What a great title for a book! And this is a very famous hat - quite old for a piece of millinery, this hat has been on the road for decades and has had many adventures, including the one below. Can you imagine the following happening to-day - Her Majesty the Queen lost in a souq?

Travels with My Hat by Christine Osborne
`I was looking everywhere for your blue hat`said the Queen to Christine on the
royal visit to the great souq in Nizwa, Oman. Ethiopia, Iraq and Pakistan are other
colorful countries visited by the Sydney nurse, turned photojournalist of 30 years
of travel adventures in Africa and the East. `I`ve occasionally wished I was a boy.
Not for the penis per se but for the freedom it allows a man,` writes Christine of
Yemen, the secretive mountain republic on the Red Sea. 95,000 words with
photographs by the author. Publication autumn 2010. copix@clara.co.uk

Worth keeping an eye out for.