I’ve been around the world a couple of times or maybe more.

I’ve been away for six weeks. Six weeks! It’s not much, but it feels like forever.

I’ve visited five cities in three countries for varying amounts of time. I have loved and not-loved them, but mostly loved. I’ve now visited 25 countries and I think I can categorically say that Australia really is the best country on earth.

Sure, there are dodgy Aussies – the racists and misogynists and drunken idiots – that give the rest of us a bad name, but overall, it’s a great country. Our education system (mostly) works, our healthcare system (mostly) works, the weather is (mostly) great, it’s (mostly) beautiful and definitely very clean – there is no denying that.

Australia, today I miss you.