Mexico’s delightful Puebla rivals any tiled city in Spain

Looking for a tantalising travel destination? Perhaps Puebla could be the answer. Read Irene’s article on the colonial Mexican city that’s guaranteed to make a suitably smug Facebook update

One size fits all in Australia: part two

Australia accommodates everyone’s idea of a perfect holiday, from four-year-olds to grannies, reports Pippa Jacks

Trading Standards

From the website:

“The Trading Standards Institute is a not-for-profit professional body formed in 1881. We have members in the public and private sectors in the UK and abroad.

TSI encourages honest enterprise and business and helps safeguard the economic, environmental, health and social well-being of consumers.”

Seoul Sisters

From puberty to pensioners, Koreans love to sing. CD Traveller wonders why?

Rail Passengers’ Rights

A few years ago the EU introduced new right for airline passengers concerned lost or damaged baggage and delayed flights. Those travelling by sea, rail or coach had limited protection but that is changing,. First on the list for change is the rail passenger. A new regulation that came into being this week has given wider protection to the 8 billion passengers who use railways throughout Europe in any year. Of course, the problem with European legislation is that each country has the right to request that some of the rules may be deferred because of local conditions. The bad news is that if any country goes down this track, (sorry about the pun) it could delay things for up to 15 years. (Why such a long time?)

Why Fly?

“I don’t believe people fly because they like the idea of flying.”

That came out of the mouth of Willie Walsh, the head of British Airways in an interview with BBC’s “Costing the Earth” on Radio 4. I listened to it twice because the first time I wasn’t sure that I really heard it but it was still on the repeat so why these intriguing words?

The Burns Supper

On the 25th January every year Scottish people feel their heart strings pulled back to the motherland in celebration of the life and works of Robert Burns. The Burn’s Supper is a tradition in Scotland that dates back to 1802 in Ayrshire (where Robert Burns was from), where groups of friends and acquaintances meet to eat drink and be merry.