November 2012

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Life in Norway: Come Dine with Me

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 27, 2012

Lot has been said publicly and internationally about my native Finland’s food. Just ask France’s ex-president Jacques Chirac or the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi what they think of it. Their answers might be along the lines of “practically inedible” or having to “endure” Finnish food. Oh wait. They […]

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Life in Norway: Welcome Winter!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 20, 2012

After boasting about traveling home to winter and probably being quite annoying on Facebook sharing our local ski hill’s snowy photos, we got to Norway ready to get the skis and snowboards out of the storage and guess what happened? It started raining. We watched the snow slowly disappear of […]

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Devon Experience: Pumpkins, Birds at Butlins and Birthdays

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 12, 2012

Where are you coming from? Do you live in Ireland? What are you doing here? Wait! Does the baby have a Finnish passport? So where do you really live? Norway? But aren’t you Finnish? All straightforward enough questions, but at 6am after 4am start from Dublin, I was somewhat lost […]

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