Laundry

While we do not have a clothes line, like many Portuguese citizens have, we have a drying rack for our clothes.  Yep, there are no dryers, so you hang dry all your laundry on either drying racks or clothes lines. In theory it sounds like a good idea, but when the climate is very wet and you are in rainy season, the moisture in the air does not help dry your things.  So cleaning your sheets and towels have to be well thought out, in the event that they don't dry in 24 hours.  Let's just say Andy had to wear the same pair of boxers two days in a row...yuck!

Here are some photos of our clothes rack, as well as the tiny washing machine.  The drums of the washing machines are much smaller than home and can only fit about 1/3 of the amount of clothes in one load that we are used to.  I feel like I'm constantly doing laundry.  The washing machine is also in Portuguese, obviously, so not knowing what the different settings mean, or run cycles, I have to take the iPad to the basement where the machine is, to translate how to run it :)