Vices and indulgences

~ If you are in Dubai, pick up a hookah and carry some flavoured tobacco back home with you.

Flavours available range from delicious apricot to apple, cinnamon and citrus lemon. The hookah makes for great group activity and calls for hookah parties at home.

~ For some quiet enjoyment, pick up cheroots from Kanchanaburi, Thailand, and give yourself a break from your regular brand of cigarettes.

~ Gift your father-in-law/ boss/ friend a bottle of Sake or Japanese rice wine as a change from the usual Scotch.

~ Those with a sweet tooth can pick up banana flavoured Tuk-tuk or rickshaw-shaped chocolates from Thailand, Turkish delights from Cyprus and savouries like dried prunes and apricots from Singapore