How to dry clothes while travelling in winter?
When you are travelling and you stay less than 2 days in the same place, specially in winter time when there are not a lot of sun hours or even rains outside, it's really difficult to dry clothes. Sometimes you can find laundromats that may help, but you cannot depend on it always. So, the question is: how do you dry your clothes when you are continuously moving?
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To speed up drying of clothes (particularly if staying in hotels where you have laundered towels), you can wring your clothes as dry as possible, place them (individually) on top of a towel and then roll the towel/clothing article up as tight as possible.
Then stand on this roll. The aim being to absorb as much water as possible out from the clothes into the towel.
This won't get the clothes dry, but it will get a lot dryer than wringing them out will do alone. This will make air/heater drying work a lot faster.
The downside is each towel is probably only good for a few shirts/socks before it's too wet.
(I used this to avoid paying $$$ for hotel laundry fees when travelling through europe last year - they were ridiculously expensive!)
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The general advice is to choose clothes that dry quickly. These are made of synthetic fabrics.
Onebag.com has many sections about clothes and laundry:
Answer 3
In addition to Marks answer https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/24255/4584 if you have an iron handy, you could iron the clothes and that would dry them too. Although in my experience I have rarely come across a city where I can't find a coin operated dryer.
Answer 4
Well, if you have not something which causes heat like a fire / a radiator / a laptop or at least a warm room, you effectively cannot dry your clothes as you already found out. This is an old problem for travelers in polar or high-altitude mountain regions. Even in low temperatures you are still perspiring and this humidity cannot be removed because it remains in your clothes or freezes at the surface. It could be so bad that you are forced to sleep in your sleeping bag fully clothed because if clothes remain outside they are likely to freeze into a form solid as wood which you cannot put on. So the only way is in fact using clothes which are either functional (wicking action to move the humidity outside) or are still warming even if wet (Meaning synthetics or wool, but be careful because some synthetics get brittle in low temperatures). Cotton is the worst fabric in winter and should be avoided.
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