Foods people miss when travelling

 Scotland Now had a rather interesting article on what the Scots miss most when away from their home.

This was #1

We tried it but didn't care much for it.

We don't miss much these days when travelling as almost everything is available.  In the US you really have to search out a really good quality strong cheddar cheese like Balderson's. 

In our first trip to England and Europe in 1972, we really missed a good hamburger. They had burgers at Wimpy in the UK but they were pretty awful. I didn't recall even having a chance to have a burger in France.  When we got home we had burgers for a week at every place that served burgers. 

We also missed having bacon and eggs for breakfast in France. You could get an omelette for lunch in France but no eggs available for breakfast. We even bought a one burner propane stove and frypan to cook up eggs in the morning. It seems crazy now that we would do that.  

We spent 5 weeks in France that summer and French bread and croissants (as good as they were) got rather tiresome day after day. We did also spend a week driving across northern Spain. I think breakfast was mainly bread but remember ordering seafood paella pretty much every day for dinner or lunch.

 We were doing Europe on $5 a day so I expect that made a difference. I'm sure the fancy hotels had everything anyone wanted.

I have very few photos as I was taking slides.  I had a few slides printed into photos.  I guess the slides are somewhere... in our storage locker perhaps? This is the only commentary I have:

"1972 First trip to Europe. London, Canterbury, Paris, Chartres, Versailles, Loire Valley, La Rochelle,  Biarritz, drove across Spain to Barcelona, then up to Cannes, Geneva, flew back to London"

Our car was broken into in Barcelona so we turned it in and took the train after that.

Link to the original article:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/8-scottish-foods-ex-pats-24803256