Well, Katarina and Raimo Hirvinnen had received me so well (see history on posts benind), which is a thing finnish people do with the greatest pleasure, and didn`t want nothing in return but my friendship and company.. I decided to pay back somehow, and in the early morning brought fire wood for them to the house. I said it was work of TONTU, SantaKlaus" little helper, as he is known here (it seems to me that Cristhmas (joulu), Santa (Joulupuki) the raindeers (pora) and it all were invention of Finland...). After Breakfast (aamupala, if u prefer..), Raimo took the wood, lit fire on the recently built sauna, and went to swim on the yet frigid waters of the Särkijäärvi (lake of the fish... at the end of Särkijärventie, road-to-the-fish-lake, very easy language...) and I felt obliged to join him, and after that he then said: "now come to the sauna, you will see how wonderful it feels", ok, to the sauna we went and it felt marvelous on the skin and body, specially after an icy dive. Then, back to the lake on those gentleman`s robes (Katarina choose the colorfull one for me), to feel how wonderful it was...Nobody in the vicinity would bother at two gentlemen taking out their robes and walking completely naked to the lake, as we just went from the sauna... and then, of course, after a quick and freezing minute of swiming energetically, back to the sauna that was at this time much hotter... More wood into the fireplace and back to the lake (I was starting to get used to it...), that seemed colder yet, perhaps ice-cold, and a quick run back to the sauna...

It ended well, I coudn`t count how many times we did it, we laughed a lot and Katarina (Kata...) went out to take pictures of the happening..

Is that a good explanation or what?"