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What Do You Bring Home from Travels? PIECE OF – Anniversary Giveaway!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 31, 2014

I was sitting at the Marrakech airport with a brown ceramic dish wrapped in a dirty coloured paper wrapping on my lap, and wondered what I had done. I had just spend my last dirhams in a haste, keen only to get rid of the extra cash, and purchased something […]

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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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Best Laid Plans. That Fail.

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 15, 2012

“Saunatonttu” is a kind little elf living in the Finnish saunas. Here’s ours! All that mystery around our next European travel destination and here we are, in my native Finland. The land of sauna, Santa Claus and some seriously good ice-hockey players. This is the place where I come to unwind. […]

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Oh Summer Nights!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth July 23, 2012

Oh summer nights! Nights that as a mom of a not-yet-toddler can sometimes be full of peacefulness and hushed adorable baby sounds I knew nothing about before having our little one. But at other times the nights are long. Never-ending. Dragging on for hours, in fact, with no sleep as you may guess. On […]

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Sunny Midsummer

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth June 22, 2012

This is the only time of the year I kind of miss Finland. Midsummer. Even though the cultures of the nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland) are full of similarities, here in Norway midsummer is an almost forgotten affair. And how could you not celebrate midsummer up here north, […]

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Saying Goodbye to the Nine-to-Five

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth June 18, 2012

All it took was: The desire to go. Anywhere. Preferably with some sun and rivers to run. Depressingly bleak early winter in Helsinki, Finland. Husband who travels for work and also when he isn’t working. Some savings. Lots of ideas how to make some income while traveling. This was back […]

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The Beauty of Many Homes

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth June 15, 2012

One of the beauties of having many places you can call home despite not owning property in all (or none) of them? In May I got to celebrate my second mother’s day within the first six months of being a new mom! First in Norway, then in Finland. Maybe I […]

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