Thursday, 12-Dec-2024


Now, let’s be clear.

I love Dublin, and I’m incredibly thankful that I was able to come here, live here, and study here.

That being said… Dublin isn’t the fanciest of cities. And when I think of Christmas Markets, I think of the absolute fanciest of cities – Vienna, Austria, the land of opulence and gold and being fancy. But Vienna doesn’t have the monopoly on Christmas, nor markets, nor the intersection of the two in Christmas markets.

Ireland has some rather nice ones, I learned. They’re around a castle!

Now, I don’t have too much I can write about this – the Christmas market was beautiful, it was at Dublin Castle, and it was just closing up by the time we made it there. We missed out on mulled wine, or cocoa, or really any other drinks or snacks… and most of the shops weren’t anything all that exciting.

But you know what?

It was a Christmas market! There were songs, and pretty lights, and we’d brought Andrea’s reindeer antlers with little bells on them. We alternated who got to wear them, we wandered around, and we had a right good time. Really, all we could ask for.