The Old Nordic Art of Open-Air Living Through Winter
When winter arrives, modern life offers an easy response: stay inside. Close the curtains earlier, turn up the heat, order dinner, and wait for spring. In Scandinavia, the cultural answer has historically been almost the opposite. Go outside anyway. That idea has a name: friluftsliv (“free-loofts-liv”), roughly translated as “open-air life.” It is less a […]