Iglesia de Santa Isabel de Portugal

The reality of travelling for more than week is that you’re probably going to have to do some laundry. While my hotel does have a laundry service, at €5 to wash and dry a pair of socks, I sought out alternatives. Found a laundromat 10min walk from the hotel that had all in one wash cycles that include detergent, fabric softener and something about oxygen.

Depending on who you believe it’s somewhere between 37 and 45 today and inside the laundromat was hotter again. Dumping my clothes for a wash I explored the neighbouring area, climbed a tower that happened to have air conditioning at the top and sat there for the most of the wash cycle. Once I swapped the clothes over to dry I found a refreshing lemon slushy which took the same time to drink as my dry cycle.

Work smarter not harder! There are worse ways to get your laundry done (cut to an earlier footprint of the open air laundry in India). Now to wait for places to open for dinner then some photos of the city around sunset.Read more