Month: July 2016

It’s Sushi time

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This was the first time for both of us to make sushi at home but it was also something that we had wanted to try for a long time. At first, we went through several different videos on Youtube and picked out the tips and tricks we loved the most. Then we planned to go to the Asian shop, which is also one of my favourite places here in Dublin but on our way, we couldn’t help but popped into the most favourite place – The Chapters – my favourite bookshop and without any planning bought a nice book about making sushi. After that of course, we went to the Asian shop, bought the sushi mat, some pickled ginger, rice vinegar (which was a totally new thing for me), and the seaweed sheets and came back to start with the best part – making sushi.

We used smoked salmon, fish sticks, shrimps, avocado, cucumber and mango slices, also some cream cheese and of course rice, that was mixed with the rice vinegar which gave the rice the right taste. The most interesting part was the rolling, and it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it could be, actually it was not difficult at all because the mat really helps to keep it all together and as the rice is sticky, it all stays well and tight.

The Legend of Tarzan

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This time, we  visited the Cineworld cinema in Parnell Street. This cinema is much newer than the Savoy and has 14 different showing rooms.

Probably till now I was the only one left who  had no experiences with 3D movies, but now I have done it. Somehow I have missed it, maybe because we don’t have the 3D cinema in Haapsalu and maybe because I am so used to watch all my movies online, so I must say that even haven’t thought about it. But as this opportunity came, of course, I took it and it was quite interesting. Maybe we were sitting too close to the screen, because sometimes, especially when there were people only, taken very close, it bothered me, but it was quite different with the big nature scenes and so I think it was the right movie to try it. Ok, I am not such a big fan of Tarzan, but somehow this story captured me when I was a child. I think that was my granny who told me about it because we didn’t have that book, or if there was one, it was published during the times of the first Estonian Republic, and that made it much more exciting. Later, of course, I saw the movie with Johnny Weismüller on Finnish TV and read some kind of a book as well. But the thing that I most remember about Tarzan was one old song about the jungle and animals and Tarzan who is guarding over the sleeping jungle and his little son 🙂

Laya City Spectacular – the biggest free summer festival in Ireland

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The Street performers festival Laya City Spectacular has been taking place in Dublin and Cork for 11 times already and I have been visiting the last three of them. As I always come at the beginning of July, I have spent my first weekend visiting that festival, taking place at Merrion Square park. It is mostly meant for families and children, except my very first time in 2014, when they had also two days full of music – different young musicians from Dublin – who performed inside the park. Now it is mostly for different street performers like acrobats, magicians, jugglers and painters all over the world.

MaSamba
Streetfood from the red bus
Muumipapa’s Lighthouse
Huge tractor for jumping
Paul Morocco and Ole
Stomptown Brass
Nice Statue 🙂
Performer from Australia

This year there was also a big street food festival JustEat going on beside the park. The whole street was covered with a grass carpet and different kind of food was sold from the stalls. There was also a small stage for the musicians, but as it was straight on the street, where people were passing by, it was a bit too loud and the musicians were also not so good as they were at the 2014 festival.

As the weather was really nice, we spent a lot of time there, walking around, watching the performers and listening to the music and got even caught by a photographer who asked if he can take photos of us for the JustEat webpage. So now we have the proof that we really took part at the festival 🙂

Click HERE and see all the pictures taken by the photograph Allen Kiely from Akdigital – Digital Agency photo.video.design.

Absolutely Fabulous

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This year I have a long list of movies which are coming out and which I want to see and “Absolutely Fabulous” was on my list as I have been quite a big fan of Jennifer Saunders (and Dawn French who was a co-producer of that movie). I also had the Savoy Cinema on my list because it’s so near to our home and I still had not had a chance to visit it. As it was playing in Savoy, we went to see the movie and it was funny and as fabulous as the serials had been, still of course not competing with “Vicar of Dibley“, which is my favourite British serial. They could have made a movie out of that as well, I would have been really thankful and the first one to go to see it. Now, of course, it’s too late, because Roger Lloyd Pack, who played Owen, unfortunately, passed away in 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrELLxbgUo

Game of the Thrones

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We both are the great fans of “Game of the Thrones” and that’s why we kept ourselves from watching the 6th season because we wanted to watch it together. I was the one who started to read the books first and then, of course, I recommended them and as we both like fantasy books they soon became our favourites. After reading all the five books we started to watch the series too and in spite of some differences between the books and the movies, we still love both of them.

As George Martin couldn’t release the 6th book before the movie, we were really curious to see the 6th season because we didn’t have a clue what was going on. Ok, I have to confess that I knew about Jon Snow and unfortunately I also knew about poor Hodor, but it was really hard to not notice it all in social media, especially that I have trafficked it all to my Facebook 😀

And after all that waiting and torturing ourselves we did all these 10 parts of the 6th season with 3 evenings. Wow, I have to say that this was the best season ever and now we cannot wait the 7th coming out. The good thing is that now I can start to read again all these articles with spoilers for the 6th season and the predictions for the next part which I had to avoid for some months because I didn’t want to spoil the whole fun of watching it in Dublin together. Here are some of the best actors of “Game of the Thrones“.

Here are the Top 7 Game of Thrones Season 7 Predictions, so let’s wait and see 🙂

Baking bread in Dublin

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All the Estonians say that the thing they miss more than anything else when they are abroad is rye bread. Actually, I have to admit that I don’t miss rye bread so much because usually, I eat more wholemeal bread at home and so it’s funny that one of the first things that we did together, this time, was baking a rye bread 🙂

That’s because there was a bread baking machine which had been never used and it was just exciting to try it and the smell of the freshly baked rye bread is one of the best things that I know. But I have to say that it tasted as good as it smelled and it was so easy to do it with this machine. We just had to put all the ingredients into the machine and that was it – nothing else because everything was done by the machine and we just had to wait when it all got ready. The next time we are going to try the wholemeal bread and then we can make up our minds which of these was these best one.

Bye bye Haapsalu, Hello Dublin :)

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IMG_3033It has been nice here, what else do you expect from a summer resort town at the seaside. We have got just these three summer months and sometimes the weather is not on our side, but this year it has been and it’s possible to feel the peaceful spirit of this little town which is so quiet and abandoned during the winter time. All the cafés are open and the tables are set outside, each one of them is offering tasty cakes, so it is hard to choose the one you really want because they are so filling and melting in your mouth and unfortunately you are not able to eat more than one at a time. The promenade is beautiful as always and people are just wandering around without any reason and finding their way on the terraces of the cafés. And the most important – the sun is shining and it’s warm and you can wear your summer clothes at last.

IMG_3037I really hope that it will stay the same until August when we are coming back and we will be able to enjoy the warm and dark August nights. I am a bit afraid that I will be missing my new bicycle because I have had it just for some days and it looks so very summer resort like and fits here so well. But at the same time, I am longing for Dublin and Ireland and my month ahead and all the nice plans which all I even don’t know at the moment. That’s the best part every time – just follow your inner feeling and it comes out the best. Actually, I like to have two homes, the better thing could only be to have two summers as well.