Ah, a cuppa comfort in a foreign field

YOU might be packing up your troubles and suntan lotion in your kit bag before heading off on holidays, but you certainly don’t forget to stash a box of teabags and some Taytos in as well.

A survey of 1,000 British and Irish customers of retail chain Iceland reveals that 82% of us will not leave the country without at least one edible home comfort tucked away in our luggage, no matter how exotic or luxurious the destination.

Whether it’s Paris or pasta-loving Italy, Greece or some Turkish delights, we just won’t travel unless we have a feed of sausages and rashers stashed in our luggage or a brown soda loaf with lashing of good old fashioned butter least we starve to death or die of homesickness .