I was lucky enough to travel abroad with my parents from the age of seven, but a lot of people never went abroad until their late ****s or twenties. Some people have never been out of the country. One bloke from Sedgley died in the 1940's aged about 90, and had never been out of the village. A oldish bloke who worked at Thompson's while I was there in the seventies didn't see the sea until he was 19, and was mesmerised by it.
On the other hand a thousand years ago Vikings travelled all over the known world and discovered new land. The Crusader's would have been awed by the sophisticated cities, the blue skies and sparkling sea's of the Holy Land, not to mention the exotic fruits and women.
It seems people have always been split between the adventurous and the not so adventurous, nothing has changed much in centuries. Some kid's I went to school with stayed in every night and watched TV.
Saying all that there is nowhere I yearn to go anymore apart from Yorkshire, one place I have never been apart from football matches. I have no desire to go abroad again.

🎵 There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour, tomorrow for old England she sails.🎵