Europe – Family wellness retreat

All around the world, more people are incorporating elements of health, prevention and elements of mindfulness into their day-to-day lives and also when it comes to their holiday choices.

 

Enjoying a wellness holiday as a family has always been a priority for me, be it a far-flung beach destination or a retreat in the countryside somewhere close to home. We enjoy doing things together and love to get involved in various activities such as bike riding, kayaking, trekking, diving, yoga and trying out new cuisines that are nutritionally rich and can really inspire our usual home cooking.

 

For me, wellness travel is mainly about travel associated with the pursuit of maintaining and enhancing our wellbeing as a family and helping us build an even stronger bond. It is also about enriching our emotional experiences and awareness of the rest of the world and challenging us mentally and physically. However, wellness tourism is sometimes conflated with medical tourism.

 

Sometimes the term “health tourism” is also used as a catch-all to describe many types of medical and wellness services and activities. We have been on some vacations where the focus has been predominantly on health – from  DNA testing and executive checkups to special dietary regimes and treatments involving mineral waters – it’s not to say that the two can’t go hand in hand.

 

 

Keep reading

Luxury Easter Eggs

Did you know that the custom of the Easter egg can be traced as far back as to the early Christians of Mesopotamia, around 400 AD.

From there it spread into Eastern Europe and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches. Later, the Easter egg tradition also merged into the celebration of the end of the privations of Lent in the West, symbolising the beginning of new life and rebirth.

 

 


Keep reading

Astteria London

Whether you’re researching diamonds or finding reputable jewellers it’s not always an easy task. Sure, you can always go into a big name jewellery shop and spend a small fortune, however I doubt you will get the best value for money on your investment. Yes, jewellery is an investment! Over the last ten years, jewellery investments may have outperformed certain equity markets and London real estate!

 

Keep reading

A very fashionable Metaverse

Sci Fi writers and film directors have long wowed us with their imagination and a kind of artificial third dimension giving us glimpses into the future and virtual reality.

Today when we talk about virtual reality, it is the reality! The virtual reality sector has grown exponentially over the last decade and nowadays, the technology completely blends in with our daily lives – video games, medicine, education, you name it! Furthermore, a couple of months ago Mark Zuckerberg announced his plans to build the “metaverse” — a virtual reality construct intended to supplant the internet and social media platforms as we know them today.

 

Mark Zuckerberg in the Metaverse

Keep reading