Can't wait First visit home in nearly 3 years and I am soooo looking forward to it, all 4 weeks of it

Surely if you've been here for three years, then home is here and you're going back to the UK for Xmas???

I think where you come from is always home.

Exactly

or where the heart is....

For me, home is here, where I live. I was born in NE England but would never consider that home.

Lapsed Kiwi - where abouts in the NE are you from, I'm from Hartlepool, just up from Manchester and down from Newcastle. (near Middlesbrough)

Maz1, enjoy your trip back-don't hang too many monkeysSorry, couldn't resist!

I'm also from Co.Durham and will probably always consider that as "home". That is where I was brought up and my parents still live there.
I always have a couple of homes: Darlington where I am from originally and secondly the place where I live at that particular point in time. Depending on the context I could be talking about either.

Oooh you'll have a proper Xmas with cold dark winter nights and hopefully snow! Xmas doesn't seem real in the blazing sun
Sue

We went bacl last Christmas and in Poole, Dorset it got down to -10 and even the sea water on the shore froze over lol , it was cold and dark at 4, lol I still love my old town and Dorset, we only had 3 weeks back there and beleive me it goes soooo quick, what with the 5 days of jet lag and the trying to eat meals at wrong times of day, like 4 course meal in UK when its breakfast in NZ lol, we had planned to do so much, the ended from pillar to post fo rellies and frineds who wanted a piece of us, so plan ahead a wee bit, and if you had plans to see or do sometihing special, then dont forget it and do it. We had not been back for nearly 4 years, and its true what others have said, you need to go back to realise why you left !! and that you have definitley done the right thing in moving to NZ !!

Enjoy it, seeing family again is always worth the $$ distance.


NIge

I thought I got away with that 1. Just think, a xmas tree with lights on what you can actually see. Isn't it the little things that make you smile

And propper Mince Pies, actually, I can't wait either, 4 months and 18 days til the UK and real Christmas and counting

Yay ! That's great - you'll have a ball

Hi Maz1, hope all is well with you up North-have a great time when you go back-no staying up until 10pm to get the xmas lights twinkle, you will be able to get it at 3.30pm instead eh.

Lee

Hi Lee, I'll be lucky if I see 9pm, but I'll have a good go