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Epic Adventures with Small People

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 29, 2014

“You are strong woman”, laughed someone in a group of men skiing past me while I sweated up the hill, pulling the sledge with my daughter and half of our gear in it for the weekend. I smiled and brushed the comment of with “ah, it’s good exercise”. Few days […]

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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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Kings of a Cabin – Let the Microadventures Begin!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 6, 2014

It was hard to say when the last day of 2013 ended and the first day of 2014 began, as the thick fog enveloped the valley floor and our home, only to greet the grey skies up above. This was our last chance this winter to cross off the first […]

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Secluded Surfing Paradise of Norway

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 9, 2013

Ever thought of surfing in Norway? Me neither. I always thought that surfing is for the tropics, or at least for places with similar temperatures to Portugal only, but when my husband said “let’s go somewhere new”, I replied with “let’s go surfing on the west coast”. My friend told […]

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Plotting Mini-Sized Microadventures

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 8, 2013

I feel the clock is ticking. Not the biological one, that clearly got its way already as I spent last night cuddling a sobbing toddler, while experiencing at times the tender and at times the excruciatingly uncomfortable kicks of the “one who should be out by now”. The clock that […]

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On Chasing Waterfalls and Visiting Pet Farms

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 22, 2013

Chasing waterfalls is the last thing I’ve done this summer. Not that I haven’t thought about it. Previous weekend was bitter-sweet in many ways. When I first landed in Norway in 2003, the Sjoa River Festival was one of the highlights of the summer and it has remained so for […]

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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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