Happy Holidays

Happy New Years! Hope you all enjoyed your holidays and wish you a healthy and happy 2018! I am just back from Sweden where I spent New Years with my family and now I am just watching some movies.

Before then, I was in Dubai from 18-28th of December. It was my first trip there and I am sharing some pics we took while we were there. It was actually the first time we travelled somewhere warm during winter. Dubai is quite a special place. Its mainly a construction city because they keep on building new building and have a bunch a projects to finalise. There are highways everywhere so it is not exactly a walkable city either. What is nice though is the weather. It is always sunny and warm. When we were there it was around 25-27 degrees delicious which is just perfect. In Dubai, there is also so many experience you can try. We bought tickets to desert safari tours where we went to the desert. This was amazing trip. We had the opportunity to see the sunset from there and I got to sandbar for the first time. I would really recommend to do this tour.

Another trip we did was to Abu Dhabi. I really wanted to see the spectacular Sheik Zayed mosque. This trip wasn’t as good as the one to the desert. It was mainly due to the agency arranging the tours but the sightseeing in Abu Dhabi was terrific.

The beaches in Dubai are also very clean and the water is beautiful. It is not too crowded which makes it better.

Other things you can see is the tallest building in the world which is Burj Khalifa, to go around Dubai Marina and to see the fountain show. Sharing some pictures with you below. Overall it was a nice trip but I wouldn’t go there again.

 

 

31ST OF AUGUST

Earlier this year, I decided to move forward with undergoing an eye surgery. I have/had quite bad vision (-9,5 and -10) and I thought that now that I can actually afford it and my eye sight has been stable for some years now so it felt like a good time. 31st of August was due date and as you can imagine I was quite nervous on the day. I did it at Memira in Malmö, Sweden and they had recommended me to do ICL treatment meaning that they would insert an artificial lens in my eyes. This lens can be taken out or it can remain forever.

We arrived there 9 in the morning. They gave me some pills which would calm me and my muscles and then they started with eye drops which would enlarge my pupils and numb my eyes. After a while, I was directed to the room they perform the surgery and I received another couple of rounds of eye drops. At that point, I was a bit out of it and all I could see was the light. The staff there were super nice and held my hand during the whole time as they could tell I was a bit tensed. I didn’t feel a thing during the procedure (thank god). Afterwards, they just told me to sit up and see and I did. It was a bit blurry but I could actually see which was weird. I went to the resting room and actually managed to fell asleep there for a while before they did a check up to see if my eyes are alright. They were and I could actually head back home. It was a weird feeling, I must admit, I don’t think I actually believed that I don’t have my normal lenses on and this feeling remained for 2 weeks. I still felt bad when I would fall asleep because I was thinking that I hadn’t removed my lenses and when I would wake up I had to remind myself that I actually had the procedure and I can see.

During the 1st week, I saw fine however I saw halos from strong lamps or the sun. The eye drops that I had to take for 3 weeks were hurting a bit and my eyes were feeling tired, dry and heavy. On Friday, I will have my check up for the 3rd time. Last time, my left eye sight had worsen a bit and the eye pressure had gone up a bit. So I hope that it hasn’t gotten worse. usually they say that 10% of people will have to do a small laser procedure afterwards.

Overall, I am very happy that everything went well. For me, this is a big ordeal and to wake up and see immediately is still weird but amazing at the same time.

Someone told me that I was given a miracle and I would like to treat it like that or think about it like that. Its quite amazing thing to correct someones vision like that. Let´s not take anything for granted, I hope I won’t.

Croatia, summer 2017

Hi blog,

Miss you long time. Time for a recap I believe. These weeks have been busy. Been working, gymming and travelling.

I had my mini summer vacation (18th to 25th of August) and it was spent in beautiful Croatia with my mamma. We had talked about heading to Croatia for many years and finally we decided it would be this year. Destination was the island Brac (3rd biggest island size wise in Croatia). We stayed in a little city called Bol.

One of the reasons why I picked Bol and Brac, was because I wanted to visit Zlatni Rat. Sharing some photos from Bol. Water was crystal clear (really important for me :D) and the beaches were mainly stone beaches so remember the shoes or you can always buy some there for a reasonable price.

Once there, we signed up for some trips arranged by the travel agency. One of them took us around the Brac island. We went up to Vidova Gora which is the highest peak on the island. Offered the best view and it was truly spectacular to see Zlatni Rat and the islands around Brac from above.

Second trip we did was to Krka national park. Its one of the more popular spots in Croatia so it is quite crowded. However, the waterfalls are amazing. I haven’t really seen waterfalls like that before so it was an experience for me. Its too bad you can’t really swim under waterfalls there. On our way back we stopped at Trogir for while and got to walk around the little village there.

The trip was super nice overall and hope that I will return to Croatia. There are so many places left to visit there like Dubrovnik, Plitvice lakes, Hvar and many more.

Also managed to click this incredible sunset when we were at Split. Sky is on fire. How can we not be amazed by this earth we are living in. Important to be thankful and to remember that we are all blessed everyday.