{"id":100,"date":"2026-09-21T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:40:52","slug":"efc-espoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/efc-espoo\/","title":{"rendered":"EFC Espoo - Espoo Fencing Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the smaller competitions but also one of the best. Not only is this in a great location - it snowed for both of our visits and was really picturesque looking out over the lake - but it's also really well organised and a very friendly event to attend. <br><br>Although it can attract fewer entries than many of the other events, it makes up for that with quality - expect strong entries from all the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic states as well as the potential for travelling squads from USA and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171118_080203-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171118_080203-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171118_080203-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171118_080203-300x169.jpg 300w, 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The even organisers also lay on a transfer bus to and from the airport which makes the whole process very slick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It's really nice hotel but when a bus load of fencers arrive to check-in, it can be chaotic. 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Walking a little bit further (maybe 20 minutes or so from the hotel), we had a great dinner at Ravintola Fat Lizard which again, was really nice - but if you plan on visiting there, make a reservation as it's very popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171117_204423-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171117_204423-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171117_204423-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171117_204423-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171117_204423-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171117_204423-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20171117_204423-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Food at the Radisson Blu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the smaller competitions but also one of the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,187],"tags":[6,10,7,100,5,101],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fencing-competitions","category-fencing","tag-cadet","tag-efc","tag-epee","tag-espoo","tag-fencing","tag-finland"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}