Things you miss from your homeland

food and the rush hour in LRT/MRT stations , the jeepneys

Biltong! (South African spiced dry meat!)

Beer gardens
Twiglets

Hot buttered toast and a proper cup of tea

blueberries
Red Rose Tea
Canadian Tire Store
Any department store such as Walmart (I cannot believe I am adding this one, as it was not my favorite, but it is so nice to go to one stop and find all that you are looking for.)

Let me start with:
a) Theater house/Cinemas
b) Starbucks
c) Mcdonald's
d) Poker nights with friends

Last but not the least - friends left behind.

when I get back home, I'll be Walmart #1 fan, appreciate all the public playgrounds and state parks, enjoy the traffic signs and fellow drivers, going to movie theater and mall every weekend, visit all the different choices of specialty restaurants and will not take for granted the simplicity of getting everything done ie. visa, driver license,electricity, my trash pick up, police tickets, buying plane tickets and on, and on....long list !!!!!!

A piping hot bowl of soup for brunch on a winter sunday morning after a long walk up Arthur's Seat. Ah Bliss

The wafting aroma of bacon being fried, not grilled for a good bacon buttie.
As for Starbucks over priced, and is that really coffee?  What about a good plain cup of black coffee. If God meant coffeE to be vanilla flavoured the bean would have it all.

ExpatLibyan wrote:

A piping hot bowl of soup for brunch on a winter sunday morning after a long walk up Arthur's Seat. Ah Bliss

Sounds great to me mate, Edinburgh lad myself, oh aye and looking down onto Easter Road, and dreaming of the next game to be played on the hallowed turf.

being able to go for a walk - safe from wild drivers, no broken up sidewalks, no hissing men, no blown kisses...

corollary: letting my daughter hop on her bike or walk down to the village to meet up with friends and go to the bookstore, coffee shop on her own.

bike riding

go to waterfront restaurant for a good mean with wine or beer

public libraries

parks with huge shade trees,

movie theaters

a sense of safety and order and predictability.

Suya and Gulder beer

which also goes for the UK

May be not from home, miss this
Ipoh Kway Teow,
5 tigers for 40 ringit,
being able to walk out of an evening around the park

Thai Food!

Knowing what day of the week it is.  And proper cheese.  And things to DO.  We are in Benghazi, after all.

smallworld wrote:

Thai Food!

I get that every day.

Mudman wrote:

smallworld wrote:

Thai Food!

I get that every day.

The only things I was able to get at Souq Talat were coconut milk and fish sauce.  Add local harissa + lime + cilantro =  poor man's Thai food.

smallworld wrote:

The only things I was able to get at Souq Talat were coconut milk and fish sauce.  Add local harissa + lime + cilantro =  poor man's Thai food.

It helps to be married to a thai lady who has lots of thai friends here. They all bring in ingredients in themselves or grow them. We have a garden full of thai chillis and basil

I'm Libyan , but i missing all what you mentioned above ,
especially the beer ,
sometimes i go to Malta just for 3 days , Friday,sat, Sunday for drink and get some dance in san jelian  ,   Tunisia and Spain

others go more far  to get drink ,

about the cinema , we have new cinema hee in janzour , and aldahra ,
thai restaurant in  alsera area , but not that good

Clansman wrote:

Sounds great to me mate, Edinburgh lad myself, oh aye and looking down onto Easter Road, and dreaming of the next game to be played on the hallowed turf.

Hi Clansman
I have been back in Libya for over a year now and I miss Edinburgh terribly, especially in August during the Festival.

Old Reekie is the best place on Earth.
Aye, good luck to the Hibees for the coming season, You need it!

Rgds
EL

ExpatLibyan wrote:

Clansman wrote:

Sounds great to me mate, Edinburgh lad myself, oh aye and looking down onto Easter Road, and dreaming of the next game to be played on the hallowed turf.

Hi Clansman
I have been back in Libya for over a year now and I miss Edinburgh terribly, especially in August during the Festival.

Old Reekie is the best place on Earth.
Aye, good luck to the Hibees for the coming season, You need it!

Rgds
EL

EL thanks for that. For me it is the most beautiful city in the world (when the weather is right). I spent the last 27 years of my life in Aberdeen (nice city, but not the same). Please don't tell me you followed the Jambos whilst in Edinburgh

Clansman wrote:

I spent the last 27 years of my life in Aberdeen (nice city, but not the same).

I agree, Aberdeen is nice but not in the same league as Edinburgh.
Please don't tell me you followed the Jambos whilst in Edinburgh

I would love to say I was a Jambos follower- just to see your reaction- but, I preferred the Hibees. I lived in Leith for around 15 years back in the Eighties & Nineties.
One of my Sons supported Hearts, so there were always heated football discussions in our household.

We should meet up for a Jar of 80/- and reminisce
Rgrds
EL

SOREEN

ExpatLibyan wrote:

Clansman wrote:

I spent the last 27 years of my life in Aberdeen (nice city, but not the same).

I agree, Aberdeen is nice but not in the same league as Edinburgh.
Please don't tell me you followed the Jambos whilst in Edinburgh

I would love to say I was a Jambos follower- just to see your reaction- but, I preferred the Hibees. I lived in Leith for around 15 years back in the Eighties & Nineties.
One of my Sons supported Hearts, so there were always heated football discussions in our household.

We should meet up for a Jar of 80/- and reminisce
Rgrds
EL

I will take you up on that EL sometime my friend.

sometimes I feel that I miss everything.

quite night sleep. sunday farmers market. lovingly smoked briskets. proper sushi. bookstores and public libraries. decent gyms. parks. green hills.

but mostly: S H O P P I N G !!!


getting trafiic tickets doesnt seem so bad now, nor does walmart's rapacious work tactics, and next time i am confronted by a grumpy trailer-trash DMV employee, I'll give her a hug for being so friendly. I loved shshuhup's post!

Sprocket wrote:

May be not from home, miss this
Ipoh Kway Teow,
5 tigers for 40 ringit,
being able to walk out of an evening around the park

I miss my tiger beers too! I know a place that sells 5 ringgit a mug in the smack of KL.

Island Bistro, Pavilion Mall sitting outside watching the world go by with buckets of tiger followed by the Haka for dinner on the way home there is no better way to spend a Sunday afternoon.