Wednesday, August 15 – Voyage to Dublin

So, after a late night (and finally printing my boarding pass, woohoo), I left the hostel at 5am in this shuttle van, which felt a little sketchy because it was just me and the driver (and then two others joined, so it was a little less sketchy). It was about an hour drive to the Beauvais airport…the best part being that I got to watch the sun rise over pretty legit French countryside, pretty!

The flight was pretty uneventful. Really, the only exciting part was that when I was leaving, the cabin crew said “thank you” in either English or French, and they chose French for me, tehe.

Of course, in Ireland, it was raining. Actually, besides the rain, the airport was pretty unexciting.

I took a bus to Connolly Train Station and waited for a pretty long time. There were some announcements I didn’t understand about delays, so I ended up asking someone and having a decent conversation with her. In the end, Emily arrived!! *happy dance*

We were blasphemously American and had non-quality pizza and went off to our hostel (where I took a nap). Later, we went out for a walk and stopped by a church that was celebrating Assumption. Lots of beautiful music and a dragon story, we would have stayed longer if we hadn’t been so thirsty,

Then a bit of a hodge-podge dinner and kooky game of scrabble. Afterwards, we went out again in search of musical pubs, but failed, so we ended up at a pretty quiet bar to get out of the rain, and I did try Guinness. It tastes a little like cold coffee with a terrible after taste, not bad, but not amazing either.

And that was the (decently unfilled) day.