When a place is called Seatown, you can’t help but arrive with certain seaside expectations. Seatown in Dorset certainly delivers coastal charm, although its name is misleading because it’s not a town but a hamlet of honey coloured houses.
Leaving the main road that runs through the village of Chideock, it’s less than a mile down a country lane to Seatown’s shingle shore. By the beach are two unexpected delights: a fantastic pub serving food and award-winning local real ales, and a timber sauna hut on wheels. I’m here to try them both.
Three friends are joining me for a communal sauna experience with a difference; the Seaside Sauna Haus is nothing like the saunas