The thing you miss the most?

[dtaai-maai]

Blimey, Spitfire, where do you come from???

[hhfarang]

Try a loin cloth during the day

Hey Pete, you reminded me... I think I still have a couple of those "banana hammock" Speedo swimsuits in a drawer around here somewhere that I used to wear under my wetsuit when scuba diving. I wonder if the missus would let be go outside in that... only problem is I've gained about 30 pounds since the last time I wore one of those.

[sargeant]

At one time i used to have a list but since loosing my sister she is the only thing i miss

everything else seems so trivial

[Spitfire]

Blimey, Spitfire, where do you come from???

Just me daydreaming at work DM.

When I wake up at my desk I'm sure I'll be lied to by someone within the next 25 minutes.

[dtaai-maai]

No you won't - oops, there's the first one!

[STEVE G]

Yes, I miss the seasons, but if your from a place that has extreme weather I can understand why you wouldn't.

We get ridiculous swings in weather here in central Europe sometimes; less than two weeks ago it was -14C in the night and today it's about +10C.
One thing I never missed during the six years I lived in SE Asia was hacking ice off car windscreens in the morning.
For what I did miss, I'll go along with Richard with a pint of good Bitter and an honest pub meal.

[hhfarang]

One thing I never missed during the six years I lived in SE Asia was hacking ice off car windscreens in the morning.

Any time I've lived in a place that had snow and ice in the winter I had a home with a nice warm garage to park the car in.... no problem.... also after 1980 I always had a 4 wheel drive vehicle with all weather tires so no problem driving in it either. You just have to be prepared for cold weather and it's no problem at all; in fact it's fun! I really miss skiing, sledding, and snow snowmobiling. Snow covered days make really great photo subjects too, especially if you live where it snows overnight and then you have blue clear skies the next day.

You guys just don't know how to enjoy cold weather. ...as I don't know how to enjoy hot weather.

[Frank Hovis]

I'm voting Kebab as well, proper English 2am drunk Kebab, extra everything, and then you can blame it for the vomiting.

"Sorry I was sick all over the bed love, I think I had a bad Kebab"
"Wouldn't be the fourteen pints and chasers would it?"
"Nah, They all tasted fine, so it couldn't be that."

[dtaai-maai]

Ah Frank, I think I knew you in a previous life... <sigh>

[Big Boy]

Ah Frank, I think I knew you in a previous life... <sigh>

Were you married

[STEVE G]

You just have to be prepared for cold weather and it's no problem at all; in fact it's fun!

Yes, I agree if you've got mountains and all that stuff. Here we don't get enough snow to do anything with and there are no mountains; this year it only lasted two weeks and now it's back to light rain. ( I've just cycled to work in it and it's not the sort of weather that you'd miss! )

[usual suspect]

...John Smith's smooth bitter,& well-laden cold pork sarnies in soft bread cakes.
(Oh and leeks in a cheese sauce)

[bonnielass]

Have been an expat for most of my adult life, admittedly not in Thailand.
At first, I missed everybody and everything. I cried every Christmas and on birthdays.
Used to bring all sorts of nonsense back in my case after a visit home, newspapers, books, haggis, TCP, shampoo, cheese, still to this day I stock up on tea bags.

Nowadays, in the environment of the Global Village you can get almost anything anywhere.
And after a while I started to make do with what was in the local market.

However, I have to agree, there is nothing on this earth to compare with the good old Doner Kebab!
Or a Chinese Chicken Curry.

[Pleng]

Have you tried 'Pad Pong Galee'? It's a stir fired dish which tastes very close to a Chinese chicken curry, though the sauce is quite thick.

Apparently you can also get Keang Galee too, which is a curry that uses the same paste. Haven't tried it yet, so can't vouch for its taste.

[Coldmike]

You guys just don't know how to enjoy cold weather. ...as I don't know how to enjoy hot weather.

You've been away too long. My winter still has bone chilling, shivering cold with the requirement to buy new winter coats for everyone and the nasty salt powder from the roads that gets on my cars, pants, shoes, and tracked into my house. Best of all is my (Thai) wife that will wear sweat pants, sweat shirt and another hoodie sweatshirt to bed with a down comforter on top