Or perhaps, at this time of year, what will you be doing on your holidays? If I might make a little suggestion, don't try to do what a friend of mine did not too long ago. Off he went to LA to see the big city: no harm in that, to be sure. He went off to see the cricket….

Now, yes, I know, that's not what you immediately think of when you think of Los Angeles but there's been a long standing cricket league there. Started with all those English actos that went over to Hollywood in fact. There's even ,would you believe it, a team in Compton.

OK, so he's off there to play in this little cricket league. While he's there he's talking to some people about the great american summer sport, baseball. He likes to wind people up does my friend and he pretends to be a bit confused about hos the game is played. So he makes someone explain the rules to him and as they do he pretends to see the light.

Ah, yes, we play that game too: it's just that we call it Rounders. Oh, and we give up playing it when we're 11 and start to play cricket instead. It's a child's game, didn't you know?

Now he was just trying to wind people up but while actually in the Angle's stadium possibly wasn't the place to do that. The subsequent near riot had him in need of a Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney.

The lesson being that foreigners have ways that are foreign….what might be a little bit of leg pulling at home can be taken as a gross insult elsewhere. So mind how you go on your holidays, eh?