[KD17]

Debby and I are hoping to make the move to NZ next spring. I served for severval years in the RAF and have done numerous tours at different locations in different countries. I always found it amusing when certain things you would never even think about become things that you miss. for me it has been things such as tomatoe ketchup, teletext, personal space (norway) - loved it really!
I would like to know from people who have made the move, what things do you find that you miss from the country you left behind?

[sarahw]

Friends & family mostly. There's not a great deal about the UK that I miss. Maybe the fact that sometimes you don't have a great deal of choice (shopping) because there's only one brand of something rather than 10 ! ....oh good hot spicy curries too - they're more like stews here!

[ruthyroo]

Europe and easy access to the culture / food / cheap & good wine of Europe. The home grown alternatives here are either pretty rubbish or expensive (IMO). History and old buildings. Friends and family. The usual I guess, about upping and off to a country 12,000miles and three decades away from the UK...!

[veronica]

Disregarding all the emotional things...........Bisto powder. walkers crisps and heinz salad cream. (the stuff here called heinz salad cream doesn't taste the same.)
Shallow fickle creatures aren't we.

[Moorf]

Apart from family and friends... errr... nothing! I really thought after our first 6 months here there would be loads I'd miss, but nope, it's all sweet!

[chrissie]

Friends and family and properly-built, warm houses!! Apart from that there's nothing I miss about UK (so far...)

[chrissie]

Friends and family and properly-built, warm houses!! Apart from that there's nothing I miss about UK (so far...)

[coastcat]

Sorry to go off-topic, but what the heck is salad cream, anyway?

[Carol]

it's like mayonnaise...but different......... not nicer - just different!

[Carol]

I miss .....



history
that purple look of the Lake District
proper chocolate - although I'm coping now....
Quik-jel
net curtain whitener
Anadin
CRISPS!!!

football post-mortems
speadable Lurpack
Gravy granules
Proper Chinese Take-aways
and...
Proper HOT Indian Curries.....

OLD friends
my mum

but in the whole scheme of things.......I'm coping with it all!
;) ;) ;) ;)

[jonSE]

How about,

Exorbitant train fares
Not having a seat on the train.
Catching colds and flu every day on the tube
Smelling everybody elses BO on the Tube,
Tubes
Wingeing Poms
Houses you can't afford
houses people twice as well off as you can't afford
Ken Livingstone
Gatsos
Being runover when you cross the road.
taxi drivers
The smell of 4 different families dinner being cooked
neighbours you can talk quietly to while lying in bed
Parking, tickets, wardens ..........
Traffic Lights that get ignored

I also missed 6 months of Coro as I was too busy before we left - now I am catching up.

Jon
Waiheke

[Carol]

Coro!

gawd - I dont miss THAT!

[jonSE]

Carol

The last bit (Coro) was kind of tongue in cheek.

last time we were here The Bill was on NZ TV (I forget which channel) I quite enjoyed catchin up with that.

Jon
Waiheke

What a beautiful sunset tonight - shame it was cloudy over the mainland.

[Carol]

ahhh!
I see. (thank goodness for that!! :laugh )


I know a fab lady on Waiheke Jon - she is nearly 80 - still working in the Citizens' Advice Bureau.
What a character she is!

I'd love a visit to Waiheke - it sounds fabulous.

Carol

[wilson182]

The only thing I really miss is the BT 1471 service......

How weird is that

(Oh apart from family and friends of course)

[Tanya]

The only thing I really miss is the BT 1471 service......

How weird is that

(Oh apart from family and friends of course)

Gotta agree with you on that one!

Tanya

[dave k]

Europe and easy access to the culture / food / cheap & good wine of Europe"

Really good, stinky, life-endangering Brie & Camembert...and, another food thing, fresh sardines. I asked a bloke at Moore Wilson's & he said you can get them...but very rarely.
I'm also a bit sick of green-lipped mussels now, and am craving some of our Atlantic ones in their little bluey-grey shells.
But it's more than made up for in soooooo many other ways :cheers






Oh.....yeah, and parents & friends and stuff ;)