If you've never been here, you should know that nobody in Hungary owns an appliance that we in the decadent west know as a "dryer". Everyone has a mosogép (washing machine), which is usually located in the least convenient place you can imagine. But when it comes to doing your laundry, that's where the mod cons end.
To dry your wet things, you hang them. On an ingeniously devised warming rack, if you're lucky. These are sort of a modern wall-mounted radiator that your hot water runs through before it goes out the tap. Warms your house a bit and the heat dries your clothes at the same time.
If you're not lucky - i.e., an average Magyar - you hang them on a complex of folding racks wherever you can find space to put them. Outside is best of course. The question is, if it's outside...
...what do you do when it rains?
