A brand new year

Despite spending the New Year’s Eve trying to sleep on an uncomfortable chaise longue wannabe, 2013 started full of expectations and positive energy! New hair, new habits, new projects, new challenges, new old love, it feels like a new era. I am radiating happiness, can you feel it on that side?

... and as I got back to my Dublin home, I was welcomed by lovely cards that travelled a long way to wish me peace, happiness, love and success!

Christmas eating-marathon

In a non-Christian household, Christmas was all about the delicious food that are only available in this season. It is an excuse - as if we needed any - to enjoy our favourite treats  and, as we are in a different country, to try all the local especialities: drink Finnish Glögi with almonds and raisins, joulutartu and sweet buns with Scottish lemon curd, Swedish mud cake, and our very own homemade Turkish lahmacun. 

Proud of his creation!

Timuç’s special version of mud cake, incremented with strawberries and vanilla sauce

About the Freedom Day

On April 27 South Africans celebrate the Freedom Day. The date marks the first post-apartheid elections held in 1994. It is an opportunity to celebrate democracy, equality, justice, human rights.

I think it is also a day to celebrate South Africa’s history and the courage of the ones who stood up for what they believed was unjust, even when that meant sacrificing their own lives. It is a day to celebrate to example of people like Nelson Mandela, and I would like to share of his quotes I find most inspiring:

It always seems impossible until it is done.