[quote="Debbie007"]Hi there. I'm looking to buy a model train set for my 8 year old son for Christmas. I was trying to find Hornby but no luck. Anybody know a store I can look at???[/quote]
You might try http://www.singrails.com
They sell H0-models [exact scale 1:87] and Garden Railways [scale 1:22.5]; so far European ones only.
Quite a number of actual H0-starterkits on stock with Swiss, Dutch, French, Austrian and German trains.