The Journey Begins

Ok, well over a week into the trip now and it's time to start making some proper entries to this page I suppose :-)

The countdown of the days finally got to zero! My mother dropped Kate, Fearghal and I to the airport on Tuesday 25th July (Fearghal was off to Boston for a week). It was good to say hello (and goodbye) to Caoimhe who was also in the airport, on her way to Portland.

We had a coffee and a bun but while I was hungry from missing breakfast, I couldn't eat a thing. It felt very strange knowing that when I left Ireland this time, I would not be back in a week, or a month, or 6 months... After we said our goodbyes, Kate and I made our way to the gate in realative silence.

Our first and only flight was to London and we were greeted to a scorching day! We dropped our bags off at Kings Cross Left Luggage and went wandering. It wasn't long before we came across Platform 9 3/4 (for all you Harry Potter fans), so we decided to make the most of the photo opportunity :-)

Our afternoon in London was uneventful except for being ripped off by paying about EUR 8 for two ice-creams! Lesson learned... don't buy ice-cream in Picadilly Circus! We met up with Sinead (an old friend of Kate's) once she finished work, and she looked after us for the rest of the evening.

The following day we made our way to Waterloo station to board the Eurostar train to Paris.