Ireland – Athlone – Country Drive to do Laundry – Oct 14, 2024

What a beautiful morning! These are the views from our room at the Sheraton Athlone. I think we were upgraded as we are in a room that is curved and the windows go all around the curve – it is quite spectacular! The Sheraton is also part of a mall – which you can see the mall area below on the 1st picture – there is a Marks and Spencer down there (with a Food Hall).

While I was looking for cool places to visit on our drive around Lough Ree (lake) Andrew was tasked on finding a laundromat – only requirement was it had to be indoors. There is a bit of a trend here to have some washing machines outdoors it seems so they have 24 hour access, however the propensity for them to work has not been high, based on the feedback by people in the tour group. Besides it is nicer to sit indoors and eat lunch! He found one in Roscommon, so off we went to circle Lough Ree and stop in Roscommon, half way around to clean our clothes!

We got back to the hotel safe and sound and hung our laundry up to dry – this hotel had everything – it even had a drying line you could pull out over the bathtub to hang things! Very cool. Then we watched the sunset prior to going down to the Sheraton Club room and having some dinner – they had breaded things in there for dinner so they brought me a GF cheese sandwich which was excellent!

No plans made for tomorrow yet – there is a castle here in Athlone – perhaps we will go explore it! Here is the drive we took today –

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