I’ve only come across the occasional Irish traveller, Glenda. Maybe they are more prevalent in Europe. A lot of travellers never make it down here to Oz because it’s so far from everything else – unless you live in Malaysia or Indonesia!

And it’s funny – there’s an Aussie class division in regard to travel, too. Hippies and working class types go to Asia, as a rule, whereas the middle-class types head for Europe:-)(Don’t let anyone tell you Oz doesn’t have a class system. It has, and always has had, ever since the free settlers looked down on the convicts.)

I don’t know about other races, but I certainly came across dozens of Aussies in London plus a few from NZ too. All working there for a while before they headed on to another country. I guess they are just very adventurous.

My first T’ai chi teacher was pretty adventurous, she spent a couple of years in South America teaching and she was in her late 50s then. But then look at Glenda, she moves around one heck of a lot.