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I know everybody looks forward to going away on holiday, but when your trip is coming to an end I would think most people, well if they're anything like me, say I'll be glad to get home, I think its always good to go away but there's nothing like Home Sweet Home. I can remember when I worked away from home, the best sight was the motorway sign Junction 31 on the M6 The Tickled Trout, I knew I was nearly home

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Well heres one as aint like you, i never feel like coming back, Though agree many do, Was only talking to Maccas mam n dad this morning n they were saying glad to be back, The sun everyday was getting too much. Beats the hell outa me, but thats life.

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Agree with Cashman. Its a drag getting off that train and seeing Accrington. First few minutes back that is. :)

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Ya mean to tell me that when your away in Sunny Spain ya don't mis AccyWeb:eek::eek::D

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Ya well Accy, um I might just agree, but I live in Gods own country Oswaldtwistle, now thats worth coming home to:D

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No can't say I enjoy coming home after a holiday, doing all the accumulated washing, cooking meals after eating out every day, undoing post, finding emails and phone messages...

I really enjoy travelling and seeing new places and my ideal lifestyle would be to spend a few weeks or a month in a place and then move on. Trouble is, by the time you've got together enough cash to make something like that feasible you've usually also got a home, possessions and in most cases though not mine, family responsibilities. And you may be too old or unfit to do it anyway.

Life's so unfair!:(;)

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No........I never want to come home either. It always seems that you find a lovely spot to eat out or to sightsee on the very last day of your trip....and wish you had found this delight at the start of your holiday.
I could always manage at least another few days....and Ma is the same.
The only thing we are grateful of, is the fact that no-one can take away from you the pleasant time you had, the lovely places you visited and the kind people you met.
I blog about my trips so that when I am feeling in a bit of a 'brown phase' I can read about all the things we did and it almost feels like I have had a holiday...without the packing, the travelling or the accumulated washing.

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After more than 25 years in foreign lands, I always got a tremendous lift, no matter how tired or hungover, on my first sight of this sceptered isle. For all it's faults it is still home.

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Never been abroad myself

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It all depends on how long I've been away. If it is less than a month I could definitely do without the hassle of coming back. We went away for just over 6 weeks last year and by the end of it, I was ready to come home. I was only ready to come home because of the considerable amount of travelling we'd done. I felt that I just needed to be in one place for a bit. Also, we were away at Christmas and I really missed my nieces and nephews. I do normally blog about my travels. Like Margaret said, I can read it again and it takes me back there. I didn't blog the last one as it was just so busy, but I may get around to blogging a bit about it.
The only things I miss about home are my family and my own bed...:)

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The only thing I miss about not being home is a good cup of proper(leaf) tea.

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I was always reluctant to come home, but why is it when you have been home for a few hours, its like you've never been away.

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I'm with you on that Margaret, but we can even do that in our motorhome.

Yep, that's another good reason for staying away, Dave...

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When you are on a coach holiday you get teabag tea....and it can be gruesome.
When we have gone long haul, it hasn't been a problem. My family in Oz and friends over there usually get leaf tea in for me...I buy it once I get into Oz and carry it round in a screw top jar.....but even that sometimes isn't as good as my brew back home. Must have something to do with the water.
There is nothing on earth as good as a strong brew in your favourite mug.

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Think I'll stay home this year ... now, what can I do?

Kingston Canada's Official Tourism Website - Home

And where can I go eat?

Chez Piggy Restaurant & Bar

And if I leave Kingston, well, Canada's a fairly big country.;)

Thing is, on a semi-serious note, I've never looked at my home town as a tourist would look at it ... maybe I can have a serious staycation and do that:D

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I don't think anyone ever looks at their home town the way a tourist looks at it.......it must be a case of familiarity breeding contempt.

