Anybody else here never been abroad?

[hoopdriver]

My grandparents never went abroad on holiday, but my grandad went to Normandy with work (D-Day)

My grandfather went overseas only once. About a hundred years ago, like yours, with work. A place called Verdun...

 

[i hate hills]

Never been either.....and now that I am living on a miniscule pension I won't be going anytime soon. Lol. To be honest, it doesn't bother me as I am a definite home bird anyway plus having pets that I am too soppy to consider putting in kennels/cattery.

Furthest afield I have been is Cornwall and North Wales

Your alright Mo for us Scots that counts as abroad.....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Your alright Mo for us Scots that counts as abroad.....

Come a certain vote in September, Coldstream never mind Cornwall might become abroad!!

 

[i hate hills]

Been abroad once , had a bad experience on flight home and sorry to say it put me right off and never did it again.

 

[Beebo]

My grandfather went overseas only once. About a hundred years ago, like yours, with work. A place called Verdun...

I imagine that wars were the first and only overseas trips for many people, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Crimea, etc. etc. etc.

 

[Archie_tect]

My dad has never been off the British mainland and has never had a passport in all his 86 years.... my mum left him after 41 years marriage because she got fed up trying to get him to go - she wanted to start exploring the world!

My daughter's boyfriend is 24 and also doesn't have a passport... the parallels aren't lost on us!

 

[Profpointy]

My grandparents never went abroad on holiday, but my grandad went to Normandy with work (D-Day)

A bit like my Grandad - went to France in 1916

 

[Dayvo]

I'll have you know I have driven trains in Poland before!!

I'm hearing your Scottish accent. Do they have trains in Poundland?

 

[Dayvo]

Been abroad once , had a bad experience on flight home and sorry to say it put me right off and never did it again.

Good job it wasn't on the flight out otherwise you'd still be 'there'!

 

[Venod]

My best man (I was his best man) and lifelong friend has never been abroad, we holiday with him & his wife in this country but he is just not interested in going overseas.

 

[i hate hills]

Good job it wasn't on the flight out otherwise you'd still be 'there'!

That thought had crossed my mind when back home.

 

[DRHysted]

I've not got a passport, and never felt the need to go abroad.
Strangely the biggest problem I face by not having a passport, is proving who I am to the government every three years when my license is renewed.

 

[tyred]

I spent a week on a work training course once in Loughborough.

 

[SteCenturion]

I imagine that wars were the first and only overseas trips for many people, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Crimea, etc. etc. etc.

Sadly the same in recent times for our young men sometimes women.

N.I - Afghanistan - Bosnia - Falklands - Gulf/Desert Storm - etc etc.

17 - 19 year olds etc who never even got to go to Faliraki/Ibiza.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Going to Wales this year.

I've been to Wales and Scotland but never been out of the British Isles. Or on an aeroplane for that matter.