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Nov122022 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Treatment tips for jet lag and travel insomnia

Health

Adventure travelers must not only cope with ordinary travel dilemmas of time changes and sleeping away from home, but must often deal with discomfort and noise as well. As a result, jet lag and travel insomnia can affect adventure travelers particularly harshly. Basically, adventure travel comes in two basic varieties: soft and hard. In the soft kind of adventure travel, travelers can expect a bed at the end of a day of hiking, cycling, or other activities. In the hard kind of adventure travel, travelers might sleep in shelters with several other people, in communal dorms, in tents pitched on snow and ice, in crowded buses, or on middle-of-the-night air flights. Sleep is by no means guaranteed. Jet lag is caused by the body's "lag" in being able to adjust to a new time of day. Tr...

Oct162022 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Christmas Island – Galapagos of the Indian Ocean

Travel

Christmas Island, home of the migrating Red Crabs and endangered Abbott Booby birds, is a place of natural wonder and contradictions. Christmas Island has long been known as the "Galapagos of the Indian Ocean", but it is a place full of contradictions. Today this remote, rugged outpost of Australia is as likely to grab the headlines for its controversial phosphate mining and immigration centre as it is for the island's extraordinary fauna and flora. Christmas Island is so called because it was discovered on 25th December 1643 by Captain William Mynors aboard the ship Royal Mary. But it wasn't settled until 1888 when it was declared a British Colony. Tropical rainforest It is an isolated territory 2600km north of Perth and on the fringes of Asia. It's tropical rainforest ...

Sep262022 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Vatican Museums, more than sacral art

Entertainment

About 500 years ago the religious fervor of the Vatican was matched only by its love of art and all things beautiful. It was the golden age of Italy’s artistic output, the Italian Renaissance, and the highest representatives of this artistic genius received commissions from the Vatican. Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Masaccio, Perugino, Botticelli and Signorelli all left their permanent marks on those walls and ceilings. With such a repertoire of artists how could the Vatican go wrong and what better place to leave their unmistakable marks then in classical Rome? Amidst controversy and fascination surrounding the wealth and magnitude of the Vatican it was the renovation (and funding) of Saint Peter’s Basilica that sent Martin Luther running off to the Castle Church, Witte...

Sep22022 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Sultanhani – Silk-Road Caravanserai in Turkey

Travel

The structure, built between 1229 and 1236 by Sultan Keykubat, is one of the is one of the many along the ancient Silk-Road. The ancient and much travelled Silk-Road linked the Middle East, Iran, and Iraq with China. The route ran from Europe through Central Asia and on to China carrying silks, spices and all manner of goods between them. Caravanserais were in a way similar to present day truck stops. The Caravanserai The caravanserais were built like forts.They were a safe place for caravans. They were designed for protection and to keep out marauding raiders at night. Once within the caravanserai a weary caravan could look forward to warm food, a bath and a safe shelter for the night for both man and beast. Caravanserais offered the travelling merchant shelter for the night and...

Aug262022 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Cephalonia: More than just a story

Travel

Since Captain Corelli's Mandolin became a runaway success, tourists have flocked to the small Greek Island of Cephalonia, to walk in the footsteps of its loveable characters, such as Pelagia and Captain Corelli. Louis de Bernieres, the author of the novel, describes the Island as though it were a character itself. He tells of its beauty, its brilliance, the colours, the fragrances and its ability to make visitors fall in love with it. The Corelli Trail All over the Island there are reminders of the novel, such as a cafe chain named, Corelli's Cafe Bar. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which was published in1993 and adapted to a film in 2001, has now become a tourist industry. Visitors to Cephalonia have the opportunity to visit the locations that were used for filming, with many ho...

Aug52022 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Best women’s dresses for travel – wrinkle free

Lifestyle

Baby Boomer Chicks should look to Old World styles for modern, easy-to-wear fashion. Only a few decades ago, most women in Europe wore dresses instead of pants. For example, in the '60s, women and girls were turned away from the Savoy Grill Restaurant, in London, if they were not wearing skirts or dresses. Well, maybe European women were onto something. Unstructured dresses are much more comfortable than pants. And, with great wrinkle free fabrics, dresses are the most versatile item a girl can buy. Perfect Travel Dress When shopping online, the easiest dress to fit is a cute, stretchy frock with no zipper. It just takes a bit of common sense to realize that overly structured items will not adjust to a woman’s shape, and will need to be returned more often than fun dresses mad...