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Skitouring in Norway I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Norwegian Winter Skiing Adventure: In the Search for Snow

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 20, 2015

That very first night of my very first multi-day ski adventure, right about the time my friend Åsa was clinging onto a tree while her sledge and hunting dog Scooby tried to pull her down the steep hill into the darkness, I lost one of my skis. There was no […]

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Skeikampen in Norway I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

When Travel Destination Becomes Home: The Plan for the Next Forty Years

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 5, 2015

It almost became a habit, the repeated departures and arrivals. The exhilarating feeling of having all your belongings packed in couple of bags or in the boot of a car with no or new destination in mind, does have a certain addictive quality to it after all. New life, new […]

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Snowman in Finland I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Ho ho ho!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth December 23, 2014

And so the holidays started over a week ago, with me swerving into the Dalen parking lot outside Oslo’s Gardermoen Airport with two excited kids in the back, while my husband, who had made the trek from southwest England all the way to Norway that same morning already waited for […]

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Folldal in Norway with views to Rondane I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Adventure a Week: Snøhetta, Day Trip with No Return

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth December 2, 2014

I got the map spread out in front of me on the floor, laptop open for checking out distances and details, and two little people examining the map for all other purposes than what it is meant to be. Someone might have even taken a bite off the corner. The plan was […]

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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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Cape Clear Island along the Wild Atlantic Way I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

VIDEO: The End of the Wild Atlantic Way Biking Adventure

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 13, 2014

That’s it, finally, some might say. The last video from the Ride Wild 2014 biking adventure along the 2500 kilometres of the Wild Atlantic Way. As it’s been over two months that me and my friends finished the long bike ride, it really is about the time to wrap this […]

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Mizen Head Signal Station, Ireland I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

VIDEO: Wonderful West Cork along the Wild Atlantic Way

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 31, 2014

You’d think that after finishing the 2500 kilometer bike ride along the Wild Atlantic Way almost two months ago I’d be done with the posts about Ireland, but think again. While I might have gone overboard with some image posts from West Cork (is 33 images going overboard?), there’s been […]

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