The city of San Miguel De Allende is often described as one of the most beautiful

Pueblos in Mexico.

There is something very magical about Mexico, the feeling in the air and the light and

the festivals and the people. There is something, it's hard to put your finger on.

Coming up, we hear why it's attracting a lot of expats and retirees.

In Italy, there's a good reason why it's hard to find a mediocre meal.

Everyone is a mediocre meal.

Everyone is a forager.

Everyone has a garden if they possibly can.

Everyone's at the market buying the primo produce.

Francis Mays shares what she admires most about the culinary practices of Italy.

We'll also hear why people in Scotland are talking again about independence from the UK.

The problem we have in Scotland is we have an identity crisis within ourselves at times.

I always argue it's not anti-English, it's just pro- Scottish.

And get ready for the Olympic Games with a torchlighting ceremony in Greece.

We shouldn't be calling it the Olympic flame but the Olympic light.

It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. Come along.

They're about to light the Olympic flame at the site of the ancient games on Mount Olympus in Greece.

Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steeves, we'll hear how the flame ceremony got started,

just in time for the passing of the torch to Fukushima Japan for this summer's games in Tokyo.

Friends from Scotland joined us a little later in the hour to explain why many Scots are talking again

about splitting off from England and to tell us how their Scottish identity can be at odds

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