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Originally posted by colleenk:
Just returned from a 10 day trip to Spain (Barcelona, Granada and Seville).

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Allright , next time you do the toilet talking and we have ten days in Spain!!!
Allright, last post for the week, leaving for Tuscany in half an hour ;-Pppppp (and this week-end it will rain, and I have only brought a pair of Birkenstock!).

Alice Twain
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– Che peccato, signora: lei ha partorito e suo marito non c’era.
– Oh, se è per quello non c’era nemmeno quando sono rimasta incinta!
          Leo Ortolani, Rat Man, “Il primogenito”

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Originally posted by colleenk:
Just returned from a 10 day trip to Spain (Barcelona, Granada and Seville).

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welcome home, I hope you will write about your trip! I am going next Spring...

Shannon
www.chowbellabooks.com

Those toilets with the plates are also in Austria. I hate the concept. Everyting just rests, open to the air, no water to conceal the smell.

Tony Polzer
Tour Operator
3 Millennia Tours
www.threemillennia.com
tony@threemillennia.com

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Originally posted by Tony da Roma:
Those toilets with the plates are also in Austria. I hate the concept. Everyting just rests, open to the air, no water to conceal the smell.

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Do you always try to save water? To avoid the unpleasant smell to build up, and which sometimes becomes intolerable even to yourself, just keep flushing the toilet.

"Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza..."

"I sing to life, to its beauty, to each of its wounds and each of its caresses..."

Thanks Shannon. I am going to try writing a trip report this weekend while it is fresh in my mind-unlike last September's trip to Tuscany that I never got around to. You will love Spain, wonderful sights, people and food.The flowers this time of yera are glorious too.feel free to email me with questions if you wish.
colleenk

Flushing the toilet numerous times?! To me it just makes much more sense to build a better toilet. Plus, those toilets with the plate... have you ever flushed one of them. The water comes down with such force over that plate that it reminds me of Niagra Falls. I couldn't even imagine sitting on that thing and flushing at the same time. I'd be afraid of getting things wet or worse: getting sucked in!

Tony Polzer
Tour Operator
3 Millennia Tours
www.threemillennia.com
tony@threemillennia.com

You know what? I have been reading here for a long time and post very few posts, because, as someone else mentioned a page or 2 ago, I always thought you folks were sort of "a group" and I almost felt like I was reading other peoples mail. PLUS, you all seemed to be so very "proper"

I am happy to have read the 8 great pages on this "toilet info" and to realize that you guys are all just "regular" (pun a little intended) people. I feel much more comfortable being here now.
Shannon

Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss you'll still be among the stars.

In re the German toilet, this reminds me of "Fear of Flying" wherein Erica Jong wrote not only about the various toilets abroad but also about the toilet paper available.

Maybe it's time to dust that one off.

Yeah Tony, I agree with you. I wouldn't want to be siting on those style toilets when you flush. The water does come with a lot of force both to remove and clean. It is not always successful which is why it is good etiquette to clean the toilet after or as the articles on these style toilets suggest, build a raft of toilet paper for it. I just had a thought, maybe another option would be to face the wall instead.

- marta

Why would talk about toilets not be "proper"? Toilets can be very inspiring places. In Grade 3, I still vividly remember, I had serious troubles with an arithmetic problem (well, I had problems with the arithmetic all my life; probably this is why I ended up working in banking!) and I was growing quite upset. Then I needed to go to the toilet, which was Turkish and Outside!, and when I returned to the house I had the solution all ready in my mind.

I think we should steer this toilet thread into happy memories lane.

Oh, gosh, what have I just started??? Well, too late to take it back, unless I use the Edit function, which I won't.

ShannonD - I am dismayed to think someone would not post on this message board because we are too tight and proper of a group. I also read on AOL that people think we are "cliqueish" here.

I will admit we, as a group, can be a bit abrupt with Fast Travel questions - but that is understandable given the name of the site and our focus. But most of us still try to answer those questions.

EVERYONE should feel free to jump into discussions here - or start a thread about something that interests you. We are all here to talk and are happy to have new people to talk to.

In fact, I am going to start a new thread about this.

Pauline from Slow Travelers

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Originally posted by doru:I think we should steer this toilet thread into happy memories lane. Oh, gosh, what have I just started??? Well, too late to take it back, unless I use the Edit function, which I won't.

