March 21, 2010 Flushing my euros down a canal
Flushing my euros down a canal or two days/two nights in Venice.
When I got to Venice I discovered two things very quickly: there are no grocery stores and everything comes at a price. At my hostel, for example, to use the wireless costs 2.50€ for each 12 hr period. The hostel runs at 22€ a night but only if you have IYH membership (which I didn’t). The end result ends up being that I spent 55€ on the hostel and it’s services. Suffice to say I spent a good part of my time the second night taking full advntage of the hot water facilities.
I am in a little laundry mat across the street from my hostel. The place is lined against one wall with little blue washing machines and the other has the drying machines. The machines are deceptively large– I only have three pairs of everything to even wash and that takes two of the machines. The machines have a little strip of illustrated instructions where a frog shows you how to set the machine, put in your clothes, pour in the detergent (although that could be dynamite for the frogs enthusiasm), read a newspaper while you wait and the take your clothes out. In this laundrymat there is a man of Indian descent who loads the machines and collects money. After he gave me strange looks for trying to load the machines myself he has been absent. He currently sits in the center of this small office on one of the Internet consoles. I would get bored of being in a laundry mat all day too.
I can see my sock pushed up against the machine’s window. The sock used to be white but that was 6 countries ago. Despite this wash I doubt it will ever recall it’s former glory. I wish for variety!
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