Aussie's are, by far, one of the most laid back groups of people I know; but that said, if you call our country a bit shit or "overrated" then you automatically become public enemy number two (second only to those that try to ban Vegemite). One person who has been on the receiving end of this is Taylor, a travel blogger from Canada who wrote a post about Australia being overrated. Call it click-bait, call it true, it's certainly struck a nerve with me. She's a millennial, so maybe I could blame her faux pas on that (I mean, millennials are ruining literally everything, right?!) or youth ignorance, but really, the conclusions she draws from her post, come down to one simple thing that many travellers are guilty of - Travellers are incredibly ignorant about Australia There, I said it. We Australians try to stay away from the rest of the world. I can't think of any other country that says "stay away" more loudly than Australia, with it's 17.5 hour flight from London, 15 hour flight from Los Angeles, 6 hour flight from Singapore; all while making sure that you know that you WILL get the worst case of [...]The post Why Travelling to Australia is (Not) Overrated appeared first on Bitten by the Travel Bug.
