Travelling with kids

I've said it before, but that won't stop me saying it again: there's a dearth of reliable medical information for globetrotting families. The new edition of Dr Richard Dawood's Travellers' Health (Oxford University Press, £14.99) is an excellent, if disconcerting, guide to everything from motion sickness to mischievous bowels. But in its 700- plus pages (read it before you go, or it will devour your luggage allowance), only 14 are dedicated to children abroad.

Wild thing

Running through Kenya's Arabuko-Sokoke forest, swimming in the Indian Ocean and dining on mango juice and oysters - Ian Belcher finds the Wild Fitness course is gym life, but not as he knows it...

Cycling the Danube

I want to cycle the Danube all the way to the Black Sea - is this possible?

Hen picked

Looking for something different to do over your hen weekend? Max Riddington finds 10 places where you can let your hair down - and not a health spa in sight...

She wants to ride her bicycle

Sheila Pulham is about to set off on a gruelling five-week cycle ride from Land's End to John O'Groats. Here she explains why

Travelling with kids

Dea Birkett: I just have to drop the word "jab" into this column, and the emails flood in.

Airlines to face health checks

Britain's major airlines face tighter regulation under a government crackdown to protect the health of millions of passengers.

Spirit level

The Indian town described by John Lennon as a "blissful Butlins" is now the yoga capital of the world. Andrew Spooner offers an enlightened guide to Rishikesh.