Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Loos From Abroad

Germany, Switzerland, and Italy 10/4-10/14/09

Spending some time in Europe, I thought I'd share some pictures of my journeys. I'm going to put them all in one post - good for comparisons.












First up, the
museum at Goethe's House in Frankfurt, Germany. Very clean as expected.

Next, the paid toilet at the Frankfurt train station. 70 cents to get in, 5 Euros if you wanted to shower. Yes, they charged the same for the men's room.


Here's the view from a Bavarian restaurant in Munich, Germany. Notice the tight squeeze in the stall.































And then we got
to Switzerland. At a very nice restaurant in Basel, the restroom was, shall we say, lackluster.







Here's a shot of the bathroom in our hotel room in Bern, Switzerland. Not much to write home about, but enough to post.













Below is the bathroom in our hotel room in Luzern. A step up - even some stylish black tiles and a stainless sink.

















The view of the restroom at a fish restaurant by the lake in Luzern. Although it was in a hotel (and you know how I feel about restaurant bathrooms in hotels), it did have its own bathroom. And it was rather nice. The raised sink sat on a marble counter top and the dark ceiling was spotted with little lights, making it look like a starry night sky.




















Then we got to Italy, which offered a very different bathroom setting. Here's the bathroom in our hotel in Lake Como. Notice the bidet (a frequent main stay in Italian bathrooms - there was one in my Milan hotel bathroom as well). And although it was a 4-star hotel, notice the lack of actual shower. The open bathtub and showerhead made for quite an interesting time showering and a wet bathroom.




Well, that was a brief look at the restrooms during my Europe trip - always interesting to see what else is out there.