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The area of Keilalahti is one of the such preserved natural environments, and what is striking, is the fact that it is located just between towns of Helsinki and Espoo, creating a green-blue buffer zone within the larger urban environment. Leave a Comment
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You can walk to Otaniemi from the centre of Tapiola or take one of the buses from Tapiola Bus terminal.
For more info about Aalto's buildings, opening times etc check this website: http://www.jkl.fi/aalto/info/guide/index.htm Leave a Comment
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 Sauna at the lake by Soili
From childhood Finns learn to bathe separately: small boys go to sauna with their fathers and girls are with mothers. Please note: a sauna is every mother's dream as the children will collapse of exhaustion afterwards...
Sauna traditions start from there: family ties become strong, secrets made and unfolded. In the privacy of sauna., as you are naked, it means you cannot hide anything.
Next, you sit down on the benches. They're not very hot and feel nice to your skin.
You may splash some water on yourself to feel better. The water used in sauna comes straight from the lake, buckets and buckets of it. Some heated for washing, some ice cold. Bathing in sauna may take any hours.
You have a ladle to throw half a cupful of water on the hot, heated stones.
The best sauna is the one heated with wood; make sure the ventilation is OK. A crack going under the door is a sign you're in a good sauna. The electrically heated version of sauna makes the air too dry and hot. The soft, hot, humid sauna in the countryside is sheer pleasure!!
Why do we beat ourselves with the bunch of birch twigs, very gently?The wet twigs,and birch leaves, have some oil in them that helps you to have a better circulation in your body. And if you have the tiny mosquito bites in your feet, you don't feel the itch to scratch the itching ones after the beating.
Bathing in sauna means sweating. Drinking is essential afterwards ; a beer or two. Getting drunk isn't the real thing and cold water is a good option.
After sauna is the perfect time to have a cup of coffee and one sweet bun, pulla. You're so relaxed; no wonder if you fall asleep. One thing is certain: you have left all your troubles behind you. Sauna is the best thing Finland has to offer for the rest of the world. Leave a Comment Other Contact: any local swimming pool has one
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 View across the sea from near
the Radisson Hotel by Chris_Bore
The immediate area is not all that exciting, but there is a nice coast with a road and path running alongside. Very open, with good clear light. Good for jogging, and I think the hotel hired bikes which would have been rally nice if we had time. We also walked from the hotel up the hill and into woods: these are OK, not special (but not everywhere has to be special).
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Here is poor and ugly places in Finland too. Everything is not clean and beautiful.
If you want to see different Finland, take a bus and make trip to suburbs.
Bus 150 from Helsinki will bring you here..
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Myllyjarvi is another of the hidden lakes around Espoo, this one is a really beautiful small lake actually in a small reserved and protected area in Espoo. Great place in the summer for a swim. Leave a Comment
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