The Local Launderette

Dotted around this area are fonts which take water from natural springs.  They provide two purposes.  Firstly they are a lovely source of pure clean drinking water and secondly they serve as the local launderette!

The water that overflows from the drinking font runs into a large bath which has stone scrubbing boards around the edge.  The local women still use them to do their laundry - the lady who lives next door to our camp site has a washing machine in her house but in the summer prefers to use the communal launderette because that's where she gets a chance to chat to all her friends and neighbours.

Here's a picture of Julie using the one just outside of our site - she said it was a really easy way to rinse the clothes that she had handwashed but didn't seem too impressed by my suggestion that we could install one in the garden at home and dispense with our washing machine and tumble drier!