As per title really. I know I’ll speak english in a bit but I do miss the UK, the people, the weather and so and so. I even miss the bacon van

wear are you know, i feel the need to leave the UK

mate, i will swap you.
somewhere like perpignan would suit me fine…… 8)

somewhere like perpignan would suit me fine

I am nowhere near to perpignan…

i know, but it would still do me nicely 😀

I felt like this pretty much the whole time I lived in Tasmania for 13 months.

I missed the leafy Surrey Hills the most, which is about as diametrically opposite to rugged Tas as one can possibly get.

Where i used to live people celebrated Xmas on the beach. Just felt wrong to me!

I live in Switzerland. They don’t do hedges. I miss hedges.

Thing is I am not even british…

come and visit 🙂

Photim, dont the Swizz do Hedgefunds ?

Thing is I am not even british..

Have you got some british in you?? 😯

I miss Acapulco. 😥

I’m not Mexican and I’ve never been to Mexico, but ¡Ay, caramba! how I miss it.

wors nope although I know plenty of people that would have loved to make me british on the inside ;)…
Crap I even miss the british approach to gayness 🙁

I lived in Madrid for a couple of years and it was great, but I missed the UK. I missed the mud and how green it is mainly. Forrin countries don’t have proper mud.

I’m quite the Francophile – it’s my guilty secret, what with me being and English gent and all that. But the French have it so good – great surfing beaches, superb mountains and that just don’t give a crap attitude. Good weather too which means you can do all that eating outdoors thing. They do love a good strike though, which is a little off-putting. 😉

In my limited time living overseas (3 years in Germany), I can honestly say that I did not miss this wet misserable island for one minute.

But, for 12 months after we returned to the UK, the kids kept asking “when can we go home again?”
I felt the same. I still occasionally feel the same now TBH.

Missing the house in France after 5 days back, mainly due to the sh”e weather, it was lovely the whole time we were over there and had some lovely road riding

Have you got some british in you??

Wors are you making him an offer?

Ah, I think in your situation juan, yes, possibly. If you’d grown up here as a nipper, all through university and 10 years of work in London then no, not at all.

I’m in Canadia, celebrating my 13 month anniversary. I miss lots of little things (historic buildings, sausages, squash and the understanding of it, bacon butties, football, cricket), but it’s the big things that really make it – the quality of life, the overall niceness of people, the hot Canadian women who love an English accent. I realise it may change, but right now I see the UK as a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there (again)…

I lived in Spain for ten years and have been back in the UK for less than two months. I will be back in Spain as soon as possible, I had forgotten how depressing the weather actually is…

just be thankful that you are somewhere warm and sunny (just guessing).in the next few months the weather will turn to s**t here 🙁 and british gas are rubbing their hands whilst i speak 😡

lived in the uk,italy and now spain.
sick of all of them,miss all of them,when I change.

just can’t win I suppose.

Don simon,I’d wanted to ask you about leaving spain,guess I don’t have to now.

Read voltaire’s candide,last night.put it all into a bit of perspective.
asides from being funny,and short,both good things in a book.

Lived in Oz for years… missed the Highlands

Back in the Highlands….Missing Oz 🙄

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Lived in Oz for years… missed the Highlands
Back in the Highlands….Missing Oz

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Don simon,I’d wanted to ask you about leaving spain,guess I don’t have to now.

Ask away if there’s anything else.

I’ve just spent 5 days working in Germany, fantastic country but man I miss my local, the food, the culture and most of all my bike.

I suppose I should mention the wife too

Hiya Juan. I do miss Scotland when I am away from it but I would love to live in france.

I live in Canada and missed the UK a few weeks ago, so when the missus got fired I thought it was a good time to come ‘home’ to make sure we were doing the right thing, after 2 days all 3 of us wanted to come back to Canada which we now refer to as home and moan a lot less about

can’t see us coming back for a good while tbh

I’ve lived and worked abroad for long enough to know that I could never leave Britain; I love the weather, the landscapes, the culture and the history – no other nation takes as much pride and interest in its own history. Britain has more charitable organisations than any other country in the world, we love doing things for other people less fortunate than us.

Here’s an illustration: I was once listening to a programme on R4 called “Does He Take Sugar?” which is about disability. They were covering a conference in southern England for people who suffer from a certain type of blindness. They interviewed a Frenchman who had this and had travelled over to attend the conference. When they asked him why, he replied: “I listen to the programme every week from my home in northern France. When I heard about this conference I just had to come; you probably don’t realise this but in France we have nothing like societies and support groups for sufferers of certain illnesses, we don’t have charities and we don’t organise meetings and conferences. That’s why I came to England.”

I’m not surprised Juan you made a lot of friends when you were over and really did get right into our culture and travelled around. It’s a great country only the miserable ones complain about it being miserable. I’ll gladly live in many other countries but I do love the UK.

things i miss about UK—
– the humor
– carpets
– beer
– bacon
– eye contact
– not being the random foreigner who speaks the local lingo like a toddler
– friendly women (if not so easy on the eye)
– semiskimmed milk
– good coffee
– better bus drivers
– hills and country pubs and cafes
– village centres

that’s all for now 🙂

I miss New Zealand. Would go back to live in a heartbeat – sadly the other half likes being near her family too much… one day maybe.

I’ll swap with you too – its getting dark early, the wind was freezing yesterday and the sky is grey today. It looks like winter already 😥

I’ve been in Germany for 8 years now and miss the beer, pies and the humour – and not being looked at like an alien when I refer to my friend’s yellow Fiat Panda as Thunderbird 4.
I know it’s time for a visit home when I start day dreaming about riding in Dalby forest followed by Fish and chips at the White Horse Cafe, mmmmm, I’m going to book flights this evening.

However, when I’ve been back in the Republic of North Yorkshire for a few days, I’ll miss the beer, kebabs and being able to filter out (or not understand)the cr@p that a lot of people speak.

^^^ wonders… is that actually Hans Rey?^^^ 😯

Well excpet for point 2 3 6 Iam with hansrey

I’ll swap with you too – its getting dark early, the wind was freezing yesterday and the sky is grey today. It looks like winter already

Careful what you wish for. You’ll have no job, people would be very rude, irrespectful (is that a word), impolite and won’t give a rat ass about you. Cycling will be the most painful and dangerous experience you’ll ever have and although your meal will be cheaper, everything else would be very expensive and you won’t be able to take any picture as non one will process your films any more.

nah, not the real HR, i’m a copycat 🙂 Elbows, you have a point about filtering out conversations !!