Halfway Between Turkish and Nordic Steam
Halfway Between Turkish and Nordic Steam

Summary/Abstract: Not long ago I was luxuriating in the steam room of the Rudas Baths. Even the hard-boiled, after several hours of alternating between hot, tepid and cold pools, succumb to a delightful torpor, a state which combines “restful inertness, languorous recumbence, weariness and renewal, this indulgence of indolence,” as one of our great forebears, an émigré who also passed through Turkey after the 1848 revolution, put it.

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