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Locked out expats yearn for the lucky country
After cancelling his trip home due to COVID-19, The Australian Financial Review's London correspondent Hans van Leeuwen craves direct conversation, droll humour and big waves.
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondentLondon | This week about $7000 was deposited in my bank account. I should have been delighted – but actually I felt a kind of poignant sadness.
The money was a refund of the airfares for a family holiday to Australia that COVID-19 prevented us taking in April. I originally just postponed the flights, but I’ve now given up any expectation that I’ll be heading out to see my dad, siblings and old friends any time soon. So I cashed the tickets in.
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