I’d like to think Finnish people are hard working and honest. We respect silence and our own boundaries. Maybe just because of that there is one summer cottage for almost every 10th of people living in Finland. That is where most Finnish people tend to spend most of their holidays, with the nature in silence.
Sauna is a traditional place for us. That is pretty much the only place where those boundaries that I mentioned earlier does not exist. You go to sauna naked to sit side by side enjoy the heat with strangers, friends or family.
Seasons in Finland varies so much! In summer it gets really warm and the days are really long. In fact in midsummer the sun doesn’t set at all! However summer is short in Finland and the autumn kicks in really fast and hard. Sunlight is not really a thing in Finland during the autumn and winter. Days are really short and when there should be sunny it’s mostly just really cloudy, foggy and cold. It’s quite depressing but when the spring starts and the sun starts showing again it really brightens every ones moods.
Picture of cottage:
http://www.bedooin.com/ca/helsinki-llacs-cabanes-estiu-finlandia.html
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