Wednesday 10 March 2010

Train Journeys...

What I miss about home is... train journeys; to the city, to the seaside and daytrips during the long summer holidays. Marietta biscuits, Miwadi orange, Tayto crisps and if you were really lucky, a Cadbury's Snack. Happy memories of sand in the sandwiches and the sea air in our faces...
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The Dart.
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IE Train #1
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IE Train #2
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The Luas
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8 comments:

  1. I recognise them all, particularly Connolly Station as I go in and out of there twice a week on my way to Newry.

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  2. Thanks for the comment Tom, I am hoping this will build up into a good series of Ireland shots.

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  3. Noel, no matter where you go you can't find a better Cheese 'n' Onion crisp than Tayto! It was (& still is) one of the things I had to eat when I went back home to Belfast. I used to take some supplies when heading back to Watford again and share them with friends who were amazed at the distinctive flavour. Finding a place that stocked Tayto over here was a rare as hen's teeth but my local Asda store now keeps regular stocks of them. It's amazing how a flavour / smell can take you back home...

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  4. Holy God, your right. Now you do get them over here but we regularly used to bring a box back in the car and Hick's white pudding and sausages and YR sauce and if you were really lucky, at Christmas a piece of spiced beef and of course spice burgers...

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  5. YR sauce - now there's something I haven't in about 15 years! I'll see your YR sauce and raise you with Brown / Red lemonade (depending on whether you're North or South of the border).

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  6. I'll see your red lemonade and raise you jacobs coconut creams, we used to eat the marshmallow first then the biscuit!

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  7. ..."Kimberly, Mikado and Coconut Creams, someone you love, would love some Mum!"... at least that how's I recall the tag line on went on the old TV advert. I have to admit to not being a big fan of these 3 biscuits from Jacobs (I was more of a Jacobs Figs fan) but they're a quintessentially Irish biscuit.

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  8. I am a kimberly addict - they used to do a chocolate coverd one only at Christmas, but now you can get them in a shop in Windsor; so they have lost some of theie rarity value...

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