KOPFTUCH FÜR DEN HERRN

The DON’T PANIC Towel Shop sells just one product, a towel as a tribute to the author Douglas Adams and his ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.

Why?
Towel – Just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry. (Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, chapter 3)

While shipping worldwide, the target was to sell and ship DON’T PANIC towels to at least 42 countries around the world. End of 2013 I am happy to announce that a towel is on the way to Israel, which is already the country no. 47. Time to get an overview:

The red color indicates the countries where as minimum one DON’T PANIC towel has been sent. A lot of countries received dozens. And I am still busy to get one to the galaxy.

The countries in alphabetical order:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, USA

But there are still some grey spots on the map. Especially in Africa and in the Middle East. And they definitely need some DON’T PANIC towels in Syria, Iran and Iraq. So, the project goes on…

Thanks for all the fish and to all customers worldwide.

„Ein Handtuch ist so ungefähr das Nützlichste, was der interstellare Anhalter besitzen kann. Einmal ist es von großem praktischem Wert – man kann sich zum Wärmen darin einwickeln,…“
– Douglas Adams: Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis

Nimm es & trage es in Ehren… DON’T PANIC Towel Shop

A happy towelday 2013. As a tradition for the last years I have chosen one certain place to present my DON’T PANIC towel. This year it’s the ‘Anhalter Bahnhof’ (german for ‘Hitchhiker Station’) in Berlin. So, we have an official hitchhiker station on planet earth :)

The ‘Anhalter Bahnhof’ is a former railway terminus located in the city centre of Berlin, in the neighborhood of the Potsdamer Platz. The station was heavily damaged during WWII and closed in 1952. Today, just a small part of the front facade is still there. Where earlier the trains left you will find a football field.

I set up a Towel Day gallery, where you can see that towel travelled already to some locations and met Lenin in 2010.

And if you like to get one the lovely DON’T PANIC towels – there is the unique DON’T PANIC Towel Shop 24/7 open for you.

 
‘A Towel – Just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry.’ – Thanks and honor to Douglas Adams

About Towel Day
Since 2001, on may, the 25th, hitchhiker’s, fans + enthusiasts of D. Adams are celebrating the Towel Day, by carrying a towel with them. A few days after Douglas Adams died on the may, 11th 2001 D Clyde Williamson proposed to invent that day, as a tribute to the author of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.