SAUNA

I have no Finnish or Baltic heritage - none that I can discover that is. I have no idea why my love, or maybe more accurately, my need for Sauna is so overwhelmingly strong. Perhaps the catalyst was a (thankfully not too serious) motorcycle accident in my late teens. This resulted in my first Sauna in the local health club as a way to soothe sore muscles from a sudden smash into hard, wet tarmac. Whatever the reason, from that first, surprising, stifling, shocking Sauna experience, I knew I was hooked... Years roll by, life goes on and time passes without Sauna. I'm not sure at all if, throughout the whole of my twenties, I actually ever took a Sauna?

Primary location: United Kingdom