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Originally Posted by romafan 
Haircut every 4 - 6 weeks, and that's about it. There's an old fashioned Russian (Polish? You get beaten w/ birch branches & drink vodka) bath house on my street that I'll consider if only to experience it before it disappears....
This sounds Finnnish to me. I remember being taken to a Finnish Sauna in the UP of Michigan after a day of cross country skiing. 70/80 year old men were beating each other's naked bodies with what looked like willow branches. They raised up huge welts! There were 6 or 7 of us in the sauna which was extremely hot (right around 100ºC) . Every 10-15 minutes we would run out and roll in the snow. By the time we were back in the sauna we'd be covered in a layer of ice. Even though I turned down a willow beating, I've never felt as good as I did when I crawled into bed that night.
