<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Spas</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/subject/spas?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><description>Spas</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[SLOVAKIA: Feel the Ooze: Thermal Spas, Mud and More]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47372-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47372-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I started my first afternoon in Slovakia blanketed in mature homogenized sediment, otherwise known as mud. Jan, a white-jacketed attendant, spread the 113-degree, buttery substance on a bed and motioned for me to lie down. I slid in, teeth firmly gritted, as Jan slathered on more mud and wrapped me mummy-style in sheets. <em>"Das ist sehr gut," </em>he said in German, telling me that all was well.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other Adventure Spas in North America]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56554-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56554-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Twenty years ago spas were all about pampering; now they're really focusing more on wellness, stress relief and fitness," says Betsy Isroelit, spokeswoman for Spafinder.com, an online directory. The site is searchable by category; to find spas that combine traditional luxury services with rigorous outdoor activities and fitness programs, search under "Hiking."]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not Your Mother's Spa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56535-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56535-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Who wouldn't want to go to a spa?<br>Well, me. <br>Perhaps you, too, cringe at all the girlie-girl stuff. Maybe New Age music makes your skin crawl, and you're skeptical about the alleged health benefits of anti-aging rebalancing aromatherapy seaweed wraps, and you find the whole concept...]]></description><author> K.C. Summers</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Say Ommmmm . . .]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55198-2004Jul16.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55198-2004Jul16.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>Yogis: If you can't bear the thought of a day without your cobra, downward facing dog or camel, don't leave them behind. Here are three ways to take your practice on the road, plus resources.</em>    -- Kim O'Donnel]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spa Town]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26576-2004Jun8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26576-2004Jun8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A spa experience of a unique kind awaits in nearby Berkeley Springs, W. Va.]]></description><author> Lib Copeland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slim Pickin's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29245-2004Apr20.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29245-2004Apr20.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It started with a power walk before breakfast and continued with seven more hours of exercise, with a break for lunch. Who would have thought a human body could do all that?]]></description><author> Ellen Perlman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $2,300 Solution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13114-2003Nov7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13114-2003Nov7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I wouldn't have been caught dead going to a spa resort for a vacation. That's for blue-haired ladies whose idea of excitement is a slow stroll around the croquet courts. It's where the bitchy broads of "The Women" convene to plot the destruction of their ex-husbands over vodka stingers. It's <em>so </em>not happening.]]></description><author> Alicia Mundy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Case of the $300 Splurge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38042-2003Apr25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38042-2003Apr25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I've forgotten my to-do list. I didn't leave it behind; it's somewhere in the briefcase I brought along. But on this gentle rolling plain of forests, fields and vineyards, lying in a hot tub under a night sky, the items on the list no longer seem important. Even the traffic on I-66 feels like part of someone else's life; someone a million miles from here.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spa? Da!]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25031-2003Jan7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25031-2003Jan7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Russian and Turkish 'banyas' of Brooklyn provide a little rough relaxation on a winter's day.]]></description><author> Suzanne Sataline</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are You Man Enough For Pampering?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43803-2002Nov26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43803-2002Nov26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At a new Rehoboth Beach inn, a spa skeptic found himself in good hands.]]></description><author> Robert Schroeder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operation: Relaxation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16796-2002Aug30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16796-2002Aug30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Her family sent her on a secret mission to an Arizona spa. Her orders? Just chill.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Luxe for Your Bucks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30678-2001Nov2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30678-2001Nov2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With deep distress, my husband remembers his grandfather checking into a modest hotel in the Catskills and then driving down the road to spend the day at the much tonier Grossinger's resort. Then a young boy, my husband would sink low in the back seat as his grandfather would arrive at the gated entry and tell security that they were visiting the Cohens -- always a safe-bet name at Grossinger's, the preeminent Jewish resort of its day.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennyson, Anyone?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42519-2001May4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42519-2001May4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I missed Monica Lewinsky and Vanessa Redgrave. But British actress Joan Plowright was in my aqua aerobics class.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cocoa Puff Piece]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A134-2001Feb27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A134-2001Feb27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At the Hershey Spa -- which offers treatments like the chocolate escape and whipped cocoa bath -- a skeptical reporter melts in their hands.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swiss Mist]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46782-2000Dec9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46782-2000Dec9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[To bask in the tony thermal baths of Vals, a remote ski town in southern Switzerland, denizens of Zurich and Bern must traverse up progressively narrow, landslide-ridden roads and through passes often choked with snow. As a reward, they can lie in a warm outdoor pool while snowflakes coat their eyelashes. And when the mist parts, a towering mountain zigzagged with goat paths is revealed.]]></description><author> Seth Hamblin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot and Unbothered]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14584-2000Jun18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14584-2000Jun18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/spas</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:20:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Awise man once said the most famous places are often the least known. So it is with Japan. Most Americans believe this 1,000-mile-long island-nation consists entirely of cluttered apartment blocks, noisy pachinko parlors and crowded expressways.]]></description><author> Steven Knipp</author></item></channel></rss>