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_Phoenix_
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Im not sure where us Manxies fit in.
Are we classed as the North West or the rest of the world!!
j1ffy
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Jiffy sssssssssshhhhhhhhhh, 27C
Currently, this is the view from my back door
Lol, don't worry I'll soon be complaining when it's mid-30s and 95% humidity!!! My poor loan-horse is dry-coat and doesn't sweat once the weather gets humid
Festive_Felicitations
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Chile!
They do! NSW =
and the whole bloody lot =
(Go NT being different! More than Tassie they deserve to be their own country they are well special up there!
)Festive_Felicitations
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Does everyone know what the different colours on their flags stand for? Or their origins?
ETS - NO GOOGLING!
ETS - NO GOOGLING!
La Fiaba
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Best guess for Italy:
Basilico - Mozzarella - Pomodoro
Can I google now to see if I'm right?
Basilico - Mozzarella - Pomodoro
Can I google now to see if I'm right?
j1ffy
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Best guess for Italy:
Basilico - Mozzarella - Pomodoro
Can I google now to see if I'm right?
***Like!***
Festive_Felicitations
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Best guess for Italy:
Basilico - Mozzarella - Pomodoro
Can I google now to see if I'm right?
Yes! I hope it is right!
Vindaloo
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Checking in from India, been ages since I was last on Hho for more than a lurk. Nice surprise to see everything had changed (well apart from the usual bitching, which does make me chuckle at times) and that there is an ex-pat section!
Sunny here today, temp approx 27 with thunderstorms this evening. Next week it is getting hot, hot, hot.
So, hellooooo all from me in the stink city.
Sunny here today, temp approx 27 with thunderstorms this evening. Next week it is getting hot, hot, hot.
So, hellooooo all from me in the stink city.
E13
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Vindaloo, how did you end up in India, if you don't mind me asking?
Vindaloo
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God, I'd forgotten id posted on here.... We are in India because the bank OH works for have opened a back office function here. He had to come out to help recruit and set up pretty much. We were supposed to be here for two years, it has been three and now it's looking likely we will be here for a further two but moving down south. One day we will move back to the UK but I have to say that we are enjoying life in a different country.
There are some god awful things to love with here but on the whole, a positive experience.
There are some god awful things to love with here but on the whole, a positive experience.
Enfys
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As you say you have to take the bad with the good, such a vastly different culture from Europe I imagine, but still, an experience that few of us will have, and probably nothing at all like it would be just to visit the country.
My brother visits that part of the world often and says that "the good is very good, and the bad is very bad" and working for an Aid Agency all over the world he tends to see the worst of things.
Canada is just normal in comparison to the UK, bigger, colder, hotter but easy to adjust to.
Is there a large ex-pat community where you are?
How do you manage with communication, do you speak the language?
Vindaloo
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Hi Enfys, there are ex pats here but are few and far between, for some reason not many are willing to relocate here... There are none at all within OH's company.
So I socialise with local people, tbh it's good since you really do get a feel for the place that way but it does get lonely. The culture, as you say is incredibly different.
I speak enough Hindi to get by but am no way conversational.
I would love to relocate to Canada. It is a beautiful country, then again pretty much any English speaking country would be nice.
So I socialise with local people, tbh it's good since you really do get a feel for the place that way but it does get lonely. The culture, as you say is incredibly different.
I speak enough Hindi to get by but am no way conversational.
I would love to relocate to Canada. It is a beautiful country, then again pretty much any English speaking country would be nice.
Rollin
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Hi Vindaloo,
A surprise to see your post. Do you have horses in India? My grandparents loved India and my father spent his childhood there. On his way to S'pore when it fell to the Japanese so he was diverted to Ceylon and then spent most of the war in Benares. He loved India.
Grandfather was an Army riding instructor and Champion Tent Pegger.
Myhusband and I planned to spend our retirement globe trotting then started breeding horses, so that put paid to the cruising and 5* hotels!!!
A surprise to see your post. Do you have horses in India? My grandparents loved India and my father spent his childhood there. On his way to S'pore when it fell to the Japanese so he was diverted to Ceylon and then spent most of the war in Benares. He loved India.
Grandfather was an Army riding instructor and Champion Tent Pegger.
Myhusband and I planned to spend our retirement globe trotting then started breeding horses, so that put paid to the cruising and 5* hotels!!!
Vindaloo
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Hi Rollin,
I did have a horse (the one in my sig) but tragically lost him to colic September last year. I kep him with an ex cavalry officer funnily enough, the cavalry are still alive and kicking and it's a real old boys network.
Back in the day, I would think that India would have been an amazing way of life. I would think your grandparents would be shocked to the core at the changes.
I actually watched a tent pegging display at the polo last month. My god, the skill was just breathtaking.
Globe trotting is great fun and such a life experience but would far rather be breeding horses
I did have a horse (the one in my sig) but tragically lost him to colic September last year. I kep him with an ex cavalry officer funnily enough, the cavalry are still alive and kicking and it's a real old boys network.
Back in the day, I would think that India would have been an amazing way of life. I would think your grandparents would be shocked to the core at the changes.
I actually watched a tent pegging display at the polo last month. My god, the skill was just breathtaking.
Globe trotting is great fun and such a life experience but would far rather be breeding horses
Rollin
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What is the climate like in Jaipur? I think that is an area with beautiful palaces - James Bond Octopussy?
India certainly was different when father and grandfather lived there. My father would never have come back to England except he was worried (with just cause) about partitionment. He loved to tell me about life spent in the foot hills of the Himalayas in what is now Pakistan.
My husband has been to India many times on business but it is still on my bucket list - must stop breeding horses!!
India certainly was different when father and grandfather lived there. My father would never have come back to England except he was worried (with just cause) about partitionment. He loved to tell me about life spent in the foot hills of the Himalayas in what is now Pakistan.
My husband has been to India many times on business but it is still on my bucket list - must stop breeding horses!!
Captain Bridget
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I'm currently in Oz, but only until May, do I count?!
j1ffy
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CB - we'll let you in as long as you share some picture now and then
Captain Bridget
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Does this help?!
This is the beach, about 5 minutes walk from the house! Spent an hour there yesterday afternoon and today. And the sky looked pretty similar too!
This is the beach, about 5 minutes walk from the house! Spent an hour there yesterday afternoon and today. And the sky looked pretty similar too!
Enfys
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Bridget, actually you can keep your phots I still have 6" of snow and am well and truly fed up with winter, so am very jealous. Do you live near the beach?
I still have 6" of snow and am well and truly fed up with winter, so am very jealous. Do you live near the beach?
Captain Bridget
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Haha, I thought that might be the reaction! Everyone at home is feeling the same! Yes, we're a five minute walk from the beach, it's pretty awesome! I had my first riding lesson today, they didn't need a surface for the arena, it was just sand! And also stupidly hot...