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The best (and weirdest) spas in the world - from someone who HATES spas

Plus some reflections on my ADHD... which is the reason I hate spas

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Annabel Fenwick Elliott
Jun 28, 2023
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Dear Jasper is on holiday. Both this newsletter and actual Jasper. His very first holiday. 

We’re in Mallorca and even though I was, deep down, worried that I wouldn’t enjoy it, we are very much. We are at quite a fancy hotel - The Iberostar Grand Portals Nous - and I’ve just had a massage. Usually I hate spas and massages (the ADHD brain can’t handle 40 minutes of silence on a slab and nothing to look at but a stranger's toes) but this was one of the best I’ve ever had. 

Happiness in Mallorca

Which made me think about some of the other spas I’ve been to around the world during my tenure as a travel writer, that I didn’t hate.

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