We're getting really lazy and last Wednesday proves it. All we had planned for that day was to get up, have breakfast in the hotel, spend a couple of hours in the Arabian baths beneath the hotel then make our way to the train station for the train ride to Madrid that evening. So basically, our plan was to eat and laze around all day. I'm pleased to report everything went as planned.
The hotel in which we stayed has an Arabian bath underneath so we spent a thoroughly enjoyable two hours floating in the various pools, one of which had a very hard stream of water pelting down in a hot, hot spa and the force of the water was as good (if not better) as a massage. The other pools were different temperatures, one ice cool, another blood warm, which we figured was like being back in the womb; the water had just enough movement to float us gently around. There was also a steam room with flowing water from a fountain; then an ice room to use after the extra hot bath. We'd rub ice all over our skin (I also ate a fair few mouthfuls) then back to the cold pool which was not so cold after the ice bath. And around and around we went like that for two hours. It was pure heaven.
Next time I build a house (yeah, pick up that brick and get ready to hit me over the head, will you?) I want to excavate and put a whole basement of those baths in, just for me. I'd add in a fully stocked fridge of champers and could easily disappear for a week at a time.
Anyway, we're back from Madrid now and since we enjoyed it so much last week we're going again tomorrow. Never mind the ancient palace and grounds we're seeing in the morning, it's the arab bath that is to be the highlight of the day. Priorities of an 11 year old, you know?
There is also a pic of the snowy Sierra Nevadas behind Granada's train Station. I'm tossing up whether to drive there on Wednesday so Georgia can play in the snow for an hour or so. We'll see....have to also get to Malaga by mid-afternoon that day.
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