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Saltsjöbaden
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“The bath lies at the very end of the Saltsjöbanan line, surrounded by villas, the Grand Hotel and expensive boats. In the café you can order a glass of white wine and a shrimp sandwich, and you’ll need to pay an entrance fee to get in. But if you can overlook that, behind the door of the pale‑blue building the sea awaits – together with the soft wooden decking to stretch out on. It’s a place free of judgmental glances, where elderly ladies look as though they’ve swum there every day for the past 103 years (since it opened in 1913). It offers a chance simply to inhabit your body, to relish how it feels: the suppleness, the weight, the skin. How it smells when it sweats, when the sun has warmed it. How your hair grows more tangled with every dip. And there’s a diving tower!”
Greta Weibull on Saltsjöbaden’s cold‑water bathhouse and the freedom of women‑only baths. Quoted in Stockholm Region Unstraight – Greta, Stockholm County Museum, 2016. English translation.
