With its manicured beachfront and sparkling, yacht-speckled view out across the water to the harbour heads, The Bathers Pavilion at Balmoral Beach on Sydney’s lower north shore is hard to beat as a dining venue, and as I stood on the newly-renovated rooftop bar drinking in the view recently, it occurred to me that for those of us whose careers or relationships have required us to spend chunks of our lives on foreign soil, the memories of such vistas argue the case for coming home more eloquently than any Qantas ad.