Washing machine's really do eat socks!

Headed out to a nearby laverie (Laundromat) to obviously get our washing done... and out of the way. All easily sorted out, except the machine seemed to have taken a big bite out of one of my new sock. There was a huge hole in it! At least it was just a sock. Went to a close American style diner for lunch. I ordered cheese fries, which turned out to be cheese wedges. Delicious! Andy got some chicken wings.

Caught our train to Marseille. We knew that Marseille was probably going to be a bit dirtier and less safe than other places we’ve been. There were dodgy seeming people in the main station and metro stations, but we had no problem and the metro tickets were cheap, so yay. Found our Etap easily. Nicer than the last Etap, this one even had a bath (although no plug... but we fixed this). Out we went for a walk. Up to a fort, with awesome looking stone and nice views over the port. Burgers for dinner, nice and rare-ish. Yum!

Washing in Budapest

Budapest was supposed to be a washing day, after Vienna failed to really have any reachable Laundromats. We found recent updates about two particular places in Pest, and on our first day, went for the 8 minute walk to find the first one, which seems to have only very very recently closed, in fact even the Telegraph was reporting, on a page last updated “8th August, 2010” that Irisz Szalon was still open. Guess they are idiots, although to be fair, I don’t expect much better from them. Either way, our washing had to then be put off till Monday, when the Liliom TextilSalon was open again.