Postingan

Menampilkan postingan yang sesuai dengan penelusuran untuk makes regular trips

Etiquette 101: Baths, Saunas, Spa Treatments

Gambar
Finnish cabinet ministers do it, Russian hockey players do it, Koreans do it on a first date. Social bathing—known as "naked communion" in Japan—is an integral part of several cultures, strengthening bonds between family members, colleagues, and heads of state. In many countries it's also considered the proper way to welcome a foreign guest. Whether sauna or sento, banya or hammam, the shared bath is society's great leveler, its group hug, its collective sigh. "Not sampling the local bathing culture would be like not trying the local cuisine," says Melisse Gelula, co-founder of Well&Good NYC, an online wellness guide . And like any other institution integral to a society, this one has its rules, the first of which is to behave with churchlike decorum. In Finland, the sauna is the church, says Joonas Berghäll, co-director of the Finnish documentary Steam of Life. (Statistics bear him out: With just over five million inhabitants, Finland has roughly...

13 Tips for Successful Baby Travel

Gambar
Over the past 3 years we’ve learned a lot about what makes or breaks a trip with an infant. We’ve also learned that traveling with one baby is very different than traveling with two (shocking, I know). Let’s just say, I’ve gained a huge respect for those brave families that travel with 3 or 4 little ones. To you, I tip my hat. Last week, I received a message from a nervous mother about to take her infant on a flight for the very first time. I vividly remember feeling the same anxiety before our first few trips with Braydon (our first born). In preparation for her trip, she asked me to share my most useful baby travel tips . I sent her the link to our other blog Tips for Baby Travel  and later realized we haven’t written a detailed “ baby travel tips ” article on this site. We get asked this question quite often, so I thought it was about time we wrote a post dedicated to baby travel. We’ ve intentionally limited the amount of baby posts we publish on this site because we know a lot o...

Top 5: Best Cheap Dog Grooming Tub for Home

Gambar
Cheap Dog Grooming Tub " src="https://topdogtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/What-is-the-Best-Cheap-Dog-Grooming-Tub.jpg" alt="What is the Best Cheap Dog Grooming Tub " width="735" height="1102" /> I t's no secret that grooming your pet yourself can save you hundreds of dollars each year. Of course, there are certain things that most owners would never want to do to their pet, like expressing his anal glands, and others that we may not be comfortable enough to do, like clipping their toenails. Bathing is one grooming task that pet parents don 't mind tackling on their own, and the  best cheap dog grooming tub for home will come in very handy. cheap dog grooming tub for home" src="https://topdogtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/best-cheap-dog-grooming-tub-for-home-300x171.jpg" alt="best cheap dog grooming tub for home" width="300" height="171" />Some dog parents choose to ...

Cubicles of death - Daily Nation

Gambar
By NJOKI CHEGE More by this Author The bathroom seems like a safe place, doesn’t it? It is not. Far from it. On the evening of April 17, 2013, Oscar Anthony Mito became yet another victim of a slippery bathroom, which is silently leaving its victims paralysed. Or dead. “My family is one of the reasons I am still alive. Their care and support since that incident has been of great encouragement for me,” he says. Thanks to quack contractors and poor quality or inappropriate ceramic tiles , bathrooms are increasingly turning into cubicles of death. While there are no statistics on bathroom injuries and fatalities in Kenya, doctors say that it is now common for patients to show up in hospital following injuries sustained from bathroom falls. “Bathroom falls are common incidents especially in middle-class  homes,” says Dr Dennis Otwori , a medical practitioner at the National Spinal Injury Hospital .  Home owners, in the name of saving money, do not engage professionals, rather, hire quacks...

The Gentle Art of Poverty

I am an old man in his sixtieth year. I have entered that decade of life which destroys the last illusion and beyond which lies death, swift or lingering, actuarial or real. I am also poor, incontrovertibly, humiliatingly poor, for the first time in my life. My total annual income , from a modest pension ($1980) and the interest ($168.75) from an equally modest savings account , is 6 percent of what I earned in my prime-and less than two thirds of the property tax I once paid on a five-bedroom home with swimming pool in Westchester County, New York. I am divorced and living alone in an alien city of 800,000 strangers. My aging body betrays me day by day; the ground I am losing now I lose forever. So I perceived myself, at any rate, when the plane from a foreign country dropped me in San Diego one night seven months ago. Behind me stretched an aimless, six-year, expatriate trail through the South Seas, Asia, and Latin America that began when divorce and its inevitable byproducts-seco...