a couple of old sticks

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by VANDOO

THE BADGES ARE FROM PLACES VISITED AND MOST I HAVE SEEN WERE FROM GERMANY OR AUSTRIA. I WONDER WHEN THIS FIRST STARTED AND IF THE BADGES ARE STILL AVAILABLE AS SOUVINEERS TODAY.?

I don't know when this first started, but they are still available as souvenirs, and indeed people who visit some place around the Alps for holiday and walking/skiing, bought themselves such badge and put it on their walkingstick, just as souvenir that they visited that place.
In the past people had stickers also on the rearwindow of their car, for everyone to show which place they visited allready in a former vacation.. However I don't see what the point is of all that fuzz, but everyone his own I guess..