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Not really contempt ... indifference, maybe. I've been in Kingston for 27 years, and I have yet to visit Fort Henry, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In winter, I have been up on the glacis with bags of apples to feed the deer, but I've never been inside; never seen the Sunset Ceremony. Maybe sitting on a snowbank at -25, surrounded by friendly wild deer, is better than wandering around the old pile with a tour guide:alright:

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When I retired I spent 6 months touring Oz...doing the real touristy things.
My brother had lived in Sydney for 20 odd years and never been inside the QVB......never been to Luna Park(which was not all it was cracked up to be)....never seen Mrs MacQuarries Chair.....never been through the Chinese gardens. He said I put him to shame.

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To me its not just about going abroad Restless, I worked all of the Country England Scotland and Wales, but always looked forward to coming home, loved it while I was away, once worked in Carlisle for 3 months without a home visit, but it sure felt good when I saw junction 31 on the M6 I knew I was about 14 miles from home

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I've always fancied a trip to Canada but after reading this article on the Beeb website the other day, there's no way I could afford.

BBC News - Who, What, Why: Why does a cabbage cost $28 in Canada?

Would you pay C$28 (US$27; £18) for a cabbage? $65 for a bag of chicken? $100 for 12 litres of water? That's not the cost of a meal at a world-class restaurant, but the price of basic foodstuffs at supermarkets in the territory of Nunavut, in northern Canada.

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In 1980 I was on a 3 week holiday by car, going to Italy and back, making several overnight stops en route. In the 3rd week I ended up in a french hospital with C-difficile and had to be medically evacuated back by plane.

After that I only ever ventured abroad for a week, and always flew - fear of being ill away from home has never left me.

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But then it's unlikely that you would be travelling to Nunavut if you went to Canada.

If you live in a remote community you end up paying more for certain things - it was the same when we were in Greenland a few years ago. It's OK if yu stick to basic traditional foods but if you want something like a red pepper...

And I remember travelling in the Scottish islands in the early seventies and finding that bread and milk etc were far more expensive. It's still the case with some things today - fuel for instance costs more in remote parts of Scotland than elsewhere.

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Exactly, a rather remote outpost so hence the prices. Who wrote this article ? C'mon Stanley ? Sounds like one of his.

No doubt our resident "Trapper" Eric from the frozen North, will be along presently to quell your fears & reassure you of Canada's hospitality & affordability. :)

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I left home (liverpool) at 18 to join the Army, pretty much since then I've lived "elsewhere" but the majority of my life has been over here in Germany. It's good to "come home" & see family & friends even some of you lot. :)

The term home is very emotive & I'd say a matter of perspective. As it is, this is my home here but my homeland is England & as stated when I come back to England that's also me coming home, but my home (England) has changed way past what I knew when I left so it doesn't feel quite like home.

Convoluted I know but I suppose you'd have had to live away for a while to see what I mean & I think quite a lot of ex-pats feel the same, but when asked where's home we say England. ;)

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What makes you think that? International jet-setter me, I'm braving the wastelands of Ossy shortly.;)

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Oh well, if you're determined...

Nunavut - Canada's Arctic

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Hope you've applied for a Visa and got two endorsements, before you even try and cross the Church line;):D

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By endorsements i think he meant convictions.:rolleyes::D:D:D

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Well, in Nunavut, with an area about eight times that of the UK and a population less than that of Hyndburn, you don't don't find a discount convenience store on every street corner. Well, maybe you do 'cause there are only a couple of dozen streets in the territory.:rolleyes:

All those foodstuffs that you consider to be part of a normal diet have to be flown in, in hazardous conditions. This is value added on steroids. Many of the Inuit people follow the traditional life style, which does't include a full English breakfast or pizza.

And if workers from the south are sent in, govt. workers included, they receive a more than generous "northern allowance" which allows them to splurge on luxuries such as cabbage;):D

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I believ that you have to experience life in another country before you can compare life styles - but basically if your happy with "your lot" stick to it, but remember happiness is where the heart is. As long as you can see the ceiling when you wake up or do not find your name in the orbit column you are still winning.

