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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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It’s Rotorua: Few Very Personal Reasons Why You Should Go There Too

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 8, 2014

Rotten eggs. That’s how my husband described the smell of the place we were planning to head to for two months. And I said let’s go. For a long time I had wanted to visit New Zealand, but if you asked me why, the answer would’ve been somewhat vague “nature […]

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Crash Course to Norwegian, the Moroccan Way

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 27, 2014

As if forty-eight hours travel back from New Zealand to Europe wasn’t enough, couple of days later and two flights in I was standing at the Oslo Airport, still jet-lagged, making introductions in my broken Norwegian while my head struggled to keep up with the familiar phrases resonating around me. […]

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Good Bye New Zealand. E noho rā.

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 21, 2014

That’s it. Good bye New Zealand, for now. Only couple of short days and four very long flights ago we were still basking in the New Zealand sun, which reappeared right after cyclone Luci made her introductions. Now, I’m watching as the snow is softly enveloping everything in white, and […]

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Escape to Melbourne – the Sweet Life of a Solo Traveler

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 14, 2014

Just a little escape. Tiny really. Two days in buses and planes for two days in the city. All alone. Getting lost among the high-rise buildings of a city so big that you could fit almost the whole population of Norway in it. Finding a cozy café and just sitting […]

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When You Don’t quite Belong: Family Holiday at Backpackers’ Lodge

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 10, 2014

Somebody must have turned the clock forward – by several years that is, as all the suddenly on arrival to a lodge inhabited by backpackers we kind of felt old. And we are not, really. It’s just that the others were very young. And they must have left their kids […]

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