Australian international border closures: It's time to treat travellers like adults again
OPINION Two bewildered officials threw arched eyebrows across an airless room high above the river Nile, six months after the irrepressible Arab Spring vanquished Egypt's dastardly dictator Hosni Mubarak. But Egyptian visa anxieties didn't land me in the viscera of the Australian embassy. Well before I'd touched down in Cairo, the Australian government's Smart Traveller website's Egypt advisory was downgraded to "reconsider your need to travel" from its most severe: "do not travel". After reconsidering, I determine that witnessing what recently hatched democracy looks and sounds like transce...
Source: traveller.com.au
