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last update:Oct092023September 25, 2013October 9, 20231Commentby Santiago H

Types of Sauna in Finland

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Even though I’m not in Finland these days, I do continue to have (and enjoy!) my weekly sauna. The saunas outside Finland are strange: people wear towels around their waists, you can’t throw water on the heated stones (there’s an electric system that does it automatically) and a lot of the time the temperature is lower than it should be. But is this a sauna?…

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last update:Aug142019September 6, 2013August 14, 20197Commentsby Santiago H

Sisu: a.k.a Finnish power

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The first time I heard the word sisu, a word I heard only a few more times while in Finland, it was at lunch with some Finnish friends. It was a long day and after saying goodbye, both the word and the concept slipped my mind. The same friends said the same word to me again a few weeks later and I had to ask:…

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