Cold showers !

[debgrant]

My grandmother was Finnish and used to tell of how they would go from the hot sauna and then jump in the a hole cut in the ice of a lake a few steps away. They would go back and forth several times.

 

[Jo86]

My grandmother was Finnish and used to tell of how they would go from the hot sauna and then jump in the a hole cut in the ice of a lake a few steps away. They would go back and forth several times.

Oh. But did she ever mention why they'd do that, or hint that it was therapeutic (rather than just, say, a fun activity for entertainment purely) ?