The Romance of Laundry
A Monthly Audio Postcard
Photos of fresh laundry hanging from windows, balconies, and rooftop terraces across Italy are all over social media and are also a staple in travel guidebooks. I don’t know when laundry became so popular. Tourists look up pointing at laundry in awe as if they were at the foot of a temple. I agree that watching a white sheet billow out over narrow and winding cobblestone streets is mesmerizing; it makes me feel like I am sailing the Tyrrhenian Sea in summer. Why are we in love with laundry? Or is it just pretty when someone else does the washing?
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