Staying Healthy While Traveling and Bicycle Touring

All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma

EXPERT ADVICE on BudgetTravel.com

Medical experts weigh in on healthy travel. Use their battle plan to avoid colds, jet lag, and other troubles.
1. Jet lag
"It takes your body typically one day to adjust to each time zone traveled, so if you've gone through seven or eight time zones, it'll be about one week before your internal clock matches the actual time. The main factors in resetting your biological clock are light exposure and melatonin. If you've traveled eastward, you can fool your body's reactions to the time zone by getting light exposure early in the day. If you've gone westward, you're trying to extend your day, so you want light exposure in the evening. ...
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... 7 Ways Doctors Stay Healthy on Vacation; By Heather Eng


VIP Travel on the TimesOnline.co.uk

From Sydney to Corfu, via Venice and Whitstable, here’s where the great and the good are going this summer.
GRIFF RHYS JONES
Comedian, writer, presenter
Where are you going? I’m fleeing for three weeks in September to race my yacht, Undina, in three regattas on the Riviera. She’s a vintage 45ft Bermudan sloop from 1953, and restoring her has been my passion for ages — quite an expensive one, because she needs nine crew. We’ll go to Monte Carlo, Cannes and St Tropez. We’re the smallest yacht there, but we look fabulous, and the scene on shore isn’t too glitzy. ...
Full Story: 10 celebrities: where we're going on holiday; by Robert Ryan, Kara O’Reilly, Vincent Crump and Sean Newsom


TRAVEL on BootsnAll.com

David Butterworth discovers there is more to Laos than meets the eye, when it comes to demanding foreigners pay up while bicycle touring and renting.
My body juddered with the bicycle - a shopping model - as its flimsy wheels rattled over the stones, disturbing them and the dust of the
dirt road. A month later, I returned to the resort and went out for a day cycling again. The next type - a mountain bike - was a constant
threat. Its chain kept on jumping on, and bouncing off the front sprocket wheel after I tried to adjust the shifter lever. ...
Full Story: Riding Through Shock and Dust - Laos, Asia





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