A Holiday With A Difference Do you have any friends that are looking to lose weight after Christmas? I know I am, After a week of feasting on tasty food and snacks and drinking too much, my willpower to try and lose weight has subsided. Months before Christmas I had started eating healthily and exercising I actually reached an impressive goal of losing 2 stone. But I just knew that once December hit I would likely be in the boat of putting half of that back on again.

Winter is a terrible time for exercise, I like to do mine outdoors and the cold weather definitely puts me off. I enjoyed taking long bike rides when the sun was out and the warm weather was hitting me , now I have to face months of cold and rain. An alternative that may help you could be taking a trip to one of these new fangled health resorts. Some are fully fledged fat camps, some are yoga retreats or even detox retreats.

If you could get your friends to come along for a holiday away in one of these facilities, you may find losing weight to be a lot easier than before. Willpower is a huge aspect to whether or not you can maintain weight loss, one problem is that once you have succeeded in losing weight, keeping that weight off could be difficult unless you make sure you keep up the work. Falling behind in exercise might make you put on all of that weight again without you even realizing.

Taking a trip away is always a nice prospect, but where do you go? What do you do? Everyone is different, some people like one thing whilst others will like another and this is something that defines how we live our lives. A lot of people like to go away for holidays in boiling hot countries and get themselves a nice brown suntan, others like to just have nice getaway to a Bude B&B or other small and cosy hotel just for a cheap holiday.

Neither of these people are wrong, taste is subjective and I could have fun on either one of these holidays, I would definitely not turn it down. I’ve been to various places around England and found you can generally have a great time, fun is not limited to foreign countries and the only real difference is the climate and culture. England has a great history and you can find some fantastic ruins of castles and other interesting structures, Britain’s rich history is one of the reasons I enjoy taking some of my holidays in this country.

I will be going abroad later this year and really look forward to it, but some people just aren’t into that kind of thing.

Following on from my last post, I thought i’d talk about Somerset a bit more. I’ve lived here for several years so I like to say I know a bit about the place. Somerset is my Jewel of the South West and a fantastic location to take a holiday or day out.

The Land of the Summer People in old English times is full of sun-swept meadows so you can enjoy the weather and sights. Somerset, originally known as Somerton due to the allure of the place at that certain time of year.

The Quantock Hills close to Bridgewater are fantastic, these beautiful hills stretch out toward the Bristol Channel. You can see wales across the channel. The Quantock Hills lovely wooded areas and land filled with rich variants of animals and plants.

There’s also a great place to stay at the foot of the Quantocks, The Carew Arms. The Carew Arms is a grade 3 listed building due to it being so old. It has quite a lot of it’s original features still in tact and many of them remain untouched in case of damaging its historic heritage.

No only does Somerset have a lovely countryside, there are many seaside locations to visit aswell! You have Weston super Mare and the Grand Pier to visit, where you can swim in the nice brown sea. If your looking for medieval villages or castles, come on down to somerset!

Although I am a fan of the hot weather, holidays don’t have to only be abroad. The United Kingdom has its beauty too, from luscious countryside to historical buildings and ruins, If you’re after a country with an exciting history then you’re living in the right place! Nearly every town in the UK has a rich history and where better to start than London. London has a whole host of historic buildings to visit. The Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Jewel tower, St Pauls Cathedral and Eltham Palace to name a few. If your into historic cities, this is one you can’t miss.

Another great place to visit is the southwest of England, here the beautiful countryside will blow you away. Not only do they have a great deal of fantastic scenery they also have some great historic buildings too. There are some lovely locations and buildings, like The Carew Arms for instance, with its original bar and flagstone floor intact this grade one listed building is a centrepiece at the foot of the Quantocks.

There are so many other places that I could mention but I think it would be to your benefit to do a bit of research.

So travel is one of my fondest hobbies, that and watersports of course! And what better way to have a great time is to combine them both!

Hitting the surf is always something I will never turn down, but as we head closer and closer to winter, there’s no way in hell I’ll be getting near the sea, especially the English sea, I’ll catch hypothermia!

So one can only dream of taking a nice relaxing break to Australia, Look at it, Its begging for me to jump in!