I am sure if I had done more of the scenic things I would have enjoyed Ireland more. That is not to say I did not enjoy it (Guinness storehouse is fricken amazing. Spent hours there and wish I could have spent more!) I lived in the uk for half a decade. So Ireland to me was nothing special. I doubt you will have the same response as I did! But I hear people say the food is worse than they expected. I thought it was fine... But I also went to chain restaurants that I missed from my time in the uk (like nandos. Which I recommend!)

In Paris we did a lot of wandering. I was there for a long weekend. I was under 25 at the time so I could get a metro pass wicked cheap. Plus I had a European visa so I got the under 25 (usually free) discount to historical sites- like the Arc de Triumph. But even then I think it would have been like just 5 euros to go up.

We ate French bread with cheese while drinking ciders in the Jardin de Luxembourg. Took silly photos at the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. Ate crepes while wandering along the Seine. But my absolute favorite part was this restaurant in Montmartre. It was not too far from the Sacre Coeur (a church right at the top of this massive hill. You get a free ride up on this cute tram if you have a metro pass... Otherwise you can walk the 500 steps- made that number up). But the restaurant was like 18 euros per person (set fee). And you make two decisions: red wine or white wine and meat fondu or cheese fondu. Your wine comes in a glass baby bottles and you enjoy fondu with friends squeezed in to these tiny benches. If you are sitting on the inside the waiter helps you step over the table to get to your seat! It is definitely an experience I recommend. (I also suggest a meat and cheese. Or just meat because just cheese fondu gets to be too much! Haha).

We also went to an exhibit at le petit palace. It cost I think a tenner or so. There is art everywhere. At the time there was this French artist who had put up massive photographs of heads that covered the floors and ceilings of a church. So we went there and took silly photos before getting yelled at by the security guards for lying in the ground.

We also took the train to Versailles. But we went on a Monday and it was closed. But because the fountains were not on, we got to wander in the gardens for free! I wish we had paid to rent the golf cart and drove around because it is so big! (And the bag check was closed that day b/c the palace was not open and we had already checked out of our hostel... So we were carrying around our bulking bags).

There was so much more I could have done! I never went into the louvre. I wanted to go on a graffiti tour (but it only ran on Saturday mornings and I arrived too late).