Saturday, April 26, 2014

Toilets of Europe......


I like nice clean toilets- who doesn’t?  As our holiday draws to a close, I can report the best and worst public toilets of our travels….  I know this is a strange topic, but I would really like to celebrate the best because it was such a surprise.

Those of you that now me even vaguely will know my total and utter aversion to public toilets, but there are times when you are travelling that you need to use the convenience, because it could be a long time between stops. 

The worst- (drumroll please…)   Lake Como in Italy.  Slits in the ground that slop down toward the never never.  I stepped in, took one look and turned around and left- disgusto!  Evidence of someone not being able to balance and go was way too much for me!

The best-  (trumpet blast) Paris railway station, Gare de Lyon.  Beautiful, although kind of freaky.  They were attended by a large African woman, the stalls were large (in fact larger than some of the motel rooms we have stayed in!!!) and decorated with views of Paris.  Shut the door and this REALLY loud music was playing, clearly to distract from any other noises around the room.  

The surprise is that in some of the train stations, whole platforms smell like the boys toilet after a busy lunchtime at school!  One train station that we have been using, which is closest to our hotel reeks and I have to put my shirt over my face at one point near some homeless people because it is so bad.

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