What do you miss about your home country when you go abroad?

[DionneB]

When I was in France , I couldn't find apple pie anywhere so that.

Dry stone walls

Lush green dales

Tea in a pot. Friendliness. Our health service. Taytos. Having to filter every word you say in case you unwittingly insult someone. Pub culture. Knorr Farmhouse Vegetable Soup. Clonakilty pudding.

And brown bread.

Nothing.

Dead easy
The cinema

We stay right where there’s a cinema and it would be lovely if they did some English dubbed films...especially as we go in the winter months so it would be a nice change in a cool night

A nice cup of tea.

Just got back from a month in Australia, didn’t miss anything about home.

France has meal deals! But you have to ask for them. But places like Brioche Doré and la mie caline do them. I miss pubs.

Marmite and Yorkshire tea.

Queues. And queuing etiquette. Although when I lived in Syria, men would always let ladies go to the front of any queue... So only queues in most places

The other thing: vegetables. There's an awful lot of countries in Europe where vegetables seem to be treated as garnish - I'm genuinely baffled at people struggling with their five a day as I eat five a meal

Good quality food when I'm in the US, especially bread, cheese, and meats. Everything seems to taste sort of sweet there but it could be my imagination!

Online shopping. I know Amazon are evil but to be able to order something and it turn up the next day....(There is no post home delivery where I live, you have to hire a PO box and go pick your post up. It can take several months for birthday cards to arrive here so I have never dared to try ordering anything in anyway!)

When I lived in France in the 80s I missed tea, baked beans, bacon and curry. I used to visit M&S in Paris to stock up on things I missed.

Waitrose.
I take tea with me.
In Spain I am always shocked how little veg you get on the plate with a main course in most restaurants. Veg is cheap and plentiful but it feels like it's rationed, very odd.

Stoat bread in the US is generally sweet, no doubt about that, unless you go for artisan sourdough. To get what a British person would recognise as good cheese costs $$$. Meat, similarly, if you get the high welfare options at somewhere like Wholefoods you have to get used to gasping at the price.