Anyone else feeling really homesick since they watched the Olympics OC?

[lagartija]

I live in a eurozone country that is in deep shite financially at the moment, huge cuts, unemployment and more and more barefaced corruption coming to light each day. Been here for about 12 years and used to love it, but got more and more disillusioned over the years. It's difficult here in many ways with kids.
DH is from here, his elderly (80s) parents live here and he's an only child. for various other complex reason too boring to go into here, there is no way (bar a lottery win) we could ever move to the UK, it's too complex really for us to get back for a holiday and so I haven't been back in 7 years.
And, actually, mostly I don't want to...but I watched the OC and loved it and it reminded me (I grew up near London) of home. I don't know...it pulled at the heartstrings somehow. DS came home from summerschool (he's 4) with a colouring in of a London bus with the olympic rings on and I welled up as he has no idea about London, never been there. He's never seen where I come from..and goodness knows when he ever will.
I don't know, I'm rambling. Just feeling a bit cut off from it all. Anyone sort of get what I'm expressing really badly?

{{mirai}}

it does seem so far away (well, in our case, it IS a very long way - 6000 miles away...)

I have lived in Japan for 21 years now, so the "wobble" really doesn't happen anymore. I didn't even get up especially to watch the Opening Ceremony (started at 5am on a Saturday morning here) BUT I was up with DS at 7am and it suddenly dawned on me what I had missed

I scrambled to find it on YouTube and watched the full ceremony, before it was pulled off YouTube by the powers-that-be.

Brilliant stuff loved every minute of it

I was very against the Olympics coming to Tokyo in 2020, but I am warming to the idea now (not that we'll get it, very long shot)

I just moved to Germany last friday and i am feeling really homesick. Even though loads of people speak english you still have to learn german for things and im rubbish at learning languages so the thought really scares me. It feels weird to be walking along hearing people talking but not understanding a word they say.

I find that I even though I speak and understand Dutch now, I can block it out when I'm on public transport/out and about wantingmore. I find it quite a shock when I get on a bus in the UK and can understand what everyone's talking about!

Feeling bad again now - just watching the men's time trial cycling road race, starting from Hampton Court palace - going round roads I used to cycle on... sigh.

So happy that the women's coxless pairs have won a gold medal though!

Amapoleon, are you in La Linea? I'm on the outskirts of Seville. I've been here for about 12 years (I've lost track). Haven't been back since 2005 I don't think. I wonder if it would be a huge culture shock if I went back now, I'm sure so many things have changed. I'm also a bit afraid to go back in case it makes any homesickness I feel worse.
I used to love it here, absolutely love it. Since I've had DS (4) and DD (15mo) I've found it a bit harder, the weather is quite hard as it's so so so so hot from at least June-September and, unlike other guiris I don't have the option of going back to the UK all summer to escape the heat. I find the lack of things to do with kids quite hard and get a bit nostalgic for parks that don't shut in the rain, fields to romp through, the National Trust, rockpools, garden centres, farm shops, petting zoos, all those wonderful museums, especially the ones I loved as a child in London....all those things I did as a child really.
Politically, the rajoy government's attack on the poor, healthcare and education as well as the attempts to roll back abortion provision is getting me down. Just seems to be corruption everywhere, which I'm sure was there before but maybe ameliorated a bit ore in the good times. Just seems so much more in your face atm and Spaniards don't seem to care. They must be the least revolutionary people on earth.

central heating..good lord how I miss central heating.

Lagartija, I loved the OC too. And know where you are coming from.

I live in Oz, and did well up in parts of the ceremony. I was like this when they showed the Jubilee. They had a boat on the Thames playing Green Sleeve, going under the Tower Bridge. Oh how my heart broke, and my tears flowed.
I've never lived in London, but not far from London, and my parents used to take me there as a child for days out, and have been known to go on the piss

We're going 'home' for a holiday on Monday, and I'm very excited to get out of here. We've been here since October, and I'm finding it really difficult to adjust, and am just miserable here. Hence why I sobbed like a baby watching the OC.

NB, I still call UK home, it will always be my home, and my parents who live in the Uk, and who are Hungarian always, and still refer to Hungary as home, although they have no intention of returning to live there :)

I don't feel quite so homesick now - the adrenaline and sheer joy and excitement of seeing the Brits get 2 more medals in the cycling has just about outweighed the sadness of knowing that, yet again, I could have walked down to see the event happening from my Dad's house. I could almost imagine myself being there, it was great to watch.

And jolly well done to Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome!

Yes, although I missed the OC -DD2 wanted to watch crap and I was too tired/stressed to insist. I've been making up for it by sitting up until stupid o'clock watching TV and neglecting just about everything else.

For the 1st time in over a decade I wish I was still living in London this year

Ironically I was in the UK for the opening ceremony - on holiday seeing my parents.

I sobbed my heart out. First they played Nimrod (which I walked down the aisle to) then Jerusalem (which we sang) and then they forged those huge rings...wahhh. I'm welling up now just thinking about it.

In just under 3 weeks we move to the other side of Australia for a while and then plans to be back in the UK for good by Christmas. I am so looking forward to being home, I can't begin to tell you.

Largartija, I to and fro between Estepona and Gibraltar. The new governments in both countries are depressing me. In Spain, for the same reason as you and in Gibraltar because although the new government is supposed to be socialist, they are more like the BNP. It's like going back in time, jobs for our own first, sweeping redundancies to get rid of the Spanish, any other non resident "outsider". it is beginning to remind me of 1950's England no blacks, no Irish!

Of course not everyone thinks like that, the new govt only got just over half of the vote but there is a terrible tension here and Rajoy is encouraging Gibraltar Espanol, so there's tenision on all sides.

I'm going back to the Uk with my family for the first time since 2003, other than a flying visit for a funeral. I'm excited but realise i am going back to a different country from the one I left and I think I have very rosey coloured specatacles hehehe. just hope it doesn't make me feel homesick!

currently watching the closing ceremony and feeling homesick again....sigh. Especially as it's s much stuff from when I was growing up and there's nothing like music for memories, is there?