{"id":2860,"date":"2023-09-28T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snowedunder.com\/wpd\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:47:37","slug":"finland-day-11-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowedunder.com\/wpd\/finland-day-11-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland &#8211; Day 11 continued"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2860\" class=\"elementor elementor-2860\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-388f87f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"388f87f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-893b691\" 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to various sights, and the guide gave us information about Finland, Finnish history and Finnish attitudes.\u00a0 We also went out of town to a &#8220;medieval&#8221; village called Porvoo.\u00a0 Not actually very medieval anymore, but it was a nice drive and there is a chocolate factory there.\u00a0 We got our first exposure at the chocolate factory to an apparent love of licorice.\u00a0<\/p><p>One of the stops on the tour was the Sibelius Monument.\u00a0 It looks rather like organ pipes in design which is weird since Sibelius did not compose for organ.\u00a0 A popular variation is to take photographs looking up the pipes, which we did.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser default-view'\n\t\tid='ngg-imagebrowser-655cfc217fbe244d44916905dbd593b0-2860'\n\t\tdata-nextgen-gallery-id=\"655cfc217fbe244d44916905dbd593b0\"\n\t\tdata-gallery-id=\"29\">\n\n\t\t<h3>Russian Orthodox Church in Helsinki<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"pic\" \n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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