I’ve never spent more than a few weeks holiday in other parts of the world, so being married to a Brazilian for the past 18 months has been very eye-opening in terms of my British/English-ness.
HRH spends a lot of her time laughing at ‘us’ or with a look of disbelief on her face at some of the cultural differences.
Her favourite one is the English obsession with time, schedules, planning … to her it seems like everything must be planned weeks in advance with a very specific start and end time and very specific details of who’s invited … cracks her up and drives her nuts at the same time.
What did other peoples better halves think of our English-isms?