Forget travelling first class - this bear travelled teddy class after being left behind at an airport by its heartbroken owner. Young Ulyana had been travelling to Thailand for a winter break with her family but accidentally left her ted in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth largest city.
When Ripley's Believe It or Not! opened in Pattaya, in 1995, there was one question on everyone's lips: why bother when the immediate surrounds are so much more incredible? A couple of decades on, the seaside-city resort is Thailand's premier adventure playground, pulling in close to a million visitors a month and serving up a phantasmagorical entertainment cocktail containing rather more than sun, sand, sea and the other thing. Just as Monopoly players end up on Go, at one time or another all travel articles about Pattaya land on Walking Street, known to those of a philosophical bent as the Old Kant Road.