From the Independent's travel section...
2 years ago
Just a reminder why it would be good to learn Finnish.
http://travel.independent.co.uk/europe/article2851949.ece
Of course, one paragraph stood out :
She primes us for our impending saunas, pronounced as “sow-nahs”. ” No swimsuits,” she admonishes. “It’s bad to breathe in the pool chemicals. You must be naked. And everyone goes in together. Finnish families take a sauna maybe twice a week.” I tell her about the rules in Britain, which tend not to allow children and pregnant women, and she lets out a long and derisive laugh. “It’s ridiculous. Saunas were used traditionally as the place women gave birth. You wouldn’t take in a very little baby, younger than six months, but after that – of course!”
