Wellness holidays

Feel-good fish treatment or fraught with dangers?

Opinion
Asia

If you’re tempted to put your feet in a fish spa, read this first

Have you ever been tempted to have one of those fish pedicures that are offered in backstreet spas in many Asian cities? Don’t be.

Lee Tulloch

Beach and island holidays

You don’t have to live here to have a long life, but it helps

In one of five zones on Earth where people live longest, the outside world hardly seems to exist – so visiting adds a few months to my expiry date, surely?

Craig Tansley

Cruises

I desperately needed to de-stress. This ship helped me do it

It is possible to get away from it all, even while you have it all – and more – at your fingertips.

Jill Dupleix

Istanbul

Getting naked here is the best $175 I’ve ever spent

I’ve been soaped and scrubbed in bathhouses in Morocco and Spain many times, yet I’d never experienced one of the most famous types.

Lee Tulloch

Melbourne

Communal bathing is finally taking off in Australia

Japan, Hungary, Turkey – all these countries love public baths. Australia is finally getting in on the act.

Julietta Jameson

Don’t risk it … bring medications in your carry-on bag.

Air travel

Doctors who treat pilots reveal how to avoid getting sick on a plane

There’s a whole discipline of preventive health care that focuses on treating aircrew – and you can start using it as soon as you’re looking for flights.