Cashed up

So, the experts say that, because we’re all cashed up, we’ll be out spending it as soon as we can and this will help the post-Covid recovery.    Fair enough, given that the headline was a day or so after the big BHP dividend arrived in our bank account.  And there are certainly a couple of things that I need to buy when the shops re-open.   But “recovery” assumes that we’ll be spending the money in Australia.    Maybe we will, and interstate travel is on our agenda, but as I’ve posted, there seems to be a pent-up demand for travel further afield, such as cruises. 

 Certainly, in our case, we’re  looking at options for overseas travel, although a cruise really isn’t on the horizon.  But the picture on overseas leisure travel is still far from clear – see here.   My hunch is that priority is likely to to be given to skilled migrants, students and the like, so it may be some time before leisure travel is fully restored.  And even then, I’m sure it will be “different”.    Hopefully, we shall see soon.  But, that said, a friend has actually taken the plunge and booked travel to the USA for December (although there are family reasons involved).

EDIT – within a day of posting this post, things had moved on – see here.     It seems that the prospect of overseas travel is being held out to us, in November which is earlier than we had anticipated.    Well, it will be good if it all comes to pass.  In the meantime, we don’t seem to be hearing much about cruises.