Quirky Italy

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A few things of note in Italy which is interesting:

1. There are no toilet seats! Its true, there are normal toilets, but no seats on them. Not sure why, whether they could not afford to but the seats, or like the cold porcelein, they have a perfectly good toilet with no seats!
2. The cord - hotel bathrooms in Italy have a cord that seems to serve no particular purpose, and the inquisitive person would yank it to see what happens. DON'T!! We were thankfully warned by the tour guide that it is an emergency call if you pull the cord. So unless you would like hotel staff to come crashing in to your hotel room or bathroom wandering what the emergency is, whatever you do, do not pull that cord! Hmm.... kinda makes you wonder whats so dangerous in Italian hotels that they need an emergency cord.
3. Tiny little hotel toilets - you can literally go to the toilet, brush your teeth and shower at the same time. And if you drop your soap in the shower, you have to open the shower stall to bend down and pick it up, unless of course you can contort your body enough in that tiny little space!
4. Bathsheets - now this is a new one for me. They use bath sheets instead of towels. Now you could be mistaken that the hotel staff had had a bad day and put the sheets for the bed in the toilet instead, some of it were that large. But it is what they use instead of towels. Interesting...

- YM