a form of blindness resulting from having travelled to a remote part of the planet, under very difficult conditions, only to realise that there's a tour group there. Expatriate myopia causes you to not see the tour
bus, the group or any individual that
may remotely come from where you'
re from. It'
s often accompanied by deafness. Usually contracted by backpackers...
Diane developed expatriate myopia in Bakit Lawang, having arrive there after a
23 hour
bus trip, only to find that every room was
taken by Australian Year 12 students on schoolies.