| The gift shop between Spots Shop and OTSO!! It has many kinds of local items made by local artisans. |
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I always went to K-Market for the local gifts to keep my expence low, so it was the 1st time to visit another shop. I got a pair of mittens there.    |
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| ---------- Suklaaruusu ---------- Only one profesional cake and bakery shop |
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| in Äkäslompolo. Check the website out → Here I'd wanted to visit once there. Usually, I came back from skiing after 5 p.m |
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| so I missed the store hour. (It's always closed at 4 p.m.) But!! I fainally made it there this time!! |
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   About 4 weeks before Easter day, Finnish people have the pastry with raw cream and jam called "Laskiaispulla" each year as their traditon. So we can get it at most of the cake shops |
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| and bakery shops in Finland limited time only. Before I departed, I talked
about it with my Finnish friend and I wanted to try it in this time. It's under chocolate chip cookie in the picture below.  |
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------- Variety Kinds of Local Gifts ------- |
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For a surprise, I had to get many kinds of local gihts, so the time went passed very quickly as I couldn't make up my mind what to get., and there were lots of headache... |
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As you see, you might've thought I'd prepared only nice local gifts, didn't you?? For a surprise, I also got the gross candy "Salmiaalki" aka |
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"The worst candy in the word." This is Salmiakk. ↓↓↓ Actually, Everyone, who joined in the meeting, tried it. Of cource, so did I...... |
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| At that moment when I put a pice of candy into my mouth, it just tasted
sweet and sour, but it changed to ammonia in several minutes, and I almost vomited... |
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| The person who had fallen into the hell, brought it to her work and shared
the candy to her co-workers at the morning celemony. Then, I heard it was a BIG HIT!! To be continued!! |
