Baden-Baden

Our last few days in Germany took us to Baden-Baden, http://www.baden-baden.de/, a spa town brimming with Gucci, rat terriers, and French women in various stages of surgically-induced preservation. All the guide books say that if you're in Baden-Baden, you must try the baden. "Bad" is the German word for bath. If you're in southern Germany, it also refers to the thermal baths where Germans and curious tourists can congregate to "take the cure" in the mineral-rich waters the locals have been enjoying since Roman times. Of the two baths in Baden-Baden, we chose the Roman-Irish bath, an elaborate two-hour spa you can read about here: http://friedrichsbad.tripod.com/.

Sooo... let's just say that perhaps we should have taken the "Roman" in Roman-Irish a bit more seriously. But traveling is all about being open to new things, right? It should suffice to say that there are those among us whose, ah, entirety is best left to the imagination. It was a quiet evening back at the hotel, where we agreed never to speak of it again. Somethings are best left unsaid.