Young people travel to Europe, drink too much wine and have too much sex. What is concerning is how Australians are increasingly being linked to the more shocking acts of vandalism, theft and general stupidity, says former tour guide Ben Oliver.
Australian tourists
Daily Proposition: Get lost in your own city
It isn’t often that we actually look at our city through the eyes of a tourist — and even less common to examine what it is we love, or loathe, about the city in which we live. Stop and smell the roses, says Mike Doman.
You’ve only visited how many countries?
The worst thing about travelling? Having to deal with the colossal morons that are other travellers and their one-upmanship, says Rafiq Copeland. You’ve drove through Kashmir on a motorbike? He got lost in the jungle in Borneo.
Crikey Says: Overseas Aussies can go it alone
Why do Australians assume they have a special right to be rescued from whatever trouble they get into while travelling overseas?
Aussies abroad behaving badly
It strikes me that our public manners in fact no longer meet the standard required in most other countries, and improving them might make us a lot safer when we travel, argues Andrew Bolt.
