During your travels, have you ever found a product you love but can't get at home

[shorts Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shorts]

I bought a pair of sandals in Grand Cayman years ago that I just loved. I need lots of arch support and can only wear very limited brands. I cannot go barefoot without pain and wear these sandals constantly.

I had searched all over for more of these sandals even going back to the same shop and had no luck finding them. Then 3 or 4 years ago my husband spotted them in one of the tiny gift shops at the airport in Grand Cayman on the floor in a corner for $10 a pair . By that time I had almost worn holes in the soles of the pair I had. I bought 2 pair (all they had in my size) and then bought 2 more the following year when we returned to Cayman. I keep checking to make sure they are there each year.

[zdxlc9p6 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close zdxlc9p6]

Sheritans liquor. I can buy it in Europe & Bahamas but not USA.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

Not that I can't get at home, but that doesn't taste the same. In Hawaii we loved the Starbucks iced coffee, but when we had it at home it wasn't the same. We worked out that in Hawaii they had lots of it premixed so the flavour of the coffee was all through the ice, whereas at home they mix the coffee and ice in a blender for each serving. It made a massive difference.

[Dori Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dori]

I do a lot of baking and cake decorating for people, so when I travel to the US, I always pick up some Duncan Hines cake mixes in flavorurs we can't get at home. Strawberry and Red Velvet are two of my favourites.

When we were in Florida this winter, I found Flipsides pretzel crackers. I had seen them advertized on TV, and haven't seen them here in Canada. I bought two boxes to bring home. They are very good.

Dori

[Linda VH Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Linda VH]

I am in Aruba - tell me which cold remedy you bought so I can get some just in case, please! As for me there used to be a Lancaster skin DNA product that you couldn't get in the States. My friend and I hit every dept. store in Spain and Italy that we could to buy some. You can get it in the States now so I stock up on skinstore.com. Linda

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

DH's aunt brought a whole extra suitcase on her London vacation so she could fill it with Jacob's Cream Crackers on the way home.

This made me chuckle. I used to go to London on a quarterly basis. I'd always bring home cookies. One day I was in the grocery store with a handbasket filled with rolls of cookies. People were eyeing me as they went past. Finally someone said, "my, you certainly love biscuits." All I had to say was that I was an American and we don't get these kinds of cookies at home.

I just came home from Switzerland this past week. I had a basket full of chocolate. Just grocery store candy, but so many different types!

Sue

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

On the flipside, I travelled to London last month for work and prior to the trip many of my UK-based co-workers begged me to bring Reese's peanut butter cups Best $10 I ever spent as they were more co-operative than usual as each day I was able to get a bit more out of them by telling them if they helped me out with ______ I'd bring in another bag tomorrow.......

Chris

And one of my co-workers from Scotland tried them once when she was visiting and she thought them to be incredibly foul. I guess it's just like anything, individual taste.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

You know what's really good in the U.K.? Maltesers! I loooooove Maltesers. The chocolate is so rich and smooth. They're the best malted-milk balls ever.

[javanite Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close javanite]

Kinder Chocolat or Kinder Surprise (different names in different European countries). Also called Kinder eggs.

They are foil-wrapped, egg shaped, hollow chocolate with a yellow capsule inside, containing a toy "surprise" and instructions for assembly. The wrap is red and white.

We love to see which toy we're going to get next.

I first saw them in Germany, where an American consultant was buying them in the SAP cafeteria; she didn't want the chocolate, only the toy.

We try to buy them on our European trips. I remember buying them at the Amsterdam airport.

Have seen them once in the US, at a candy store in Sonoma, CA.

Kinder Surprise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

There are a couple of stores that sell those KinderEggs around here. My kids used to love them. I think they're actually illegal in the U.S. b/c the little toys inside are not edible and are a choking hazard...but specialty import shops still sell them here (ssssshhhh!). There's a U.S. version that has little candies inside, but they're not as much fun as the European ones.

[mdurette Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mdurette]

When I was in the Florida Keys there was a breakfast place in a strip mall that all the locals went to. They served this coffee that I just fell in love with. Can't even remember what it was called. I loved it so much I purchased 3 large (yes 3) for my road trip back to Miami. That was over 15 years ago and I still remember it!

[happymum Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close happymum]

I just came home from Switzerland this past week. I had a basket full of chocolate. Just grocery store candy, but so many different types!

Ditto! Also, we toured the chocolate factory in Broc. At the end of the tour you are able to taste all of their products. Surprisingly, there actually is a point where you decide you couldn't possibly eat one more.

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

Ditto! Also, we toured the chocolate factory in Broc. At the end of the tour you are able to taste all of their products. Surprisingly, there actually is a point where you decide you couldn't possibly eat one more.

If you love chocolate, there is a chocolate buffet in Boston at the Langham hotel. We stopped off there on the "Chocolate Trolley" trip we took on my birthday one year.

Chocolate Bar | Café Fleuri - The best chocolate bar at Langham Hotel Boston
http://www.trolleytours.com/boston/c...estaurants.asp

It appears that both are seasonal. We went in Feb. A word of caution - it became way to choclately. I thought I wouldn't want chocolate for a month, but I ate some the next day.

Sue