This is how to serve champagne in Palju (a hot outdoor tub heated by wood fire): floating.
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September 2019, Kekkolan Kartano, Mikkeli, Finland
Swimming (Outdoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool); Sauna (Normal)
Sigtuna Fritidscenter is a community swimming hall a few kilometers outside Stockholm, in Sweden. I had an opportunity to stop by for a quick swim there, on a business trip.
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September 2019, Sigtuna Fritidscenter, Sigtuna, Sweden
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Waterbody-Pool, Indoor)
I've lived 25 years in Kauniainen, but today was the first time that I swam in our lake, the Gallträsk. A perfect, hot day for that.
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July 2019, Gallträsk, Kauniainen, Finland; House Arkko, Kauniainen, Finland
Swimming (Outdoor); Sauna (Normal)
I am heading to the IAB workshop & IETF but not before trying the new black sauna at the Finnair lounge with Ari.
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July 2019, Helsinki-Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland
Sauna (Normal); Travel
Today I washed the sweat and dust of the day off at the Harmony Spa. Very, very nicely coloured sauna. Hot too. And a nice blue pool.
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July 2019, Harmony Spa, Budapest, Hungary
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)
Once again in Kista, Stockholm. For work. In the summer everything seems to be better, though. Like hotel pricing. Apparently Kista is not a big vacation destination, so even the best hotels go for 60€ a night, so this time I'm staying at the Scandic Victoria.
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July 2019, Scandic Victoria, Kista, Sweden
Sauna (Normal)
I attended a workshop at a private corporate facility in Kirkkonummi, and it turns out that there was both a very nice sauna, swimming place, as well as ruins from the Russian occupation times: a railroad leading to a rock, almost disappeared harbour pier. Nice surprise!
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June 2019, Corporate Sauna, Kirkkonummi, Finland
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Outdoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool, Waterbody-Sea); Urban-Exploration (Ruins)
Kinnerstugan, north of Visby in Gotland, Sweden, has a nice sauna. Plenty hot! And it is free... except that you need 5 crown coins for the showers.
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June 2019, Kinnerstugan, Gotland, Sweden
Sauna (Normal)
It turns out one can recycle the pine bath whisk. Just stick it in a terrace flower box, just like people normally decorate their terraces with evergreen tree branches.
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June 2019, House Arkko, Kauniainen, Finland
Sauna (Normal)
For a work meeting, I stayed at the Crowne Plaza in Hague. It turned out that they had a nice spa area, with four different saunas and good pool.
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June 2019, Crowne Plaza, Hague, Netherlands
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)
Wow. This was something else, a vihta (bath whisk) made of pine branches.
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June 2019, House Arkko, Kauniainen, Finland
Sauna (Normal)
My colleagues had organised an event at the Lähteen Sauna, in the area of the Lapinlahti mental institute. Ex. institute... and Lähteen sauna is as far as I know, the oldest still operating sauna in Helsinki that is still open to public.
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June 2019, Lähteen sauna, Lapinlahti, Helsinki, Finland
Sauna (Normal)
While driving around in Germany, I had an opportunity to visit the Spreewald area.
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June 2019, Spreewald Therme, Burg, Germany
Swimming (Indoor, Outdoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool); Sauna (Normal)
Spending the night right in Stockholm's old town? On a yacht? With an excellent sauna heated up just for you? For 1000 SEK (100€) a night? Enter Mälardrottningen... not bad at all!
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May 2019, Mälardrottningen, Stockholm, Sweden
Sauna (Normal)
While driving around a bit after the meeting ended that day, I came across a modest looking community swimming pool in Laugarvatn. But it turned out to be a luxury sauna - thermal bath facility, the Fontana. And it was on the beach of a lake where the warnings say the lake water is boiling at some places. Care for a swim?
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May 2019, Laugarvatn Fontana, Laugarvatn, Iceland; Hot Pot, Laugarvatn, Iceland
Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool, Thermal-Bath); Swimming (Outdoor, Water, Waterbody-Lake, Thermal-Bath); Sauna (Normal, Steam)
During the Ylläs 24h race in 2019, around 2am I was heading down the Worldcup run at, I guess, at a bit over hundred kilometres an hour. And then something happened. I lost my skis, I tumbled, and hit myself to the icy slope pretty hard.
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April 2019, Ylläs, Finland
Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts); Sauna (Normal)