Helsinki in Finland I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Finland in Five Days

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth May 7, 2013

Foreword: It’s been a month (or two) of technical problems, changing hosts and what not, in which I have learned a whole deal of the technical side of blogging. The most important lessons? It is worth paying someone who knows what they are doing, AND going for the cheapest services […]

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Mountain views from Norway I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Easter Escape to the Mountains

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 1, 2013

Bored of wintery mountain pictures with blue skies and lots of white snow yet? I thought I was. I mean I thought I was 100% over and done with winter too. It’s the start of April and the temperatures still drop to −10C (14F) in the mornings. Something is not quite right […]

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Skiing with sledge in Norway I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

Taste of an Adventure

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth March 4, 2013

This past weekend we got a little taste of adventure. Not in the same way as when we tried to ski from mountain hut to mountain hut with our toddler and ended up returning home, tail in between our legs although even then happy of our adventure. But just a […]

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Ode to Swimming Pools

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 25, 2013

This is not for you, public swimming pools with fluorescent lighting and suspicious particles floating in the turquoise water with way too much chlorine. This is an ode to swimming pools that make you go “aah”, as you slowly sink in, with warm water wrapping itself around you and carrying […]

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Escape to Stockholm

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth February 11, 2013

It’s not often I consider myself to be “just” a mother, but when I made my escape to Stockholm the other weekend I felt 100% like a young mother on the loose. Isn’t it funny though how the concepts of age and “young” change the older you get? If you […]

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Olos-Pallas Mountain in Finland / Visit Finland

Grand Adventure in Finnish Wilderness

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 24, 2013

Especially in the wintertime I’m often torn between the decision whether to travel somewhere warm to soak in the sun, or to enjoy all the fun snow can offer. On beautifully sunny days I’m 100% happy to stay put in the winter wonderland we have here in Norway, but there […]

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Cross-country Skiing into the Wild. Kind of.

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth January 19, 2013

What are great Norwegian winter adventures made of? Snow, wilderness, mountains,  pair of skis, sledge, bit of hardship and in the end, a cozy cabin with a fireplace and candle lighting. Naturally no running water or electricity are needed. But here I have two confessions to make. I call myself […]

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