Anyone interested in trying out the sauna, now you have a unique opportunity to pick from a variety of saunas: woodburning saunas, saunas by the sea allowing a dip into the water etc. The first Helsinki sauna day which is celebrated next Saturday, March 12th aims to open up private saunas to any interested visitor. […]
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Tips for the sauna I: Snow fun with the sauna
A traditional way to enhance your enjoyment of the sauna is to go and roll in the snow. The way it works is as follows: 1) Warm yourself properly in the sauna 2) Run outside, use flipflops to protect your feet if you like 3) Dive in the snow and roll around quickly 4) Run […]
Finns do it naked: Or, what to expect in a Finnish sauna
In March 2015 the student newspaper of Turku University published an article titled Dear Finland, 12 things we don’t understand about you. In the article, which I found both fun and informative, the writer laments that no-one had warned her that Finns go to the sauna naked. In order to avoid this kind of confusion […]