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Holiday Close to Home: Escape to the Norwegian Mountains

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 28, 2014

There’s something quirky about Norwegian mountain hotels, fjellhoteller. They are often bit worn, not very sleek and when it comes to individual rooms, the emphasis has not been in making them so inviting that you’d like to disappear under your duvet for a day or two with a remote control in one […]

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What to Do When Adventure Is Over – My Formula to Stay Sane

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth September 29, 2014

Here were are, at home in Norway where the sun is shining one moment and then the next, the sky opens for a shower. Not much different from Ireland and the Wild Atlantic Way, really, although that’s where the similarities end. After sitting on a bicycle, day after day for […]

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Blogging from my Backyard – Welcome to Lillehammer!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 24, 2014

It’s getting closer to the season that makes me simultaneously nervous and excited — visitor season. As family and friends are booking their holidays to visit us, at least so we hope, we get ready by borrowing extra mattresses, checking that extra linen is good to go and moving everything in […]

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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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Late Winter Early Spring Bliss in Norway

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 3, 2014

Home sweet home. One hundred percent and then some! I thought I’d never want to leave New Zealand, but when it was time to go, the departure was less painful than I feared it would and could be. With quick visits to Finland, Morocco and Finland again before landing at […]

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Crash Course to Norwegian, the Moroccan Way

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 27, 2014

As if forty-eight hours travel back from New Zealand to Europe wasn’t enough, couple of days later and two flights in I was standing at the Oslo Airport, still jet-lagged, making introductions in my broken Norwegian while my head struggled to keep up with the familiar phrases resonating around me. […]

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Magical Merry Christmas from Norway!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth December 23, 2013

I reach down the mailbox, my fingertips numb from the cold as I have removed my thick winter mittens to collect the small, flat envelope that clings to the bottom of the box wanting to stay. Another Christmas card. This one beautifully hand-made, signed by my good friend and her […]

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