ex-pats what do you miss? (57)
rytcharlie: I'm an ex-pat from UK living in Italy and I definitely don't miss the UK weather or the besotted celebrity worship that goes on there .. but I do miss silly things like UK style lemonade and typhoo tea.
Is there anything you miss from back home?
Is there anything you miss from back home?
My really good friends, ice cream from JP Licks, Dunkin' Donuts, people who know how to express their emotions.
rytcharlie: I'm an ex-pat from UK living in Italy and I definitely don't miss the UK weather or the besotted celebrity worship that goes on there .. but I do miss silly things like UK style lemonade and typhoo tea.
Is there anything you miss from back home?
Is there anything you miss from back home?
Real proper smoked back bacon, a real public transport system, and cops who actually do their job and enforce it, food stuffs (except bacon, unless someone tells me different), can be found here...and of course me mates
Haven't really lived in the UK since the early 90's, but good bacon I can get here in Malta, but hard to find in some other countries, especially N America. Mushy peas man!!! 
Like everyone else I don't miss the weather, but I do miss watching a live rugby game once in a while.
Like everyone else I don't miss the weather, but I do miss watching a live rugby game once in a while.rytcharlie: I'm an ex-pat from UK living in Italy and I definitely don't miss the UK weather or the besotted celebrity worship that goes on there .. but I do miss silly things like UK style lemonade and typhoo tea.
Is there anything you miss from back home?
Is there anything you miss from back home?
Living here in Spain where my area is full of ex-pats, i have NO problems in getting those things you mention...we have an Iceland store here and I can get anything and everything, and for the same price at is back home.
Walkers Crisps, PG Tips, Curries, Steak and Kidney pies...anything like that...Iceland sells it all! Even Mushy Peas!!
I also have Sky TV with all the same shows back home...it comes from the same Satellite lol.
Lemme think...what do I miss? Square root of FA!
KarmaInitiative: Despite our bad reputation I miss the food:
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isn't that weird .. I actually meant pg tips too.
real beer and ale is a big miss for me also .. it's strange going out to wine bars all the time - they have beer, but not as we know it .. and the beer as we know it is creditted to the Germans, which is kinda annoying when the go on about how the UK has nothing 'cullinary' to offer.
I can't say I really share your fondness for fried breakfast tho .. such breakfast, together with fish and chips, is on my don't go there list .. I miss curries and a general lack of alternative to pizza restaurants, which Italians will say exist, but nobody hardly goes to them ..
the chips are better in Belgium, aren't they?
Mazza1970: Real proper smoked back bacon, a real public transport system, and cops who actually do their job and enforce it, food stuffs (except bacon, unless someone tells me different), can be found here...and of course me mates
mmm the smell of sizzling bacon and the taste of a bacon sarnie made from farmloaf bread .. :droolingemoticon:
taff1: Haven't really lived in the UK since the early 90's, but good bacon I can get here in Malta, but hard to find in some other countries, especially N America. Mushy peas man!!! Like everyone else I don't miss the weather, but I do miss watching a live rugby game once in a while.
bacon exists here - pancetta - but it's not the same ..
must be difficult having an interest but not being able to watch live games.
Steve5721: Living here in Spain where my area is full of ex-pats, i have NO problems in getting those things you mention...we have an Iceland store here and I can get anything and everything, and for the same price at is back home.
Walkers Crisps, PG Tips, Curries, Steak and Kidney pies...anything like that...Iceland sells it all! Even Mushy Peas!!
I also have Sky TV with all the same shows back home...it comes from the same Satellite lol.
Lemme think...what do I miss? Square root of FA!
Walkers Crisps, PG Tips, Curries, Steak and Kidney pies...anything like that...Iceland sells it all! Even Mushy Peas!!
I also have Sky TV with all the same shows back home...it comes from the same Satellite lol.
Lemme think...what do I miss? Square root of FA!
kinda like England with added sun
Could do with an Iceland here! We see the odd Iceland product, but they charge way more for it. Rip off unfortunately. Something will have a quid as a price on it, but when you get to the till they want 4 Euros or more! Pros and cons everywhere I guess. The sunshine is nice though lol.
Been thinking of going to Spain to try for boat work, you would recommend it Steve?
