Watched the Miele washers go around this morning. Our first laundry day and it was a bit of a disappointment. Someone had dyed clothes prior to our washing. Now some of the less important clothes are grey-blue. Thankfully, most of our clothes don’t hold color! We had even seperated out the lights from the darks and did two different loads. If only the dark clothes had been added to that washer….
Hotel Adornes had bicycles for us to putter around town with. So to avoid the mobs of tourists in the main square, we circled around the town. They have a quiet bike path along the moat-canal and a couple of windmills. As we neared the tourists again, it was like being a salmon on a bicycle going upstream with random rocks moving erratically in the current to cut you off at any given moment. But, hey, once you get your courage up, you can mow down the skinnier tourists. It started raining and the area cleared out considerably.
We headed over to the oldest pub in town, circa 1515, and whiled away the afternoon with a boardgame and papergame of Dots & Squares. All was good on this dreary day until a table of 5 chain smokers (early deathwish by the 20 year olds) sat down and filled the place up with smoke so thick you couldn’t see them within 20 minutes of their arrival. Bummer we don’t smoke, we could have a portable smoke screen of privacy wherever we needed one.
Moved along to a Celtic pub and the lights went out for about an hour due to the thunderstorm outside. It had a cool effect as they lit candles everywhere in the pub. Finalized the wet evening with a second dinner at the Egyptian restaurant. Our server was chatty and gave us the name of the music he had on the stereo, Amr Diab, as well as his GSM, if we ever end up in Egypt.
