What do you miss?

STIG83

Wintergreen wrote: »

I miss my girlfriend.

Don't forget to bring your girlfriend!!

Seriously though I don't miss anything in particular. My roommate used to buy Barry's tea for $20 a box in an expatriate shop which I always taught was mental.

People just let the sausages go & find something else!

Your missus coming over?

Pisco Sour

Family and Friends of course. A bit of a given there.
Christmas - It just isn't the same over here
Eamonn Dunphy and the lads - He's an absolute legend and I miss listening to his punditry dreadfully
Euro 2012 - Following on from the previous one, it will be very difficult being away from the buzz in Ireland next June.
Irish athletics - Unless I find a live stream that works on my crap slow internet I'll miss Fionnuala Britton possibly winning gold (or a medal) at today's European Cross Country Championships. Being here when the Europeans Athletics Champs are on next June will be tough. Can't afford to come back to Europe for both Europeans and Olympics so obviously can only do the one.

Wintergreen

STIG83 wrote: »

Your missus coming over?

She's coming over for New Years in Sydney for a week so I cant wait, going to be great! Then im going home in March to sort out some stuff and ill come back on my 2nd year visa at a later date, hopefully she'll come too.

sudzs

I miss Kerrygold butter and Cashel Blue cheese.

...and affordable organic stuff.

jackbhoy

sudzs wrote: »

I miss Kerrygold butter and Cashel Blue cheese.

...and affordable organic stuff.

Do some some Woolies/Coles still stock Kerrygold? I remember being somewhere in WA in campervan few years ago and getting Kerrygold in supermarket.
Woolies Tasmanian butter is pretty good substitute as well...

sudzs

jackbhoy wrote: »

Do some some Woolies/Coles still stock Kerrygold? I remember being somewhere in WA in campervan few years ago and getting Kerrygold in supermarket.
Woolies Tasmanian butter is pretty good substitute as well...

I found the Woolies Tasmanian butter allright and thought it was good!!

But am out in a small country town now with just an IGA... Watsonia seems to be the best of the rest.

What Australia lacks in Irish food it certainly makes up for in Tim Tams and Magnum Egos

mise_me_fein3

if you're in sydney you can get good sausages and black pudding frrom a butcher in hornsby...don't know the name but theyre nice, my uncles travels from the central coast to get them

seipeal1

1. The right hook on newstalk. Miss George Hook and all the controversy he does.
2. Good decent Guinness.
3. the folks.
4. Thats it. Nothing else. Love it out here. How lucky are we?

CatFromHue

What I missed in NZ was a good pint of.........milk! Cheese and bread were also other big things.
A good newspaper or news show was also lusted after.

jackbhoy

- Guiness and my local pubs.
- Decent print and broadcast news media.
- Going to Leinster/Ireland games with mates.

Cooperspale

The BBC
Being able to buy buffalo mozzarella for 1 Euro! Gooseberries, cooking apples.
The GAA championships, going to or watching live with the gang
Reading 5 different newspapers on a Sunday afternoon
Going to an old school pub, Grogan's Castle lounge, Peter's pub etc
Friends and family, Skype is great but not the same.

kdevitt

Friends & Family
My cars
Macaris - chips and burgers here are awful
Beer down my local - Aussie beers were nice and different for a while, now I just want a draught Budweiser
Proper winters
Proper Xmas
Proper sausages

hussey

Pints in every pub
Smithwick's (even though only a recent thing for me)
Chippers - That MSG 'cuddy' sauce
Pennys/dunnes - Cheap socks & jocks
Watching Football on sunday.
Champions league down the local

myflipflops

Watching Leinster in the flesh.
Talking sh*te with my mates in person.

Deleted User wrote: »

What Australia lacks in Irish food it certainly makes up for in Tim Tams and Magnum Egos

I don't get the obsession with Tim Tams some irish people get.

They are just Penguin bars!

Mellor

myflipflops wrote: »

I don't get the obsession with Tim Tams some irish people get.

They are just Penguin bars!

Firstly, pengins are great. Childhood staple.

