Fifteen Healthy Reasons for Taking a Vacation

Written by Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Management Consultant and Trainer


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Going away on a vacation brings numerous benefits. It refreshes our enthusiasm, helps us to know ourselves a little better, and makes us, upon our return home, happier, healthier, and much more effective in coping with stress. The key to reapingrepparttar 133981 benefits of traveling is inrepparttar 133982 going away. Hardly anyone reaps a benefit from spending a vacation time at home to work aroundrepparttar 133983 house.

Want a reason or two to go away on vacation? Here are fifteen:

* 1. Relaxation: Vacations break our day-to-day routine.

* 2. Stimulation of new sights: New sights give us new insights.

* 3. Meeting new people: Seeing how other people live broadens our perspective on our own live.

* 4. Fellowship and camaraderie: Shared hardships and good times form long-lasting bonds of love and friendship.

* 5. Education: We learn new skills and activities. Remember when you picked your first farm-fresh fruit or vegetable, climbed a mountain, learned a new language?

* 6. Adventure: Travel returns a sense of adventure to our life and improves our self-esteem when we accept and conquer challenges that don't exist in our routine life.

Luxury hotel rooms at lowest prices for Top Holiday Destinations

Written by Chole Lim


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Amsterdam A confident mix of old and new, Amsterdam, capital city of The Netherlands, features beautiful 17th- and 18th-century buildings and boasts some world-class museums, most notablyrepparttar 133983 Van Gogh Museum, andrepparttar 133984 Rijksmuseum, home to some ofrepparttar 133985 world’s finest artworks, including those by famous Dutch artist Rembrandt. Nightlife in Amsterdam is as mixed asrepparttar 133986 city itself, with something for everyone’s tastes available. A trip to Amsterdam would not be complete without renting a bicycle (Holland has more bicycles than residents), or cruising downrepparttar 133987 canals by boat. http://www.hotelclub.net/hotel.reservations/Amsterdam.htm

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Paris Paris isrepparttar 134030 economic, artistic, historic, and cultural capital of France. It is also deeply traditional, almost village-like and in parts, a dilapidated metropolis, which houses around 2 million people. The river Seine bisectsrepparttar 134031 city,repparttar 134032 Right Bank is home torepparttar 134033 grand boulevards and most monumental buildings, many dating from Haussmann's nineteenth-century redevelopment. The Left Bank has a noticeably different feel, it has an atmosphere of Bohemian, dissident, intellectual connotations, and it shows in Paris' best range of bars and restaurants. The Eiffel Tower is Paris’ most famous and instantly recognizable landmark. The Champs-Elysees isrepparttar 134034 city’s most well-known boulevard. Elegant and broad, it links Place de la Concorde withrepparttar 134035 Arc de Triomphe.

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