It’s easy to find, we’re told. Not far past the rugby club and the golf club. Six miles past to be exact and lost in a labyrinth of roads that get narrower. Suddenly the spa emerges. Brand new and boasting everything possible to improve the female form. Mudbath. Seaweed bath. Hydrotherapy. Seamist Therapy. Presso Therapy. Algo Therapy. Balneotherapy. And wait for it, Thallasotherapy. There must be some awful ugly women in Ireland to need all that.
My wife emerged radiant an hour later from her Seaweed Bath having enjoyed sharing it with a variety of whelks, weeds and winkles. And do you know that this place is so booked up there’s no chance of any of those therapies or baths for at least a week?
My wife swears blind about how much good it does the skin and how it removes the toxins from the system and…
Westport, Co Mayo
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