“We’ve come three thousand miles and ended up in bloody Devon!”

[charlie_cochrane]

Am blogging over at Carina about how some places remind you of home - except when they're entirely different. Do come and share your thoughts!

PS Dreams of a Hero number 1 at Carina. Can't stop grinning.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I read it yesterday. I love them. I wish I could read more of their adventures.

It also reminded me of how surprised I was, as a child to find that England had 'our' place-names.(Falmouth, Barnstable, Plymouth, Chatham) My mother said just what you said-- they were homesick.

It was fun for me seeing my childhood world of Cape Cod from the outside. Made me homesick too.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I'm so pleased you liked them. Have mailed you another story of theirs (can you let me know it got there?)

We have great fun with the map of Massachusetts, marking off the names which are from here.

[cayendi.livejournal.com]

lol I'm still chuffed knowing there's actually a Zutphen (it's more like a crossing, but still...) in the US :)

Makes me smile every time.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

LOL I love place names to start with and the connections made make it even better!

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

Can't comment there (it said something about javascript and cookies, but I know they're both enabled so it's probably something linux-related) so I'll post my comment to your post here instead:

Common as muck? You?? Far from it! Mind you, even I with my shoddy accent experienced the weird shift in attitude from polite to super-polite when buying stuff in shops (we actually couldn't work it out for ages & thought it was the colour of the card we were paying on until we experienced it when paying with cash as well)... I think I got my biggest culture shock though when buying a sandwich (in a sandwich shop, not as in the pre-packaged sort): the guy serving asked if I'd like salad and I replied "Yes, please!" Then there was this weird stand-off where we both looked at each other in a faintly puzzled fashion until my husband realised my mistake and told me to specify which salad items I wanted...

Lovely country, but I couldn't live there myself - I'd be giggling at every mention of "pants" or "suspenders" ;-)

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

These wordpress blogs do my head in. Always having tantrums. :)

Love that sandwich shop story - yes, we've had similar things where you think "It would have been easier if we'd been in France!"

Great fun with US editors over pants, suspenders, fannies and the like.

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

fannies have no place in m/m romance!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Or only on their side of the pond. Great hilarity from my mob about 'fanny packs'.

[rapidess.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link ^_^

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

My pleasure!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Go you!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Thank you!