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

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 from Vörå, Finland, to Basel, Switzerland, for the musical contest’s final showdown on Saturday. 

“It’s been a lovely journey full of meeting people along the way,” Nyman told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal.

“The core of our project is connecting and building bridges to other people, and going into the sauna with strangers and, hopefully, coming out from the sauna with friends.”

The sauna as a great equalizer 

Nyman and his fellow KAJ fans — Oa Lönnbäck, Aja Lund, and Tom Tiainen — left …