Holidays!

So... After less than 2 hours of sleep (or none at all for some), few months of planning and saving, few weeks of constant work and commitments... we made it to the Dublin airport! Over-packed, a bit stressed, sleep-deprived but so so excited! Portugal here we come!

The plan includes camping, sightseeing, festival, and some active adventure in multiple locations around Portugal, including Lisbon, Cascais, Coimbra & Porto. Let me share my journey with you...

Nostalgic post

Long, long time ago, at the end of April, I have visited Edinburgh. I should rather say 're-visited' because I used to live there. This was first visit since I moved out, almost 2 years ago and it was...quite weird...

I definitely moved on with my life, left some good, some bad memories, gained a lot of experience and some wonderful friendships... Although it is always going to hold a special place in my heart, it was good to realise that it is a chapter of my life that is closed. For good.

The reason of my return is not a pure nostalgia, as one could think reading my emotional intro, I'm very pragmatic person, nostalgia rarely is visitor in my life, and if so, it rather sneaks silently than takes a lead...

Alright, enough rambling. I went for my best friend's hen's night. It was great fun. And here are some Edinburgh memories...

Meadow Walk, gorgeous weather

Pub Doctors- place opposite my college, dreamt I would be one of them one day (a doctor, not a pub:)) And look at that sky! <3

Kilimanjaro Coffee- lovely full breakfast! And it wasn't to dear- under £10. I used to come there for the best soup ever- double Gloucester & potato- but I think they stopped making it:(. Anyways, quite cheaply you can eat soups, sandwiches, paninis, drink coffee, smoothies. It is a great meeting place, always very busy though!

Gorgeous Edinburgh Castle peeking out through the blossom of Princes Gardens.

The Elephant House- where the Harry Potter was born (i.e. JKK Rowling started writing the books in this cafe place)... A bit too touristy but brownie was really nice. And the toilets are actually worth seeing;)

Next day... the weather wasn't as great... Yet Edinburgh, as always, breathtaking... Will be back, I promise...

We're adults. When did this happen? And how do we make it stop?

As we grow, we notice more and more changes. Life suddenly is not as innocent and carefree as it was while we were children... Don't get me wrong, I think being an adult is a great thing- I am independent, I don't have to explain my actions to anyone (as long as they are approved by society or no one sees them, which is usual the case), I can work so I can be financially independent (theoretically) and just focus on what I want to do in life. And all those 'bad things'- sex, alcohol, unhealthy food, going to sleep whatever time I want- they are the best- of course not going overboard. As my friend says: 'Everything in moderation, including the moderation'.

But adulthood usually comes hand in hand with his twin sister- responsibility. If one is acting like an adult, he/she should be ready to take all the consequences that result from given behaviour. Not everyone that is legally adult is truly 'real life adult'. But if not the age, what is the measure of audulthood? Marriage/kids/ job?

Pretty much every day Facebook informs me that someone got engaged/married/pregnant/kids...but unfortunately, information  also about diseases and death come to me from around... Does it mean that I am an adult? That this sweet barrier of innocence, that was wrapped around me when I was a child, is hanging by a thread, and no bad news can escape me now? Can I stop them? Can medicine stop them?

[RIP KD, you were way too young]

Christmas is coming!

December has started so I allow myself embrace the Christmas spirit, even though I am deeply in the exams (one down, 3 to go!) and sparkles, hot chocolate and Christmas cards are probably last things on my list at the moment... Yet, I think December is good time to start, not November, and I refuse to acknowledge it until I open first door of Advent calendar... This year, it is, surprise-surprise- Frozen theme! I do like that cartoon (despite my age and despite my boyfriend hating it:)).

And speaking of finding Christmas spirit- something very Christmasy and Polish and something I have been craving for a while (I do any time of a year, in fact)- gingerbread cookies with fruit filling. Found them in Dunnes!

Heron on my way

This is what can you come across while walking in the middle of day in the little park in a busy part of Dublin. Yeah, just a heron casually chilling out in the stream and waiting for me to say hello... Which I did, of course, I get way too much excited seeing wonders of nature. Especially not so common ones and animated.

This is a great place, this park. Or more a green passage. I have never seen people chilling there on the grass. I have seen birds, wild bush and stray cats (one of which I tried to domesticate, but I gave up after an hour of rolling in a complete darkness somewhere in wet bushes, God knows what other creatures I stepped upon then...better not to know).

Now my reality looks more like that:

Exams are coming soon...Too soon. But it will be fine, right? RIGHT?

More Dingle memories... although, few weeks later, world does not seem as bright and colorfully-autumnal anymore, winter is right behind the corner. This is a road to a ferry, pretty scary, huh? The ferry, going to Great Blasket Island, is closed at this time of the year anyway. Will have to come back at some point, that island is on my Great Irish Bucketlist:).  Sea always makes me happy though. 

I always wanted to live by the sea. And although for last 5 years I live in a cities that are definitely 'sea-bound', I hardly ever get to see it. To see the sea, ha! One of my dream is to be able to look out my window and have that view in front of me. I am a dream filler, I get what I want (slowly, but eventually), so hopefully this one will come true as well.

Happy birthday to me

I have decided to give myself a gift for my birthday. Something that will make me happy, help me find little joys in everyday life and something, that I can look back at to wake up the memories. So I'm starting this blog. 

I doubt I will be very consistent, life is hard to control; I already failed to post on my actual birthday:)

But here we go, a bit of my life...

Dingle- a most amazing birthday weekend in the picturesque and serene peninsula in Western Ireland. This one is taken while driving along the coastline- Slea Head Drive- cliffs, sea, never ending green fields with sheep and rainbows...