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how old were you when you first went abroad?

27 replies

ForQuaintMintCat · 21/04/2024 23:56

i was 12

OP posts:
Rolypolyfishheads · 21/04/2024 23:58

20!

Cheshiresun · 22/04/2024 00:02

13, in the 1990's.

My parents were in their 20's when they first went abroad, in the 1970's.

My children were 0 when they first went abroad.

daffodilandtulip · 22/04/2024 00:02

18

My parents have still only left the city to visit Wales once a year.

useitorlose · 22/04/2024 00:03

10, in 1978. We flew to Malta with Dan Air.

Onacuctustree · 22/04/2024 00:04

For Dad's work.

TurtleMoon · 22/04/2024 00:04

4 months. Born on the continent but my mum is British so took me to see her family when I was 4 months old.

Berlinlover · 22/04/2024 00:04

I was 13.

ViscountessMelbourne · 22/04/2024 00:06

6 months - parents moved.

Majentaplasticglasses · 22/04/2024 00:06

4 months old. In 1994.

CJ0374 · 22/04/2024 00:10

I was born abroad. Flying abroad was much farther than just flying to the continent from the UK. I was 8.

RogueFemale · 22/04/2024 00:10

About 5. My mother's sister lived in Barcelona and her husband had a house on the Costa Brava, so several holidays there age 5-10. I was once sent on a plane as an unaccompanied minor to Barcelona, and there was no one there to meet me, and I was too young to know my aunt's address. Spent the night in a hotel with an air stewardess.

But, I loved my Spanish uncle. Far more than my parents.

Groovy48592747 · 22/04/2024 00:12

I think it's all relative as to how old you are now.

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/04/2024 00:15

15, not with my family though, I did an exchange week with a family in Brittany.

AmyDubanowski · 22/04/2024 00:18

17! This was back in the mid 00s

CorylusAgain · 22/04/2024 00:22

15 French exchange late 1970s

SnowFrogJelly · 22/04/2024 00:25

11

CampfireZen · 22/04/2024 00:31

6 months old.
Family holiday to Portugal.

focacciamuffin · 22/04/2024 00:33

0 in 1961. 4 that I can remember.

AutumnalLeaves38 · 22/04/2024 00:33

CampfireZen · 22/04/2024 00:31

6 months old.
Family holiday to Portugal.

Early 1970s

SiobhanSharpe · 22/04/2024 00:34

Six weeks! Born in London, flew with my mum to join my Dad who worked in Kuwait. Lived in Kuwait for the next 18 years. (Dad did 20.)

Cattenberg · 22/04/2024 00:34

My first trip abroad was to Ibiza. I’d like to say I spent my nights out partying, but I was only four.

I didn’t go abroad again until I was 11, when we took a car ferry to Brittany. I loved the novelty of being in another country - even going to the supermarket was fun.

HawkersEast · 22/04/2024 00:36

From Australia to Euope for 8 weeks.

Blueink · 22/04/2024 00:38

11 - why OP?

Lucythecleaner · 22/04/2024 00:44

Never been abroad I'm 44

HeddaGarbled · 22/04/2024 00:46

28