For reasons of cheaper flights we had decided (ok, Paul had decided) that we would book our flights from Paris to Colombo and so we needed to make the short hop from London to Paris. We decided to travel the night before in order to be sure of making the connection as the first morning flight would only have given us a couple of hours. We would find out the next day that our onward flight from Paris was delayed two hours so our careful planning was in vain ... more of that later. 

Our flight to Paris was delayed (I detect a theme here) and so we rolled into Paris CDG around 2245 and headed via the longest airport terminal I have ever encountered and the automated shuttle train to the Ibis CDG. Aside from the long walk this hotel is very conveniently located in the middle of the airport. 

Time for bed!