Quote Originally Posted by Ackwell
Damn you foreigners don't understand the best things in life! :-D
When we keep the kilt meeting in Finland you should get ready for sauna in every night!
(And don't forget snow baths and icy-water swimming...) :-D
I think the difference in opinion about saunas comes from where we've both grown up. You grew up in Finland where it's nice and cold, so the hot sauna seems like a great idea.

I spent much of my childhood in South Texas where it was often over 110 degrees and almost 100% humidity for much of the summer. I can remember my father carefully scrapping black dots off the car after a drive because the day was so hot that the asphalt in the roadway had melted and was being kicked up by the tires.

I used to love to go visit my mother at the medical school where she worked and stand in the giant walk-in freezers. When it's a sauna outside for most of the day, the idea of climbing in a sauna for pleasure seems downright diabolical.

Now, if it's -20 degrees F outside, I'd bet a sauna would be mighty attractive.