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Sauna |
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After a nice sauna session you feel relaxed, incredibly clean, a bit tired perhaps, but mentally very fresh. You only go to the sauna with people you like and trust. It is therefore a big honour if a Finn invites you to his sauna. There is 1 sauna on every 5 Finns and the best ones are heated by wood fire. In other countries going to a sauna means a lot of rules. Weird, because in Finland, home of the sauna, there are no rules except to do what feels right to you. Whether you stay in for one minute or the whole day, shower with cold or warm water, throw water on the stove or not, it is all up to you! If you tell a Finn you don't like the sauna, he will be sure you have not been to a real Finnish one. 'Surely it was one of those inferior hotel saunas', he will think. The thought alone will give him cold chills. |
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