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You can do it! Just another 5 or 8 or 12 weeks! :-O  – Dublin Bowie Festival, First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival

Everyone deals differently with it. If you feel a certain way, you can be absolutely certain that there are other people that also feel that way. That might not be much help at first, but you are not alone!!

As individuals we can not fix the situation on our own, but as a community of people we can! Some people claim that we need to stop having contact with others, but that is not correct. We only need to stop having bad contacts. The virus doesn’t spread between non-infected people, only from infected to non-infected people.

There are a number of ways to avoid risky contacts and one (But only one of a few!) is to have Antigen tests available. In Germany you can get them now for EUR 11 in a pharmacy and it gives you a significantly higher chance to avoid others if you test yourself and are found positive. The result only “lasts” one day and it is not a 100% guarantee (“only” about 90%), but neither the PCR nor the vaccination is a 100% guarantee. So why don’t we increase our chances with quick Antigen tests? I would love to know!

With mid February being mentioned as an end of the current restrictions we have another minimum of 5 weeks of lockdown. But quickly some politicians mentioned END of February or beginning of March. That would be another 7 weeks and EVEN end of MARCH was mentioned. :-O

We will HAVE to find a way to keep our sanity!! The Dublin Event Guide will NOT be able to keep you sane, but I am trying to help as much as possible to tell you about things you can do, so that the ceiling in your cell doesn’t collapse on top of you. But you will HAVE to take action!

Go to virtual events! Go out for walks or runs or cycles. Talk to others. Meet up virtually on Zoom or Google Meet or Facebook Rooms etc. And do learn something new every day. Imagine just 15 minutes of learning something new per day, amounts to nearly a full 8 hours of learning at the end of the month. That’s a SIGNIFICANT amount of learning!

So, this Dublin Event Guide is again full of suggestions and ideas for things you can do in January. Enjoy and if you want to tell me what you did and how you enjoyed it, just reply to this mail.

Like every week I need to ask you again for your help. If you helped recently then let me thank you! I appreciate your help! If you haven’t helped yet, then this week is the perfect week. There are a whole range of new bills on my desk for the Dublin Event Guide cost and by donating, you help to keep this weekly publication going.

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And here are as many free events for you as I could find:

I hope everybody knows that all events in the Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events) are actually free. ;-)

Saturday

+++ First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival (01-31 Jan) with a whole variety of events www.firstfortnight.ie/events
+ UNCERTAIN: Dun Laoghaire People’s Park Market 11:00-16:00 People’s Park, Park Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin www.dlrcoco.ie/en/markets/d%C3%BAn-laoghaire-coco-market
+ UNCERTAIN: Marlay Park Market 11:00-16:00 Marlay Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 www.dlrcoco.ie/en/markets/marlay-park-coco-market
+ UNCONFIRMED: Herbert Park Market 11:00-16:00 Herbert Park, Dublin 4 www.facebook.com/Herbert-Park-Market-405930226496273/
+ CONFIRMED: Blackrock Market 11:00-17:30 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin www.facebook.com/BlackrockMarket/
+ Qigong Online – Chester Beatty Library 12:00-13:00 Online chesterbeatty.ie/whats-on/qigong-on-the-roof-garden/

+ Five Years – Vigil for David – Dublin Bowie Festival 19:00-20:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/1048311442347966/ (Booking required)
+ Piper Sunday Seminar with Jarlath Henderson – Southern California Uilleann Pipers Club 19:00-20:30 Online www.facebook.com/events/671588040206713/
+ Gardiner Street Gospel Choir – Online Mass 19:30-20:30 Online www.facebook.com/TheGSGC/
+ Turn & Face The Strange – Hunky Dory: Reimagined by Shobsy – Dublin Bowie Festival 20:00-21:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/137148571504131/ (Booking required – Donations welcome)
+ David Bowie’s 74th Birthday Celebration with Feeling Gloomy 20:00-21:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/803116027204550/
+ Joe & Steve Wall – The Stunning / The Walls – Gig – Livestream from Cyprus Avenue, Cork 20:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/230423541996978/
+ Tim’s Twitter Listening Party with The Charlatans lead singer/songwriter Tim Burgess – Dublin Bowie Festival 21:00-22:00 Online www.facebook.com/events/221775732722763/

I found a few more things to keep you going or that you might find interesting:

1) Marlay Park Lights Stay Up!
Christmas is NOT over yet! All over Dublin I see brave people who resisted the push by the guilt-tripers and left their Christmas lights up on their houses for another bit. There is NOTHING wrong with it. The 06 Jan deadline for Christmas decoration is totally arbitrary (Mammies of old needed to have order and Christmas decoration after 06 Jan was not order enough!) and in Winter we certainly can do with a bit if cheery lights. So “leave them up” is my motto, especially this year!
It is great to see that Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is agreeing and joining in!
They had a great “illuminated forest walk” in Marlay Park for Christmas and have decided to leave the lights up until Fri 29 Jan. It is a one-kilometer trail through the trees (fully accessible for wheelchairs and buggies) and is an oasis of calm beneath the twinkling lights. The lights are on from Monday to Friday from 16:00-20:00. (Grange Road car park will be open until 8pm).
Bring your family and enjoy another bit of Christmas sparkle!
www.facebook.com/dlrevents/

2) Magical Castle Neuschwanstein – Virtual Tour
Have you heard of or seen the most magical castle in Germany? It is called “Neuschwanstein” and is in the South of Germany in Bavaria. Have a look here www.airpano.com/360photo/neuschwanstein-germany-virtual-tour/
The castle is closed at the moment like, but if you want to plan a trip (The waiting time for tickets can be long), thn you will find all necessary details here www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/tourist/
Last night it was -13 degrees cold at Neuschwanstein, so if you plan to go there, WRAP UP! ;-)

3) London Tour
Now that the UK moved soooo much further from us and we still don’t know for certain what we will have to declare when we enter next, it might make sense to visit the city just virtually!? Here is a 360 degree tour of London. Check it out: 360.visitlondon.com/#

4) LEARN A NEW SKILL WITH ONLINE COURSES – Special Offer
Is learning a new skill part of your plans for the new year? Maybe it is a language or an instrument or some technical skills? Or NLP or some Business related “soft skills”? Check out Udemy via the link below, they have thousands of courses and there is good chance that what you are looking for is available.
The lowest cost for courses this month will be around 12.99. Check out the website at shor.by/GqCk And if you buy through that link, you help the Dublin Event Guide! ;-)

5) READ MORE BOOKS WHILE IN LOCKDOWN
For physical books and e-books I recommend Book Depository because they are usually cheaper than others and they always include delivery for free and by using this link you help the Dublin Event Guide when you purchase a book and it doesn’t cost you a cent: shor.by/BookDepository  .

C:TEdM