After a lot of fumbling online, we finally decided that our most cost effective decision was going to be to skip London and go directly to Dublin via Ryanair (cheapo airline here in Europe). We stopped by the Arc de Triomphe on our way to Beauvais Airport’s bus system, so that was a nice farewell to Paris. When we arrived in the dinky little Beauvais airport, we knew that things might be a little rough overnight there. We had planned on staying all night at the airport since our flight was in the morning and as you know, we’re not too picky about sleeping arrangements. We got a rude awakening when we learned at 11 or so that the airport actually CLOSES completely and that we’d have to sleep outside! So, we and some other wretches camped out in the cold French night. Luckily Eoin had his sleeping bag with him this time; we snuggled up and I actually slept pretty well!

Upon our arrival, we met up with our Mum. It was so nice to see her! We needed some major TLC after our crappy day of traveling and night outside, and Mum was willing to treat us to lunch and Starbucks. After a while in Dublin we headed down to Carlow by train to see Grandpa and spent a great evening catching up.