One of the great things about foreign travel is the bathrooms. Countries simply do bathrooms differently. The one in my hotel room wasn't too far from an American bathroom:
The only thing unusual here (if American stuff is usual to you, that is) is the push-button flusher on the top of the tank. But this bathroom also had an amazing feature in the rain-fall shower:
Yeah, my own in-room steam shower with the eucalyptus option. And believe me, the eucalyptus option was money!
Sure, I was spoiled by my hotel's push-button flusher and steam shower, but when I was out and about on the streets of Amsterdam, I lived like the locals and used this baby:
Here's the inside view:
Step right up, ladies! Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of the public urinals that don't even have the shield around them. Hey, if people regularly just piss on the street, you might as well put a urinal there!
More later.
I went to the ISDE in Brescia Italy a few years ago and saw the coolest toilet there, really, toilets are cool across the pond. Glad you had a great trip and do post...Ok, my favorite toilet on that trip was high on a hill beside a castle, it looked like a money mover machine. I thought it was at first, but it had doors, I put a few coins in a door slide open like Star Trek I walked in, it was soaking wet floor to ceiling dripping stainless toilet mesh floor recessed faucets etc. After I pee'ed (that was what it was for amoung other things) I pushed my hands into the recess over the sink and water came out I dried my hands via air dryer pushed a button Star Trek Door and I yelled to Toilets "Hey come here I'm buying".
ReplyDeleteYes I forgot, the bathroom after the door closed, rinsed itself, hence the dripping stainless...It made a car wash sound when it cleaned itself, I do not think that this would be approved by the green party, cleaning with high pressure water the entire bathroom after each coin was dropped, so to speak and I have to agree but man it was one of the coolest toilets I ever did visit. Kind Regards and now I have to go outside and stop what sounds like a gunfight outside, yes for true...of all days our day of independance it sounds like a gunpowder support group, what gives?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that I have pics of the Amsterdam outdoor urinals ;-)
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