by InTrieste
It’s officially hot in Trieste these days. If you’re feeling so hot that you would do anything to cool down, here are some suggestions to chill, chill, chill.
Make your own air-con unit
AC is really costly and noisy so why not make your own lo-tech alternative. Get a bowl of ice, pop it in front of a fan and enjoy that cooling down effect!
Shower lukewarm
Unlike a cold shower, which reduces blood flow to your skin, tricking your body into raising your core temperature thus making you hotter, it will cool you down without raising your body’s suspicions.
Sleep in a hammock
Beds will warm you up no end, radiating heat into the wool! But how about a hammock? Gently swinging in the breeze, they let the air circulate around you. For extra fun, take your hammock to Barcola.
Yoga breathe
It’s way too hot for downward dogging, but yoga breathing will apparently stimulate your ‘parasympathetic nervous system’ (had to Google that one too), triggering a ‘rest and digest reaction’. Which will release heat.
Val Rosandra Hike
You heard us. Val Rosandra is the place to be on days like these. Steeped in greenery, you’ll feel like you are in a different dimension (or on a different planet?).
Cool your pulse points
How do athletes cool down? According to a 2013 study heatstroke in athletes fell when they rubbed ice on their ‘pulse points’, like on your wrist or neck, cooling the blood as it continues through your body.
If all that fails…
…WATER FIGHT!
