Originally posted by beet1e
I'd like an even better thread than this, in which people were allowed to post only if they'd been to both England and Texas.
Beetle, I've been twice 1982 and 1997. I'm still livin in Texas. England is a nice place to visit but i wouldnt want to live there. First trip i was TDY to RAF Little Rissington near Burton-on-the-Water, believe it was in the Cotswolds. Nice small town. We went from San Antonio to Fairford. First thing I noticed was the countryside looked very similar to the countryside around Austin (back in 1975) when it was mostly farm and ranch land. It was in September so it was pretty damp and cool but overall not to bad. We helped inventory and setup a USAF Contingency Hospital there. I took time out from my TDY to visit my brother that was stationed at Greenham Common and lived in Newberry. My brother married a brit lass. I thought their little kitchens with the small stoves and small cabinets was cute. We stayed about 3 weeks or so. We got to go into Burton a few times while we were there and saw some of the local sites like the model village (very cool, especially the model within the model) and spent some time at the pubs. some of us had time to see Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace.
Second visit 1996 was to see my brother again that was stationed in England (his second tour) at RAF Croughton. I was stationed at Ramtein AB in Germany, ( 4 years) I drove, it took about 10 hours (including the ferry) to get from Ramstein to Croughton. We spent a few days there and made trips to London and side trips to one of Shakespear's houses and Ann Hathaway.
Anyway England was nice but Germany was better;) Going to England is like visiting your grandmother's house and staying in the front parlor where everything is covered in plastic and your not allowed to touch anything. Germany is like a party almost every weekend, them germans have a fest for everything, spring, winter, fall, and summer. Time to slaughter the (insert your farm animal of choice) time for a fest. "Hey look, the sun came out, lets have a fest!" I got to go to Munich for oktoberfest 3 times while i was in germany and I miss them they were a lot of fun, but I still dont want to live in Germany. However when I retire or at least when all the kids move out I would like to take a month off and go back once and awhile, but i'll still live in Texas cause there's no place better.
