Sept 4: Laundry Lingo

Today was Sunday. And since Graz feels like July, I realized that I was running dangerously low on clean summer clothes. So it had finally come time to figure out the laundry machines.

I headed down to the laundry machines, thinking that maybe I could decipher the terms. But my one year of German knowledge was not at all prepared to handle Pflegeleicht (delicates?), Schleudern (spin), or Bügelfeucht (which I think means a dryer setting that allows clothes to still be slightly damp at the end of the cycle). Fortunately, I had my handy dayplanner, and wrote down ALL the terms on the back page. I was very happy that no one else was doing their laundry at that moment…and then I went back up the 9(?) flights of stairs to translate them on my computer. ;-)

I love Google translate. 2 hours later, I had lovely, clean, DRY clothes (because we have a dryer, too…:-D )

I met K, my buddy, and we went up to the Schlossberg, the green hill in the middle of the city where most of the original Graz (pre-1500s) is located. I’d like to go on one of their guided tours, but it was so much fun just to spend the afternoon looking out at the city. Unfortunately my camera battery died on that trip, but I will be back to take photos.

The dryer.