Second, Tim-tams come in a lot more variations.
In absense of a honeycomb, or chewy caramel penguin, i'll settle for a tim-tam

davepatr07

Sausages are muck here. Nothing like home. Even the chocolate doesn't taste good. Things I miss...King Crisps, Tea with a Jacobs fig roll, 3 in 1 chips, Pub on a wknd night, Staffords bread (If you come from Wexford), A cold Christmas, and Mom's cooking.

Liam90

kdevitt wrote: »

Friends & Family
My cars
Macaris - chips and burgers here are awful
Beer down my local - Aussie beers were nice and different for a while, now I just want a draught Budweiser
Proper winters
Proper Xmas
Proper sausages

Hold on a minute! Are you saying your missing the freezing dull depressing winters where it is extremely hard to even get out of bed in the morning, your missing them winters?

kdevitt

Liam90 wrote: »

Hold on a minute! Are you saying your missing the freezing dull depressing winters where it is extremely hard to even get out of bed in the morning, your missing them winters?

Yeah those ones.

whosyour_daddy

kdevitt wrote: »

Yeah those ones.

Jesus Christ!
The day I "miss" these rotten winters will be the day that I need to go to the mental asylum. Can't wait to leave them behind me.

kdevitt

whosyour_daddy wrote: »

Jesus Christ!
The day I "miss" these rotten winters will be the day that I need to go to the mental asylum. Can't wait to leave them behind me.

Good for you!

garancafan

davepatr07 wrote: »

....Staffords bread (If you come from Wexford)....

I live in Dublin and I miss Staffords bread!

hussey

I'm listening to a few Christmas classics this morning - Driving home for Christmas, Band aid, Pogues etc

I have to say I am missing the freezing cold icy Dublin streets lit up with lights, with big winter jacket and warm wolly hat on

January - I do not miss at all!

rightyabe

Knorr chicken and veg soup!!

Sunday sessions in a local pub.

yogimotorsport

Listening to xmas songs in 38 degree heat really makes me miss xmas at home ,the general buzz of xmas and all the streets lit up on a cold evening.Theres no xmas buzz at all in W.A.

astonaidan

What I miss:
My family for obvious reasons
Soccer training with the lads
Club Orange
Biscuits
Crisps (Chip Sticks, Monster Munch's):(
Chicken Roll for some reason a proper deli not found in sydney wtf is with that
My own room, Quiet tough to be bold in a share;)
Watching the premiership
Heineken Cup
Our sense of humour, Find myself talking to brits cause they get it:o
Christmas as it doesnt seem the same over here at all
Sun newspaper as the daily Telegraph is a weak sub

killianganly

Denny's Sausages
A nice pint of Guiness
Breakfast Rolls
Family
Friends
Not having to worry about skin cancer
using the proper word (riding) none this rootin crack
Lock-ins in the local
Proper irish band playing a session in the corner of a pub with a fire on,
The smell of turf
My Hurley
Sky+ and its 6million channels of repeats
DAVE on sky
TopGear Reapeats on DAVE
My Xbox
My Grandparents
My Dog
Smoking, Fightin, Drinkin, Blue'ees
Not having to explain what a Gob-****e is
Ann Doyle at 6pm News
Martin from TV3's weather reports and his bdays wishes at the end segment
GAA matches

think thats it

markymark21

Dunno why people are saying they miss the teabags, chocolate, sausages etc when you can get all that on foodireland.com.au!

At an inflated price of course, but shipping things 10,000 miles does tend to incur shipping costs!

I have to agree with a lot of people here when they say they miss the whole xmas buzz back home. It just isn't the same here. I'm guessing that has a lot to do with us not having our families around, but the Aussies just don't have that Xmas spirit I think.

I'm defo missing week day afternoon pints in McDaids.. Although the Irish Times pub on Little Collins isn't a bad substitute

Zambia

markymark21 wrote: »

I'm defo missing week day afternoon pints in McDaids.. Although the Irish Times pub on Little Collins isn't a bad substitute

I will second the Mcdaids bit. However the Irish times is a poor substitute.

chrismon

I missed all those things while I was gone.
Also really missed Supermacs and a good Chinese take away.
Now that Im back I couldnt care less about sausages, taytos or club orange.
Had each one once since I came home and havnt had them since.
I did miss a decent pint at the local that didnt end up with a fight with some ignorant redneck Aussie.