Laundry in France

GregM

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OK this may be a silly question but how easy is it to find a Launderette in France?

We're off on Friday to Normandy, this is our first trip to Europe and we have no route planned etc so just going with the flow. We're only away for 10 days but there are 5 of us so 'wardrobe' space is limited so may need to do some laundry while away.

Are launderettes easy to find or are we going to be better off finding a municipal site? (do they have laundry facilities)?

Thanks

Greg
 
My Mrs does the washing where ever we are. Out comes the bowl with wash powder in it, gets the water from the tap and off she goes. Whether it is at Aires or by the beaches. Fortunately we know all the places to go, so we do not run soapy water into the waste water system.
 
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Its a piece of cake find one but you need pretty good French to understand how to use it, we ended up photographing the instructions and waited until we found a French woman that spoke good English to translate , most reasonable towns have them .( Laundramat that is not women that speak English )
 
We always went to the Tourist information office to find out where the nearest launderette was and always found them helpful. Ask for the 'laverie'. Otherwise you could always go onto a campsite for a night when the washing needs to be done.
Really envy you going to France.. love it. Enjoy your holiday
Sue:have fun:
 
yes, going to the lavvy in france is different to going to it in Englkand.:D
 
The lavatories in France, not all of them, remind me of third world Asian countries., sitting on your haunches. Not my cup of tea.☺☺☺
 
I've always found that any place where the Yotties call in has a Launderette
 
Municipal Campsites

We would use a Municipal Campsite for a couple of nights and do the washing there....:yeahthat:
 
Even if your French is lousy, you should be able to manage "Laveree (Sp??) Automatique silve vou plae (Sp?????)

Then all you need to do is try and understand the instructions for how to get there.


Or just keep an eye out for the Laveree sign.
 
David & Ann said:
The lavatories in France, not all of them, remind me of third world Asian countries., sitting on your haunches. Not my cup of tea.☺☺☺
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Not really a pleasant place for a cuppa, I would have thought.

Something to be said for the sanitary aspect of not touching the seat, though.
 
Its all a matter of culture. We spend a lot of time in the Arab world, where they are very keen on personal hygene and regard our habit of making contact between your skin and a seat that several others have sat on before you as extremely unhygenic. As for toilet paper - they consider that about as unhygenic as it is possible to be - water for cleaning is favoured. Logically it is difficult to argue against this - although we prefer western habits because that is what we have been brought up with.
 
Toilets in Peru, when we took a 4 day trip up the Amazon in a make shift boat was the haunch style type, a hole in the flooring. You could watch the brown muddy water rushing by when on the move. What an experience, if you don't mind really living rough.
 
Truckstoips on the major roads and larger fuel stops sometimes have a couple of wash machines, along with showers.
 
I would just find a site for a night sort the washing out and chill out.

However on two occasions we have used site facilities for washing without staying on the site. We asked and they said fine no problem. On one they even let us fill up with water, empty the loo and even use their ironing facilites for free and we werent even staying there. We payed a couple of euros for the washing machine I think. Im not sure this is typical though and we usually hand wash (well Mrs D does).

Brittany is easily dooable in 10 days, or Normandy. Have a night at Honfleur, a night at Le Mont St Michel then a few days trip along the Aires on the north coast of Brittany followed by a few days on the south coast before a bit of a slog home. Superb place. Very friendly, park pretty much where you like, loads of great Aires. Very safe and very pretty.
 
GeoNomad said:
Not really a pleasant place for a cuppa, I would have thought.

Something to be said for the sanitary aspect of not touching the seat, though.
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The hygienic aspect of the squat type toilet (elephants footprint) is surely the main point the French use them in Public situations
I've rarely found clean unattended mens Public toilets here in the UK (don't know about the womens toilets though).
If 3rd World standards in this regard meant more hygiene, then we could do with the squatter here.
 
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It takes a bit of practice to use water and your left hand after using a squat toilet but much cleaner than using paper to smear poo over your rear. Soaping the hand before using the toilet is a good trick. A "visit to the barbers" every so often ensures the best results. :rolleyes2: Apologies to the squeamish but the way the west goes to the loo is unhygienic, uncivilised and environmentally wasteful.

Mr B.
 
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