Drinking water on Walking Holidays. So let’s have a look at your walking day. You’ve just had a superb English breakfast at a cosy little UK B&B. The walkers’ manual suggests, “Caffeine: Avoid caffeinated beverages before your walk, they cause you to lose fluid, making you thirstier as well as making you take inconvenient stops […]
Weight Loss and Walking
Weight Loss and Walking: Weight loss must be one of the most popular reasons for people to take up the wonderful activity of walking. The thought of feeling the weight disappear as you make your way over hill and dale along, for example – the Coast to Coast Walk, is very appealing. And in most […]
Italian water guzzler
How much water do you need on a walk? It’s really good to know. I’ve seen a lot of articles and guidebooks say “take enough water for the walk”, but how much is enough? We were in Siena, Italy by good fortune on the day of the Palio and planned to spend the day enjoying […]
Lose weight? – not necessarily.
Some of us, including me, always think that we will lose weight if we walk. In general this is true. However, if our food intake increases when we go on multiday walks, then it’s not a given. Like the erosion of the chalk cliffs at Burling Gap, weight loss can take time; you need exercise […]
Are cakes and cider OK for walkers?
This is a good question for any of us over 30, I’ll get back to that later in the post. But the truth is most of us are interested in our level of health, or at least well-being. So how can walking help? There are so many positives about walking, it’s a wonder we got […]
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