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First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Sorry if this has been discussed before (looked but couldn't find) - tomorrow I'm going back to the mother land for 3 weeks after having been in QLD for a year.
How many of you did this and (a) had a great time (b) wished you hadn't bothered (c) encountered hysterical sobbing at the airport - arriving and/or departing?! Was hoping to go back for better weather ;) but it seems half the UK is flooded :frown: Also struggling to fit all my woolies in my suitcase - it's only used to having shorts and t-shirts. Flying with Etihad - anyone familiar with them? Just hoping they aren't the cut price airline with outside loos. :eek: |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by pominNoosa
(Post 5795217)
Sorry if this has been discussed before (looked but couldn't find) - tomorrow I'm going back to the mother land for 3 weeks after having been in QLD for a year.
How many of you did this and (a) had a great time (b) wished you hadn't bothered (c) encountered hysterical sobbing at the airport - arriving and/or departing?! Was hoping to go back for better weather ;) but it seems half the UK is flooded :frown: Also struggling to fit all my woolies in my suitcase - it's only used to having shorts and t-shirts. Flying with Etihad - anyone familiar with them? Just hoping they aren't the cut price airline with outside loos. :eek: Buy some wellies:eek: |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Went back last June and wished I hadn't bothered. It was nice to see friends and family but once that was done then ............. shopping which was good but since being here I have got over the need to shop all the time.
IMO once you get over the initial excitement then what? You have been there before - you lived there so nothing is new and exciting, just the same gripes and groans as before you left. I can't see me going back to the UK for quite some time or if I do, then it is a flying visit on the way to Europe and people can come to see me in London this time, instead of me travelling all over the country. If they don't then so be it. We have also decided that because we fly BC it is cheaper to fly those family members over here Economy that can't afford to come than us going over there. Also the family then get a great holiday and we get to go away somewhere we haven't been or want to go to, when they have all gone! :thumbsup: |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by The OH
(Post 5795222)
I'm going back to visit this year and have heard Etihad are OK, how much was the flight?
My mum's paying cos she won't fly out here! :D |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Went out with Qatar in November - incredibly good airline. Amazingly low cost and bloody good service.
Loved every minute of my time there and realised how much I missed my friends! Cost about $1600 return Tigering it out of Perth. |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by pominNoosa
(Post 5795217)
Sorry if this has been discussed before (looked but couldn't find) - tomorrow I'm going back to the mother land for 3 weeks after having been in QLD for a year.
How many of you did this and (a) had a great time (b) wished you hadn't bothered (c) encountered hysterical sobbing at the airport - arriving and/or departing?! Was hoping to go back for better weather ;) but it seems half the UK is flooded :frown: Also struggling to fit all my woolies in my suitcase - it's only used to having shorts and t-shirts. Flying with Etihad - anyone familiar with them? Just hoping they aren't the cut price airline with outside loos. :eek: |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by Pollyana
(Post 5795234)
Now go back as often as I can, when I'm there I'm alive, in between I just exist. But each to their own - many people never go back at all.
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Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by Vanessa
(Post 5795228)
Went back last June and wished I hadn't bothered. It was nice to see friends and family but once that was done then ............. shopping which was good but since being here I have got over the need to shop all the time.
IMO once you get over the initial excitement then what? You have been there before - you lived there so nothing is new and exciting, just the same gripes and groans as before you left. I can't see me going back to the UK for quite some time or if I do, then it is a flying visit on the way to Europe and people can come to see me in London this time, instead of me travelling all over the country. If they don't then so be it. We have also decided that because we fly BC it is cheaper to fly those family members over here Economy that can't afford to come than us going over there. Also the family then get a great holiday and we get to go away somewhere we haven't been or want to go to, when they have all gone! :thumbsup: |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by Pollyana
(Post 5795234)
I waited two years to go back the first time, burst into tears on landing, got off the plane and realised that the UK is "home". Now go back as often as I can, when I'm there I'm alive, in between I just exist. But each to their own - many people never go back at all.
