……having someone else do my laundry We knew when we were packing that at some point on our trip we would have to do some laundry. Little did we know how expensive the hotel laundry service would be. We’ve been away for almost a week and tomorrow we’re taking the train to Westport. It was time to do some washing but laundromats are not as common as they are in Canada. We knew that the hotel laundry was not an option. A single pair of under pants would have cost us € 4 to have washed. In the city centre, we saw a cleaners that advertised doing your wash for €10 for a 5kg bag with same day service. It looked like our best option so I separated our dark and light coloured clothes and stuffed them into one of our carry on bags. We had arranged to meet Brendan at 11:00 at Stephen’s Green today so we left a little bit earlier so that we could drop off our laundry at the cleaners. Everything fell into place like a well orchestrated symphony. The distance we had to walk with the bag of laundry was very short, arranging for the wash was painless, the shop owner was very friendly and we could pick it up at the end of the day when we were ready to go back to our hotel. We had a great day with our son and I figured out that we saved ourselves over €120 by not letting the hotel do our laundry. No convenience or service is worth that much money.