DrVegas

The other thread was closed..........but I wanted you to know I would have chosen you (even though you proposed to vp, sniff, sniff).

To keep this travel related, what hotel would you choose to stay in? what restaurant for dinner?

DrVegas

I think he wrote earlier you%26#39;d be ';too high maintenance';. I see why he thought that, being you%26#39;re already asking what hotel and restaurant. ;) He aint no dummy!

j/k

DrVegas

Does going to a laundromat make a woman high maintenance??

That%26#39;s what I have to do when I%26#39;m %26#39;over the pond.%26#39;

My whole image of you has changed. Do you wear those shoes to the laundry?

Are you coming ';home'; on Virgin? I would be interested in finding out if they still give you the small toothbrush and the tube of toothpaste I received the 2 times I used them. Sure would come in handy now!

Absolutely, fits right in don%26#39;t you think, damama?? ;)

I could regale you about things over here, such as 9/10%26#39;s of homes don%26#39;t have utility/laundry rooms and washers are installed under the counter in the kitchens, very few have dryers which are called %26#39;tumblers%26#39; over here. I%26#39;m looking for a house with a utility room, just can%26#39;t see dirty clothes in a kitchen or hanging everything on a clothesline either.

vp03, I%26#39;ve never flown Virgin but would love to sometime. I%26#39;m on American Airlines. I usually use miles to upgrade to Bus Class on the trip over, fly cattle car on the way back since I%26#39;m just going to be going to my own house alone. I will ask a flight attendant if they are still doing the little kits with the toothbrush/paste and lotions like on the way over. Not sure if that%26#39;s changed or not since the threats of a couple of weeks ago.

Crossing fingers that things at Heathrow have settled down a bit, don%26#39;t fancy a 3 hr wait going through security checks.

Why not stay at a place that has a washer/dryer? Like one of the Hilton Grand Vacation Clubs?

GabbyGambler are you from the UK? I am never quite sure unless i have missed it in one of your posts....

Mim

';I%26#39;m looking for a house with a utility room';

You poor dear, good luck :)

My biggest peeve about our flat there was the hot and cold water coming from different taps on opposite sides of the kitchen sink, so it wwas either scald or freeze my hands while doing dishes. Well, no I guess the shower having the water pressure of an eyedropper was worse. I actually had to go onto base three times a week to wash my hair in the gym showers!

Mim, hopefully Gabby won%26#39;t mind me answering for her, she%26#39;s an American married to a Brit :) She has a transatlantic marriage, which I also did for three years when my (USian) husband was staioned at Mildenhall. Good for frequent flier miles, but certainly difficult at times!

I love hearing everyones %26#39;differences%26#39; about living in different countries!!!

I love how everything is so B-I-G in the US. I have stayed (not lived) in several states and LOVE the US. Mark (my husband) was previously in the Army and stationed twice just outside Seattle. Some US base - can%26#39;t remember the name - which was twice the size of Wales!! Now I thought Wales was big....

I love the fact that supermarkets in the US are bigger than the village I live in, and that I could fit inside a box of washing powder. I have never seen such a range of squeezy cheese (yuk!) or so many brands of breakfast cereals. Plus the fact you can buy a gun whist picking up your groceries.

I love the fact that when I try to buy a pair of pants I end up with trousers.

I love the way Americans love the British accent and how rubbish I am at doing a cockney accent despite living in east London for 5 years as a student.

I love the huge wide open roads.

I love watching the weather channel - we always seem to be caught up in a storm somewhere on our Florida visits - and watching it 24/7.

It is a 50/50 on whether you get seperate or joint taps in the UK. I like the kitchen as 1 tap and the bathroom as 2 taps! Or the best alternative is having a dishwasher!! The water pressure is low in the UK but the advent of power showers has helped this. I love my shower and apparently spend far too long in it in the mornings...

Sorry that this has gone way off tangent I am bored at work and am amusing myself typing away...

Mim was your husband at Ft. Pierce? I used to live in Seattle. When I was flying back and forth to England 6x a year, it was quite nice to never have to wonder what the weather was like, it was always the same in both places.

Our flat was very old with none of the mod-cons like power shower and dishwasher. The cooker barely worked, we ate a lot of microwave meals.

What I miss about the UK? Custard slices from Tesco. The horrible tabloids, especially heat magazine. Jammie dodgers. The Maple Vanilla smoothies from Marks %26amp; Spencer. Sky cable. The Bill. Chris Moyles. Shopping at LUSH for cheap (compared to US prices)

I don%26#39;t miss the ';24 hour'; stores that close at night, nor the co-ops always being out of bread and milk at the weekend :)

I lived in London when I was in uni there for a semester in %26#39;91, I liked that much better than the country. We were bored out of our skulls in Mildenhall, we%26#39;re both city kids. We found ourselves forever driving to Cambridge or Ipswich just to see a film or eat at a semi-decent restaurant (we managed to find one in each city, but only one :)

Not to worry, I%26#39;m bored too. My husband had to work 6 pm to 4 am and is sleeping, so I%26#39;m trying to amuse myself quietly here!