Peter Seenan: Reflecting on sauna and sea swimming in winter
This weekend I visited my girlfriend’s family’s country cottage near Loviisa in Southern Finland, where to my surprise I had to smash through lake ice to have a refreshing swim after the sauna. In Helsinki I’m fortunate to live close […]
avantouinti, bastu, ice swimming, outdoor swimming, peter seenan, sauna, simning, winter swimming
A letter to the sea
I’m guilty of being a romantic; intrigued by and longing for the next bend in the road, the brow of a hill, the dunes beyond the headland and the lands at the end of the horizon. Of all that there […]
hälsa, Helsingfors, helsingfors centrum, outdoor swimming, peter seenan, simning
Ice swimming: fear and discomfort then elation
In one of my first jobs in Finland people laughed at me when I told them ice swimming was one of my hobbies. ”It’s for old people”, they chortled. Over the years Finns have looked at me shocked and exclaimed that […]
avantouinti, bastu, hälsa, ice swimming, outdoor swimming, peter seenan, sauna, simning, winter swimming
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