I came to feel that someone really together, one who was well organized, would always know where his towel was.” 4. According to Adams, “Every morning they'd have to sit around and wait for me because I couldn't find my blessed towel. Towels’ revered place in the series stems from a real-life experience Adams had on a vacation with friends to Greece. In honor of Adams’s inebriated stroke of brilliance, the town (and indeed the rest of the world) has celebrated Towel Day-a towel is the most quintessential item in an intergalactic hitchhiker’s arsenal, according to Adams-on every May 25 since 2001. INNSBRUCK IS PROUD OF THE PIVOTAL ROLE IT PLAYED. When the stars came out I thought that someone ought to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because it looked a lot more attractive out there than it did around me." 2. Adams later wrote to Welsh, “I got frantically depressed in Innsbruck. According to Neil Gaiman’s Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams, who was poor at the time, was hitchhiking from London to Istanbul with a stolen copy of Ken Welsh’s Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe. The idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy came to Douglas Adams-who was born on this day in 1952-as he was drunkenly stargazing in a field in Innsbruck, Austria in 1971. Why 16 things? Because 42 things would have been far too long.
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