SOPHIA scrubs and massages until my skin feels like it has been wrapped in silk. Ricardo pulls and pushes and eases and stretches until my concertina of a back starts to reach for the sky . 5 The spa is ideal for relaxation 5 Bill was locked in a heated box that opens millions of pores 5 The resort offers delicious, healthy food Renata locks me in a heated box that opens millions of pores like budding flowers.
Each session leaves me feeling a little bit lighter in mind and body , a little bit less tired, a little bit taller and looser. Most of all, though, a whole lot happier than before I’d checked in. This is Longevity, a five-star resort whose name very much does what it says on the tin.
READ MORE IN TRAVEL ZOO KNEW Popular attraction near major city named Scotland's best family day out IN THE DEEP END Eerie pics show inside Scots sea life centre abandoned & left to rot It offers all the tools we need for a longer, healthier life; a better way of eating, of relaxing, of exercising, of caring for ourselves both inside and out. It sits a ten-minute, gently-uphill walk from the beautiful Algarve fishing village of Alvor, an hour or so from Faro Airport and in a parallel universe from the stresses and strains and pains of normal daily life. The day I flew in, those stresses and strains and pains were lit up all over me like red flags .
Too much rushing around and not enough down time, too many hours hunched on a bike. Tight muscles, sore joints, frazzled head. You know the f.
