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nwhiker1. Washcloths. I either never knew or had forgotten that washcloths weren't a universal standard. Thought about buying some, but the thought of dragging a wet or damp washcloth all around Scotland and Wales didn't appeal, so we did without.
2. Pay potties. Pay potties are a scourge upon humanity and should be illegal, banished to hell, and are mean and petty. Scotland had many, Iceland even more and I despise them and the reasoning behind them. Just... no. Stop it. I will admit that in a country that was superb enough to enact laws to provide menstrual supplies in public facilities has so any pay toilets. I'll add, btw, that it's a sex discrimination thing as well, since UK law says urinals cannot be pay to use. In Iceland where there are few toilets to begin with, and many of them are pay, I just dehydrated myself as much as possible, LOL. It's not the money. I mean, I can afford to pay it, it's both the fact that the money needs to be in small coins AND the principle. Next post, btw, will be about money while travelling.
3. Laundry. OMG. I never thought laundry would be so much of a fucking problem. AirBnBs were inconsistent as to if there would be washing facilities (some both, some only washer), laundromats pretty much were unfindable, though there were many launderettes where you could ake your laundry to be washed. Problem with that: the turn-around time was often too long for our schedule, and there were never any prices online to figure out how much washing four days of clothing for five people might cost. We may do when with the kids. Once we were in Wales, we found these places: Revolution Laundry. They were in groddy gas stations, but the machines themselves were clean, worked well, and while expensive, we knew how much they were going to cost. It's funny that, like for washcloths, this did not come up at all in all the reading I did pre-trip. Iceland had facilities at some of the campgrounds we stayed at so we used those.
2. Pay potties. Pay potties are a scourge upon humanity and should be illegal, banished to hell, and are mean and petty. Scotland had many, Iceland even more and I despise them and the reasoning behind them. Just... no. Stop it. I will admit that in a country that was superb enough to enact laws to provide menstrual supplies in public facilities has so any pay toilets. I'll add, btw, that it's a sex discrimination thing as well, since UK law says urinals cannot be pay to use. In Iceland where there are few toilets to begin with, and many of them are pay, I just dehydrated myself as much as possible, LOL. It's not the money. I mean, I can afford to pay it, it's both the fact that the money needs to be in small coins AND the principle. Next post, btw, will be about money while travelling.
3. Laundry. OMG. I never thought laundry would be so much of a fucking problem. AirBnBs were inconsistent as to if there would be washing facilities (some both, some only washer), laundromats pretty much were unfindable, though there were many launderettes where you could ake your laundry to be washed. Problem with that: the turn-around time was often too long for our schedule, and there were never any prices online to figure out how much washing four days of clothing for five people might cost. We may do when with the kids. Once we were in Wales, we found these places: Revolution Laundry. They were in groddy gas stations, but the machines themselves were clean, worked well, and while expensive, we knew how much they were going to cost. It's funny that, like for washcloths, this did not come up at all in all the reading I did pre-trip. Iceland had facilities at some of the campgrounds we stayed at so we used those.
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