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What seemed weird when I visited your country
ankhtahr:
About Finns and saunas, I couldn't help but think of this.
Skewbrow:
I have never done the roll in the snow. It is actually meant to be a winter time substitute for a dip to the lake/sea. Once classmates sawed off a hole in the ice, and we took dips. I'm not sure I want to do that on a regular basis.
Vihta OTOH definitely adds to the enjoyment. Early mid-summer birch branches are commonly used. Connoisseurs recommend also oak and eucalyptus, but those a hard to find. Anyway flogging yourself with it adds a lot to the relaxing experience. Legs, arms, face,... A saunamate should do your back (and you should return the favor). It doesn't hurt one bit, because we let the branches soak well in advance to soften them. Cleaning up loose leaves the day after is a bit of a nuisance.
Barmymoo:
My dad's bathroom is basically just one large room with a sloping floor to a drain, but there is a glass half-wall to separate off the shower, presumably so that the toilet paper doesn't get wet? It doesn't serve any other purpose.
ev4n:
In Cuba, everyone said Merry Christmas on Christmas eve. I've been told that's fairly common in hispanic places, though.
pwhodges:
In olden times, the day was generally reckoned from sundown. Therefore Christmas Day started at sundown on what we would call Christmas Eve. When the reckoning of the day changed to midnight, the churches retained the effect of the earlier reckoning by starting the celebration of any day on the previous evening - hence the "Eve" terminology, and the celebration, for instance, of the first mass of Christmas on the eve. In many communities (especially Roman Catholic ones, I suspect), this has spilt into secular life, and into treating the whole of the day before as part of the celebration - but strictly it should only be from sundown.
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