When we got back from Werchter I discovered that Andy does not have a washer/dryer (gasp!) and that his mother does his laundry (double gasp!). They are both happy with this arrangement (and apparently it is not so uncommon here) so who am I to judge, but I am not about to send my dirty laundry to his mother. So I had noticed a laundromat in Bellegem on earlier visits and I decided to give it a try.
It was small and very clean. And the machines were easy enough to figure out:
Except for this thing:
I finally decided it was some kind of dry cleaner and I took a picture of the instructions so that I could translate it later:
But then I didn't have to because some nice ladies came in and used it. It's for ironing sheets and dishtowels and other flat things. We had a nice chat and they helped me put my dishtowels through it. Awesome!
And to top it off, there was Jupiler (beer) in the vending machine:
All in all, a very happy, warm experience. But it's way too expensive for me to keep doing all of the laundry (8 Euros/load which is around $13) so I'll probably let Andy go back to sending his to Mom and I'll just do mine.
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