Yeah mate hard to give up a sport you played from a kid upwards, and then not even able to watch much. They do play it here and they're not that bad at it tbh, but the pro stuff would be nice to see again.
rytcharlie: I'm an ex-pat from UK living in Italy and I definitely don't miss the UK weather or the besotted celebrity worship that goes on there .. but I do miss silly things like UK style lemonade and typhoo tea.
Is there anything you miss from back home?
Is there anything you miss from back home?
Not sure, that your ex-pats definition includes me as I’m not from UK, but I answer nonetheless.
Don’t miss the weather, from that point Gothenburg and Sank-Peterburg are very similar. There’s even topographical similarity as well: situated on a delta of a wide river, bridges, islands, fog, seagulls… Luv it…
Food? In SPb I’ve lived close to a bakery, could buy bread that’s still warm, miss it as here in Sweden I’ve never seen bread that fresh.
Miss friends of course. And language
Swigging real ale in an old English country pub.
Cats eye's on the roads...!! can't see a damned thing around here when driving at night round these country lanes...!!
Cats eye's on the roads...!! can't see a damned thing around here when driving at night round these country lanes...!!
FeketeDiva: My really good friends, ice cream from JP Licks, Dunkin' Donuts, people who know how to express their emotions.
It's tough to have really good friends back home. What takes you to Hungary?
Tulefel: Not sure, that your ex-pats definition includes me as I’m not from UK, but I answer nonetheless.
Don’t miss the weather, from that point Gothenburg and Sank-Peterburg are very similar. There’s even topographical similarity as well: situated on a delta of a wide river, bridges, islands, fog, seagulls… Luv it…
Food? In SPb I’ve lived close to a bakery, could buy bread that’s still warm, miss it as here in Sweden I’ve never seen bread that fresh.
Miss friends of course. And language
Don’t miss the weather, from that point Gothenburg and Sank-Peterburg are very similar. There’s even topographical similarity as well: situated on a delta of a wide river, bridges, islands, fog, seagulls… Luv it…
Food? In SPb I’ve lived close to a bakery, could buy bread that’s still warm, miss it as here in Sweden I’ve never seen bread that fresh.
Miss friends of course. And language
no, not just UK ex-pats Tuf, ex-pats from anywhere .. and you're always a sight for sore eyes
I miss bread too .. UK bread such as farmhouse and tin loaves .. the kind the rest of the world overlooks in British cuisine .. there is just something essential about freshly baked bread - living near a baker's must have been heaven
rytcharlie: kinda like England with added sun
And PLENTY of it...I am 1.1km from the beach! A mere 6 minute walk to the strip where all the pubs (Irish and British)....PROPER beer like Tetley's, Murphy's Red and of course the Guinness...3.20 Euro's a pint.
taff1: Been thinking of going to Spain to try for boat work, you would recommend it Steve?
Boat work? In what way? Repairing etc?
Unemployment in Spain is at a record high...hard for those seeking work mate.
taff1: Yeah mate hard to give up a sport you played from a kid upwards, and then not even able to watch much. They do play it here and they're not that bad at it tbh, but the pro stuff would be nice to see again.
When I lived in the USA, I had Santa and I watched live games and recorded ones....but now I live here, I watch them all live. Even the pubs have Sky!
Try this mate : myp2p.eu
Live sports on your PC...free.
Steve5721: When I lived in the USA, I had Santa and I watched live games and recorded ones....but now I live here, I watch them all live. Even the pubs have Sky!
Try this mate : myp2p.eu
Live sports on your PC...free.
Try this mate : myp2p.eu
Live sports on your PC...free.
Santa?
Setanta I meant!!rytcharlie: It's tough to have really good friends back home. What takes you to Hungary?
Having the educational pleasure of working with Romani communities, learning about Hungarian culture and language, just living my dream.
I don't miss the food (can get most of it here), but I really really miss good shopping. When I go back to the UK I spend all my time shopping - clothes here are soooo expensive, so I make the most of my trips back. So much so that I bring my full luggage allowance back on the plane, and ship another case back full of new clothes . I have found two companies that I have used, and it really is cost effective . . . . . . well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Is there anything you miss from back home?