What should you take abroad from the UK?

[grumpygit]

Anything else I will give up but tea, never. I will tow a barge of tea bags behind me if need be. Is it still Liptons everywhere orcan you buy some decent teas?

Mark, if you addiction to tea is so great, take plenty out with you and any visitors must bring as a stipulation a tea of your choosing, ours is Twinings Everyday. Or you will probably have to settle for Lipton's English Tea and believe me you will either stop drinking tea or slit your wrists........

All else you should be able to find, some things cheaper and some dearer.

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[Nostrodamus]

We clared asda out of tea bags today. They are sealed in plastic bags everywhere. When they run out were are having frsh supplies dropped in by the red cross before thee is a humanitarian disaster. If that fails wath out for the tea thief, breakfast tea is second on my list.
(good to see you are safe and well)

 

[Carmel2]

When you reach the Med you will be amazed at the amount of "friends" who suddenly show an interest in visiting you, let them bring anything you need/crave.

 

[jeanne]

Tinned meat!

It may sound a bit mundane, but you really can't get good quality cans of stew, corned beef, spag. bolog. sauce, etc., out of UK.
If you like reading, you will get through more books than you ever imagined, take lots, and swap them as you go with other boats.
Chandlery is almost always cheaper in England, and getting what you want there does not involve learning the Spanish for a stainless steel woodscrew (una tornilla de inox, short for acero inoxidable)

 

[Conachair]

Chandlery is almost always cheaper in England, and getting what you want there does not involve learning the Spanish for a stainless steel woodscrew (una tornilla de inox, short for acero inoxidable)

What, and miss out on that feeling of excitement rushing ashore in a new town to check out the ferraterias? Or even better the fishermans chandlers?

Forget the cathedrals, a decent ferrateria every time

 

[Baggy]

Dont forget the excellent Alexander Kent books

Very enjoyable yarns about Capt Bolitho's swash buckeling sailing adventures, some of which are based in ...Cornwall...

I highly recommend them...

 

[BrianH]

you really can't get good quality cans of stew, corned beef, spag. bolog. sauce, etc., out of UK.

Erm, perhaps with that last one you just might be reminded of something about 'coals to Newcastle' if you ever make it past Spain and here to Italy.

Unless what is meant is something to go with the tinned spaghetti that I remember once seeing advertised in the UK . To be served on toast, if I remember .

 

[wazza]

The one thing I cannot live without is tea!!!!

England had an empire built on tea(ok Britain then) ... MUST have a cuppa in the morning.. so I'm with you on this one!!!!

 

[wazza]

Dont forget the excellent Alexander Kent books

Very enjoyable yarns about Capt Bolitho's swash buckeling sailing adventures, some of which are based in ...Cornwall...

I highly recommend them...

SOOOOO true... I'm now reading "Relentless Pursuit" feels as though I've lost a friend
Blinding series..

 

[dslittle]

The one thing I cannot live without is tea!!!!

And there I was thinking that it was lager !!!

 

[Nostrodamus]

And there I was thinking that it was lager !!!

I need the tea to counter effect the larger from the night before but I cannot do it the other way round.

If I had to give up one it would be... er.. er.. er eating.

 

[Roaring Girl]

Tea bags definitely the only thing

(and like Conachair, ferreteria is always high on the list, and its equivalent one of the first words we learn in any new language.)

 

[VO5]

...And Branston Pickle...

In foreign ports if in a pickle, Branston will get you out of it...

 

[Liz_I]

Going to be shot down in flames for this

Yes there may be a few things that would be nice to get hold of as comfort items. Europe especially is not the third world and most things are available especially in tourist traps ( do you really want to go there?)

Chandlery items, okay internet access and order, usually delivered within the week.

If it's really that important why leave the UK ??

 

[Nostrodamus]

There have been some good suggestions on here.
My boys have asked if any of you can watch any british tv or do you do it on the I player etc.
Is it worth them bringing plenty of DVD's.

 

[Baggy]

I did see New Trick on portugese TV.. But I dont understand portugese..

 

[BrianH]

There have been some good suggestions on here.
My boys have asked if any of you can watch any british tv or do you do it on the I player etc.
Is it worth them bringing plenty of DVD's.

The Astra 2D satellite transmits all UK channels as FTA (Free To Air), BBC 1-4, and ITV, but the footprint is tightly focused on the UK. It is possible to pick up the signal even as far south as France and Spain but it requires larger dish antennas the further south and east you go. The footprint map of Astra 2D is here.

I can get all channels on Astra 2D with a 60cm dish in Switzerland but in Italy I cannot (with such a small antenna dish) and instead receive Astra 1H (19.2°), which has most German language transmissions (I speak German), although there are a few English-language news feeds on it such as BBC World, Aljazeera, CNN, CNBC and Bloomburg.

If you wish to use the PC then the BBC i-Player will deny you access when it detects the foreign ISP, however, that is easy to circumvent by accessing via a proxy website - there are plenty of those.

 

[Nostrodamus]

I really do thank you all for your suggestions and help but it appears the only real things I need to take are teabags, Branston pickle, an open mind and a willingness to try and integrate.
We may run out of the first two but hopefully we have got so much of the second two that we will never run out.

 

[ccscott49]

I need the tea to counter effect the larger from the night before but I cannot do it the other way round.

If I had to give up one it would be... er.. er.. er eating.

Was it a big lager?