Dublin 2025

I was again in Dublin. On June 2024 I was there at my Erasmus+ education after which FashionNOW was started. This time I brought 9 of my students to Dublin for Erasmus+ group mobility because of my work. 

We stayed at The Trinity City Hotel. There was me and one student with special diet needs. I must tell this hotel is an excellent place to get your safe special diet. Perhaps you need to wait sometimes for it but that is ok because they know what they are doing. They never turn us away. If I need to choose I will stay in this hotel instead the previous one which neither was bad.

Part of Erasmus+ program is that there is a host with whom you operate. Our host was fabulous Dublin South City Partnership who arranged us this memorable Aran cable knitting workshop. We will never forget them and hopefully we will see them soon again.

The other host was IrelandsEye Knitwear whose factory we were welcomed to visit and participate. It was amazing to be able to see the factory inside that pays a lot of attention on sustainability in clothing business! I do can say that if you need to buy an industrial made jumper IrelandsEye Knitwear is a very good choice. It does its best to follow all the corners of the sustainability in clothing business. They didn't give me or my students any voucher, free gifts or anything. You know me, I don't advert anything, not even for a money. They just allowed us to step in and see all the places and process because of our Erasmus+ education and learning activities. We did learn so many things and appreciate that they provided us this once in a lifetime possibility in learning things like this.

Our main host DSCP (Dublin South City Partnership) arranged learning activities in few places. When going around we saw many places we would have missed in a normal tourist weekend in Dublin. Somehow this reminds me about Copenhagen. 

We had interesting learning activities in non-formal environments like graveyard with DSCP. They are very creative with their learning facilities.

We had nature/environment workshop at a library! I was very exited about that because in Lapland you never think you could have a nature workshop indoors!

After the environment workshop at the library we needed to go hug the trees outside because it all was a bit overwhelming. 

Ireland really is a country of thousands of welcomes. Me and my students experienced it many times in every day! These cute chickens were knit by our Aran cable knitting workshop facilitator for the group as a welcome gift. Each had a chocolate egg inside.

When going home we were amused by the fact that instead of Rovaniemi our flight was going to the North Pole. We didn't know we live quite there.😁

Me and Ireland -we'll meet again, that's for sure.