In Australia the Cabramatta Moon Festival is recognised as one of our biggest and brightest Asian cultural celebrations, attracting around 90,000 visitors, Asian and Western alike.

Back in 1893, America’s then-wealthiest man, William Waldorf Astor, had England’s high society in an absolute tizz when he had the audacity to buy his way into their ranks by paying $US1.25m for the Duke of Westminster’s grand Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire.

He’s like some modern-day Pied Piper, except that it’s not children he’s leading through the town square, but adults.

The delightful little town of Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands, has taken a jump on New York City, to erect a life-size statue of the world’s most popular super-nanny, Mary Poppins.

The Dutch are marvels at creating engineering wonders on their home turf, but when they were asked back in the 1940s to build a road around and over the tiny island of Saba in the Caribbean’s Netherlands Antilles, they studied it long and hard and decided: “Nee — this is impossible,” and went home.