Steerpike

Funnily enough, Marmite is one of the very few things I still seek out after 28 years away ... You can get Marmite here now pretty easily in many stores, but my biggest treat is 'twiglets' ... had my family bring over bags and bags of those!

lansbury

http://www.amazon.com/Jacobs-Origina...5020834&sr=8-1

Steerpike

Item added to my cart !!! Thanks. Pricey but I'll enjoy them ...

redglade

This is true. After several years over here, the only thing I still really miss is decent radio programming. And a decent local news TV broadcast.

ohwottodo

i miss proper bacon and sausages
nhs
walking to the shops
proper roast dinner (its just not the same here)
british food in general

but.. the weather is beautiful
the people are happier
they pack your groceries for you
customer service is generally so much better than in the UK
the quality of life if you can make it work is so much better!

Englishtart

I miss those things too...I would love to sit down to a 'proper' Sunday roast lamb lunch, it's way too expensive here to buy lamb and it doesn't taste the same.

I really don't find people here (generally) to be happier, nor the customer service any better, just more invasaive.

I would really like to be able to travel more here and see more of the US, but we never seem to have the time. Recently we have decided to forget hubby working another 15 yrs to get another 20 year gov't retirement (he already earned his military one) and we are going to sell up everything we 'own' and buy a 5th wheel, we are bound and determined to enjoy the rest of the time we have left doing what we had planned to do 15 yrs from now, while we still can. Can't wait to buggar off and see more of this huge Country and enjoy some peace and quiet.

Hubby is deployed at the mo' but will be back in May, meanwhile, I am off to Canada on Thursday, CA on the 23rd for 3 weeks to help inlaws move, then back to Canada till late April. Have vacation booked to Hawaii in August to visit our oldest Son too I can't wait!

no regrets, no excuses.

Michael

Barely in Santa Clara county (Silicon Valley) since the beginning of the year. A new law was passed that the stores have to charge a "disposable bag fee" of 5 cents each so most of the time they just hand you the items unless you have a big order and then they ask if you want them bagged.

Scouse Express

Spend a weekend in Jo Davies County (Galena) aka "The Illinois Rockies."

Not exactly elevated, but, there are some rolling hills and "The Irish Cottage" Hotel, that puts on some great entertainment of a weekend.

Jim.

SultanOfSwing

That's out west, right, near Iowa? Furthest out that way we've been is Sterling/Rock Falls. Does get a bit hillier out that way.

We went to the House on the Rock up in WI a couple of times last year, it is nice and hilly there right enough ...

Scouse Express

You Go Girl!!! - Shit, I used an American phrase


Jim.

Scouse Express

Go up I-90 to Rockford and then West on US 20 to Galena. I live in Dubuque, just across the Mississippi. That's the closest I can get to sea-air, when I'm at home.

Jim.

SultanOfSwing

We used to take Rt.20 from Huntley to Rockford, then get on Rt.2 to get to Sterling. There's a big contrast between the flat farmland on 20 and the winding, hillier road by the Rock river on Rt.2 (with a series of views of the Byron nuclear plant ...). Shame the relatives that used to live out that way moved to Texas, it was a nice drive!

Scouse Express

I should add that Dubuque has quite an Air-Show and Fireworks Display, every year on July 3rd.

Here's a youtube clip, from part of this years air-display, which I missed becaused I was away working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-GUrxs9EI


Jim.

SultanOfSwing

Ah, an air show. Think I'll slip that one in when the Mrs is looking for 'summer trip ideas' again this year. Oshkosh to, methinks ...

njmackem

Target does a bang up job. Archer farms curries are really good.