Towel Day
25 May 2026 — Do you know where your towel is? Never leave for space without it!
Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May. Fans of the writer Douglas Adams carry a towel with them, at home, at work or in the street, in memory of the author, who died on 11 May 2001. The first celebration took place in 2001, just days after his death. In his novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the towel is described as the most useful item for an interstellar hitchhiker: it keeps you warm, can be slept on, protects you from noxious fumes and can even be waved as a distress signal. That is why the day is a playful nod to space travel and imagination. There is no official ceremony: people simply show off their towels, take photos and share favourite quotes. The date is fixed and does not depend on the Moon or the solstice, but late spring is a lovely time to look at the night sky and picture a towel drifting somewhere out there.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver towel made of luminous dots and fine lines, like a constellation, drifting and gently rippling across the night sky like a magic carpet, its fringed corners trailing sparkling star dust
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