http://stevenpane.wordpress.com Ramblings of a pianist and musicologist Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:19:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://stevenpane.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/museum-at-attami/#comment-5 Scott Erb Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:19:12 +0000 http://stevenpane.wordpress.com/?p=66#comment-5 All your posts from Japan are amazing! Glad you had a great trip with great food and coffee! All your posts from Japan are amazing! Glad you had a great trip with great food and coffee!

]]> http://stevenpane.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/bathing-in-yugawa/#comment-4 Scott Erb Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:14:46 +0000 http://stevenpane.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-4 Your writing is at its best when you describe food. Delightful. Hilarious about the bathing bit too! In Russia they have bagna, which is a sauna where you take the heated water and wash yourself. Families would traditionally bathe together, or sometimes the men and women would go in collective groups. I recall lying down on a bench in a very hot sauna having my father in law whip me with a eucalyptus branch, which was supposed to help clean. In a lot of Russian towns without plumbing, that's still the only way to bathe. Your writing is at its best when you describe food. Delightful. Hilarious about the bathing bit too! In Russia they have bagna, which is a sauna where you take the heated water and wash yourself. Families would traditionally bathe together, or sometimes the men and women would go in collective groups. I recall lying down on a bench in a very hot sauna having my father in law whip me with a eucalyptus branch, which was supposed to help clean. In a lot of Russian towns without plumbing, that’s still the only way to bathe.

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