My grandparent's home

disaster soup and weirdness galore

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July 28th 2011
Day 8 Thursday, July 28th, 2011 The day was sultry, with little breeze as we headed off to visit places from my childhood memory. In Vuoriniemi, we stopped outside my grandparents old home where I had last visited as a seven-year-old. It’s funny how the memory of a child is so vastly different from that of an adult. My child’s memory remembered the house, a long way from the road, the enormo ... read more

Europe » Finland » South Karelia

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Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its f... ... read more