Re: Weird Things about Europe
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On a somewhat opposite view:
Weird things about Canada (or at least Ontario):
- The toilet is in the same room as the shower and the sink. (granted I've seen this in some places in Europe too)
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HUH!?!?!?!?!?!?! Where have you been where this isn't standard?
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Think I've mentioned enough times in this thread now that I'm Belgian? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
The vast majority of places I have lived in or visited there tend to have the toilet in it's own seperate room. This may be a sample size thing but out of all my friends and families homes I've been to (roughly 40 homes) only 2 had the toilet in the bathroom.
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My house in Nijmegen had the toilet, sink, and showerhead in the same room, as did my friend's house in the Brabant (he had both tub and shower stall). But what I thought was strange was that every house in the Netherlands that I ever visited (except for the one I rented) had a tiny room with toilet and itty-bitty sink right inside the front door (sometimes this was the only toilet in the house). I never figured out exactly why a toilet was wanted right at the doorway (go before you go?).
OTOH a Dutch woman of my acquaintance showed me the scrapbook of her trip to America--pictures of every public toilet she had encountered. She was entranced by the water in the bowl--which she attributed to ubiquitous clogged pipes...
Well, travel can be considered adventures in plumbing--or in many parts of the world, lack of plumbing.
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