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Well, how about a not-so-happy memory? The only recurring dream I had as a child involved a restroom, a toilet, and a little Sindbad kind of guy. I had this dream at least once a week for months when I was in the third grade.
Here is how it went:
I am in my classroom at school and need to go to the toilet very badly. So I leave the room without asking permission from my teacher. I go into the girls restroom and into a stall. As soon as I close the door on the stall and flip the latch, a tiny little man with a huge bushy mustache leaps right out of the toilet bowl and begins chasing me all over the school. He is about 3 feet tall. He wears only a diaper-like loincloth, huge gold hoop earrings, and a turban. And he has a big hooked saber clinched between his teeth.
With this guy chasing me, I run all over the school, which now seems to be completely empty of teachers and classmates. As soon as I make it to an outside door, I wake up.
How could an eight year old come up with a dream like that?!

Deborah Horn

In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I'd like to do a past life regression and stay there.
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Originally posted by Livinwell:How could an eight year old come up with a dream like that?!

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Deborah, here are the common denominators:
- Grade 3
- Toilet

What this says to me, Mafalda, the Reader of Dreams, is that, dream or not, when you are in Grade 3 all kind of **** (or Toilet Stuff) happens!

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What this says to me, Mafalda, the Reader of Dreams, is that, dream or not, when you are in Grade 3 all kind of **** (or Toilet Stuff) happens!

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LOL !!
Well, at any rate, it was evidently one of those life defining things. I remember the dream vividly, 45 years later.
AND, I still look down into the toilet bowl for a few seconds before I sit down.

Deborah Horn

In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I'd like to do a past life regression and stay there.
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We can't let this thread die!! I will move it to the FAQ evenutally (PAULINE MOVE).

Here is a Swiss toilet. When you flush, a cleaner thing comes out and the toilet seat moves in a circle through it cleaning the seat. For those of you liking really clean bathrooms, Switzerland is the place.

Pauline from Slow Travelers

I posted my Florence bathroom pic - even includes the bidet although the focus was the shower nozzle.

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Originally posted by cmvnapa:
... even includes the bidet although the focus was the shower nozzle.

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Sounds interesting But, where is it? I can't find it on the thread. How could I miss it?

"Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza..."

"I sing to life, to its beauty, to each of its wounds and each of its caresses..."

It's over in the photo gallery. I'd post it in here but I don't know how.

Here is the link to the Florence bathroom

Amazing shower!! I guess you could lean against the sink. The most amazing shower I ever encountered was in the Panicale Farmhouse - a great rental except for the shower. Instead of making one normal sized bathroom, they made two very small bathrooms (connected by a wall - so they could have made just one bathroom). One with a toiet and sink. The other a beautiful big sink and toilet and in the 12 inches between the toilet and the wall - a shower.

We didn't use it even once and we were there two weeks - because they also had a lovely outdoor shower and we used that! I asked Francesco about that shower and how could anyone use it - he said he had never received any complaints!!

Pauline from Slow Travelers

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Sounds interesting But, where is it? I can't find it on the thread. How could I miss it?

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Here it is: On Slowtrips in Pauline's new Photo site.

Chris - we both posted the same thing at the same time. I guess we are both just killing time until - the SECOND LAST SHOW OF SIX FEET UNDER!!!!

Pauline from Slow Travelers

Okay, I have been really enjoying this thread, and like Pauline, did not want it to die. cmvnapa, I loved your photo of the Florence bathroom. I had read your description on this thread, but a picture really IS worth a thousand words! Thanks for sharing.

P.S. I am working on my reluctance to post and am thrilled I have now posted on this infamous thread!

Wow, is that a small bathroom!

So are you expected to wipe the porcelains down or just let it drip dry?

BTW, that Switzerland toilet is cool if the seat rotates to be cleaned. Gee, what people come up with.

Go Clay!

Wait a minute, no one has mentioned the best public toilet in the world. It is in the famous piazza in Arezzo where they have the antiques market, can't remember the name but it is a stunner, and one thing is the rounded rear of a great church. Under that, there's a public potty that used to cost 500 lire. It is totally constructed of black rubber and stainless steel. When you leave, the entire thing is self-cleaned and sterilized! I tried to stay in it to watch, but it won't allow that. Other than the darkness factor, I was musing on the possibilities of home application.