Topeka Experience Gifts

“Do we really want to travel in hermetically-sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

One of the highlights of Euro 2016 has been watching Iceland, the smallest nation ever to qualify for a major football tournament, progress into the quarter-finals. Sadly the plucky minnows are now heading home, knocked out of the competition by France, but not without putting up an impressive fight.

Unless you’re one of the lucky few: oligarchs, lottery winners, Premier League footballers or tech billionaires, that can afford their own luxury suite-in-the-sky , chances are that most of your long-haul flights will be a torturous ordeal, the tedium only briefly punctuated by patches of unnerving turbulence; attacks of cramp, and awkward conversations while queuing for the bathroom with your legs crossed.