
Besseggen, Norway – Views from one of Norway’s most popular mountain hikes on the Besseggen mountain ridge in the Jotunheimen national park. The hike takes five to seven hours and the trail’s highest point reaches 1,732 meters.
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Besseggen, Norway – Views from one of Norway’s most popular mountain hikes on the Besseggen mountain ridge in the Jotunheimen national park. The hike takes five to seven hours and the trail’s highest point reaches 1,732 meters.

I previously mentioned that after a few nomadic years of traveling around Europe and further afield, my husband and I finally settled down happily ever after in Norway in the autumn of 2010. And what a two…

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Satu Vänskä-Westgarth decided to take a year off from her nine to five marketing executive life in Finland early 2009 to travel with her kayak, bike or skis and sometimes without. "One year" turned into a new lifestyle as a travel writer, accompanied with a not-so-British entrepreneur husband from Britain, who seems to spend more time outside the borders of his homeland than within, and their baby, who has already spent more months outside Norway than at their home in Norway, where the family resides at the moment. For more stories from the road, visit Satu’s blog Destination Unknown and connect with Satu on Twitter @SatuVW.
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