Travel for Free with Gingerbread

Travel for Free with Gingerbread

In what could only be described as the perfect meeting of travel and food, a bus operator in Finland offered free tickets in return for lovingly-baked gingerbread goodies. With the proviso that the baked treat should include the name of your desired destination, lucky Finnish bakers could exchange gingerbread biscuits for a free bus ticket […]

USA Says ‘non’ to French Mimolette Cheese

USA Says ‘non’ to French Mimolette Cheese

The French were scandalised recently when they discovered that 1.5 tonnes of French Mimolette cheese had been banned from entering the United States. Citing health concerns, the cheese was impounded in a customs warehouse in New York. To add insult to injury, the round bowling-ball cheese was also classified – rather unfortunately – as “filthy, […]