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17 MAY 2008
TRAVEL TO CLASSICAL SITES
The author and journalist Shirley Conran first went on a mini cruise of the eastern Mediterranean hoping to stay on board for a bit of peace and quiet while her travelling companions went ashore to visit the ruins.Ìý But she soon found herself drawn to the remains of great cities of the classical world like Ephesus, Pergamum and Troy.
John McCarthy talks to Shirley Conran about her fascination for the vestiges of the ancient world and the pleasures of sailing round the Turkish coast and Greek islands exploring the sites of legend and history.
Travellers going to the tropics should be aware of the potential dangers of the diseases they could be exposed to.Ìý Malaria is endemic in more than a hundred countries and Britain has become one of the biggest importers of the disease amongst the industrialised nations.
Polly Patterson talks about her experience following a bite by a malaria carrying mosquito and Professor Larry Goodyer explains what can be done to prevent or treat malaria and other tropical diseases, which are often underestimated by travellers.
Presented by John McCarthy
Photo:ÌýGulet
This week’s guests:Ìý
is a journalist, designer, editor and a bestselling author whose books include Lace, Tiger Eyes and Superwoman.
Shirley has been on several trips with , a company formed by a former classics master who felt that pupils should not be crammed before exams, but rather taken on educational trip to help them remember things better.Ìý They now offer tours in a Turkish gullet, a 75’ two-masted motor yacht that carries about up to sixteen passengers plus a crew of five.Ìý They visit the ancient sites along the Turkish Mediterranean coast with classical academics on board as guides.
Last year Shirley sailed from Ephesus (modern Efès) via Pergamum and Troy to the Dardanelles.Ìý Although Shirley had originally no interest in the Odyssey or the Greek myths, she was soon drawn into, and became fascinated by, the ancient tales and the sites.
is Head of the School of Pharmacy at De Montfort University, Leicester. Professor Goodyer lectures on many travel medicine topics and contributes to books, journals and magazines and one of his research interests is mosquito bite-avoidance measures and the way they are used by travellers in areas whereÌýmalaria is endemic.
by Larry Goodyer
The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 265 No 7111 p298-304
August 26, 2000 Continuing education
Ìý(12-18 May)
Polly Patterson is a pricing director and contracted the most lethal form of malaria during a holiday in Zimbabwe.Ìý Polly was aware of the risk of malaria before she set off.Ìý She took the recommended injections and medication.Ìý In Zimbabwe she used mosquito nets and wore dark clothes and rubbed on insect repellent.Ìý But despite all those precautions she started feeling ill on the return to the UK.Ìý Polly talks about her experience from diagnosis to treatment.
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John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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