{"id":5109,"date":"2006-07-29T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T22:39:38","slug":"hot-spring-detour-in-the-italian-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zariat.com\/home\/2006\/07\/29\/hot-spring-detour-in-the-italian-countryside\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Spring Detour in the Italian Countryside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having met some new ‘local’ friends at a recent festival, i was fortunate enough be told about a nearby hot spring (known in Italian as a terme<\/em>) to visit after the event.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to know what you’re going to find when going to a new hot spring – every one is different, and they’re often made by hand. Sometimes the water is cloudy or stinks of sulphur, sometimes it’s actually too hot to bathe, sometimes it’s just a small section of a stream or lake with a spring beneath.<\/p>\n

In this case, it was a group of small cement pools, slightly cloudy but not too odorous, surrounded by cute flowering shrubs and a few small trees providing some enclosure from the otherwise flat terrain. Blue-green hillsides sat\u00a0in the distance, in front of rolling white clouds, as we soaked with a small group of mostly elderly Italians.<\/p>\n

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