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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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Ireland According to Game of Thrones

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 15, 2014

What game? Thrones? Game of….what? Yeah. I didn’t know of Game of Thrones when we landed in the land of Game of Thrones, Northern Ireland and to be more exact, Country Antrim, last October. The fact that this was the setting for the extremely popular HBO series would’ve continued to […]

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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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The Naked Nation: How the Finnish Do the Sauna

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 13, 2014

Take a typical Finn. Stoic. Man (or woman) of a few words. Unbeknown to the joys of small-talk but full of “sisu”, a quality Finns are said to possess and which, according to Wikipedia, entails “deciding on a course of action and then sticking to that decision against repeated failures”. […]

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The Sweet Trouble with Travel and Life in Devon

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth December 16, 2013

“I could see us living here” , I sighed for the second or third time as we strolled slowly up towards Haytor Rocks in the eastern edge of Dartmoor in southwest England. “Granny would be happy, but I’d need to re-figure my business model a bit”, answered my husband. No […]

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Chasing Giants in Northern Ireland

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth December 2, 2013

We thought we came prepared, but our rain gear was sitting in the car as we lugged after John, our guide, whose voice we could hear some twenty meters behind him thanks to the new audio equipment the centre had installed. Balancing the tripod on the pram and tugging the eclectic […]

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The Dark Hedges of Northern Ireland (and how to get there)

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 18, 2013

All I was hoping for was thick fog and bit of drizzle, but we got neither. The navigator was of no use as we drove on the small country lanes in Northern Ireland’s County Antrim looking for the signs for the golf course. I was keeping an eye on the […]

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