Laundry à la Française

Doing laundry is inevitable on a lengthy vacation. While having a washer and dryer in a rental apartment seems to be the ideal situation, French home laundry appliances are inscrutable to these two Yankees. The dryers are rarely vented to the outdoors, so it takes forever to get even the smallest load dry. Our apartment has a washer-dryer combo machine. If you’re not careful, you won’t activate the drying function and you’ll wind up with soggy socks. I think our apartment in San Sebastian has a washer and/or dryer. Maybe the Basques have better appliances.