Our downstairs bathroom has an ingenious system for drying. There are three racks attached to a rope pulley.
So, you put your clothes on the racks,
hoist on this rope,
and voila, clothes are pulled up to the ceiling to dry -- out of your way and exposed to warm, rising air.
Then, there's recycling. Three different kinds of dumpsters -- glass; plastic, cans and newspaper; and cardboard. Not all located together, but sometimes. We have trash dumpsters and plastic, can and newspaper recycling one block away in the same alley (but be careful those green containers which mean glass in other places are just trash here).
Two blocks away are the cardboard and glass dumpsters. Near this cool mural though!
The slower pace of life permeates everything from service in restaurants to doing household chores; people don't rush anything here!
Susan, the small laundry and need to air dry was something we adjusted to in Austria, as well. We didn't have that funky system you have, raising up the laundry (envy!) and instead hung our stuff on racks in the apartment. Seeing how 4 people were in 700 sq feet, the laundry took up a lot of space... Of course, I remember adjusting to this, and then getting so used to it that the concept of a drier was SHOCKING when we got back to the US...
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