A Ride Into the Unknown

I’ve always had a thing for forests and places that make you want to jump on a bicycle, basket on the front, and see what you can find along the way.

Over the last few years, I’ve become even more obsessed with the whole world of saunas, hot springs, wild swimming, forest bathing and all the strange and wonderful rituals people have come up with around heat, water and nature. Not forgetting tea & small cakes.

Asia is ridiculous for it.

There are saunas hidden in forests, hot springs in the middle of nowhere, cold plunges in rivers, bathhouses that have been around for generations and completely nuts places I’d never have found if I wasn’t looking for them.

I started keeping a list.

None of them are the obvious five-star spa stuff. They’re the places that stop me in my tracks.

Some I’ve been to. A lot are still on the waiting list. This is where I’m collecting them, places, ideas and experiences I find interesting enough to save for later.

Inevitably, the list keeps getting longer. TBC……