Helsinki. A customer with a bicycle at Arla Sauna door. The Sauna Arla is one of the few remaining old public saunas in the city, at the corner of an apartment block in the district of Kallio now understand my surprise when, during my visit to the sauna Arla, the first two sounds we hear were open cans of beer and loud jokes by a group of rough-looking men. I found this fascinating cultural difference became even more interesting when I witnessed Finns usually rather shy, squeezing the buttocks themselves-to-buttock in the top row of the sauna. The interior of the sauna - and certainly only a sauna, not a lot of different temperature saunas - is also very different from anything I've found in Germany before: is courageous, no ill equipped and wall tiles the plaster peeling off the roof. Another interesting fact is that I witnessed Finnish men (and women) seem to go to the sauna just in hordes and a unique visitor - like me - seems to be more of the ball in discord. In fact, when I arrived at Arla, a group of men was dating (cans of beer in hand), but soon after was again filled with laughter ladder by another group of young men - I guess it was a hockey all team that had just finished his match? As you can imagine, the symphony of beer cans opening continued ... Overall it was a fun experience and I really liked the down-to-earthness all. Sauna, for the Finns, seems to be less of a rule-bound-health-conscious life-form, but rather a means to socialize and play. In fact, we Germans could really use a little bit tense attitude and maybe just let go ...