Wise

valuvalentino

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

#terme#sansaturninoterme#wild#sardegna#sardinia#naked#dude#cool#me#travel#experience#happyness#love#bearded#tatoo

A start of sorts, a last grasp (?) into the backlog of links Ie collected through the years, though admittedly these are mostly from more current dates.

Italy it is. Sardinia, Calabria, Lombardy and Tuscany.

mateusz.piotr.wisniewski

Forever summer #foreversummer #termedicaronte #hotsprings #zdroj #lazne #italia #wlochy #italy #italiano #uomoromano #uomoitaliano #calabria #kalabria #lameziaterme #uczesiewloskiego #stoimparandolitaliano #wdrodzedopracy #onmywaytowork #sanitasperaquam #weekendvibes #nofilter #bezfiltra

cinzia_gaia

La Pozza di Leonardo

Bormio

#onfilm

kinkalow

Feeling very grateful to end one year and start the new one surrounded by nature in the hills of Tuscany soaking in mama nature’s healing thermal hot springs 💙🕊️💫😌♨️

Naturally

silvia.sweetlife

l’Occitanie aussi 🤩💦

#pyreneesorientales #payscathare

#leaucestlavie #vantrip @lucampierre #occitanie #aude #gorgesduverdouble #sourceseauxchaudes #voyagerenvan #offroad #roadtrip #vwt5 #ladolcevita #slowandsimpledays #naturalité

Miscellaneous: France and Bulgaria.

hide_onsen_packer

パンチャレボ温泉 in ソフィア🇧🇬

ブルガリアの首都ソフィアからバスで1時間

ダムの近くに沸いている

ダムから流れる水を横断しないといけない

そしてこれがめちゃくちゃ冷たい

決死の覚悟で渡った先にあった野湯

誰かが置いたバスタブは藻で溢れてました

#世界の温泉 #onsen #hotspring #hotsprings #海外の温泉 #温泉 #温泉バックパッカー #温泉好きな人と繋がりたい #♨️ #露天風呂 #温泉旅行 #天然温泉 #秘湯 #バックパッカー #backpacker #世界一周 #海外旅行 #travel #旅 #trip #旅好きと繋がりたい #写真好きな人と繋がりたい #秘境 #絶景 #風景 #ダレカニミセタイケシキ #ダレカニミセタイフウケイ #野湯

thermalassociation.bg

❄️♨️ХАЙДЕ НА ЗИМНА БАНЯ В ЖЕЛЕЗНИЦА!

😯👍Две смели дами от нашата асоциация-Юлия и Бранимира, посетиха банята в Железница и не само я посетиха, но я и ползваха. Твърдят, че при минусови температури навън, водата не се усеща като студена, въпреки че температурата ù е едва 27°С.

Стиска ли ви да опитате, а!?😉

👉🎥В коментари публикуваме и видео, за да видите състоянието на банята...Очевидно работи само едното отделение, а другото е напълно запуснато.

#ДаБъдеБаня

Sunset

victoria_cello

#Nordic postard ✈️

📸 @_giuliagalante 🐀❣️

#iceland#island#travel#traveldiary#hotspring#nature#wonderful#wanderlust#connect#tb#bath#naked#intothewild#visiticeland#ringroad#roadtrip#postcard#trip#journey#adventure#iminlove#stunning#northernlights#north#goldencircle#geysir#arcticfox#mouse#sunsetlovers

Then to add more, a couple of wintery pictures from Iceland to heat you up. 

nomadic_cosmopolitan

When all of Reykjavík has covid, you go on an isolating winter road trip to the west fjords

eydis_wildatheart

When you feel overwhelmed (like I feel most of the time because of my ADHD) the best thing to do is to enjoy time in nature - even better. Naked in nature 😆

Thank you beautiful, talented @simeoptics & @icelandicselkie for the most adventurous & amazing day

#nakedinnature

#hotsprings

#icelandnature

Smoking

Used the past festive days to catch up on (indoor) stuff, mostly seasonal.

Museums, art exhibitions and food. And catching a film.

Followers of my blog will have been pre-warned concerning the film Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, first mentioned here a year ago.

With a traditional Estonian smoke sauna (Unesco recognizes these as part of Humanity's cultural tradition) as decor, a group of females regularly get together to undergo the sauna process and share their experiences and what then become their stories. Very genuine.

It's heartwarming how during 2023 this film has gathered steam during the year, going from being something from a quirky niche product to a mainstream award production possible blockbuster. Well just short of I suppose; the topics covered are too upfront as well as the confrontation with real bodies will frighten the mainstream media.

I predict that 2024 will see smoke sauna's pope up all over Europe, all eager to cash in on the trend, while visitors of these will be waiting for the stories to unfold. Intimacy though might be a pre-requisite. And from my knowledge most sauna goers value the ensuing silence.

Trailer

The film is certainly well worthy of your attention. This obvious work of love is a very good intro into the sauna culture with emphasis of this Estonian tradition. 

And Estonian culture with emphasis on women's issues.

And highlights the need for safe places to let loose all that society unleashes on women.

Go and view it. Or rent it, watch at home.

There's a lot additional info out there, most already featured here before. 

When there's more to report upcoming, just keep this blog in mind.

Furnitured

A wee entry.

West Coast Wellness is a smallish sauna complex located on a recreation park near the southwestern Flemish coastal town of Oostduinkerke / Nieuwpoort.

Two indoor sauna's, one outdoor, a steamroom and an outside pool, the lay-out is very orderly and easy to understand. There's also an empahtically called bistro. Quirky could be the coolish bath inside the steamroom (why?), while in the winter all the sunbeds are cramped indoors.

My own points would be just 6.5. 

Gosh, why? 

Well the bistro was very spartan like furnitured. While what was on offer matched the furniture style. 

The sauna's were good though, so all was not lost. 

The aufguss was without enthusiasm, such that this lack was in itself an attraction. 

Other guests (i know not much can be done about this) were a bit iffy. Taking glass drinks into the pool, smoking directly after the door, using your phone in the changing rooms; maybe management might need to be a bit more hands-on.

Entrance was €27,50 a near-bargain in the current wellness / sauna market of Belgium. But not really worth it. Maybe in the summer, when you can also work on your tan, there's a nice field and the cooler outdoor swimming pool would be more welcoming.

Others visitors were mostly couples many with the need to address their shameful lack of bathing costumes: cover-ups are almost ubiquitous. Culture clash so near French border?

Other reviews from the internet:

* Relaxy.be notes 8.5 out of 10 (28 reviews); a Flemish wellness site, very optimistically rated.

* Facebook: 4.3 (from 50 reviews), many reviews in French (French speakers seem to often come here).

* Tripadvisor 3 stars (from 20 reviews), seems better atuned.

* Finally Google 3.9 (100+ reviews), though unclear whether what is reviewed is the wellness only.