I agree with you, but in defence of my grandmother... A) Things were a bit different 30 years ago. Flying from Australia to Europe is expensive now, it was eve

I agree with you, but in defence of my grandmother... A) Things were a bit different 30 years ago. Flying from Australia to Europe is expensive now, it was even worse then. B) Things are particularly different when, like my grandmother, you're a working class person, living in a working class inner city suburb, in government housing. Given those circumstances, I think planning a "once in a lifetime" trip is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.