And we are off ! And the masks are too!
Flying from Minneapolis to London, taking the train to Paris and flying to Bengaluru, India to check out some Indian Black Granite.
But before packing I wanted to have all of our clothes clean so I started the morning going to guest laundry in our hotel. I added liquid detergent and our clothing; ran my credit card and it was rejected. Over and over…
Reception said they couldn’t help but the handyman would be in in an hour. More than an hour passed so I call the front desk and heard “he should be here soon”. A half hour later I heard “I’m going to call him right now” another 30 minutes, I call again “oh he’s not coming in today”. They know my laundry is in the machine with detergent all over it!
So we call our daughter, their washer is not working, we look up near by laundry mats, I don’t want to hang out at a laundry mat when I need to be packing. I decided to unload the clothes into a trash bag, sort out a few items I really want to travel with and wash those by hand in the room sink.
Off I go again to the hotel laundry room and this time dryer takes my credit card. Yeah!
I get back to the room and the power goes out in the hotel! I am not kidding!
The good thing is when the power can back on 45 minutes later the time was still on dryer and it was enough to get them to damp and pretty darm damp in the thick spots.
Travels Unraveled 