Laundry, yes or no? Count the shirts, socks, pants, jeans. Rs 10/- per item wash, iron extra, is the going rate. But always an opportunity to make a few more rupiahs on the side, the wash, iron, fold rates can vary enormously. Keep a count and check on return, usually the next day. It's another ritual that has to be embraced while travelling. Unless it's DIY in the bathroom bucket.
Detergent packs at Rs 10/-, at the ready, if you don't mind a quick colour, not fast, result. Find a string, rope, wire, anything on the rooftop for drying. Usually quick in the baking sun, but watch out for thieving monkeys. I mean the long tailed kind.
"Get some laundry 'liquid'!" was the instruction in Rishikesh. "Sachets for easy travel."
Easier said than done, but after some triangulation, or octagonalation, the goods are found. Phew!
Running low on essential supplies, I find myself in Delhi at Om Villa Guesthouse enjoying reasonable rates and good laundry service. But the road beckons. All I can find is a 200ml Surf 2X liquid in the 'western style' supermarket at MGF Mall. Rs 60/-, that will have to do.
But here's the rub. I reckon the laundry service uses 'dustatech', the washing equivalent of Castrol Oil (with Magnatech for the uninitiated). One wearing later the freshly laundered jeans look like they've done a week of back paddock work down on the farm. 'Dustatech' surely allows the dirt to 'cling to the cotton' for that seriously soiled traveller look.
Surf 2X might be superior ... but that's a story for another time and place.
Detergent packs at Rs 10/-, at the ready, if you don't mind a quick colour, not fast, result. Find a string, rope, wire, anything on the rooftop for drying. Usually quick in the baking sun, but watch out for thieving monkeys. I mean the long tailed kind.
"Get some laundry 'liquid'!" was the instruction in Rishikesh. "Sachets for easy travel."
Easier said than done, but after some triangulation, or octagonalation, the goods are found. Phew!
Running low on essential supplies, I find myself in Delhi at Om Villa Guesthouse enjoying reasonable rates and good laundry service. But the road beckons. All I can find is a 200ml Surf 2X liquid in the 'western style' supermarket at MGF Mall. Rs 60/-, that will have to do.
But here's the rub. I reckon the laundry service uses 'dustatech', the washing equivalent of Castrol Oil (with Magnatech for the uninitiated). One wearing later the freshly laundered jeans look like they've done a week of back paddock work down on the farm. 'Dustatech' surely allows the dirt to 'cling to the cotton' for that seriously soiled traveller look.
Surf 2X might be superior ... but that's a story for another time and place.
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