I am a cold blooded person. I feel the cold and I don’t like it, so I was very late to the party when it came to trying ice baths. I had no interest in getting even colder! I ended up in one purely by accident. A friend invited me to a spa one weekend (well, the word ‘spa’ was all I heard anyway!) which turned out to be an ice bath and sauna experience. It was January and the ice on the bath had to be broken with a sledge hammer in order for us to get in. I didn’t even want to take my coat off, let alone get down to my swimmers and jump in the ice! However, peer pressure is a wonderful thing. I was the last in the group to give it a go and everyone before me had managed it - I couldn’t not try. From the second I got out of that 2 degree water after 2 minutes, I was hooked. I felt AMAZING. I had found my ‘thing’. I kept returning to the spa, however it was a long way from home meaning I couldn’t go nearly as regularly as I wanted to. I was desperate to find something similar closer to home, but there wasn’t anything. The more I searched the less I could believe that there was nothing in this beautiful part of the Chiltern Hills to cater for a cold water addiction - so, I decided to create it myself, and here we are!