Soak it!

Today, Justin, Kate and I went to one of the famous baths here. It was superfantastic. For weeks I've been sore, tired and ache-y. After a soak in a mineral bath, a 38 degree (all temps are in Celcius on this blog post) tub complete with massaging waterfall, normal swimming pool and 30 degree bubble/whirlpool swimming pool, 80 degree sauna followed by a dunk in a 16 degree pool (which feels ice-cold after sweating in a sauna for 5 minutes), I feel pretty good. That chain was then reversed before a shower and kebab.

Justin (a Kiwi who is currently on a night train to Transylvania) and I (Kate was outside getting sun because it hurt her to breathe in the sauna) met a guy from Budapest (a rotund man with excellent English who teaches at the local university) in the 16-degree pool who told us we had to jump in all the way under twice, then stand with our hands under the water line before going back into the sauna for 5 more minutes then plunging back into the icy deep (it was about waist high actually, but bear with me).

If you didn't Google it, 80 is "rest of the world" code for 176 degrees Fahrenheit and 16 is 65, which, after 176 feels like negative infinity.

It was a nice afternoon of pampering, which will be immediately followed by more abusing of feet, backs, minds and patience while on the seven-hour train ride to Salzburg.