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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.

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

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

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.

In the heart of the city where the shops are so pretty

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Just trying to get into the right mood 🙂 Last summer I had a lot of time to walk around on my own and when the shortest ways to almost everywhere go through the shopping streets, and for cut offs you must even go through the shopping centres, I started to look at the shops a bit differently and found that they have a lot to tell. When I saw a bus driving by with the phrase from Molly Mallone turned into a shopping commercial, I couldn’t help, but just took a day and captured them with my camera. And here they are – the shops of Dublin, my favourite one is still Chapters, although I like lots of them pretty much.

What can you find in the streets of Dublin

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During my walks in the streets of Dublin, I have found and captured different things, moments and people. When you come from a small place where the streets are mostly quiet and the only time to watch people around you is during the big summer events, it’s always interesting for me to walk around, stop here and there and find something new.

I have found some old bikes, decorated bikes and even traffic signs for bikes, and I have to say that Dublin is not the bike-friendliest place on the earth 🙂 and old carriages.

I have seen lots of people performing in the streets, some of them are real,

and some of them are not so real, but look quite similar 🙂

And sometimes you can find me sitting somewhere in the streets of Dublin 🙂

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A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.

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That’s so true, that I couldn’t help myself to write it down here. It could be understood in two ways, at least for me it gives two gorgeous meanings. It’s really nice to have your dish to look cheerful, or colourful or full of life and art, but it’s always nice to get a cheerful or friendly look or a look that’s full of love when you share your dish with your loved one and that makes it always a real feast for me.

Here I would like to keep some of our little feasts, just to have them in order to remind me some wonderful moments that we have shared 🙂

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All the roads from London take you to Dublin

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Again I have a work trip to London and of course, I make up a plan, that I will escape to Dublin for the weekend. The flight companies are on my side and they offer especially cheap tickets for these days, so there’s nothing to hold me back.

The main topic for this visit is Eurovision, which is not too happy to the both of us because both, Estonia and Ireland, didn’t make it to the finals, but we don’t let it spoil our mood and we keep watching all the semifinals and the final concert on Saturday. And even the victory of Ukraine doesn’t ruin it, in spite that we are supporting Australia because we just want to know what will happen if Australia will win. Ok, the song and the singer were good too. But this year we are not going to get to know it and we don’t care, the best thing is that we could spend some days together.

We also went to see the exhibition of 10 drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, which is a choice from the Royal Collection and was shown in Dublin Art Museum. So after all these museums in London, and there were actually three of them – the Natural History Museum, the London Museum, and the Portrait Museum, I have also seen the original drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Well done 🙂

And London was blooming 🙂 in Dublin it was much colder.

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Happy New Year

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Now it’s 2016 already, sounds good 🙂 When you sum all the numbers together it will be 9, and 9 is my life number, so it must be a good year for me.

As a year before there was a New Year Parade and it was written on the Internet that there was supposed to be also a Luminosity Show, but as it came out, we were looking for it at a wrong place. This time, it wasn’t on the Trinty College wall, but on some other building near St Stefan’s Green and we found it out when it was over already.

The parade was great, maybe a bit smaller that last year, and there were not so many different vehicles, bicycles, and costumes, but quite enough to enjoy it. The weather was really cold and when the parade over I was really frozen, the first time I felt so frozen in Dublin. So the only way to get some warmth is to go home and make some Irish coffee and start to wait for the new year.

Trying the new selfie-stick
New Year Dinner