ONE: Sauna is the only Finnish word to make it into everyday English so let’s do it justice and pronounce it right: think SOW(female pig)-NA. TWO: Finland is a nation of 5.5 million people and more than 2 million saunas: it’s part of the Finnish DNA – the Finn’s say that “a house without a sauna is not a home”. You’ll find them in homes, apartment blocks (where everyone gets their weekly sauna slot), offices, factories, restaurants (famously there is a Burger King with a…Continue Reading “Five things I learned about sauna culture in Finland”