Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles detailing TRSA’s 2008 tour of European laundries.
 
We’ll start where we finished: Paris, June 2008 on a bus with 30 TRSA members. The trip from Frankfurt, Germany through western France into Switzerland and back up to Paris already had been quite eventful.
 
There was the five-hour bus ride to one laundry that took nine hours; backing down the narrow medieval streets of Strasbourg, France, and we were nearly hit by a commuter train as the bus sat wedged between two railroad crossing ...