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You'll be alright in Nunavut, there's always a couple of polar bears willing to sit down to lunch with you.

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Well ya have to have convictions to even get into Church to start with:D

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Thats sound thinking the first thing I check in the Obs is the orbit column to make sure I'm not in:rolleyes:

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Ya but they don't play fair they always get the lions share, and get quite noughty if you try to take some of "their" food:D

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Haha that's the best one yet. Follow the famous and get your remains blasted into space.

Build your own cremated remains rocket, just like Hunter S. Thompson | Digital Dying

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Oh and I thought you lived in a state of confusion :p

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And you get to be on the menu;):D

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I am always ready to go away at the drop of a hat - would never come back if it were up to me.
Have just returned from 10 days in the UK -arrived in the monsoon and had quite a few days that were grey and it doesn't bother me or get me down. Then, when the sun shines, it's the most beautiful place -love the green and the gardens full of flowers. Have come back to 31°C and the relentless sun of Italy. The Brits coming off the plane with me in Milan were delighted -it's great when you're on your hols and have nothing to do but hard to live with every day. (Moan,moan!)
Like Barrie said -my heart lifts a little every time I return to the UK and I am a little sadder every time I leave. Although I've been here 25 years - still don't think of it as home -just somewhere i live.

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Thats just my home, ask anyone whos been:D:D

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Poor baby;) Maybe you would like this:

Home Thoughts, from Abroad, by Robert Browning

Or this even:

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, by Rupert Brooke

Me ... I'm Canadian. I've been back a few times. But, I'm happy when I see that big maple leaf on the plane that's going to take me back home to the Great White North:alright:

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Then there's Shakespeare...

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

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Luvvly Eric -Browning was one of the 5 poets I had for O-level.

Of Rupert Brooke I only knew "He is Gone" part of the 1914 sonnets which a friend sent me - it is beautiful, as was he. (The poet and the friend!):):hothothot

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I stopped living full-time in this area when I was eighteen.

However I always came back every month or so, and this was always coming 'home'. No matter where I was happily living at the time.

I'd get giddy when pulling into Wigan, because we were then in the north, proper.

Once I could see the dark, damp, rolling hills and moors that surround Hyndburn, I knew I was really home.

I didn't like coming home from holidays as a child. Most years we went to Sandbanks in Dorset three times a year. I'd tearfully say goodbye to everything in my head. Until I'd see them all again.

Goodbye sea, beach, ferry, Davis's boatyard, Brownsea Island, the white art deco house, the licorice allsorts house, John Lennon's Aunt Mimi's house, the pine tree stuck on the little hill.

Sad, strange, child.

Now it doesn't bother me at all.

Love being away.

Love being home.

Though I do still always say goodbye to the sea wherever I am.

Knowing my Dad's ashes are being washed around by it.

:)

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Same here - left at 18 for Uni., came back when i could, but never realised how attached I was till I'd left "for good".

I also love being nice and quiet in my own routine at home-yet am ready to leave at the drop of a hat.

I love being by water - not for the same reason as you - nice to think your Dad's present every time you encounter the sea though. I love being by water as it reaches out and calms my soul.

As to your being a sad, strange child -not at all, I can remember the smallest strangest details of family holidays when I was little - they are the things that make up the "glue" that binds us together over the years.

Recently have begun to understand the selective nature of memory though...

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I like that. My partner's mother's and father's ashes were both scattered at sea several years apart from the Calshot lifeboat in the Solent. The ironic thing was that they had been divorced since Richard was five yet they were both scattered in the same area so had no choice but to be together again!

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When I used to travel by train from the south to Accrington it was interesting hear how people's accents changed with each stop as we got further north. I think mine changed with them as well!

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Some of that's lovely.

Some of it's really quite sad.

I do understand, as we both left here at a similar time, and at a similar age. Though I was only in London, not living in Heidi's Alpine Italian moo-cow farm.

