Blue Life

By Dave Tug

 Dopplr has aggregated and collated the collective wisdom of the travellers who use it, creating a unique resource for travel planning that’s packed with useful, up-to-date information. Here are some interesting things Dopplr knows about London.

Top places to explore in London:

- British Museum

49-63 Great Russell St, Camden Town,London, United Kingdom

- Tate Modern

Bankside, SE1, London, United Kingdom

- Science Museum

Exhibition Rd., SW7, London, United Kingdom

- Victoria & Albert Museum

Cromwell Rd., SW7, London, United Kingdom

- National Gallery

5 Trafalgar Square, Westminster, London, United Kingdom

- Natural History Museum

Cromwell Rd., SW7, London, United Kingdom

- St Paul’s Cathedral

St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M 8AD, London, United Kingdom

- Big Ben

Bridge St, Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Top places to eat in London:

- Patisserie Valerie

44 Old Compton St., Soho, London, United Kingdom

- Hakkasan

8 Hanway Pl., Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom

- Tate Modern Restaurant

Bankside, 7th fl., South Bank, London, United Kingdom

- Belgo

50 Earlham St., Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom

- Wagamama

4 Streatham St., Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom

- St. John

26 St. John St., Smithfield, London, United Kingdom

- Busaba Eathai

22 Store St., Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom

- Bodeans

10 Poland St., Soho, London, United Kingdom

Top places to stay in London:

- The Zetter

86-88 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom

- St. Martins Lane

45 St. Martin’s Ln., Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom

- Sanderson

50 Berners Street, London, United Kingdom

- Soho Hotel

4 Richmond Mews

- Charlotte Street Hotel

15-17 Charlotte Street, London, United Kingdom

- The Hempel

31-35 Craven Hill Gdns., Bayswater, London, United Kingdom

- Blakes

33 Roland Gardens, London, United Kingdom

- One Aldwych

1 Aldwych, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom

What is the best local market or shopping in London?

Our smart travellers say:

- Broadway Market is a great Saturday morning market with lots of organic and local products. It’s just north of hackney.

- Borough Market is the best for foodies. Open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Get there early on a Saturday (before 11am if you can) because it gets really REALLY crowded. Then you can stop off for a coffee at the Monmouth coffee shop before heading home to eat all your purchases for lunch.

- Spitalfields Market a short walk from Liverpool Street station. Lots of varied stalls and plenty of places to eat and drink.

- Portobello Market over weekends for all kinds of stuff… food, fashion, arts and crafts.

Dopplr members share travel advice privately with people they trust, and exchange tips on places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world.

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Travel tips and travel planning in your pocket: introducing Dopplr for iPhone

By Dave Tug

 Dopplr is proud to introduce Dopplr - The Social Atlas for iPhone. There are lots of travel guides for mobile phones, but Dopplr’s is different because everything on it has been created by the smart travellers who use Dopplr.

Over the past couple of years, these travellers have been helping Dopplr to build a thing they call “the Social Atlas”. It is the combined wisdom of these frequent travellers, people who know a good hotel, a nice restaurant, and an interesting place to explore when they see one.

Wherever anyone is in the world, he/she can call up his/hers current location and find the nearest places that Dopplr travellers have recommended. If the person is hungry, open the app and find a cafe. If he/she is tired, it will help him/her locate the nearest hotel. And if the person has got time to kill, find something interesting to see or experience.

The app is not just a view of the atlas, it is also a means of adding new places to the database. By just tapping the blue locator, it would allow people to enter the details of the fantastic new bar they are standing in. Travel tips are added to what Dooplr know already, and automatically shared with fellow travellers.

People do not even need to be on Dopplr to use the iPhone app. If iPhone users are simply doing some travel planning for a forthcoming business trip or family getaway, there is plenty of useful information built-in, including Dopplr’s recommendations for 250 of the world’s most popular cities. Any places added will be stored on the iPhone, so these can be easily found again when needed. And if the user joins Dopplr at a later date, all those new places will be uploaded and added to the Social Atlas.

If the user is a Dopplr traveller, he/she can keep an eye on his/hers fellow travellers with the iPhone too. Check where friends are now, and where they will be going next. Look for co-incidences, where people might all be in the same place at the same time. And stay in touch, by sending messages to them directly from inside the app.

This is just the start. Dopplr is already working on more features for the app, which will appear in future updates. The app can be downloaded for free by following the link on the iTunes App Store.

Dopplr is a service for smart travellers. Dopplr members share business travel plans privately with people they trust, and exchange tips on places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world.

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Increase In Bifidobacteria
Helps Stay Fit!

By Gyan K

 A normal human body is said to contain at least 85% friendly bacteria in the lower intestine. It is these friendly bacterium which is known as bifidobacteria. It stands for beneficial bacteria. Probiotics is a beneficial bacteria which fights disease causing microbes such as E. coli and salmonella. It is also found in a just born baby to enhance his immune system. However, the number of these beneficial bacteria drops down with change in diet. This can be increased in two ways: with natural food products consumption and probiotic products.

Food product consumption

Probiotic products

Yoghurt, soy milk and other milk products are rich in bifidobacteria. These when consumed regularly contributes to the increase in friendly microbes. Of late you have seen changing attitudes to consumption of saturated fats, salt and sugars just to name a few foods. Health conscious people are turning towards probiotic food products in order to stay fit. Friendly bacteria help minimise cholesterol level in your body. In addition to this, they also help in protein, mineral and vitamin absorption from the food consumed. It is not just absorption but it is also conducive in creating proteins and essential nutrients in your body.

Irritable bowel syndrome which is a common problem can be treated with friendly bacteria. It reduces diarrhea due to the presence of disease fighting bacteria. It reduces cholesterol from getting accumulated in your body. People who have curds and other probiotic products stay healthy and fit for long. Stress, anxiety, diet and medication can upset the balance of bacteria that are operating and create minor problems such as diarrhea, vomiting and indigestion. This is true in case of consumption of antibiotic tablets which kill both good and bad bacteria. Avoid such tablets which disrupt the balance between the good and bad bacteria.

An increase in probiotics reduces yeast infection in females. Travellers diarrhea which has resulted out of consumption of contaminated food or water can be treated with the help of beneficial bacteria. Cease the symptoms of travellers diarrhea such as loose motion, vomiting, abdominal cramps, giddiness and fever etc. by adding healthy bacteria in your diet. Have yoghurt and other milk products rich in probiotics to fight the disease causing bacteria. Research in the past has found out that nutritional factors do play an indispensable role in disease prevention. It is good to find out which are those bacteria in the fermented milk which has probiotic effect. Not all bacteria have the same effect.

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