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TRAVEL ETIQUETTE
The production of guide books to explain how to travel and how to behave whilst doing so started in earnest in the nineteenth century. The business of how to behave on a journey in modern times may not have changed in its essentials, although there may be a new context.

Would clear guidelines on what to do when the air passenger in the seat in front of you suddenly reclines their seat or what to tip a hotel porter when you鈥檝e only got large denomination bills, be useful?

Sandi Toksvig discusses world etiquette and customs with Vic Darkwood author of The Lost Art of Travel and Christopher Middleton who has just published his new book Behave: Tiptoeing through the minefield of human conduct.

HADAKA MATSURI
Rob Crossan has just recently returned from Japan where he witnessed the extraordinary event of hadaka matsuri. Versions are held in a number of Japanese towns. Rob went to Inazawa a town on the South West coast of Honshu. Although the event may vary slightly from place to place, the general theme is one of male ritual purification expressed by being naked, in the freezing cold.