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Road Tripping with Baby and Toddler: Pure Madness or Stroke of Genius?

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth September 19, 2013

It’s summer of 1980, heat wave has hit Finland and the old Datsun 100A is fully loaded for the thousand and then some kilometers trek from southern Finland along the Gulf of Bothnia to northern Norway. The two kids, toddler of just under two years, and baby of 9 months, […]

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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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Lessons I Should Have Learned from Traveling with a Baby Turned Toddler

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 2, 2013

“Your life is about to turn upside down” “You won’t be traveling as much as before” “You better look into package holidays if you want to go abroad” This is something I heard quite recently, and also about two years ago before arrival of our first little one. But either […]

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Camping with a Toddler: First Impressions

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth June 17, 2013

I thought we would be camping with our baby pretty soon after her arrival, but it took a 1,5 years to get to this point. It’s not that we thought it would be impossible, it was more that other things got in the way. Like few fabulous road-trips in our […]

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Year 2012 in Review I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

2012 in 12 images

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 9, 2013

I have a love-hate relationship with “year in review” posts popping up all over the internet this time a year, but I decided to do one myself nevertheless. If nothing else this review is for myself, as 2012 was a fairly restless year and I feel like I couldn’t quite […]

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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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Flying with a Baby Turned Toddler

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 22, 2012

Four weeks. Three destinations. Eight flights. Couple of train journeys and touring our destination in a camper van. Travelling companion: a baby who’s turning into a toddler. When did this happen? The little baby who very recently ate and slept through flights, train journeys and bus rides now rests only […]

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