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15000 kilometres of New Zealand Beaches I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

15,000 Kilometres of Beach

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 6, 2014

Beach holidays make me cringe. The memories I have of the last one involved two bright red legs with white hand-marks on the thighs, where I had carelessly slapped on some sunscreen. And this was after lazy day(s) on the beach followed by margarita filled night(s) in the local nightclub. […]

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Fishing in Raglan New Zealand I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Something Fishy Is Going on in Raglan, New Zealand

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 4, 2014

I wish I knew how to write about food, but I don’t, so I’ll make this post (almost) all about fish instead. Something strange happened when we landed in New Zealand. I have tons of photos, hours of video clips and many unfinished stories to tell. But they are waiting. […]

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Meanwhile at Home: Beautiful Winter Images from Scandinavia

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 27, 2014

I am trying to be on denial. And I would be doing great if there was no Instagram. Shorts, T-shirt and sandals are my daily uniform here in New Zealand, coupled with regularly applied layers of factor thirty or fifty. The bright blue pair of runners is put to use […]

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Crazy or not? Forget renting, buy a car for holidays!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 24, 2014

Have you ever thought about buying a car, instead of renting one when going on holidays? I hadn’t. In Europe we usually go for rental cars. It’s easy to find a good deal online, only to find out at the pick-up desk that it wasn’t such a good deal after […]

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Learning Languages and Toddler’s Travel Talk

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 18, 2014

Communications can be tricky enough using just one language, but in our family we have three (and half) languages to tackle with. Finnish is the secret language of myself and our little miss. To give some credit to my husband, in the past two years he has taken baby steps, […]

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Little pieces of backyard blogging from New Zealand

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 13, 2014

It is not necessary to travel all the way to New Zealand to take it slow, like we have done. But just like we explore our surroundings back home in Norway to get to know our backyard better, we are now trying to take a bite of the region we […]

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New Zealand: Delightfully slowly

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 10, 2014

It would not be possible to travel any slower than this, as in fact, we are stuck. Our resident spiders have weaved their webs time and time again in the corners of our outdoor terrace while we have been, not busy, on our Kiwi get-a-way. In seven weeks you can […]

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