Monday: Lindsey and I were one of the few people to stay behind after the Normandy tour. We checked out of our hostel at 10 am and had a few hours to kill before our train back to Paris. We walked around the town with a few other Abbey-ians and eventually arrived to Paris around 3 pm. Lindsey and I had to decide where we were going to stay the night, since the airport we needed to fly out of early the next morning was an hour away from Paris. We found a cheap hotel 3 miles from the airport and so we had to take a shuttle to Beauvais. The shuttle was awful. 60 people in a bus with no airconditioning. Hot and smelly. Yuck. Beauvais airport is the size of my high school so we had to wait about 20 minutes for a taxi. We arrived to our motel a while later and grabbed some dinner at a diner next door and hit the sack- we had to be up at 5 am.
Tuesday: We arrived to Beauvais airport early and had to wait in several lines for Dublin. A huge school tour group of about 40 fifteen year olds were on the same flight as me. I misread my checked bag weight limit and thought I could carry on 50 kgs of luggage…. Boy was I wrong. It was in fact 15 kg. There was no post service to ship a bag home or anything and I would have had to pay 120 euro (200 dollars) everytime I flew (which was 3 more times). Long story short, I had to say goodbye to: 2 pairs of jeans, 2 shirts, my blowdryer, a bag full of brand-new beauty products and about 4 books. I was definitely not in a good mood at all. Luckily though, I feel asleep straight through the plane ride. As soon as we landed, I was in a good mood. I think it was because of the Irish. I freakin’ love the Irish people. As soon as we went through customs and all that, we were outside waiting for our bus and the weather was SO cold. It was snowing too… Nice. We had a nice 25 minute drive through Dublin and we arrived at our hostel a while later which the help of a nice Irish local to pointed us the right direction. When we walked in, the 2 male receptionists (which one looked like an elf, no joke) offered us a warm towel to dry off with and a shot of vodka. I accepted the towel. The hostel was AWESOME. Young people, lots of information, warm 3 story building facing the river and funny signs and posters everywhere. They told us a good place for lunch was the Brazen Head Pub, which is the oldest pub in Dublin. It was a block over and it was really good! I had a bowl of chowder and Irish soda bread. After a long nap, Lindsey and I walked around the city and found a good pub to go to for dinner. We ended up at an Italian place that offered a free bottle of wine with dinner- couldn’t refuse. After that, we found a local pub and I had my first Guinness. It was a lot better then what I expected!! We hung out there for a while and then headed back home for a good night’s sleep!
Wednesday: Woke up and showered and walked around Dublin some more. We stopped by some churches and looked in the local stores. We had a quick lunch and then went to some vintage stores. We were really cold and tired again so we were lucky enough to find a cinema that was playing Alice in Wonderland! We had been wanting to see it for so long and in france, most of the cinemas were playing it only in French. The movie was awesome! After that, we went to the shopping district and did a little shopping (window shopping for me). We went back to the hostel to pack up our bags and warmed up some more and then went to an American diner down the street for a cheap and quick bite. Vanilla malts and a cheeseburger later, we were in bed by 8pm because we had to be up at 3 am to catch the shuttle to the airport to leave for London.
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