I’m excited to write my first newsletter as new editor of The Irish Times Abroad. Travelling to dozens of countries has sparked my curiosity to know the wonders of how others live. But it wasn’t until I lived in Australia in the 2000s that I fully “got” the difference between being a tourist and being an emigrant.
The commute from my tiny Sydney CBD flat (with its window view of a concrete wall) across the majestic Harbour Bridge to my reception job on the North Shore became a familiar routine. But even after months of crossing that iconic bridge by train (the flash of Sydney Harbour’s blue always catching my breath while the Aussies barely looked up at that ever-present sea), it felt like someone else’s place, not ever mine.
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