Home is not only where your heart is, but if you have a romantic nature, where those who genetically made us toiled, cried, sweat, laughed, and dreamed.

Just accept it the same way you're bi-lingual, or that you sometimes dream in Italian, or English.

Half your home is in lush Italian pasture land, and half is on cobbles, and wet, moorland sod.

Home is where the heart is.

Thankfully your's is big enough to be in two pieces at the same time.

;)

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Yes, me too.

Loved hearing familar accents on the train.

Once chased someone down Piccadilly, after recognising a very local accent.

Turns out they were from Antley, and they eventually calmed down, and even laughed, after being accosted by some nutter.

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We were in Killin in Scotland in May. Outside a shop a guy approached me and said excuse me are you from Accrington. He recognised my accent.

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Yes, it was nice to meet you that day.

:D

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I thought that there was only me who went round mentally saying goodbye to everything.
Thank you for making me feel like I am not in a club of one G.

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Nope, you weren't alone.

I said I don't...but I still do, occasionally.

Though the sea's the only one I say farewell aloud to now.

:D

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I've just thought of a condensed version of all that guff.

Your roots are firmly planted here in Lancashire.

But you grew tall, and your blooms are in Castelverde.

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I was working in Coventry in a WMC in the early 70s when this chap came up to me and said 'tha coms fra lanci dunt thi lad', ya Accrington I said (as that name was on our vans) 'I come from Ossy mi sen'. It turned out that this guy used to sit next to my mother at St Marys in the 30s and he lived on Busk Meadow Street

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I like that G...I like it a lot.

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When talking about accents giving us away.....please read this.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/b...ncidences.html
It says it all.

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Lived away from Accy for 25 years now and I'll probably never live here again. However, Accrington will always be "home" and I'll keep returning here until I make that final visit when they scatter my ashes on the Clayton End (which hopefully won't be for awhile yet!). ;)

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Me too Margaret! Quite poetic - like the Botanical theme -very apt.:hothothot

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I've just come back today from a week in Malta to celebrate my partner's 60th birthday ( the old git)! We are both so glad to be home in our own surroundings after having a lovely time, but it's true, there really is no place like home!

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Glad yeh had a good un, Maltas fine wi me, P.S.i used to be 60.:D

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Ya but that was a long time ago:D

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Malta was really lovely but very hot and humid, I can't cope with humidity very well but apart from that it was a good holiday. I'd recommend it.

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it was seeing kentucky fried chicken at salmesbury i knew i was home after 2 weeks in northern ireland when i was a kid ...:p:p:p

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After more than 25 years in foreign lands, I always got a tremendous lift, no matter how tired or hungover, on my first sight of this sceptered isle. For all it's faults it is still home.

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Why would you be repeating post no 8, from someone else?

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Very observant susie, and rather strange post really, the post is verbatim of Barries post no8

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Whats also very odd, Introduction says born n raised in Georgia, Yet knew the people i know on the Crawshaw St Thread. Methinks theres 2 people posting on that username.

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Me too Barrie. Nothing like seeing Ossie by night from the moors road.
When my son was little we were on our way to Ossie and my mum-trying to keep him occupied - told him that all the lights he could see from the moors road were 'silly buggers'. As we got nearer to Ossie and he saw the lights of the town, he said, " Oh, look Grannie , Ossie is full of 'silly buggers"
...Out of the mouths of babes... as they say.
For me Ossie will always be home!

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No Cashy think he's just a hit and run poster. If he was really wanting to contribute to those threads he wouldn't just duplicate the posts but add his own comment too.If you google his username it comes up with about seven pages of forums he's joined. In many cases he has gone on to make no further posts. Let's hope it's the same here.

Forza a few weeks ago was the same - not been heard of since.

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Strange, U-haul is an American removal company, doesn't seem to have branches in UK.

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Well he is from Georgia, USA or ex-Russia, take your pick.

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Westend did the same 10 posts then gone