European bathrooms are interesting. Like
European bathrooms are interesting. Like everything else about travel, they are an ever-changing adventure. For the most part, they are quite small; I never once saw a bathtub in all my sojourns. The toilets are just little oval things, with a very small amount of water in them. The tank for flushing is usuall suspended somewhere above the toilet proper, attatched to the wall. There is also a great variety in methods of flushing - you might pull a string, press a little rod up, press a little rod down, flip a lever, switch a switch.
There was a shower in our bathroom as well. It was set in the corner, with a drain in the floor and curtains which could be pulled around it on the remaining two sides. It took me a while to get used to taking a shower without deluging the whole bathroom, but I did eventually get the knack. The showerhead was (as indeed all the showerheads I encountered in Italy were) of the detachable type - a pleasant luxury when the water pressure is high, a useful asset when the water pressure is low.
I found the bathrooms in Italy particularly unhappy.
August 3rd, 2002 at 8:52 pm