it was a private sauna that fitted about 4 of us at a time. all the houses and flats have a small sauna at least. it\'s incredible really, quite an institution. it was me, my ex, a friend and his g/f.
i didn\'t slap myself with the birch branch, it\'s far too hard so they took it in turns to whip me as hard as they could! it wasn\'t painful and in fact, it tickled, which confused them! they reckon i am half finnish as i didn\'t feel any pain and could take the heat of the sauna (when the girls left at one point to go outside, marko threw kept throwing water on the coals to see how hot i could take it!)