Let´s take a dip!

My dream view.

For years now one of my greatest passions has been swimming in the icy cold water. Or to be precise, taking a dip in a icy cold water, since it´s pretty damn freezing in there, and I don´t have the stamina to hang around too long there. At least not yet.

Once upon a time I had the chance to go ice-bathing all winter long pretty much every week at our own cottage by the lake. Then circumstances changed and I found out there wasn´t many places to continue this hobby in a way that I wanted to.

 For me, the whole ice-swimming experience is a very special thing that takes time. It is somewhat a religious moment. I need good weather (preferably a pink sunset! ;)), plenty of time and silence. And a sauna would be nice too. So public places where you can go ice-swimming are little bit too fast for me, as there are people queuing behind you to urge you to go have a dip.

So, for couple of years I have been searching a perfect place to go ice-swimming. Once or twice a year I have had the pleasure to use my aunt Satu´s summer cottage for my ice-swimming endeavours, which I´m very grateful for. Those were very special occasions for me, and gave me much needed strenght to carry on my business as usuall in sometimes very stressful times.

Happy at the summer cottage.

I´ve been watching these sunsets here at the summer cottage since my childhood.

 But the urge to find my own spot was strong.

And this year my dreams came true. I found my place. We rented an old farm house near the city. And now I have a lake near by! And a sauna! And I can watch the pink sunsets where I take a dip! Years of searching came true. Image that. Althoug it´s like 300 meters of freezing cold walk from the ice hole aftterwars to the house and to my sauna, it´s pretty awesome.  Especially now, when some people spend their long quarantine in small rooms in the city. Feeling pretty blessed right about now. And should remember that.

This is from my own spot. Marked with branches so that passers by won´t sink in.

Here´s a video that we took spur of a moment the last time we went to the summer cottage to reload. Had the perfect timing as the sun was setting at the same time as we went to sauna. The golden moment, it´s my favourite.



The point of this text was, never stop dreaming. It might carry you through hard times and it might even some day come true. ❤