With my intense travel schedule, I savor detours where I put away the schedule and notes and simply enjoy the moment. And for me, there’s no better detour in Europe than visiting a public bath or spa ...

2002-06-30 04:00:00 PDT Bad Bertrich, Germany-- I was standing in my underpants and a T-shirt, facing a man in a white suit holding a hose. When he blasted my legs with cold water, I gasped. I pivoted ...

On a recent trip to Europe, I spent an afternoon relaxing at the German spa resort of Baden-Baden. In two hours, I saw more naked people than I’ve seen in the last two years. Since the Roman emperor ...

Soak up the atmosphere in the Palais Thermal spa and all its Art Nouveau glory. You might head to Sweden for massages or Finland for saunas, but in Southwest Germany, spa culture is squarely focused ...

Pamper yourself in the 12 pools, eight saunas and three steam baths of famed German spa Claudius Therme YOU’LL find perfume, chocolate and a super spa in this German gem, says writer Janice Hopper.

When you go to the spa, all you want is to feel relaxed and rejuvenated. Unfortunately, though, relaxed is the opposite of how British-Arab writer Anbara Salam felt during her trip to a German spa ...

“I have been five days in Wiesbaden and already I have lost everything, the whole lot, even my watch,” Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in autumn of 1863 to a fellow Russian novelist, Ivan Turgenev. It had ...

Cologne is super-walkable, and though famous for its Christmas markets, there’s tons more to discover. First up, tour Farina Fragrance Museum and discover how perfumer Johann Maria Farina named the ...