Float On

Finally got round to having another float - two years down the line at The Belmore Centre near Stoke Mandeville Hospital. I didn't enjoy this as much, for a number of reasons.

Mainly, my introduction was a bit haphazard, and I wasn't sure how you knew when to get out, as I'd been told it was when the music stopped. Which it didn't. And, with your ears being underwater, you can't hear whether the music has stopped or not. So that worried me for a bit. Also, it wasn't in a pod in pitch black, it was in a big bath-shower like room and you could see the light coming in. I think I fell asleep for a bit. I worried more about when to get out. I got out, and it was about the right time - 45 minutes-ish. Then I wasn't sure what to do next as I was due a back massage. I left my therapy room open and a lady came. I didn't have any spa slippers so there was a palaver trying to find those. Then I had to gather all my clothes and take them upstairs to another treatment room to have the back massage.

So I was a bit cross, which doesn't bode well with a float. The back massage was OK. Hot stones were involved, but not once did I feel any pressure, any "Oooh yes just there please." But overall it was a pretty nice way to spend an hour or so. Then I got seduced by some Clarins products I needed. (Well, will need when my others have run out...).

My friend Jacquie has booked us in for some treatments at the Mandarin Oriental as a wedding present - how amazing is that! SO looking forward to that. I was going to have some treatments in Rajasthan but there never seemed any time.