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Temat: What do you miss about 'home'?

If you are/were living abroad, what do/did you miss about your home country?

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I left Poland 21 years ago and haven't been back to visit since then. I guess it tells you how much or what I miss about my home country – absolutely nothing. Going there next year and not because I wanted to but kids are just too curious and want to see Europe.
Personally I prefer to see Australia or South America……yeah I know, I've always been a black sheep in my family :P
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I left Poland 16 years ago. What do I miss... culture, history, mentality, life style... little things like being able to go and see a real castle for example. Going hiking in Gory Stolowe, not having to pay for beaches... taste of food, fruit, vegetables. Everything here tastes like nothing. Polish bread! Choices of beer... family, friends... too many things to name. Freedom is another thing that came to mind after my first visit back last year.
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bread
doughnuts
beer
climate (!)

I should probably add friends and family to the list, but honestly I'm with Darek on this one.
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Don't you have beer in Italy?
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When abroad (for not a long time) I desperately missed the white birch trees and the variety of Polish forests.
I cannot live without them.

And bread of course.
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If I used the word "beer" in reference to the straw-yellow liquid that I can buy here, I would be insulting all brewskis of the world.

Where I live I don't get polish beer, and honestly how long can you go on Heine, Becks or Bud (yuck!)? Sure, there's Guinness, but my beer budget is limited (voluntarily).
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Family and friends. All other stuff I can buy in a Tesco or Polski Sklep.
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I 'get' the point of Poles when they say they miss the bread.

In Poland much/most bread is baked on the permises in small bakeries and eaten fresh.

By contrast, in Britain, generally speaking, it is baked in huge bakeries, delivered to supermarkets, pumped full of preservatives and has been on the shelves for some time before it gets to the consumer.

Of course if you are used to this kind of bread you don't know any different and its lack of taste and freshness doesn't really bother you.

I can't agree about the beer however.

Beer in almost all European countries is 'lager', and apart from the marketing, tastes identical where ever you go.

It's shite.

Nowadays most people in the U.K. drink this mass produced effluent.

Traditional British beer: stout, bitter, mild, brown ale is excellent.

Of course, as with many products, it's an acquired taste.
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warren whitmore:
I can't agree about the beer however.
Beer in almost all European countries is 'lager', and apart from the marketing, tastes identical where ever you go.
It's shite.
Come to Ita, go to a bar/pub/restaurant and order a pint of lager. You can buy some in a local store too.

Then go back to PL and do the same. Trust me - you will appreciate the difference.

There's shite and there's shitty shite.
Traditional British beer: stout, bitter, mild, brown ale is excellent.
Agreed.
Of course, as with many products, it's an acquired taste.
100% agreed.
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Can't stand ale myself, and I have to say I like a good lager (I can differentiate between some brands!)

I miss rashers and sausages, and breakfast rolls, and I really miss the "customer first" mentality in shops. I can't stand dealing with clerks or shop assistants in Poland, as they ofetn have a jobsworth mentality which leaves them afraid of their life to make absolutely any judgement calls. And why have shopowners never heard of a float in the till? If your Mars bar vosts 2.35, you had better have a 2, three tens and a five! This should be in the "It gets me" thread, but to bring it back, when I lived in Ireland, it seemed to me that people would let you off the last five pence if you didn't have it, or if the cafe closed at six, and you got there at five to six, they still made you a breakfast roll (mmmmmm!). You could order off the menu in most places, and the waiter would work out a reasonable price, rather than refer it to the manager, or downright refuse to serve it. I realise that this is pure nostalgia, and that Dublin has gone to the dogs as well, but I do miss that about home.
And a cool, creamy pint of Uncle Arthur's!
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Lidia K.:
When abroad (for not a long time) I desperately missed the white birch trees and the variety of Polish forests.
I cannot live without them.

And bread of course.

hehehe, funny that you mentioned birch (with its white bark), I'm not saying I miss it but I wouldn't mind to see it from time to time. As to bread...it's available here you just need to go to polish deli to get it, and cheese cake, and .....too many to list :)
Ah, and beer....Okocim, Leżańskie, Heineken...anything you want, having been living here for so long, I've yet to try to Bud...I heard from Poles it tastes like a piss of a very sick camel.
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Darek Koter:
I've yet to try to Bud...I heard from Poles it tastes like a piss of a very sick camel.
Very, very sick one.
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Jarek A.:
Darek Koter:
I've yet to try to Bud...I heard from Poles it tastes like a piss of a very sick camel.
Very, very sick one.
well there...it's even worse than I thought....lol
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Darek Koter:
Jarek A.:
Darek Koter:
I've yet to try to Bud...I heard from Poles it tastes like a piss of a very sick camel.
Very, very sick one.
well there...it's even worse than I thought....lol

Actually I'd say that it tastes like a watered down piss of a dying camel... AND it comes in "lite" flavor as well... I've come across some really good micro breweries in the US, but other than that it's all total crap. Another thing that hit me was how most imported beers here don't taste as rich as originals. Tyskie for example is so much better and fuller in Poland than here.
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Rafal W.:
Darek Koter:
Jarek A.:
Darek Koter:
I've yet to try to Bud...I heard from Poles it tastes like a piss of a very sick camel.
Very, very sick one.
well there...it's even worse than I thought....lol

Actually I'd say that it tastes like a watered down piss of a dying camel... AND it comes in "lite" flavor as well... I've come
across some really good micro breweries in the US, but other than that it's all total crap. Another thing that hit me was how most imported beers here don't taste as rich as originals. Tyskie for example is so much better and fuller in Poland than here.

poor camel, we're making fun of him lol
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I miss the social life I had in Belgium with family...
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warren whitmore:
... Question for Brits and for Poles?
Next!
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ilter K.:
warren whitmore:
... Question for Brits and for Poles?
Next!

And Turks, Belgians, Irish, Americans, Macedonians and any other nationality on the board who happen to be away from 'home'.warren whitmore edytował(a) ten post dnia 19.07.08 o godzinie 12:31
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Oleg Holuczenko

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When studied in Russia I missed Estonian food... good quality of sausage, bread, good ham. and friends here. Also I missed the cleanliness of the streets.
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