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46 2016 SPRING/SUMMER EVENTS & ITINERARIES GUIDE Winnipeg If you are looking to get real steamy, boy do I have a spot for you. It's called Thermëa by Nordik Spa-Nature, a Scandinavian spa so exquisite that its very name, when whispered amongst the pines of the Fort Garry neighbourhood, will bring you to pure, sensual bliss, as if its eucalyptus vapours were nibbling at your ear. All you need is a bathing suit, a robe and some flip flops, and this place will do the rest with its hot thermal pools, its steamy and dry saunas, and its cold pools and waterfall, which are all meant to use in a hot-cold-hot cycle. It's ideal for couples as you'll need someone to rub the invigorating and exfoliating lavender salts on your back between steam room sessions. Plus, they have tantalizing dining for lunch and dinner where — get this — you can only eat in robes. Or for a different take on rejuvenation, the luxurious Ten Spa at the Fort Garry offers a hamam treatment that is out of this world. Well, out of this continent at least, as the hot air bathing ritual has roots in Turkey, where this cleansing ritual brings physical and spiritual purification. Couples will be enticed with a sensual warm shower, salt rub, olive oil wash, and ultimately a full body massage, as you are fully renewed by this sumptuous treatment. As night falls, head out to one of Winnipeg's celebrated tapas restaurants because nothing entices like sharing bites, you feel me? In Osborne Village you can savour Spanish flavours from chef Adam Donnelly at Segovia — Winnipeg's most acclaimed restaurant. If you get there early be sure to get a seat on the charming little patio where you can sip some cava and feed one another delectable bites. They don't take reservations, but you can put your name down at the door and go for pre-dinner cocktails at the adults-only Toad Whiskey Bar (you have to be 25+ to enter), just a couple doors down on Osborne's main drag. Post-dinner, take a romantic stroll down the city's famed Assiniboine Riverwalk, where the babbling waters sound like sweet nothings in your ear. You'll also hear birds sing overhead as if to say, "Get a little closer." Holding hands isn't mandatory, but I bet you do, you smitten little lovers you. Finally, go get cozy in Assiniboine Park where outdoor movies, Ballet in the Park and nightly concerts will see you on the grass in a blanket under the stars (which is as romantic as it gets), or for a more romantic version of "Netflix and chill," head to downtown's Movies on Memorial and get cuddly while Hollywood's latest handles the entertainment for you.