Just to give you some perspectives:
– \u00c5land emerged from the sea some 10.000 years ago when the last ice age ended. 3000 years later some fishermen and hunters settled on the island.
During the last 500 years \u00c5land have, from time to time, belonged to Sweden, Russia and Finland. Even the Danes tried to conquer the islands!
After the Russian revolution in 1917, when Finland became independent, the people living on \u00c5land wanted to become a part of the old motherland Sweden, but the Finnish government proclaimed \u00c5land as a Finnish province. The \u00c5land people refused to accept that, and in 1921 an agreement stated that \u00c5land would be an autonomy region within Finland with it\u2019s own parliament. The spoken language on \u00c5land is still Swedish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since a couple of years we have got more and more Finnish members in the club, with Jan-Martin B\u00f6rman and Ulf Haga in the leading position as our club ambassadors. Thanks to these two guys and there wifes Christine and Kaija the \u00c5land Riva Run & Fun finally came thru. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many thanks for your hard work and perfect planning!<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This years event was special! We had talked about going by boat, crossing the Baltic sea to \u00c5land, for decades… And this year the dream came thru! Just to give you some perspectives: – \u00c5land emerged from the sea some 10.000 years ago when the last ice age ended. 3000 years later some fishermen and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rivaclubsweden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rivaclubsweden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rivaclubsweden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rivaclubsweden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rivaclubsweden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rivaclubsweden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/www.rivaclubsweden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9875\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rivaclubsweden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}