Cafe science "Is there more to home than the heart"

I have just arrived back from the "Is there more at home than the heart" lecture at sensations. I attended thinking that the lecture would be relevant to my seminar work, although this has proved not to be the case. Despite this it has raised the question where is home to me?

I would consider myself a "home bird" as although i like going to new places and on holiday etc i always miss the familiarities and comforts of my own home and especially my own bed, and therefore thought i would soon become homesick living away from home for the first time. Surprisingly after several weeks of living away from home i was still to feel homesick, this shocked me as i am no longer surrounded by the things i would consider most familiar to me, my family, the usual routines and of course my house,my room. If being away from these things doesn't result in being home sick, then it can't be these things that make a place feel like a home or is it?

My new room is surrounded by all the things from my old room, so maybe this prevents the new location feeling like a new location, as all the objects within it are familiar to me so it doesn't matter about the aesthetics of a room or place itself as long as its filled with your belongings.

The people within my flat are familiar to me although they don't compensate as my family they have began to follow similar routines and habits of my family members so maybe its the actions and routines followed that makes something familiar and homely and not the people themselves.

With all this in mind i guess home isn't just one place, it can be lots of places, any place as long as your surrounded by your belongings, familiar faces and routines.