Twice earlier this year, in January and again in May, gold spent two months consolidating gains while building steam for two-month rallies of 20% and 30%.
Afterward, I glided back to the women's spa area and spent time rotating between the sauna, steam room, "Ice Fountains" and "Experience Showers" with both warm and cool mists--sort of an ecosystem sampler.
Flemish enthusiasts at Steam Center Maldegem, a heritage center in northern Belgium, recently spent a cold day cutting spare boiler screws for their stable, which includes a Polish-built steam engine, the "General Maczek, " named for the Polish general who helped liberate Belgium in World War II.