On the More Mundane Side ... Laundry

After a week here, I had a lot of laundry piling up and I picked today, Sunday morning to head over to the laverie to do laundry. During the summer, my homestay family did my laundry with theirs so this was my first chance to do it myself.

The nearest laundry is actually about 100 meters from my place but is under renovation, so I went to another one a short walk away (maybe minutes from my place). I carried the clothes in my blue IKEA bag that I got earlier (see an earlier posting) and headed over to the laundromat.

Effectively it's the same as any other coin laundry, except that you put the money in a central dispenser and not in the machines themselves. I remember the days of putting quarters into a washing machine to set it going, but that parts usually breaks easily and so the idea of taking the money in a central location is completely different and works very well.

I used a lessive detergent tablet (detergent exists here in powder, tablet, and liquid form), threw the clothes on top of it, put 2,90 EUR ($4!) for the wash and 0,50EUR for 5 minutes of drying time. Since I had already spent so much on the wash I decided to save a little money and ran only one dry cycle figuring I could dry the rest in my room.

The air is so dry here that my lips are always dried and cracked and a bath towel dries out in about half a day.