Showing posts with label tourism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tourism. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Hickory golf comes to Scotland’s Gleneagles Hotel


Visitors to Scotland’s Gleneagles Hotel can now enjoy a round of golf as if it was 1924.

Until the end of July, hotel guests and visitors can take to the fairways with hickory clubs to recreate an early 20th-century golfing experience on Gleneagles’ PGA National Academy Course. 

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Health benefits of a hot sand bath in Kyushu, Japan



Boris Yeltsin lasted 30 minutes; he did well. Most people struggle to get past 20 – and the recommended dose is a trifling 15.

Frankly, I am nervous. The sauna at the Hakusuikan resort at Ibusuki on the tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu may be recommended as a cure for any number of ailments, but it also involves being buried up to your neck in geothermally heated sand.