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Life in Norway: Come Dine with Me

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 27, 2012

Lot has been said publicly and internationally about my native Finland’s food. Just ask France’s ex-president Jacques Chirac or the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi what they think of it. Their answers might be along the lines of “practically inedible” or having to “endure” Finnish food. Oh wait. They […]

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Life in Norway: Welcome Winter!

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 20, 2012

After boasting about traveling home to winter and probably being quite annoying on Facebook sharing our local ski hill’s snowy photos, we got to Norway ready to get the skis and snowboards out of the storage and guess what happened? It started raining. We watched the snow slowly disappear of […]

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Three Months and Counting

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 8, 2012

I think it was on Saturday. I had come from an early morning “trilletur” (walking with your baby in the pram put into one Norwegian word), the baby was snoring softly outside (gets it from her dad for sure) and I was sitting on the steps of our house drinking […]

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Life in Norway: Living in the Happiest Country of the World

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 1, 2012

Just last week we were basking in the sunshine of the Portuguese beaches, with the only annoyance being little sand grains creeping everywhere. Of which some of them even made the journey back home. And now? Home sweet home. Foggy, rainy, autumnal Norway. Bills to be paid. Routines to be […]

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Adventure Park Fun Norwegian Style

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 28, 2012

It doesn’t matter where I have lived, at first I’ve always been excited to get to know the new city, town or village. I’ve seen some of the sights and taken some tours. And then I’ve settled down. Loved and lived the life in a new place until I’ve moved […]

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Help Yourself: More Reasons to at least Like Norway

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 20, 2012

After a great sunny weekend, it is good to be in love with Norway, over and over again. But if I’m painting too rosy a picture for you (just like last week), check this space in October/November: the time of year when the summer is definitely over, but winter has quite […]

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Sweet, Sweet Sunday

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 14, 2012

And Monday. And Tuesday. And… You get the picture. This post should probably have been renamed as “Ode to Norway”. Even though I have lived here full-time for two years now, and before that visited annually for ten, I am still amazed about the scenery and the accessibility of outdoors, […]

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