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...Caudalie Vinotherapy Spa in Bordeaux, where devotees indulge in body scrubs made from crushed Cabernet grape seeds or soak shoulder-deep in a barrel of spring water and grape extract. In the U.S., Napa Valley's Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, below, has couples sip wine in a brass tub filled with grape-seed bubble bath and rose petals, then emerge for a massage with grape-seed body lotion. It's the seeds that purportedly contain the most powerful antioxidant properties, but for those aching to splash around in alcohol, next month New York City's Just Calm Down...
...place is an authorial voice that manages to be incredibly detached when detailing a profession that is, at its heart, all about personal connection. The result is a surprisingly mundane account of an existence that seems anything but. Describing a bath, Iwasaki writes how she lowered herself into the tub. Then got out of the tub. Then washed with soap and water. Then rubbed her skin with a net pouch. Then got back into the tub. At times her book isn't a story?it's an itinerary. Occasionally Iwasaki's storytelling cuts loose. She describes an overzealous customer...
...roommates say their tub troubles did not end when the House finally installed a showerhead...
...clawfoot tub, which had a faucet but no shower attachment for the first month of school...
...While most onsen offer a cozy, over-sized tub feeling, the Kanaya is a steaming behemoth of a bath, half the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. A thousand people might be hyperbole (a hundred is more like it), but so what? With wood paneling, high ceilings, statues of frolicking nymphs and a rotenburo, or outdoor bath, this steamy classic offers bathers the chance to par-boil in elegance or cool off under the night...