My fiance asked what I wanted to do for my birthday, and I said a sauna day out. We were staying in Findhorn for the week, and Lossiemouth was just along the coast, so we chose The Steamie Sauna. We’d…
It was early on a Saturday morning at Pentland View Outdoor Sauna Edinburgh. As I got closer, I noticed a young woman sitting by the firepit with her friends, wearing a veil and pearl-rimmed sunglasses. Their session was just ending…
We were staying in Aberdeen for a week while my fiance did a work course nearby, and I booked us a private sauna session at Driftwood in Stonehaven for one of the evenings we were up there. Forgotten shorts His…
We arrived at Wild Ember Bothy in Kenmore and parked at the Scottish Crannog Centre. Beside the loch, a Roman re-enactment group had set up camp. Full costumes, tents, the lot. Not what we were expecting on the way to…
Wilderness Sauna Glencoe was one of the stops on a long weekend away in the Highlands with my fiance. Overlooking Loch Linnhe, the sauna is part of the wider Woodlands Glencoe estate, but it can be booked separately from a…
The People’s Sauna at Kinghorn Loch works on a pay-what-you-can basis, which was one of the things that caught my attention before I visited. There are suggested prices depending on what you can afford, £10 standard, £5 community or supported,…
I’d dipped in the sea at one sauna and used a cold plunge tub at another, but I’d never swum in a tidal pool. Cellardyke was my first. I’d seen photos beforehand, but I hadn’t realised quite how big or…
I’d been curious about the social sauna sessions at Wild Scottish Sauna Eden Springs Fife for a while — but I’d never booked one before, and this time I didn’t have anyone to go with. So I just went alone.…
It was a misty morning in Granton, and as we walked down towards the promenade, I had a brief moment of thinking, oh no. The outdoor saunas I’d visited before had been in places that were obvious sauna settings, on…
I arrived just before 08:45, early enough to have a quiet wander around the Balmalcolm Den before anyone else showed up. It was a bright, sunny morning and everything was still. I’d booked onto Viking Heat Retreat’s Run, Coffee, Recovery…