Where are you and what do you miss?

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Even though it has snowed here already, we are originally from Maine and so we miss big snow storms, quiet back roads winter driving and all of the Christmas lights on people's houses!


Know exactly what you mean. The first few years after moving away from home I always made it back at least twice a year for the local county fair on Labour Day weekend & Christmas. Then the cousins started moving farther away so couldn't make it back + with older relatives passing on, it just wasn't the same & with kids the Labour Day weekend was for getting ready for school.

The price one pays for growing up. This year I will be perfectly happy sitting under a palm tree beside the pool eating a nuked meal I bought the day before from Pollo Campero & sipping on a Piña Colada, remembering the Quebec Christmases.

Reading all of these answers has really got me thinking. When we leave for our RTW trip our daughter will be 8, and we are not exactly sure where we will be on the major (US) holidays, and how we will go about celebrating them. Christmas while traveling will not be the same as Christmas at home.

I´m back at home after 18 month trip... I miss having my backpack on, working out where i am, where I´m going and how I´m going to get there there, and the fact that it doesn´t really matter at all, and I miss eating noodles for breakfast.
For those of you out and about, enjoy every minute of it!

GreenMango

Working in Istanbul.

I miss camping and bonfires with my friends back home, Mexican food, bluegrass, sledding, and driving.

Living in Scotland, working on a Masters degree at the University of Edinburgh. Been here for seven weeks now. I didn't feel one iota of homesickness until my dad came and visited me last weekend, but when he left it hit me hard. It didn't help that my two favorite flatmates moved back to Australia that same week. I'm going back to the States for Christmas, but this will be my first (American) Thanksgiving away from my family. My lectures will have just ended for the term, so I'm thinking about spending a week or so in Wales over Thanksgiving.

At the moment, I miss sunshine, because it's been rainy for several days. Also, flavorful food! I had a massive craving for sweet and sour sauce for weeks, and I finally satisfied it a few days ago when I found a Chinese takeaway near my flat that serves sweet and sour shrimp. I'm a southern gal, so cold sweet tea goes without saying. I also miss all the sights and smells that go along with October at home - pumpkins, burning leaves, Halloween costumes at the shops, fall colors, and the crispness in the air as the season changes.

Maestra LE wrote:Living in Scotland, working on a Masters degree at the University of Edinburgh. Been here for seven weeks now. I didn't feel one iota of homesickness until my dad came and visited me last weekend, but when he left it hit me hard. It didn't help that my two favorite flatmates moved back to Australia that same week. I'm going back to the States for Christmas, but this will be my first (American) Thanksgiving away from my family. My lectures will have just ended for the term, so I'm thinking about spending a week or so in Wales over Thanksgiving.

At the moment, I miss sunshine, because it's been rainy for several days. Also, flavorful food! I had a massive craving for sweet and sour sauce for weeks, and I finally satisfied it a few days ago when I found a Chinese takeaway near my flat that serves sweet and sour shrimp. I'm a southern gal, so cold sweet tea goes without saying. I also miss all the sights and smells that go along with October at home - pumpkins, burning leaves, Halloween costumes at the shops, fall colors, and the crispness in the air as the season changes.

Living in Amsterdam now since Sept 1 (starting a PhD) so I can totally relate! No one exactly moves to Holland for the food or the weather. Tho the biggest thing I miss is Mexican food and reasonably priced sushi food-wise.

It's also kinda hard for me to believe it's really fall here because the leaves on the trees aren't really changing color- some are yellow, sure, but not in any way you'd notice I guess. After the glorious falls you have in the US Northeast it's just really really not the same!

Halloween I'm hoping to change by throwing my own bash as a nearby costume store sells Halloween decorations- it'll be a bit of a challenge to find some good carving pumpkins tho. And then of course you need to explain how on Earth Halloween works to everyone else.

For Christmas 2010 we were staying on the coast in Watamu Kenya. After dinner we walked down to beach which was next to our accommodation, I can only describe the sand like white flour, a perfect day spent with lovely people.

For Christmas 2010 we were staying on the coast in Watamu Kenya. After dinner we walked down to beach which was next to our accommodation, I can only describe the sand like white flour, a perfect day spent with lovely people but not like an English Christmas.

We have spent Christmas away for the past few years in many different counties.
Christmas is just not the same in a hot climate.
It's hard to explain I guess home is where the heart is and most people think of family and friends at Christmas.
The long walks on a crisp morning and ice skating are things I love to do.

This year we have decided to stay at home for Christmas and NYE and I am so looking forwards to having family here to stay.