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94 HEALTH & BEAUTY Incremental Tourist Health & beauty advice from Rowena Kitchen I


t is that time of year when Dartmouth is awash with tourists. On the water and in the streets. They trickle in slowly at first then with a whoosh


and the Regatta is underway. What an exciting time and what a boon to business for all in the town and its environs. Not that tourists are limited to this week alone. They are here all year round and so they should as we have cracking things on offer. Tourism is a booming industry and always has been.


I have no idea who arranged the details for the Norse setting off for our shores in their long boats but you can guarantee they did not have to book extra leg room or sit for hours in on the beach waiting for the people loading their trunks to stop striking for better pay. Or maybe they did, we have no idea! Travel has a romance to it with the opportunity to


see extraordinary things and meet new people. The air is different, the food is exciting and the views wonderful. The great age of tourism started in 1660 and ended in 1820 when estab- lished rail travel made the adventure less exclusive. The Grand Tour was a rite of pas-


sage for those young members of the upper classes with sufficient means. Dashing young men and even some plucky girls, along with a suitable chaperone (a penniless aunt would fit the bill), set out to tour round europe gaining an understanding of art and culture. The idea was to learn how to manage their estates, furnish their houses and be able to hold conversations in polite society. The typical route was Dover to Calais to par- is where they studied french, fencing and dancing before heading south to Italy to take in the ruins and art works. Venturing down to Na- ples, malta and Greece if they had the time and inclination. One needed ‘means’ to


undertake this particular bit of ‘finishing’ as the entou- rage would have included coachmen, valet and cook. returning home laden with treasures that still decorate some of the great houses of today. With no baggage


allowance they were at liberty to ship home marble sculptures, fine clothing, paintings, books and other delicious bits and pieces. many recorded their journey by having celebrity


Reading the


instructions carefully is key. Being decisive about the movements and not being scared can lead to success.


painter pompeo batoni portray them resting at ease in their finest garb surrounded by roman Antiquities. much more kudos than an Instagram snap. This great age drew to a close when Thomas Cook began his business with ‘Cook’s Tours’ and brought in mass tourism for the emerging middle classes. The industrial revolution had created wealth for people not born to it. Another age had been born that is still alive today. Travel is now within most peoples’ grasp with £10 plane tickets to spain and the ability to take a trip for a week not the minimum of two months and most com- monly a year or more to partake of a Grand Tour. Along with works of art I am certain that the way of life was also absorbed into the thinking of these privileged youngsters. The food, the wine, the etiquette. How other women wore their hair, their jewellery and their toilette would have been of equal fascination. When we travel now the local


Illustration by Lisa Wyman


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