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Rendezvous Motel in NZ I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

First Impressions: How do we get out of here?!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 4, 2014

New Zealand. I expected to be wowed and fall in love from the moment we met. I was ready for the jaw-dropping views that would requite frequent photo stops as we drove to the sunset with our recently acquired van. And I thought it would be kind of cozy, all […]

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Reluctant New Zealand News

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 30, 2014

We are four full days into our New Zealand adventure and I’m almost over jet lag and capable of staying up past 6pm unlike earlier this week. Right now making it until nine makes me feel slightly kiddy as if I was a kid with extended curfew, and it’s quite […]

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Skimbaco Lifestyle Digital Magazine Coffee, Tea or Me

Got a Cup of Tea Ready? Unwind with the Digital Issue of Coffee, Tea or Me

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 28, 2014

Rain is beating down on the plastic sheet covering the patio above me whilst I sit out on garden chair with a hot cup of tea and my laptop in front of me. It took over thirty hours to get to New Zealand and some three hundred kilometres to arrive […]

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Sauna views in Finland I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

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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Old Stables in Devon, UK I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

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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Dark Hedges in Northern Ireland I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

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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