This year's spa therapy led
me to Montenegro. A tiny beach town called Igalo would be my guest home for 3
weeks. After months of working too hard, sleeping too little, irregular
exercising and a general lack of a regular lifestyle, I decided to spend this year’s
summer holiday to my health’s benefit.
Because my health insurance
is supporting a spa therapy for Ankylosing Spondylitis, I had to choose from a
list of spas and travel organisations, and it appeared I had to join a group
spa therapy holiday. Not really my first choice, but as it appeared the only way for my
health insurance, I decided to give it a go.
Nevertheless, I had a couple of
wishes for my spa therapy. Firstly, because this summer had seen nothing but
rain, I wanted to go somewhere south. Also, after last year’s success, I wanted
a spa therapy, which focused on AS. Lastly, I wanted to go for 3 weeks. There were quite a few spa therapies and
spas that matched those criteria, but I chose for Igalo in Montenegro. Sadly, without radon therapy, but a country I’d never visited, a coastline that pictured the Mediterranean, and
moreover, a good climate for a holiday in September.
Grotere kaart weergeven
I booked my spa therapy
with a Dutch travel organisation specialised in spa therapy holidays. I have to
say I don’t really like group holidays. Even though I love chatting to and
meeting new people, I don’t like group dynamics, particularly in holidays. I
love to undertake journeys on my own, meet new people, but also to have my own
space when I need it.
The pictures on the website of this travel organisation
called Fontana showed old people, the descriptions of the spa therapy in Igalo
were clearly written with older people in mind, and lastly, the website was
very outdated too.
A week before my flight, I received the travel information
(by post!), and the booklet even advised the most obvious things which you definitely know
if you’ve travelled abroad just once before. So, I prepared myself for an old-school
holiday, including lots of patients with grey hair, group leaders who would
guide you everywhere, and no need to think yourself.
On 31st of
August, my spa therapy was set to begin.
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