[Overandout]

During my time in Spain I managed to almost completely do away with any necessity for any UK products. I missed Marmite and Swede and Parsnips for a while but I soon got over it!! After all, 99% of Spanish food is far better that British food anyway.

I even stopped drinking tea!

One thing I cannot be without however is TCP for those minor injuries / bites / stings.

In Spain they use something called Mecromina as an antiseptic but it doesn/t even sting when you put it on! How can it work if it doesn't sting?!

 

[baldilocks]

During my time in Spain I managed to almost completely do away with any necessity for any UK products. I missed Marmite and Swede and Parsnips for a while but I soon got over it!! After all, 99% of Spanish food is far better that British food anyway.

I even stopped drinking tea!

One thing I cannot be without however is TCP for those minor injuries / bites / stings.

In Spain they use something called Mecromina as an antiseptic but it doesn/t even sting when you put it on! How can it work if it doesn't sting?!

Tom Cat's Pee!

 

[baldilocks]

Btw, the last smog in the UK was in the 1960s, wasn't it?

The 50s as I recall from my extremely close encounter with a concrete lamp standard which, because it was the same colour as the smog, was rendered invisible - it was also extremely painful.

 

[mrypg9]

The 50s as I recall from my extremely close encounter with a concrete lamp standard which, because it was the same colour as the smog, was rendered invisible - it was also extremely painful.

Air quality in the Czech Republic was dreadful. People in our village used to burn the kind of coal banned in most civilised countries years ago, the kind that produces thick black yellowish smoke. They also burned plastic bottles, can you believe...
Add that to the pollution from the socialist era chemical plant built deliberately, some said, next to a charming baroque castle....
Living in Prague for three years involved bringing a lot of foodstuffs from the UK each week as local products were awful. I used to bring coffee beans, cheese, sausages and Quorn stuff for Sandra. I don't think there's any UK foods I miss in Spain. The ones I occasionally have a hankering for, like Mars bars and that sticky Cadbury's caramel choc bar I am better off without anyway.
We both like Santa Cristina coffee beans, I like Manchego cheese and jamon serrano and we get our Quorn from friends who go to Gib or my dil on her frequent weekend visits.

 

[Pazcat]

I haven't found anything I can't get here from the UK. No sign of TimTams or Vegemite but UK stuff is available just more expensive.

You can buy vegemite and timtams on amazon.uk. Not sure how the TT would hold up in the post with the heat though.
They will even deliver real beer to Spain too.