Thermal baths in Baden-Baden have made the southwest German city a popular wellness destination. Pictured, the glass-domed Caracalla Spa. Source: Courtesy of Baden-Baden Kur & Tourismus Late afternoon ...

“Yes,” we said, sliding the bills across the counter. Thirty-five Euros for a three-and-a-half hour bath and brush massage at Friedrichsbad, the famous bathhouse in Baden-Baden, Germany. The woman ...

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FOR almost 140 years, people have discarded their clothes and their modesty in front of strangers here. Because total nudity is deemed mandatory. Mark Twain had it right when he said of Germany’s ...

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The dark treetops of the brooding Black Forest are hurtling beneath me and, not for the first time this morning, I think I am going to die. ‘It’s going to be all right, Mum,’ urges my son Felix, nine, ...

Nothing quite matches a good old-fashioned spa town like Baden-Baden. And by old-fashioned, I mean really old-fashioned-or rather, "exceptionally storied." Roman soldiers garrisoned in what is now the ...

Cars race past us as we turn off the Autobahn motorway and onto a quieter street that leads into a long, tube-shaped tunnel. For more than two and a half kilometres we speed through Michaelstunnel, ...