So this is going to feel a bit like a Mean Girls post, like when they're naming top he different kinds of social groups in high school. This also applies to the different kind of backpackers you meet along the way. The trust fund kids- the backpackers that have come out on daddy's money, to get a gap year experience to see a bit of the world before going to work at their fathers company, these people are not interested in farm work, and if they are they tend to buy the farmer out. Most tend to call home daily, and have everything already bored in adv, they know exactly where they'll be and when. They'll regularly call home when they are broke (broke being $100) quote one girl I met in airlie beach 'it's been my birthday whilst being out here, my mum best throw me a surprise party for when I get home and a belated birthday party, I should have loads of presents to go home to, it's going to suck going back if not' The extended lads lads holiday guys(and girls) - standard Ibiza types, usually English, in big groups that have known each other from school or home and don't tend to mix with different people (unless they're English) they live in girls vests, white socks, some kind of sports shoe and short shorts, and a lot of bright colours, usually not open to explore new music, films, tv shows or experiences, they know what they like and that's final. The non English speakers here to improve their English- I have a lot of respect for these people, usually European, they are here mostly to improve their English. I think it's incredible if you know more then one language and I cam imagine how scary it must be to come to a country where the citizens have no real need to learn another language. Most of these people will encourage each other to speak English, usually when all hanging out together they'll constantly say 'only English, only speak in English' and when drinking - if you don't speak English you gave to drink. Most people I have met have said they prefer meeting people not from their home country so they have to speak English. Learn and improve. Although every person struggles with the vase amounts of different English accents, if I can't understand a scouser how on earth do they? The I am English but i hate English people - ok this is probably just one person in particular I have met and lived with but I have also met Italians that hate Italians, French who hate French etc. I have to be honest since travelling at first all I wanted was English people however over the past 8months the most interesting people I have met have been from all other the world, I feel I can learn so much more from these people, however two English people I have met who are just like my friends back home who I clicked with instantly are Fiona and Charlotte and then there's Amy who I have only just met but I feel there is so much we can teach each other on our travelling paths. Then you get the people who being around their own kind actually repulses them, they'll talk shit about them - before they've even met them. From experience I have found these people end up being the loneliest. The I am here to discover myself people - sometimes I feel I may fall into this group, although on a non extreme hippie level. I did come out here because I knew there was more to my life then the life I was leading back home, I don't think I have found all the answers and I don't think I will in Australia but being out here with all the time in the world to think has helped a lot, the people I have met have had a huge part to play also. But you do get the people who claim to be a spiritual hippy with all the answers and poetic sentences. The Tommy Toppers - we all know these people, not just with travelling, these people are the ones where you find $5 they find $10, you've done the east coast they've done the whole of Australia, you do the Whitsunday sailing trip they see the islands by helicopter. You get the idea .... Finally there are also the people who weren't happy with the situation they were in at home, or they were bored, or they fancied a change, or they just really wanted to spread a year in Australia travelling, everyone is out here for their own reasons and that's what's important, these are just silly groups my mind has made which you can't help but make, of course you get the rude people and there's people you clash with, we are only humans. However the majority of people you meet are just like you... There might just be a language barrier