Bode Swiller, sort of, I suppose. I get a feeling of well-being after copious quantities of good champagne, but not sure I'd call that a health benefit!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
pam w, It takes place at a lake, and there is a hole in the ice to jump in, however the story does not tell if they did jump into the lake.
Guess that's mostly down to the little chaps getting too hot, same as office workers sat down all day.
Wonder if that means boarders have a high count, with all the time they spend sat down in the snow freezing there b@#/ks off?
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clarky999 wrote:
It's not really about how you or anyone else looks though; in fact, that's pretty irrelevant!
I know, I know.
I'm just not comfortable with the idea of being naked in front of strangers, or worse, friends.
Repressed Brit.
Aside from that, I've sat in a sauna a couple of times before and hated it! I was hot and bored.
Didn't mind the steam room, but saunas aren't for me.
and "Some studies have suggested that long-term sauna bathing may help lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension and improve the left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with chronic congestive heart failure, but additional data are needed to confirm these findings"
So the research points to there being some health benefits more than there being none.
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A couple of years ago we went to the salt water spa and pool complex near Flachau. We swum with costumes as did everyone else, but as it was salt water there were fresh water showers to rinse off under, but they were communal (separate M&F) and sans clothing. So daughter and I duly did the naked thing.
I was positively glowing later on at comments from daughter about the state of my own bust in comparison to the other ladies in there and the concept of 'naked' in foreign bathing/sauna areas has never bothered me since In addition I think it did wonders for daughter's own body confidence (she was just at the point that it was starting to matter) as she got see that 'real' women are not the airbrushed shapes you get in glossy magazines and it presented exactly the image that some of TV progs about 'being proud of yourself' show, i.e. that we aren't all air-brushed beauties.
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Daishan,
...and their trousers round their knees
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
sev112 wrote:
It's rude not to look, and whatever you see, you must smile. - nodding appreciatively is also good protocol
Is it acceptable to applaud?
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HoneyBunny, I'm with you on this, I don't like nudity and I don't like being uncomfortably hot. In fairness I'm not supposed to use saunas or steam rooms anyway as they can aggravate lymph oedema. I realise I'm probably just a typical prudish Brit, but hey I can deal with that...
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jamescollings wrote:
sev112 wrote:
It's rude not to look, and whatever you see, you must smile. - nodding appreciatively is also good protocol
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Re Swim Suits & Hygiene
Bathing suits typically have been exposed to chlorine ( from swimming pools) . There will always be traces of chlorine and bacteria in your bathing apparel
When this clothing is worn in a sauna the chlorine vaporises and can cause breathing problems for people with asthma or other allergies plus the chlorinated water and bacteria will evaporate into the benches and walls in the sauna.
Many Saunas will not permit the use of your own towel.
A properly operated hygenic sauna facility will supply freshly sterilised towels.
Please try to keep up: we're into skinny pants this season I'll have you know.
Saunas: much of it's been said.
I don't think Austrian women or blokes shave their bits, but you probably shouldn't be checking.
In Finland (yeah, been to Naantali) you'd have a bum mat to sit on, other places you generally don't and a towel will have to do. I use those things to protect me from what other people may deposit. Shower first, and shower if you're just out of the pool (get rid of those chemicals).
Even in Europe I usually check what other people are doing first; it's easier and not at all embarrassing to take your keks off, the other way doesn't work so well.
North American saunas tend to be cold and often prudish. Hot tubs are often better there.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Never mind the nudity, how can they spend several hours on the wellness malarkey?
I could spend an hour or two swimming but not lolling about in a steam room. The spas have loads of saunas at different temperatures. You move up the temperature scale.
And they sometimes have a towel waver who whips up a breeze for the benefit of those present. Rather difficult not to laugh at it all at times.
I'm no fan of the saunas but I love an hour or so in the various steam rooms and showers before wrapping up in the fluffy robe and reading / dozing for an hour in the chill-out zone.
I like the nudity - relaxing in way that's hard to describe and not at all sexual (not that much is at my age lol)
No 'etiquette' seems to be needed really, no one seems to to care how big/small/fat/thin/hairy other peoples various bits and pieces are/n't
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In Austrian saunas it is important to knod and wink at other sauna users. Also, for ultimate respect fart very loudly whilst picking fluff from your belly button. If this isn't correct etiquette, then what my OT witnessed three years ago was a bad example.
After all it is free
After all it is free
thecramps, not sure what kind of saunas you or your OT frequent, but I have never seen anyone do that kind of stuff, and I sauna at least once a week!
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Steilhang wrote:
thecramps, not sure what kind of saunas you or your OT frequent, but I have never seen anyone do that kind of stuff, and I sauna at least once a week!
Probably saunas full of Brits
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Or do what my mate did and go sit in the steam room in FULL ski kit for 15 mins, helmet on, goggles down, boots, coat zipped etc
Apparently it took 10 mins for the heat to penetrate the kit, but he did admit he was glad to get out and it shut up the locals about what to wear in there
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feef, No, sorry mate, but he was Austrian.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And the sauna was in Austria.
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This thread is too funny... the terminally British and their attitudes to saunas.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
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feef wrote:
Steilhang wrote:
thecramps, not sure what kind of saunas you or your OT frequent, but I have never seen anyone do that kind of stuff, and I sauna at least once a week!
As the original poster for this thread I was hoping to use it to show wifey that there was a certain standard of behaviour in the sauna! Of course as a husband it is my duty to embarrass her with my juvenile behaviour - so maybe I should keep some of the 'finer' points discussed here as a surprise?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
ulmerhutte wrote:
This thread is too funny... the terminally British and their attitudes to saunas.
Some of the German girls I work with also don't like sharing a sauna with random naked strangers, all the public saunas in Munich have women only nights which are apparently always really busy so not just a repressed Brit thing at all.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
In Iceland this summer we went to the public thermal springs in Reykjavik as they were free. The notice in the communal changing areas (separate male and female) said that naked showers were compulsory for cleanliness before entering the springs. Makes sense and no problem as we have been going to nudist beaches in the summer for over 30 years. The only place I have found nakedness strange was on visiting a nudist colony in S of France many years ago where you had to strip off on entering the village and everyone walked round everywhere naked. For me its OK on the beach, sauna etc but it was very chilly at the frozen food section of the supermarket! That was taking things too far.
This thread is too funny... the terminally British and their attitudes to saunas.
Some of the German girls I work with also don't like sharing a sauna with random naked strangers, all the public saunas in Munich have women only nights which are apparently always really busy so not just a repressed Brit thing at all.
17-18 ladies
18-19 male
19-20 dinner
20-21 couples+kids
21-22 mixed (= 50 men + 2 ladies or none)
Then you can choose!
Some of this is aplied in scandinavian mountain huts.
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lynseyf, my local swimming baths has a women's only session too which I much prefer. Not just to avoid the sight of scary men in speedos but also it's generally slower which means the fast lane is for fit girls doing front crawl so reasonably fast breast-stroke ladies can use the middle lane leaving the slow lane for the old girls who swim alongside each other nattering...
After all it is free
After all it is free
Hyst, You have dinner in a sauna?
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theone wrote:
Is it typical of all Austrian saunas that it is non-textile?
Nothing is suggested on the hotel website other than 'well stocked basket of bathing items with sauna towel and bathing shoes'
FAQ
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In addition I think it did wonders for daughter's own body confidence (she was just at the point that it was starting to matter) as she got see that 'real' women are not the airbrushed shapes you get in glossy magazines and it presented exactly the image that some of TV progs about 'being proud of yourself' show, i.e. that we aren't all air-brushed beauties.
