washing facilities

There was only one time on our trip that my husband and I would refer to as the 'nappy nightmare'. (Nappy is the British word for diaper.) It was one of our first stops near Newcastle. I knew the place we were staying did not have washing facilities, so we brought with us the locations of three laudrettes. Newcastle is a big place, so I figured surely we would be close to at least one of them. I would say we easily spent a couple hours driving around looking for these places. The first one we found (after getting lost several times) closed at noon on the day we were there, and it was 1 pm when we arrived. The second one had been turned into a hair stylist, and the third was on a street that didn't exist. The latter was the one that really threw us for a loop. We must have asked four people in that neighborhood before we actually believed them that the street wasn't there! We left the city feeling very dejected. That night I washed the diapers in the sink and hung them up using our hanging line.