Wake Up! How to get over jetlag
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Scotland Drink whisky and witness history
1. Never go to sleep straight after landing. 2. Always fly west. 3. Only book evening flights. 4. Don’t eat too much. Drink a lot (of water).
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If you’re in the Bonnie land for the independence referendum. Ideally you’ll be drinking Ardbeg from the Isle of Islay. Alternatively, if peatiness isn’t really your thing, try the fruity Bladnoch, from the Lowlands instead.
Sochi, Russia A short hop from the ski slopes to the sea At the warmest Winter Olympics ever. Appropriately enough, Sochi’s coat-of-arms has a palm tree on it as well as waves and mountains.
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Haryana,India, and 32 other countries Run around the world against a car
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At the Wings for Life World Run. Run as far as you can without getting caught by the Catcher Car.
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China Fly over millions of people’s heads
Trieste, Italy Cycle on water Or fly there... The Giro d’Italia will start on May 9 in Belfast and make its way via Ireland to Italy.
At the Red Bull Air Race World Championship final in one of the country’s megalopolises (exact venue tbc).
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Sarajevo, Bosnia Let’s party, not fight Where World War I began 100 years earlier. Like at the Baghdad Café in the heart of the old town.
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December 31
Mars Just look up And watch comet C/2013 A1 hurtling towards Mars at 56kps. The best place to do that is at the Southern African Large Telescope in Sutherland.
Gisborne, New Zealand Be the first to surf your way into the New Year April 29
Antarctica Watch the solar eclipse In a place that gets no sunlight for half the year, at precisely 06:04 Universal Time (06:04 GMT).
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At the world’s easternmost city. If you can’t wait till then, get yourself to Wainui and Makorori – two of the world’s best surfing locations – on January 12 for the start of New Zealand’s Surfing Championships.
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the red bulletin
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