IS it just me or do most people feel slightly uncomfortable when you're there relaxing by yourself in a sauna or steam room, daydreaming about something and then when someone else walks in you immediately tense up?

I always feel compelled to say something, usually idiotically about the heat. "Gosh, isn't it hot in here!" The other person invariably nods and gives a polite little laugh and the ice is broken.

I'm also one of those typically British people who will never even go into a sauna if someone else is in there.

I'm just the same if I travel on the train, I'll do anything to avoid sitting next to someone else, it's that British reserve thing.

Anyway, there I was praying no one was going to come into the steam room at the Deganwy Quay Hotel, and in fact was praying quite hard as I had a chipped pedicure circa December 2007, and even worse hairy legs that badly needed waxing.

Then in walks in this Adonis of a man. Great hair, voice and perfect six pack. Now, I'm a very happily married woman but one couldn't help but admire this perfect form.

I cringed and was grateful the steam hid my blushes. I lay there staring at the hairy legs (mine) mortified and then he started chatting away saying that he had come to live in the area after falling in love with Snowdonia (bless), and it turned out he was mad on climbing (which explained the bod)

In the end I was about to pass out with the heat and lust, and got up as gracefully as possible and cooled down in the shower.

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