Tanning

[ron]

I used to stay all day in the sun Steve, these days I either sit outside a bar or just walk around, as you say you get just as good a colour.
About 10 years ago we went to Kos and spent every day on the beach.
There was two elderly men that sat at a table inside an open air bar. They weren't directly in the sun that way.
Anyway, on the flight home they had marvelous tans and we couldn't work out how they got them. Obviously the rays of the sun catch you wherever you are.

[Tenpin]

Funny that, I have never sat in the sun, yet I have a tan ten months of the year, DW reckons it's dirt, but I can assure you it does not wash off.

Guess it has something to do with my sea-faring days before the mast. Capt Bligh often had me in the crow nest on look out duties.

[Harleybabe]

Must admit I am a sun worshipper, I love to lay round the pool or on the beach getting bronze. Dont have to do it every day though, need days to go shopping and visit the markets!

[FoxMan]

I think i should be living in a country that gets a little sun and not very hot in the summer too, i really dont like lying under the sun.

Especially i dont like to walk when it is around 40 - 45 , my fav. max. temp is 30

Anything over gets me irritated

[ron]

FoxMan Wrote:I think i should be living in a country that gets a little sun and not very hot in the summer too, i really dont like lying under the sun.

Especially i dont like to walk when it is around 40 - 45 , my fav. max. temp is 30

Anything over gets me irritated

Anything in the 20c to 28c is just right for me these days.

[Steve]

I like to lie in the sun. I always think I can't go home white.

[Harleybabe]

salford_steve Wrote:I like to lie in the sun. I always think I can't go home white.

Same here. I would hate to go home white. I especially love to get my legs brown but they always seem to take longer to get a deep tan. I can be laid out and get red shoulders etc when my legs are still white.

[Steve]

I have got some of that Reinman P20 this year to stop me buring. Usuakky get Calypso once a day but havent seen any so far, so got a good deal on the P20 on ebay.

[peteraugusts]

I think sun tanning is the act of exposing the skin to ultraviolet radiation, for the purpose of darkening skin color, either during sun bathing or using artificial sources. In that excessive exposure to ultraviolet rays has detrimental health effects also, including possible burn and even skin cancer. Tanning is one kind of natural process, whereby the skin creates the brown-colored pigment called melanin, to protect it against the harmful UV rays in sunlight, but operates equally with artificial UV radiation.

[Harleybabe]

I do understand what they are saying about the sun and skin cancer but two years ago I was on holiday and there was a middle age couple at the same apartment and he was very careful to sit in the shade and he had a large dressing on his leg, due to skin cancer having being removed. His wife was laid in the sun wallowing in the rays and acquiring a deep tan. She told me they holiday two or three times a year and he has always sat in the shade, he hated being in the hot sun and always got well shaded and always went home white. It is her who is the sun worshipper and he who got the skin cancer.
Can't say it wont affect everyone, but I think its one of those things they don't know enough about but I am carrying on sunbathing.