confused about foreign showers...
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
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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 pointing so you don't spray the whole bathroom. Even with care, so much water ends up outside the bathtub. This isn't just hotels but regular homes as well. Maybe it's a subconscious motivator to take short showers, because you'll get so frustrated you won't be able to last for very long.
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