Tag: bath

We had been traveling through Eastern Europe for two weeks, and I hadn’t been able to stop talking about swimming. In fact, it had gone back even further: ever …

Do you believe in the curative properties of water? For nearly 3000 years, travelers have been arriving in the town of Bath, England to immerse themselves in the thermal …

The stores all smell the same; a divinely fresh patchouli-ish scent that is captured in their perfume named “Karma.” Graffiti-style (and rather hard to read) handwritten signs are always …

The drum of traffic assailed my ears constantly. The cars’ exhaust collected in pockets of stench that seemed to race around the city competing with noise for a shocking …