When I go back to the UK to see family and friends, there is a sense of reverse culture shock, I see quite a few shops and restaurants that have closed, opened or moved around my city, I think about 5 different friends have announced to me that they are having babies in the next year, and people I know that have moved to other towns.

Here is a humorous list of differences in the UK compared to life in Israel:-

• Supermarkets only sell one type of Humous
• Supermarkets don’t have Russian beers
• People have less than 20 types of spices in their kitchen
• British Arab and Muslim people are more likely to say ‘Alright Mate?’  when chatting to each other in the street rather than ‘Yalla Habibi?’
• There are almost no 1990s cars in UK any more
• Cars don’t usually have more than 6 dents in the bodywork
• When you are out walking on a very hot day you don’t actually lose a whole pint of sweat in an hour
• Bus drivers let you sit down before driving off 😉
• Bus drivers don’t count cash/issue tickets/check their phones/change paper roll/talk to the chap sat behind them whilst driving
• But buses and trains cost 3 times as much
• Taxi drivers don’t try to rip off foreign people by saying the meter is “broken” or give a “special price”
• Shops are open friday and often all year round
• Post office costs 3 times as much
• British motorists use their windscreen wiper switches more than their horn buttons
• People only wear Crocs as indoor shoes
• Light switches and electrical fittings are actually fixed to the walls with screws and don’t fall off
• If you eat in an restaurant with outdoor seating, you don’t get 10-15 stray cats sitting there watching you for dropped food
• People don’t get excited when it rains.  The exact opposite.