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English Soaked About Bath's Baths

August 9, 2006 at 8:45 AM | 0 Comments

Big news in Bath this week. This pretty town in the west of England--a favorite haunt of ahead-of-her-time Jane Austen--finally has a bath again. This week the Thermae Bath Spa complex opened to provide local Bathians and tourists alike with an alternative to a quick hop under the shower. With four natural thermal baths to choose from and way too many aromatherapy-massage-yoga combinations for us to get our head around, there's no excuse for poor hygiene on your England tour now.

Of course it all sounds just lovely (with proper English accent, please) to us tourists, but locals have been whinging about it for decades, ten million pounds over budget as it is, not to mention opening three years later than planned. Better late than never, we merrily say, and we recommend the Watsu treatment, just because we think its name has plenty of potential for bad puns--another English speciality.

[Image via atotheizzo/Flickr]

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