confused about foreign showers...

Jul 22, 2010 19:17

I know folks do thing differently over here (came in to Berlin today), but I'm just not at all sure about what one is supposed to do given that the shower isn't sunk into the floor... and the floor is continuous out to the rest of the bathroom, and the whole floor becomes a lake whenever you take a shower. Yes, there's a small rubber grid one can ( Read more... )

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lingboy July 24 2010, 13:02:51 UTC
Europeans do some funny things, but often don't travel enough outside of Europe to realize that they are actually very particular.

It is rare to find showers with a holder for the shower head. Paul and I often wonder how people are able to do things in the shower which require two hands, e.g. open a bottle. However, most showers in France are self-contained. The shower you describe is more similar to what you get in Mexico in cheaper hotels. There is usually just a bathroom where everything gets wet. Flip-flops are useful in these contexts. All of the showers I've used in Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain have been self-contained though.

BTW, in France, people still pay with checks. This is much more frequent than in the U.S.

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krasnoludek July 24 2010, 15:28:47 UTC
Finally, I have internet at a decent hour so that I can respond to this.

I have seen these showers in hotels/dorms in Germany, Poland and Spain. Perhaps some other European countries, but I can't recall now. In houses in the first two countries, I have never encountered this type of shower. It seems to be more of a convenience for whoever is going to clean that they can just mop the whole floor into a central drain, rather than wash the shower separately from the rest of the floor.

For these types of bathrooms, I just go in barefoot. For one that I had to use for an extended period, I bought cheap flip flops just for the shower. You shouldn't wear your outside shoes into the bathroom, and in most houses I've been in in Europe, you don't wear outside shoes indoors anyway.

What I find more annoying, and which ljn already mentioned, is the bathtubs or showers without a shower curtain. This means you can't mount the shower head (as lingboy complains about) and you're also forced to crouch and constantly pay attention to which way the nozzle's ( ... )

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