About The Ekaterina Petrova Blog

The ground beneath my feet: In a slightly unusual approach to the places she inhabits and travels to, Ekaterina takes pictures of her feet standing on interesting surfaces in spots and/or with people she wants to remember and writes stories about them. From Sofia, Bulgaria, where she is based, to Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary, Germany and Spain, the blog encompasses various cities and locations around Europe, but soon hopes to cross oceans to other continents as well. Here, you can read a selection of her blog.

Old-School Sanitas Per Aquam | Bankya, Bulgaria

July 25, 2010 • Comments Bulgaria

Apparently, the claim that the word spa is an acronym for the Latin phrase Sanitas Per Aquam, meaning ‘health through water’, is wrong. That is rather a “backronym,” or a phrase constructed to match an already existing word. In fact, the term for the curative use of spring water is derived from the name of the Belgian town of Spa, famed for its healing hot springs, which during Roman times was called Aquae Spadanae. It, incidentally, is also the birthplace of Agatha Christie’s fictional detective Hercule Poirot.... Read the rest of this post.