It wasn't just the shops, although they were fantastic, it wasn't just old friends and family, although we are all very close. It was my surroundings, the feeling that I belonged. It was overwhelming to be honest. |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by pominNoosa
(Post 5795217)
Sorry if this has been discussed before (looked but couldn't find) - tomorrow I'm going back to the mother land for 3 weeks after having been in QLD for a year.
How many of you did this and (a) had a great time (b) wished you hadn't bothered (c) encountered hysterical sobbing at the airport - arriving and/or departing?! Was hoping to go back for better weather ;) but it seems half the UK is flooded :frown: Also struggling to fit all my woolies in my suitcase - it's only used to having shorts and t-shirts. Flying with Etihad - anyone familiar with them? Just hoping they aren't the cut price airline with outside loos. :eek: Only going so my Mother gets a look at our daughter really. She's not a big traveller and getting on so ... Upwards of 9 grand budgeted plus 3 weeks that I could usefully spend elsewhere having a better time. Will enjoy 'catching up' with my Mum, 3 sisters and some mates but after the initial stuff is over it will just be a grind living in what feels like a stuffy shoebox in a shite area. I have a side-trip to Amsterdam planned that will sweeten the deal. Joyous. Looking forward to it like Bowel Cancer. |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
We've (sans husband) have a trip back booked for July for a fortnight. I swing from thinking it'll be cool, lots of people to see to oh god what are we doing, I'll be bored rigid after the first week. I am already stressing about the amount of time I am going to have to spend sitting in my mother's sitting room listening to her whitter. I want to see some people, really I do but not $6,600 worth:confused: We're only going because no one appears to have any interest in coming here (that should tell me something I think) and the olds are only getting older.
It sounds really really evil but things would be so much more convenient if the olds were to pop their clogs about a day after we got there. Oh god, did I really say that:ohmy: I don't want them to obviously but hell they have to go at some point and as we are executors for hubby's mum and step dad, we will have to go back then and......................oh hell:rolleyes: |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Went back for November 07 and a little of December. Only went for money reasons, altho nice to see family ... :)
The news in Blighty (London) is more depressing than it was 2 years ago and ..... Oh I could go on, and on, and on, and on! Bloody glad to be back is all I can say ... :thumbsup:
Originally Posted by Vim Fuego
(Post 5795274)
I have a side-trip to Amsterdam planned that will sweeten the deal.
They had a ball tho! ... :curse: |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by moneypen20
(Post 5795340)
We've (sans husband) have a trip back booked for July for a fortnight. I swing from thinking it'll be cool, lots of people to see to oh god what are we doing, I'll be bored rigid after the first week. I am already stressing about the amount of time I am going to have to spend sitting in my mother's sitting room listening to her whitter. I want to see some people, really I do but not $6,600 worth:confused: We're only going because no one appears to have any interest in coming here (that should tell me something I think) and the olds are only getting older.
It sounds really really evil but things would be so much more convenient if the olds were to pop their clogs about a day after we got there. Oh god, did I really say that:ohmy: I don't want them to obviously but hell they have to go at some point and as we are executors for hubby's mum and step dad, we will have to go back then and......................oh hell:rolleyes: |
Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Went back after 2 years and felt like I could have/should have stayed. Went back seven years later and felt like a foreigner there.
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Re: First visit back to Blighty - discuss!
Originally Posted by pominNoosa
(Post 5795217)
Sorry if this has been discussed before (looked but couldn't find) - tomorrow I'm going back to the mother land for 3 weeks after having been in QLD for a year.
How many of you did this and (a) had a great time (b) wished you hadn't bothered (c) encountered hysterical sobbing at the airport - arriving and/or departing?! Was hoping to go back for better weather ;) but it seems half the UK is flooded :frown: Also struggling to fit all my woolies in my suitcase - it's only used to having shorts and t-shirts. Flying with Etihad - anyone familiar with them? Just hoping they aren't the cut price airline with outside loos. :eek: Will be going back again soon. |
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