Feb 1st, 2013 at 12:00PM: The more frequently I travel, the more I stress about having enough time to prepare to be away from home for a week or two, and avoid coming home to a refrigerator full of rotten food or leaving a sink full of dishes. Through trial and error, I've discovered the best food to cook before a vacation is a simple roast chicken (sorry, vegetarians). The Department of Health suggests you can keep cooked ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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What To Cook Before A Vacation
Feb 1st, 2013 at 12:00PM: The more frequently I travel, the more I stress about having enough time to prepare to be away from home for a week or two, and avoid coming home to a refrigerator full of rotten food or leaving a sink full of dishes. Through trial and error, I've discovered the best food to cook before a vacation is a simple roast chicken (sorry, vegetarians). The Department of Health suggests you can keep cooked ...Blowfish Poisoning Suspected As Cause Of Canadian Sisters' Deaths In Thailand
Jun 19th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
In a recent tragedy, two Canadian sisters were found dead in their hotel room on the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand. Discovered on June 15 by the Phi Phi Palm Residence Hotel's maid, Audrey and Noemi Belanger, 20 and 26, are suspected to have died from severe food poisoning, most likely from blowfish or poisonous mushrooms.
"There was a lot of vomit in the room, and both bodies showed similar ...Poison alcohol kills Russian tourists: three things they should have known
Jun 3rd, 2011 at 10:00AM: Poisonous alcohol has been blamed for the deaths of three Russians on a cruise off the Turkish resort of Bodrum.
The Russians were part of a trip by travel agency managers exploring tourism possibilities in Turkey. In total, 20 Russians and one Turk were poisoned by the drinks. The $50 cruise included 10-12 mixed drinks. While some reported that the alcohol had a strange taste, it appears that ...Top five things to look for in a travel doctor, and why you should have one
May 19th, 2011 at 10:30AM: Despite writing about food and adventure travel for a living, I used to be somewhat blasé about the concept of travel medicine. Multiple incidents of Giardia/dysentery/traveler's diarrhea/full-body outbreaks of mosquito and sand fly bites just taught me to carry a serious stash of antibiotics in my first-aid kit. At least I've always been conscientious about travel immunizations and ...Knocked up abroad: pregnant travel in the first trimester
Mar 16th, 2011 at 11:30AM: For more on pregnant travel, see parts 1 and 2 of Knocked up abroad: pregnancy in a foreign country here and here.
There's no question that having a baby changes you: your body, your lifestyle, even your shoe size. One thing I hoped not to change altogether was traveling, as long as it was reasonably safe and comfortable for me and the baby. From the beginning of my pregnancy in Istanbul, my ...Top fifteen items to have in your travel first aid kit
Dec 21st, 2010 at 11:00AM: Even if the worst travel-related malady you've suffered is a touch of turistas, it pays to pack at least a few first aid essentials in your luggage. If you carry nothing more than Band-Aids, moleskin, Neosporin, and Pepto-Bismol tablets, you're set for minor emergencies that might otherwise derail a day of sightseeing.
If, however, you travel frequently/do adventure travel/spend time in ...Ask Gadling: You develop a serious illness while traveling
Dec 9th, 2010 at 10:30AM: The very thought of acquiring a serious illness or injury while traveling strikes fear into the hearts of even the most stalwart adventurers. Speaking from personal experience, it's terrifying to find yourself alone (or not) in dodgy accomodations, in a remote area of a developing country, with a raging fever and/or an uncontrollable case of the runs or other unsavory symptoms. Which isn't to say ...Five tips to reduce your health risk while eating street food
Oct 27th, 2010 at 10:30AM: It was the 18th century food writer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin who famously said, "Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are." For certain cultures, street food is more than just a cheap, tasty, easy way to fuel the body. It's part of a daily ritual, a way to catch up on neighborhood or community gossip, a means of eking out a living to provide for one's family. By ...Ask Gadling: What do you do when you get food poisoning while traveling?
Aug 18th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
No one wants to get sick while traveling. Unfortunately, sick happens - and it's usually in the form of bad food caused by bad bacteria from things you just don't want to know about. Food poisoning is no laughing matter, especially when you're traveling, and while it usually when you least expect it the good news is you can prevent it (and usually cure it) with a few simple steps.
Most of ...Catching the travel bug: Midair malaise
Oct 23rd, 2008 at 9:00AM: Welcome to Catching the Travel Bug, Gadling's mini-series on getting sick on the road, prevailing and loving travel throughout. Five of our bloggers will be telling their stories from around the globe for the next five weeks. Submit your best story about catching the travel bug in the comments and we'll publish our favorite few at the end of the series. It was 1989. In an effort to build flight ...China releases Olympic visitor "do and don't" list
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Jun 4th, 2008 at 10:30AM: Visitors planning a trip to the Beijing Olympics have had a lot of information to absorb in recent weeks. Between the tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake, the ongoing controversy surrounding the Olympic torch and somewhat inevitable construction blunders, there's been no shortage of China-related news. And if you weren't already on China Olympics information overload, the Beijing Organizing ...GADLING TAKE 5: Week of May 10-16
May 16th, 2008 at 3:00PM: If you're interested in finding out about good or bad health habit travel, turning into Gadling this week would have been a good place to start.
Anna tuned us into the countries where people smoke the most--if you value your lungs, perhaps you should rethink that trip to Greece, or at least avoid indoor eating establishments while you're there.
Iva gave us a tip on how to not ...No Wrong Turns: Protect yourself from food poisoning
May 13th, 2008 at 10:40AM: You know that feeling: the one where the contents in your stomach churn and before you can say "I think I ate something bad," you are already running for the bathroom. Fun, right? Every time you get on the plane, bus or (in our case) in the car and travel to another country you expose yourself to the likelihood of coming down with some sort of stomach illness. Call it what you like (and we all ...Sanitized Travel
Jan 18th, 2007 at 6:01PM: At the risk of talking ad nauseum (yuck, yuck) about getting sick while traveling, National Geographic's Traveler magazine has a good article this month with the pros and cons of eating street foods versus avoiding local cuisines.
On one hand, they quoted an infectious disease expert and a CDC travel health specialist as saying that, while some folks may be naturally predisposed to intestinal ...Food Poisoning: Meet the Bugs
Jan 8th, 2007 at 5:40PM: There is nothing like an episode of food poisoning that can wreck one's trip, change priorities, or--if it takes more than two days--even reconsider one's view on euthanasia. I have been there many times, either myself or in spirit with other people. Yes, there was the cheap sushi in New York, the grocery store pre-cut water melon in Portland, the chicken satay in Amsterdam, the sandwich at ...
