but yes, we are loud. It doesn't help that many of us have an accent that can be used to strip paint from the walls. And everything gets worse when alcohol is involved. Which is always.
My personal biggest bugbear is Aussies who complain that things don't work the way they do in Oz. By that I don't mean electrical appliances or stuff like that. More things like banking, arranging health cover etc. These people are often also members of the "everything is better in Australia" brigade - the beer's piss, the grub's awful, the weather's crap, the cricket team is crap etc etc etc. Some things are better in Australia, some are worse, most are just different. If you don't want to come out of your comfort zone, stay home. And the last thing the locals want to hear is how "awful" their country is.
The Dutch don't seem to indulge in that sort of behaviour so much. That might change since many young Dutchies head off to the Spanish coast where they can be taught by the many Poms and Aussies who swarm there. Instead, they are seen by many people as being cold, arrogant and lacking in a sense of humour. My family and I went some years ago on holiday to the Black Forest. Later, I got talking to a couple of guys and they said that when we pulled into the site, the general reaction was "Oh no. More Dutchies" (my car had Dutch plates). They were pretty relieved when we turned out not to be. Technically, my wife is Dutch, but she lived a long time in Australia and acts more like an Aussie.
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