Today we headed south into the Black Forest region to the small town of Baden-Baden. The town is famous for its thermal spa's and guess what, that's why we were going there!! Before coming on this trip today was picked out as one of the highlights as for a minimal fee you get 3.5 hours of pure natural thermal steam baths and pools. It is the only spa in the world to contain a room which is heated directly from natural springs without going through any systems first, so we got the full use of all the minerals and goodness from the ground. During the 3.5 hours you can move between the different areas of the building including warm and hot air baths, thermal steam baths, thermal pools and slightly colder plunge pools and for a little extra cash a soap brush massage, in total 17 different stations to relax in. The hottest part was the hot air bath, which was at 68 °C!!! We could hardly breathe let alone stay in for the advised 5 minutes. We couldn't even sit on the towels we were given to place on the wooden beds it was that hot!! The coldest one however was 18°C, felt like the North Sea to us but we went in anyway. My soap and brush massage was done with a “soft” brush, nearly ripped the hairs off my leg. Sam got the medium one, I would hate to know what that felt like!!! However it was absolutely brilliant and we would definitely go back any day.
We had a lovely meal before deciding to head back to Frankfurt. We did however have our first experience of running for a train. The train we were to catch was arriving 1 minute after we spotted it on the board, but it was arriving on the other side of the station so we made a quick dash down the stairs and managed to catch it. Arriving back in Frankfurt suitably refreshed after our spa we came back to the hotel to refresh for another new city tomorrow.
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