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Ode to Swimming Pools

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 25, 2013

This is not for you, public swimming pools with fluorescent lighting and suspicious particles floating in the turquoise water with way too much chlorine. This is an ode to swimming pools that make you go “aah”, as you slowly sink in, with warm water wrapping itself around you and carrying […]

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Escape to Stockholm

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 11, 2013

It’s not often I consider myself to be “just” a mother, but when I made my escape to Stockholm the other weekend I felt 100% like a young mother on the loose. Isn’t it funny though how the concepts of age and “young” change the older you get? If you […]

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Grand Adventure in Finnish Wilderness

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 24, 2013

Especially in the wintertime I’m often torn between the decision whether to travel somewhere warm to soak in the sun, or to enjoy all the fun snow can offer. On beautifully sunny days I’m 100% happy to stay put in the winter wonderland we have here in Norway, but there […]

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Cross-country Skiing into the Wild. Kind of.

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 19, 2013

What are great Norwegian winter adventures made of? Snow, wilderness, mountains,  pair of skis, sledge, bit of hardship and in the end, a cozy cabin with a fireplace and candle lighting. Naturally no running water or electricity are needed. But here I have two confessions to make. I call myself […]

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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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Traveling Slow in Ireland

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 30, 2012

When it comes to Ireland I don’t really know where to start. It is, or was, my home. A place I still call home even though I only make appearances once or twice a year. And a place where I could be called more of a tourist these days than […]

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Life in Norway: Living in the Happiest Country of the World

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 1, 2012

Just last week we were basking in the sunshine of the Portuguese beaches, with the only annoyance being little sand grains creeping everywhere. Of which some of them even made the journey back home. And now? Home sweet home. Foggy, rainy, autumnal Norway. Bills to be paid. Routines to be […]

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