I have no pictures to share but I had another great outing today! Renata promised me last week to take me for my first ever turkish bath today. So after work this afternoon her, Aunt Bryony and myself went.
All I can say is wow! First you get almost naked, then you bake in a hot room with hot water and heated marble beds until you "are soft" as Renata says. Then you go into the sauna until you are really sweaty and hot, then you go and lay flat out on a marble bed and you get scrubbed with sandpaper like mittens, head to toe. Then buckets of warm water are thrown on top of you. When you get up you see all kinds of dark pieces of skin that have been scrubbed off your body. Okay then you jump into a pool of cool almost cold water, Renata chickened out but me and Bryony went right in! Back into the sauna for a few minutes.
Then they take you back to the marble beds and you get lathered all up with soap, head to toe and then you are massaged, first the backside then the front, head to toe. Then I had to sit up of all things and she washed my hair and face and massaged them! By now she's laughing at me because I am so relaxed I'm sliding off the table. More water gets thrown on top of you to rinse you off. We wrapped ourselves in big towels and went to sit in an outer room on gold sofas. We were then served turkish coffee or sage tea and we just relaxed.
All of this fabulous treatment took 2 hours start to finish and cost approximately $18. I love Turkey.
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