
Ten things travellers should learn before international borders re-open
You could spend your time stuck at home wallowing in your own wanderlust-driven misery, or you could take the opportunity to better yourself.
Traveller's globetrotting backpacker, Ben Groundwater, finds the good, the bad and the ugly in the world’s best destinations. Ben is a columnist, blogger, feature writer, and host of Traveller's podcast Flight of Fancy, who has visited more than 80 countries during his 12 years in the industry. Ben was named travel writer of the year by the Australian Society of Travel Writers in 2014 and 2015.
You could spend your time stuck at home wallowing in your own wanderlust-driven misery, or you could take the opportunity to better yourself.
In declaring that day-to-day life in Australia is not particularly culturally rich, I neglected to say something important.
There's surely never been a better time to beat the madding crowds and find your own little stretch of sunny, sandy paradise.
Australia is not perfect and that's so much easier to see when you spend some time living in another country.
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