So glad you have managed to travel so extensively throughout Australia and had so many different experiences, including taking the wonderful Ghan and the Indian Pacific! It is a beautiful country and I live on the west coast in Perth. Indeed, I have travelled in Australia since being ill but given our vast distances and areas of “nothing” in the outback (you would have glimpsed that from the Ghan!) I have carefully kept close to where there are airports plus medical facilities.

I am also currently planning a trip next year to New Zealand as Australia and New Zealand have special reciprocal arrangements concerning healthcare.

The American trips I mentioned were merely examples of leaving to visit another country with extraordinarily high healthcare costs and without reciprocal arrangements.

It is a question of weighing risks and including my oncologist in that assessment.

I do long to visit Italy and Germany again one day but in the meanwhile I stay “close to home” where my health insurance without exclusions reaches.

Wishing you all the very best for more happy travels and hope you come and visit Australia again