If you’re lucky enough to be in Ireland for Saint Patrick’s day, you’re definitely up for some awesomeness.
To make the most of it, you definitely need some up front preparation and a bit of planning. I got you covered 🙂
When I have first moved to Dublin over a year ago, I had no idea I’ll stay any longer than 6 months, or that I will love it this much, or that I will ever even want to stay any longer than planned.
I also wasn’t aware of how amazingly beautiful Dublin is in December, being it my first full month in Dublin last year. I do miss snow at Christmas, but the city is literally incredible. All the lights, Christmas trees, shop windows, decorations, causes, events, people, laughter… It’s unbelievable!
I had the pleasure of attending the BloggerConf 2015 in the spectacular Marker Hotel this past Sunday. And before I even go any further, I have to particularly emphasize that this was by far the most informative, useful, relatable and valuable conference I have attended in a while!
Today marks a year since I’ve moved to the beautiful city of Dublin. I have fallen in love with Ireland ever since, and even though the original plan was to stay for six months only and “moving to Ireland” wasn’t really a plan for any longer term, that plan has changed quite a bit… Obviously.
This is directed to every single person that has ever stepped their foot out the door in order to run. A hundred meters, a mile, ten minutes, three hours, doesn’t matter. If you did that – and if you are doing it again, too – you are a runner, and this is for you.
Highly impacted by the event of this week’s Dublin Marathon, where I volunteered, there are things piling up in my heart that I just need to share with the world.
Back to why and how #DublinIsAwesome!
There are so many reasons why I genuinely think Dublin is an incredible city, and as I mentioned in the first post of the series, there is no particular order or way in which I will be listing all the reasons from my (growing) list.
First of all, I want to tell you a short story of how my Dublin is awesome idea started. A couple of months ago I was working on my master’s thesis here in Dublin, and because it is a Croatian thesis for a Croatian university, I was very limited with literature as everything I needed was actually in Croatia. However, I gave it a shot with Dublin City Public Libraries as their online catalog was promising.
Last year was a complete madness for me. I moved a lot and I thought it was the most demanding time ever. I still kind of think it was (mostly because of the actual physical moving), but compared to this year (so far), 2014 was really just fun and games.
Why am I saying that? Well, a lot of things have moved forward. I have to take care of paying my own tax now, you know. Bills, too. Making sure there is always food in the fridge, working 40 (or more) hours a week and everything else you do as a grown up. It has to happen at some point! I will always keep a childlike spirit, though, but some lessons pretty much slapped me across my face this year, so here they are.
Okay, maybe it is typical, regarding the way it is written. It might seem as only a bunch of things that happened to me. But the past year was a lifechanger for me and it was far from ordinary.
I moved seven or eight times. It was exhausting and I was literally living “in my luggage” on some days. Sometimes it felt as if I will crash and just give up on it all, but I luckily didn’t, because…
Oduvijek sam samu sebe vidjela kao dinamičnu osobu. Kao onu koja iz grada od 6 tisuća ljudi mora otići u neki veći kako bi ostvarila sve što joj padne na pamet. Kao onu koja će uvijek rado otići negdje gdje još nije bila, koja će skočiti iz čamca u rijeku Taru iako je temperatura vode jednoznamenkasti pozitivni broj, penjati se po snježnim planinama u lipnju… Nikad mi to nije bilo strano, nikad se ničega takvog nisam bojala.
Marijana 
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