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At what age did you first go abroad?

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    #32
    The Mighty Quinn
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    Sounds so odd seeing the UK being referred to as "abroad"... Isle of Man?

    Well, its a different country so it is abroad I guess? Maybe because you're British you have a different view of it? Would like to hear your view?

    Graces7 wrote: »
    Some of the other memories are best left unsaid :eek

    That sounds sinister! I hope it wasn't


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    #33
    Graces7
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    The Mighty Quinn wrote: »
    Well, its a different country so it is abroad I guess? Maybe because you're British you have a different view of it? Would like to hear your view?



    Oh yes it is because I am Engish. Seems strange to see my homeland referred to as " abroad" ! And I never think of myself having moved " abroad" when I came to ireland. " Abroad" would be France etc. Odd that I thought of ireland as not abroad when I was planning the move too . I had lived a year here earlier

    Perspectives are interesting !

    That sounds sinister! I hope it wasn't

    More embarrassing ( for my parents) than sinister! I have aired one of them on boards! About.. beachwear! lol....


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    #34
    Barna77
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    First time abroad when I was about 10, to Portugal

    First time leaving Ireland, 29 to the UK


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    #35
    Chaoticawk
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    I still haven't been with a broad


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    #36
    theteal
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    so you had your first born at fifteen ?

    :confused: nope, just offering a generational comparison


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    #37
    Mister Vain
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    I was 23 and I went to the U.S alone. It was both terrifying and brilliant.


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    #38
    ED E
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    Boston at age 2 I wanna say, might have been 1.


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    #39
    Dravokivich
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    Not sure, the younger i had done something, the less reliable I am as a source :P As I only remember the second time I was in England.

    By the time I was 4/5 I had been to England twice and France once. England was to visit family. A tear was drawn when I heard of the demolition of Camelot recently.


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    #40
    Cody montana
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    21.
    Which is late.


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    #41
    LuasSimon
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    For many my age the first time you went abroad normally meant going to work on the buildings in England with the chance you might never again come home . Not that long either early eighties.
    Started secondary school with 20 boys in my class. , after inter cert 5 finished school and went to England to older brothers etc . Of the 15 that managed to do their leaving 11 went to England and of the other 4 two went to college because their parents could afford it and two took up family farms .
    Of the 16 that went to England , 4 or 5 still live there in varying set ups at this stage , one is super rich from building and two or three are nearly homeless from drink . Others went further to USA and Australia . About half returned home at some point .


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    #42
    gmisk
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    My dad worked abroad when I was growing up so quite young...I would guess about 6/7 maybe.
    I think Saudi Arabia was the first or maybe Iraq


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    #43
    SusanC10
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    I was 12. We went to France on the Ferry. Great holiday.


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    #44
    Andrea B.
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    Was in London in late 80's. Not common but there was a few 15 year old Irish lads working over there. Mad when I think of it and have kids of my own now.


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    #45
    olestoepoke
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    Boat from Dublin to Hollyhead when I was around 6. First time on a plane I was 17 and flew to Barcelona to work on the building of the Olympic village/ hotel.


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    #46
    PsychoPete
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    Never, I also don't plan on going abroad in the future


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    BobMc
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    Parents immigrated 1974 I was about 10 months old, back and forth to the old sod every few years, returned in 1984,

    never taken on a sun holiday per se with the folks, first time abroad alone was 17 or 18 Playa de las Americas with the then girlfriend, remember it still to this day, great time had would have been '90 or '91


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    #48
    Living Off The Splash
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    First time abroad aged under 10 was to the island of Jersey with my parents. Around 1962.

    Still remember visiting the Underground Hospital and learning about the German occupation. Around then you could buy small pocket sized war comics that were called 64's.


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    #49
    Hamsterchops
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    galway_lad wrote: »
    At what age did you first go abroad?.

    Six years old when we went camping in the Isle of Man. Laxey Wheel, horse drawn trams, Snaefell mountain railway, cats without tails!

    Not sure if that's 'abroad' though?


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    Graces7
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    SusanC10 wrote: »
    I was 12. We went to France on the Ferry. Great holiday.

    We had school trips to France on the ferry from England; my memories of the bad crossings...


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    #51
    YellowLead
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    For me it was 16, to Lanzarote, paid for by myself from a summer job - went with a friends family and another girl. To be fair we were very well behaved at that stage but I still think the other girls parents were so good to have brought us, I’m not sure I’d take on somebody else’s teenagers - well behaved or not.
    My own family didn’t do Irish holidays even - could take a break from the farm for one thing.


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    #52
    Mister Vain
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    The only school trip I ever had was to jail. :(


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    #53
    Zebra3
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    Went on a family holiday to the Isle of Man when I was about 4 or 5. Don’t remember much of it but there was a single rail line and I was terrified that a train would come along the other way and crash in to us.

    I remember being shocked years later to find lines like that existed in Ireland outside Dublin!!

    Intend to go back to the IoM when all this crap is over.


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