4 Aug, 2010 @ 09:55
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You’ve lost that holiday feeling

By Nicola Cowell

BIDDING farewell to workmates and jetting off on holiday is a great feeling, but is the stress we face when we return really worth it?

According to new research, the health benefits we get from relaxing and spending time with family wear off within two days of getting back to normality.

Factors like health, mood and energy levels will improve while on holiday but as soon as we return the benefits are lost in a sea of worry.

A series of stress-management tests taken on people returning from holiday in Holland found that people quickly become anxious about going back to work.

They can even feel more stressed than before they left.

Many are also left depressed about the length of time until their next break.

However, studies also show that people who decide against taking a summer break are more likely to die younger than those who take time out.

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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