London Joe
03-11-2009, 03:35 AM
I recently had the pleasure of experiencing a Dutch sauna for the first time and can report back that its a great cultural pastime those folk have got going over there! The sauna consisted of a number of cooler and hotter sauna's together with a cold plunge pool, ice room (with ice chips to rub yourself down with!) two steam rooms scented with eucalyptus and with pin ***** lights on the ceiling, a steam cave and a big foot-jacuzzi in the middle of the main circulation area.
Best thing of all, nudity is the norm and its just accepted and not seen as something a little risque (as it might be in other countries) or even something exclusively practiced by naturists when in sauna's. Everyone just accepts that sauna's are where you go nude and that men and women can go together and it's no big deal. Such a refreshing attitude!
I don't consider myself a naturist/nudist and I can't really get my head around the almost obsessive need of some to shed clothes whenever they set foot through their front door. However, if they want to then fine - it's just not me. I enjoy nude recreation occasionally at the beach or sauna's and that's it, so Holland in my eyes has it just right.
Why nothing like this in the UK? Culture - pure and simple, which shows in the difference between the rates of teenage pregnancy between Holland and the UK (Holland far less). It won't change and that's a shame but only means I'll have to get over to Holland more often!
The sauna was called Thermen 5 Mei and is at the following link - check it out.
http://www.thermen5mei.nl/
Best thing of all, nudity is the norm and its just accepted and not seen as something a little risque (as it might be in other countries) or even something exclusively practiced by naturists when in sauna's. Everyone just accepts that sauna's are where you go nude and that men and women can go together and it's no big deal. Such a refreshing attitude!
I don't consider myself a naturist/nudist and I can't really get my head around the almost obsessive need of some to shed clothes whenever they set foot through their front door. However, if they want to then fine - it's just not me. I enjoy nude recreation occasionally at the beach or sauna's and that's it, so Holland in my eyes has it just right.
Why nothing like this in the UK? Culture - pure and simple, which shows in the difference between the rates of teenage pregnancy between Holland and the UK (Holland far less). It won't change and that's a shame but only means I'll have to get over to Holland more often!
The sauna was called Thermen 5 Mei and is at the following link - check it out.
http://www.thermen5mei.nl/