I know some might think that we don´t need it! And that is true, we do not need it, but we really enjoy a good sauna! And it is so relaxing, so we really want it.
Some things you need to know about us weird people from Finland, is that although Finland only has about 5,5 million inhabitants there is more than 2 million saunas.
Finns who have moved to almost any place in the world have been known to build saunas, sometimes the sauna is built before the actual house! The sauna in itself can look very different from other saunas; there are small saunas and big saunas, there are wooden heated saunas and there are electric saunas, there are also the smoke saunas (they are the best, although they are not that common).
On our trips we have build a tarp sauna in Jamaica and Canada, and realized how important it is to have the right kind of stones for the heat and löyly (the steam that comes from throwing water on the hot stones).
A sauna for a Finn is not luxury, as it might seem for people from other countries, but rather it is a big part of our culture.
Our plan is to build a wooden heated sauna, and we hope that someone from Finland who has built saunas before will come and help build it!
The sauna stove (kiuas in Finnish) is likely that we need to bring/ship it from Finland and it is probable that we would ship the stones at the same time (because most of the local stones are not suitable as sauna stones- we Finns are very peculiar about our saunas! :) )
Some things you need to know about us weird people from Finland, is that although Finland only has about 5,5 million inhabitants there is more than 2 million saunas.
Finns who have moved to almost any place in the world have been known to build saunas, sometimes the sauna is built before the actual house! The sauna in itself can look very different from other saunas; there are small saunas and big saunas, there are wooden heated saunas and there are electric saunas, there are also the smoke saunas (they are the best, although they are not that common).
On our trips we have build a tarp sauna in Jamaica and Canada, and realized how important it is to have the right kind of stones for the heat and löyly (the steam that comes from throwing water on the hot stones).
A sauna for a Finn is not luxury, as it might seem for people from other countries, but rather it is a big part of our culture.
Our plan is to build a wooden heated sauna, and we hope that someone from Finland who has built saunas before will come and help build it!
The sauna stove (kiuas in Finnish) is likely that we need to bring/ship it from Finland and it is probable that we would ship the stones at the same time (because most of the local stones are not suitable as sauna stones- we Finns are very peculiar about our saunas! :) )
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