Why are we fascinated with England

Hello Dee--Would your husband possibly be interested in steam railways? They are quite fascinating and riding in the vintage cars is a real treat! Here is a website that presents a lot of information on the various UK and Irish operating steam railways:

http://www.heritagerailways.com/abc.html

Maybe it will pique his interest in visiting the UK.

POE has helped me alot in the past couple of weeks I have been on the forums. I think I have got alot of my homesickness off my chest. It is taking time to adjust living here and calling the US my home. But you are right, Urmimala, the next best option is to keep enjoying POE and to keep planning for trips one day. I just wish I had found this site much earlier though, there is so much to see and enjoy on POE.

Rob-thankyou for your advice, hubby is into vintage cars, namely 1968 mustang candy apple red!!! his dream car. I don't know if that is vintage enough!!

Mustang Sally lol Rock on! Heres one of my pics of a Vauxhall Cresta, the nearest British equivulant lol

Picture by mike gerrard

Dee--speaking of vintage cars, your husband might be interested in visiting the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon just south of Warwick. It's less than 60 miles from High Wycombe, most of it via the M-40. Here is their website:

http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/

Dee--And here is another site that might be of interest to your husband:

http://www.fbhvc.co.uk/museums/

Dee--And how about vintage motorcycles?

http://www.motorcycle-uk.com/lmm/beginning.html

Hi Dee, from your AZ neighbor.  I can't imagine how much you miss England, being from there.  I miss it and I've only spent about 17 days of my whole life there.  Keep your chin up, I'm sure you'll have plenty of opportunities to visit.  I think that we who were fortunate enough to be born in either England or the U.S. in the latter half of the 20th century, are probably the most blessed people in all of human history.  But we always want to be where we're not, don't we?  When I have the odd day that I wish I was someplace else, I think of the 99% of the world's population that would trade places with me in a heartbeat.  That helps to put things in perspective.  But keep hanging around here and it will either help to see all the beauty here, or just make you pine more for England, but either way, you'll have the next best thing to being there.

We visited this place last summer, Dee.  It was great!

http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Hampshire/Beaulieu/Beaulieu_National_Motor_Museum