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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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Five Reasons Why Not to Stay in London via Instagram

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 1, 2013

The title “Five Reasons Why Not to Stay in London” could and can easily be amended to “Five Reasons to Visit Devon”. Gotcha! Sorry about that…  But you are only a paragraph away to find out why. Earlier this week I mentioned my accidental love story with Devon. Or rather, […]

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Devon: My Accidental Love Story

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 29, 2013

My history with Devon, UK is that of a somewhat accidental love story. In 2003 I had no reason or plans to head to the southwest of England, I had already “done” England after all. Read: I had visited London several times and spent three weeks in Brighton.  When my […]

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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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Life in Pictures: Devon Revisited

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 8, 2012

Just because I’ve been going on (and on and on) about Devon and England lately, I’m going to continue and share one more picture. Just one more. You wouldn’t even have known it was from Devon, if I hadn’t told you. The quayside in Exeter is home to many beautiful swans. […]

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Discovering Devon

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 30, 2012

I’m still working on the humongous picture editing project that I’m NOT going to mention anymore. Instead, I’m just going to get on with it. What makes everything just a tad slower is my beautiful baby girl, who would much rather cuddle, crawl around the bed and stand in the […]

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London Calling!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 29, 2012

No, I’m not in London even though I wouldn’t mind to be in London right now. To experience Olympics first hand is a dream of mine, but maybe the winter Olympics will come back to Lillehammer one day. At least the Winter Youth Olympic Games are arriving to town in […]

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