I'm pretty sure thats unrepresentative of Brits in general, they dont all go to Benidorm on holiday, and the Costas "for the most part" arent full of Fish & Chip shops

Ive travelled a fair amount over the years and the Brits are always there. Its a bit like the Dutch really, I could more or less guarantee wherever Ive been you would always find a Dutch man lurking around somewhere

... and I think its fair to say thats more than enough!

Do their armed forces need passports?

They are not sure if their national dish is available elsewhere.

Tomato ketchup

I think we both know the answer to that, they don't need passports, they do whatever the crap they like and let everyone else clean up their mess!

The thing about America, is that you can travel a thousand miles... and still be in the same state. The language doesn't change dramatically every few hundred miles like it does in Europe.
Anyhow, I think that better educated people are more likely to travel - like us lot!

Perhaps not travel 1000 miles and be in the same state. All else is right. In California I believe you can drive from San Diego north for about 800 miles to the Oregon border.

Dangerous ground when you consider better educated and more privileged people travelling more than the plebs left behind on the sink estates on the dole.

True, though?

I think it's extremely sad that people dont venture outside their comfort circle from time to time and go see other parts of the world.

We aint here for that long, so if they have the chance they should take it

No, probably not! Some of those pictures reminded me of the reasons I used to like living there (sometimes) - lovely scenery, I could walk out of my front door and be walking on the moors in less than 10 minutes, it was nice to come home to after working in the city. But also others brought to mind the reasons why I didn't like it (sometimes) - entirely too much snow, and I didn't see many pictures showing the many, many wet days we got. We had to travel quite a long way for anything other than basic shopping too, 7 miles to a decent supermarket. Apart from the lack of any well paid jobs locally, I couldn't have stood working there as well as living there, I would have felt really "cut off".

You sound like a bit of a townie.
I'm only at home when I've got "land lots of land neath the starry skies above, don't fence me in"
I've never felt cut off in the country, but some cities can be lonely places and almost make me feel imprisoned at times, can never wait to get out of them.

A little bit like your lot.

I probably am, but like the best of both worlds if I can find it. Where I live now I have a lovely view of hills and mountains from my bedroom windows and the roof terrace, but all the amenities of a large town 5 minutes' walk from my front door, plus great public transport links to the nearest city (Malaga) and 40 minutes from the airport.

When I worked in the city and moaned about the commute, colleagues would say well, you could move, I live in a nice area, and I would think "What's nice about it? Just acres and acres of semi-detached houses as far as you can see, and house prices at least double where I live." There's just no pleasing some folk (ie me!).

My sister and brother have both stayed living no more than 2 miles away from the house we were brought up in. My brother travels all over the UK for work (and could go all over the world but turns down all the foreign assignments as he doesn't do "abroad"). He will get up at 4am to drive down to London and drive back again at night, then do it all again the following day, because he just hates staying away from his family overnight. Nowt so queer as folk.

I've done quite a bit of commuting (and staying away) back in the days when my industry employed Brits instead of importing the ICT crowd.
I too used to hate staying overnight in a hotel, and not just because it was incredibly expensive. There is nothing better than waking up in your own place, where you know where to get your favourite cup of tea and help yourself to a slice of toast, even if you then have a 2 or 3 hour journey to work.

Done most of that but not in the same trip. Had to do a u turn near Cannon beach cause the road was out due to a landslide. Seems to happen quite often up there. Lovely drive - at least once you get north of Malibu.