We realised on our first morning at Montegrotto Terme that something strange happened at dawn every day. We were woken by clanking and sloshing noises which for days we couldn't explain. Mud ...

Hang around the Lowcountry long enough, and you’ll likely encounter the pluff mud that forms the base of our salt marshes. But there’s a spa on Hilton Head that would like a different kind of mud to ...

Every summer thousands of locals and tourists flock to an improvised mud-and-lye "spa" on the edge of an open-air salt factory near the Black Sea city of Burgas. A couple covered in mud wait for it to ...

If you're tiring of T-shirts and wide-brimmed hats to beat the summer heat, inspiration may be at hand from a Bulgarian summer tradition – rolling around in the mud. Every summer thousands of locals ...