Eurovision Fans Built a Sauna and Drove It 3,000 Km to the Grand Final

Sauna bathing has come into focus this spring after the comedy group KAJ achieved success and tonight represents Sweden in Eurovision with their song "Bara bada bastu". That's why saunas are perhaps a little extra hot right now - but building one in your own home is more of a mood enhancer than a value enhancer, according to several real estate agents.

Sweden is worried. He may win Eurovision again this Saturday. But he doesn’t feel like organizing the festival for another year. The last time he did it, just 12 months ago in Malmö, he lost 100 million Swedish crowns (over 9 million euros). Anton Glanzelius, in charge of programming the Swedish public broadcaster SVT in the press of his country, tells him. If he is again the host, he announces so many budget cuts that he defines the possible ed…

Eurovision fans built a sauna and drove it 3,000 km to the grand final

Robin Nyman's road trip to the Eurovision Grand Finale was less about the destination, and more about the friends he made along the way in the sauna attached to the back of his car.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 final, held in Basel, Switzerland, was anything but predictable. The festival once again demonstrated that it's not just a musical competition, but a cultural, social, and media phenomenon that mobilizes passions across the continent—and also controversy.

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Robin Nyman’s road trip to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest was less about the destination, and more about the friends he made along the way in the sauna attached to the back of his car. Nyman and his friends are supporting Sweden’s Eurovision hopeful KAJ and their song Bara Bada Bastu, an upbeat ode to Northern European sauna culture. So they built a sauna together, then towed it behind a 1980s Volvo for roughly 3,000 kilometres f…

Finnish saunas have been warming up Eurovision guests in Basel over the past week: on the one hand, there are the Finnish Sauna Society, the City of Tampere and Vöyri...