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BRING ALONG VITAMINS, LAXATIVES

tips for tra vellers

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I ALWAYS lose weight when I travel. It doesn’t seem to mat-
ter how many big meals. and: other T goodies I pack away, the

scale always drops.

The simplest answer. is that most
sedentary people: ‘(me included) get.”
far more exercise walking the Streets

they: do at:h :

existent and your. days can be 50.

; that.b A0p.m. you

Vancoiver Island.’ But: bypass the:

‘ferry terminal and:look beyond to

Howe’ Sound, “ where Bowen,

. Gambier and: Anvil islands lie like
giant grey and green icebergs.

HIDDEN INHABITANTS

: There’ are only faint signs of
island life visible from the
highways; but .
Bowen ‘atid Gambier, have inhab- ~
itants.

: The highway. hugs the mountains *
that tise ‘from: Howe Sound's east
shore, . bridging. many ‘creeks and

“Cutting through many rock faces.

t About.35: kilometres north from
Vancouver, i Porteau Cove Pro- »
vincial Park?“As ‘you: ‘drive in to’

** survey: the park, you. will not be

able -to-‘see ‘its. main’ features.

water, ‘just of fshore:’

“scuba: divers. -A ‘tire
‘concrete “reef and three

two. big -islands,~

That’s . because they are under, a"

you 1 order i it again and again. Balanc-
“ed diet?. Not quite. The little tablet

_ can fill the Baps fora. short length of.
time.

The> next problem that some
travellers experience is the direct op-.
posite--of ‘what is fondly called
‘‘Montezuma’s Revenge’. .

t-seems that restaurant meals
often lack the fibre that we try to eat

t home: You” may not care for:
‘foreign ‘cereals or. have an aversion

o,the milk served with them. Some

countries have problems with their’
“fresh. fruit “and vegetables ‘and

cautious travellers end up dining on.
well-done steak and French Fries.

uess you can’t have it both ©

Ry think that any of the above:
might happen to YOU, be prepared.”
‘ Inthe same cosmetic bag where you:

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need to.make you'feel better:

Next, most of us ‘are unprepared.
, for the scorching heat, of a tropical
sun: i had it explained to me by a

doctor and I didn’t pick up on much
pt that the angle of the sun’s Tays

is that [’ve had two of: the worst!
sunburns of my life’ ‘While ouring’

” The first happened ont e deck of: é
a _ fizzy stuff containing vitamin A‘and

ise ship somewhere « o

of Brazil. I'd flown to Rio. the
previous day and was tired — so
tired that I fell asleep on the deck,
laid out on a chair.

Witnesses agreed that it would
have been kind to wake me up but
South Americans being the polite in-
dividuals that they are, no one would
take the chance.

I got such a burn between my
shoulders that the skin puffed to a

. big weeping blister. It, for want of

a better word, leaked for days. 1
looked downright unhealthy in my
strapless dresses.

A legacy from that burn is a set of ;

scars that apnear as brown warts. |
don’t like thera and I expect that you
wouldn't either. .

The second sunburn happened so
innocently. I was sitting, in a pair of

‘shorts, under a tree in Buenos Aires.

It was a hot summer day and we were
enjoying an Argentine barbecue. The
sun moved around and hit my legs.
“Good,” I thought. Nice to go home
with brown legs in: January.-

I'll swear I didn’t get more than

_ ahalf hour of sun; but by. the time.

I went to bed, things weren’t well.
The skin on my legs became rigid.
Hurt? Like screaming hell it hurt. :

“1 developed.a.fever. My hosts —-
‘three doctors — got quite upset. For.

the next three days, getting out of
bed was agony. ‘Walking wasn’t fun.
And my hosts got a little tired of get-.

“ting up every three hours in the night

to give me measured doses of some

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lemon, plus, I think, some sort. of
pain- -killer.

Later the skin peeled — not in
flakes but in sheets. Brown legs in
January? More like leprosy.

I'm a brunette, with the pigment

in my skin that tans well. I'd never,-

ever, try the tropical sun without.a
heavy-duty sunscreen. The areas to
watch particularly are your face,
your upper chest and your thighs. It
seems that the way we sit makes these
areas the most vulnerable.
Band-Aids are a. must for a
traveller. f don’t even have a supply
inthe house, but if I’m -going
someplace, they’re on my. list.
Small cuts are probably better left.

to the air to heal but ‘when‘you get.

in all sorts of places and haven’ 7 hit
on a good brand _yet.. They. don't.
stick. The glue they use only clings
to nylon stockings. Enough said?
Last it’s a wise tourist that hauls
along some pain killers. No, I'm not
talking exciting stuff — aspirin or

-Tylenol will do. If you want to know

real misery, imagine waking in a
hotel in Bongo-Bongo at 5 a.m., with
the most well-deserved headache
you've ever experienced.

While your’e washing down your
buffered pain-killer, drink the whole
bottle ‘of mineral: water ‘you’re

sloshing it with. I’m told, and firm-
‘ly believe, that most of the morning-
after: ‘syndrome results

from.
Anyway it ‘can’t. do

an enormous blister‘on your-heel,’ “2

nothing but a band-aid will [keep you .

walking.

Foreign substitutes for Band -Aids : :
are often pitiful. [’ve bought them. :

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