LIFE IN NORWAY

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Frozen Norway and come have a look at my new home!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 29, 2013

If you are reading this post through your email, RSS or any other medium rather than the actual site, come, come quickly to take a look, my site has gone through an extreme makeover!! I couldn’t be happier, this has been in the slow burner for a long time and […]

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Welcoming White Winter to Norway

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 24, 2013

I woke up early in the morning to see a glimpse of something bright and white through the shades, little unexpected in this early hour of darkness. The previous evening had been autumnal in its grayness, mixed with the bright shades of yellow and red of the leaves, still decorating […]

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What’s Man without a Name?

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth September 2, 2013

Not much, according to the border control officials, hence I stayed behind with the little man, slightly bummed, when my husband and daughter headed to England and Ireland to celebrate our friends’ wedding. It was clearly about the time to give our little man a name. If only we had […]

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Life in the Happiest Country of the World

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 22, 2013

I’m slowly resurfacing to the real world from the depths of newborn baby smells and sounds, a very happy place to be indeed here in the happiest country of the world. Or one of the happiest, you could also say that Norway is only in the 2nd or 29th place depending […]

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Lillehammer: Becoming a Hometown

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 16, 2013

Warning. This is a long one. Get a cup of coffee or tea ready, or crack open a cold beer. And check back on thursday when I will have something more compact lined up for you! Someone recently asked me why, how and when our little family ended up in […]

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Chasing Sheep and Other Fun Activities in the Norwegian Mountains

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 8, 2013

The kind of activities I would like to be participating in and writing about this summer are quite far from what I’m actually tackling. White water kayaking, hiking the ten tops of our mountain region, finding new single tracks in the forest with my bike and scaring myself, and most […]

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Survival Guide to Travel, Outdoors & Work while Pregnant

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth May 28, 2013

I think I already scared most of the people away with the title. Oops. But I just wanted to write one more post on pregnancy. The funny thing is that I started writing this while I was still a “super mama” working away full-time, traveling quite a bit and conquering […]

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