This weekend Kyle & I went out for another adventure in Edinburgh. When we were in Japan (2002), we had the amazing experience of visiting a public bath house. It sounds a bit creepy, since there is really no such thing in the States, but it is actually quite an enjoyable experience. In Japan, the bath houses had multiple types of hot tubs: some had electric current, some were extremely hot, some were cold, one even had a massaging waterfall. So, when we heard that there was a Turkish Bath house here in Edinburgh we decided we had to go! The Turkish Bath we found is attached to a health club in Portobello, a suburb of Edinburgh right on the coast. The beach in Portobello is quite lovely and made me feel like I was back on the Oregon Coast (mostly because I associate the Oregon Coast with the frigid beach air).
Just like San Diego...okay, not really
The bath house
The Turkish bath was not of the same caliber as the Japanese bath, but it was an interesting experience. The bath was set up in a circuit. You started out in a wet sauna and then progressed through three rooms each one a bit hotter than the first all culminating in a jump in a cold pool at the end. My one observation is that everyone says Americans are so fat...correction, people are so fat! We saw our fair share of overweight individuals in bathing suits. I think America gets a bad rap on this one. We may be fat, but so is everyone else!
-Stacie
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