Relaxed and Clean

Today I had a pure relaxing experience at the Sturebadet Spa. It was a simple spaday me and Fredrick, an old buddy of mine, had. No specific thing, just relaxing, soaking and enjoying the serene environment.


I'll break down the day for you.
Got up at 07:40, and had breakfast.
09:41 we boarded the train from Västerås to Stockholm and arrive close to an hour later.
We walked in a slow pace towards Sturegallerian, a luxury place full of "upper class douchbags", with stores that sold stuff no sane person would ever consider buying, atleast not for those prices.
After we found the place, we did a 180, and headed towards McDonalds, to have a light lunch... too much healthy stuff might just be bad for you... know what I'm sayin'?

At 12:00, we were handed a towel, bathrobe and a pair of slippers that kind of looked like one of those one-size-fits-all type... they fit... but only just. After we had our stuff, we went up to the second floor and changed into our birthday suits and took a shower... the shampoo smelled fantastic.
Once that was done, it was time to put on the bathing suits and head on up to the second floor where all the good stuff were located, well most of the good stuff anyway.

Once there, we saw this.

Thats the main pool. 30 degrees with speakers so close to the waters that if you didn't know better, you'd be afraid to get electrocuted. On the other side, there were some couches and the choice of tea or sparkling water, aswell as some fruits, banana, pear and plum... and other fruits I cant rememeber the name of (atleast in english).

We started with a room to the left of the view of that picture. And spent the next 40-45 minutes in the hydromassagepool. Yea. Hydro. Massage. Pool.
A rather small pool with water jets that made the water circulate and massage our bodies. It was soooo nice. The bigger jets how ever was hard to sit against for a longer time, as it quickly became uncomfortable. But the smaller ones, that hit the calves and lower back... ooooooh yea.

Once we realized we should probebly do something else, we got out of the pool and took a breather with some green tea, and just sat in the couches for a bit. But as we were looking at the main pool.. we had to get in.
It was shallow, to say the least, 1,5m depth. So it was not allowed to dive in.. but hey, who would be stupid enough to "go wild" in a place like that?
Anyway, we got in, did some slow laps, talked (we did alot of that btw) and just soaked some more in the water.

After that, we went down a floor, to a Silent Area, were they had an aroma room. It was like a sauna with low heat (40 degrees) and powerful sents of various flowers or something, I still cant figure out what the smell was, but it was strong, yet good. We didn't stay long thou, that heat and smell, would have lulled us to sleep if we would have stayed to long. So we went back up and took another cup of tea, and some fruit to fill our evermore hollow stomachs.

We ended it all with going to the real sauna, the one with a mist fountain, and so much heat, that I had to abort after 10 minutes or something. So we showered, got clean, and headed out.

After we thanked the girls at the front desk, we went to Old Town in Stockholm and had ourselves a beer. Fredrick had a Guinness and I had my usual Kilkenny. After that, a kebab and then home.

And here I am...

Cya