We were in Bad Soden am Taunus at the weekend, an officially recognised health resort. There 11 mineral springs in the town with various benefits to health, some to be taken internatlly (i.e. drunk) others externally (you can dunk your noggin or your arms in it).
We had a kind of scavenger hunt: empty a beer bottle and collect the waters of various springs (one bottle each).
This is the “Champagne Spring”. On average it is 22°C, it is an official healing spring, the water is used to treat stomach and intestine problems, and also infections in the mouth. It’s acidulous water containing natrium, calcium, chloride, and hydrogen carbonate.
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Does it taste as bad as it sounds? Harrogate Spa water smells like rotten eggs, and tastes utterly vile. But people would come here in Victoriaan times and drink litres of the stuff for their health.
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I didn’t try it because I had the same experience (really really bad smelling and tasting) in Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad) in the Czech Republic. So I have very little desire to ever try it again. We emptied our beer bottles (it’s always such a thrill to participating Americans when they realise they can actually walk around with open bottles of – gasp – alcohol!) and filled them with water and were trying to get our hare (the guy who thought of the task because he has a broken angle and wa sitting at the start/end of the trail) to drink it. He didn’t either.
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A real eeergh moment.
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exactly
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That sort of water is always vile. The mineral spring baths here are the same. Lovely warm water to sit in but the smell 🤢 I wouldn’t even think about tasting. A good fun “chase”. How many bottles could you bring back?
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Husband is complaining about a dud knee. Hence, I’m the one doing the driving. AKA: no alcohol for me. We were a small group including children and only brought back 5 bottles or so.
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That’s not a bad haul especially with limpy slowing things down
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😂 Limpy usually joins the “never leave camp” group and he did. He’ll get half a new knee in August, though.
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A new knee will be so good. Once my Mum had her knee operations, there was no stopping her again.
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He already has a complete bionic knee on the other side. Not that successful. Better than nothing, I suppose, but it didn’t work as well as with other people we know.
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That’s a pity. All the pain and expense for something that you hoped would work well.
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