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Our family trip to Kotka-Hamina: visiting the Maritime Centre Vellamo

July 11, 2018

The tale of our weekend visiting Kotka and Hamina continues. If you missed the first post, you can find it here. On day 2, we went on to visit ...

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Our family trip to Kotka-Hamina: hiking in Valkmusa, watching Baltic fishes close, and enjoying Finnish cuisine.

July 7, 2018

If you ask me, Finland is the perfect travel destination for families. I joke that you can find a changing table and an highchair also in a snow ...

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Fun family day at the waterpark of Serena Resort

July 4, 2018

My summer holidays are around the corner and for the first time in over 10 years I’ll take four weeks off work. Wow. I feel excited and ...

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My great Mother’s Day at Superpark Espoo

May 19, 2018

We moms celebrate motherhood all year long and Mother’s Day has become widely known as the relax and freedom day for mothers. Can I get an ...

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Adoption in Finland: our story, chapter II

September 30, 2017

(this is the second part of our adoption story. Find part 1 here) When we finally started the adoption counselling phase in May 2014, we ...

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July favorites: new bag, nature places & more

July 29, 2017

I cannot believe July is over already! The past month really flew. Weather was definitely nicer than in June, but still a bit disappointing. In ...

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Walking the Hannusmetsä nature trail

July 26, 2017

Our mission to explore all Espoo’s nature trails (luontopolut) continues! We headed to the South-West of Espoo last Sunday and explored a ...

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Strawberry season has started

July 19, 2017

Last summer was awful for Finnish standards and I was completely bummed out when I found out we were late for strawberry season. Yes, last year ...

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Oittaa: nature trail, beach, and great playground

July 15, 2017

One of our favourite places in Espoo to run to when the sun shines is Oittaa. Last weekend for the first time we tried walking the nature trail ...

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Paola

I was born and raised in Italy, now I live in the winter wonderland that is Finland. I worked as a mathematics researcher, an IT project manager, and now I work in global development. I love nature, reading books, playing boardgames, and eating good food. I am grateful to have three wonderful kids who call me "mamma". One came from my belly, the other two from fateful encounters.

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