travel - The Elephant Mum

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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Moving to Finland? Gotcha.

June 6, 2018

That’s it, you are moving to Finland! Welcome to this fantastic land of nature, wellbeing, and the bluest sky you will ever see. I have ...

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parenting, travel in italy

Venice is beautiful, but you should stay away from it

March 31, 2018

I had to go on work trip near Venice, Italy, and my husband and the kids decided to come along, and take the chance to spend Easter with our ...

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The Versatile Blogger

February 5, 2018

Surprise, a short post out of my usual publishing schedule! I’ve been tagged by Stephen at Yule Times for the Versatile Blogger Award and ...

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The magical Seurasaari’s Christmas walking trail

December 2, 2017

Every Christmas is a special time for our family, but this year it will be even more. One year ago we were impatiently waiting for our son E to ...

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india adoption

New Delhi with kids

October 7, 2017

The new rules for adopting from India allow parents to apply for the exit vista from New Delhi, where most embassies also are. This means that ...

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E.’s first trip to Italy

September 16, 2017

I don’t recall the last time I have been so excited about visiting Italy. We visited our families there after almost a year and this was ...

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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 consultant, and now I work as product owner. I love nature, reading books, playing boardgames, cooking and eating good food. I enjoy learning languages: I speak Italian, English, Finnish, Hindi, and I understand some Spanish. I am grateful to have three wonderful kids who call me "mamma". One came from my belly, the other two from fateful encounters.