By tarazkp on Skatehive
My neighbour offered a belated birthday trip to a public sauna with him, and in this balmy weather, who could turn that down? It has been raining and just above freezing today, and after working for a bit in the garden to get ready for spring, a sauna sounded great. I haven't been to a public sauna for a year or two I think and while we were talking I realised that I might have only gone to them in the winter, or close to winter, but I would like to try in summer also. This particular one has been operating as a public sauna for just shy of a hundred years, but it isn't the oldest public sauna in the city. In fact, it is just a youngster, as the oldest public sauna in Finland is also in this city and has been operating for 120 years. As this is a mixed sauna, everyone is wearing swimwear, though some others have either separated times for same-sex groups, or two different saunas where people are naked. But, there is a very large age range of patrons that use them where for instance the