Will Self: Some like it hot
The sauna and steam bath have to be the most localised forms of travel that we can engage in. Don’t bother with jetting off to the diminishing equatorial rainforest because the summer weather here has been crap – simply march along to your local leisure centre, strip off in the utilitarian changing room, then immerse yourself in the microclimate.
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For South Koreans, the good life is a full service spa
Calling the jjimjilbang a bathhouse hardly begins to describe its attractions. In addition to a bath and sauna, clients "eat, sleep, date, watch television, read or play computer games."
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NEXT RACE - 23rd March
It's supposedly been raining in Sepang every afternoon for the last two weeks, which could be very interesting on a GP weekend. F1 arrives in Malaysia for its familiar post-Australia sauna, though this time without a two-week gap.
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BOLT OF REALITY
BEIJING - Here you are: sweating, starving, locking yourself in the gym, sealing yourself in the sauna and the steam room, trying to shed a pound here, half a pound there, obsessing over the scale, preoccupied with Weight Watchers points, agonizing
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