My week in Sardinia following the lifestyle of the many islanders who lived to be 100 - cycling, drinking red wine... and eating maggot-infested cheese
Carlton Reid embarked on a week-long cycling trip with Tourissimo. This trip took him to the “Blue Zone” of Sardinia, where many live to be 100 years old. READ MORE: How Bond films have sparked travel lust for decades
Eat well, exercise daily, and be around positive people. It's the standard advice for those who want to live longer, and if you add pecorino banned in the EU, it's also the recipe for the chef's bike tour, a week-long trip by bike and feast in the “Blue Zone” of Sardinia. ' by Italian travel agency Tourissimo.
More on this dangerous cheese shortly, but first, about that blue zone. It is a mountainous region with a very high concentration of centenarians, people who live to be 100 years old and beyond. Centenarians like Julio.
Julio had a shepherd's diet of fresh fruit, hard bread and Sardinian red wine and still cycled daily at the age 104.
Julio is no longer with us, but his stories live on on this gourmet bike trip.
Over long lunches on healthy bike rides in the Blue Zone, Tourissimo guide Renato Matta talked about Julio.
'He passed away in 2020 at the age of one hundred and five, so not so bad', explained Renato.
'Julio often complained about his son', continued R ...
Eat well, exercise daily, and be around positive people. It's the standard advice for those who want to live longer, and if you add pecorino banned in the EU, it's also the recipe for the chef's bike tour, a week-long trip by bike and feast in the “Blue Zone” of Sardinia. ' by Italian travel agency Tourissimo.
More on this dangerous cheese shortly, but first, about that blue zone. It is a mountainous region with a very high concentration of centenarians, people who live to be 100 years old and beyond. Centenarians like Julio.
Julio had a shepherd's diet of fresh fruit, hard bread and Sardinian red wine and still cycled daily at the age 104.
Julio is no longer with us, but his stories live on on this gourmet bike trip.
Over long lunches on healthy bike rides in the Blue Zone, Tourissimo guide Renato Matta talked about Julio.
'He passed away in 2020 at the age of one hundred and five, so not so bad', explained Renato.
'Julio often complained about his son', continued R ...
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