping around Europe, I decided that my travel essentials were my klean kanteen, a good super absorbent thin towel, dental floss, and chapstick.
ReplyDeleteBut I think you've just convinced me that your hat should be added to the list, in particularly during winter traveling.
I want a hat now, although hats are ridiculously absurd and useless in California.