Norway

Givær Island near Bodø, Northern Norway I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Escape to Arctic North and Why It Is Good Not to Wake up in Your Own Bed

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 18, 2014

I was curled on the seat of the train, happy to have no one sitting next to me so I could stretch across the two seats in a desperate attempt to get some sleep in the overnight train heading as north as you can go in Norway. Bodø. I was […]

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Furusjøen, Norway I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Holiday Close to Home: Escape to the Norwegian Mountains

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 28, 2014

There’s something quirky about Norwegian mountain hotels, fjellhoteller. They are often bit worn, not very sleek and when it comes to individual rooms, the emphasis has not been in making them so inviting that you’d like to disappear under your duvet for a day or two with a remote control in one […]

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Furusjøen, Norway I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

What to Do When Adventure Is Over – My Formula to Stay Sane

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth September 29, 2014

Here were are, at home in Norway where the sun is shining one moment and then the next, the sky opens for a shower. Not much different from Ireland and the Wild Atlantic Way, really, although that’s where the similarities end. After sitting on a bicycle, day after day for […]

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Biking along 350 Kilometers of Stunning Norwegian Coastline with Unfortunate Lack of Coffee shops

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 6, 2014

There’s so much information stored in the thin lines following the coastline on our map, some lines extending over the sea and others escaping inland in search of more direct routes from one spot to another. And at the same time those lines and small black dots indicating towns and […]

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Lillehammer, Norway I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Blogging from my Backyard – Welcome to Lillehammer!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 24, 2014

It’s getting closer to the season that makes me simultaneously nervous and excited — visitor season. As family and friends are booking their holidays to visit us, at least so we hope, we get ready by borrowing extra mattresses, checking that extra linen is good to go and moving everything in […]

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Påskevær – Best in Norway

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 22, 2014

There are many good things that hail from Norway. Take koselig for example, a small word that makes everything cozy, albeit the direct translation can’t even encompass all the coziness this word possesses. And then there is something even better. Påskevær. Easter weather. This is what it is, in all of […]

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Meanwhile at Home: Beautiful Winter Images from Scandinavia

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 27, 2014

I am trying to be on denial. And I would be doing great if there was no Instagram. Shorts, T-shirt and sandals are my daily uniform here in New Zealand, coupled with regularly applied layers of factor thirty or fifty. The bright blue pair of runners is put to use […]

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