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So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

icyfroth — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:58:20 GMT

I never thought there were so many different types of taps for showers and handbasins. During our travels in England and now in Germany, it amazes me how many different designs there are.

From the standard old hot and cold on either side in the older hotels to those with levers you have to lift and turn for hot or cold. Or press down and twist. Those you simply hold your hands under to sensor start. The horizontal bar with hot and cold turners on either side to pulling a cord hanging from the ceiling to start the shower in one renovated old mansion turned BnB.

It was quite a challenge at shower time figuring them out while we had 5 nights, 5 different hotels, travelling up the coast of England as far as Whitby then back to London to fly out to Germany. With Germanwings.

England didn't warm up much at all it was mostly around 20 degrees, much like the winter weather we left behind in Aus.

Germany by contrast has been warm and sunny

Having a good adventure, the days are just flying by

Also having a bit of confusion with the different symbols on this ruddy hotel computer keyboard.

grrr.

Seeyas.

Re: So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

onlinehokum — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:31:09 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
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It was quite a challenge at shower time figuring them out while we had 5 nights, 5 different hotels, travelling up the coast of England as far as Whitby then back to London to fly out to Germany. With Germanwings.

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when my ex-husband & i honeymooned in Noumea, New Caledonia, the washing machine was a challenge

all of the the washing machine's buttons had obscure pictures to indicate which each of them did so little wonder my neon coloured bikini came out of the machine neon-grey

Re: So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

lloydslights — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:00:41 GMT

Hiya Icy.

Things have been running hot and cold here too.

Difficult to know which way to turn, pull, plug, unplug resulting in varying degrees of drips, spurts, deluges and gentle pulsating showers.

Hope the choccies reached their destination. See ya back here soon.

DEB

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lurker172602 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:15:42 GMT

My OH says he did a mental catalogue of all the showers we used in 6 weeks in Ireland and the UK last year (mainly B&Bs and Guest Houses) and he reckons we didn't get to use the same system twice. The craziest was the one that had the cord to turn the hot water on hanging from the ceiling in the bedroom, across the room from the ensuite door. Every morning was a mental challenge LOL

Did you get to Robin Hoods Bay (near Whitby)? My favourite village in all of England. So cute it was ridiculous..

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go-tazz — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:07:19 GMT

@lloydslights wrote:
Hiya Icy.

Hope the choccies reached their destination. See ya back here soon.

DEB

There was a couple of young kids in front of us at the Safeway checkout yesterday and they bought 51

packets of Timtams to take back to England,(OH then told them that they could get Vegemite at Sainsbury's

and one of them said he loves the stuff,but he was born there and still lives there),

It was always "fun" having a shower in Scotland when we stayed there,(it was always in a bath and the water on

demand type).

Re: So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

lind9650 — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 03:45:02 GMT

Hi Icy, good to hear you are enjoying yourself and having fun with taps.

Now that you are in Germany, I will wish you;

Gute Fahrt!

Erica

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:35:09 GMT

Icy, its been years since travelling overseas, but the thing that struck me was 'the pan' itself.

In Amsterdam it was sort of stepped, so it sat on a pedestal for a bit before the flush.

Not that I looked or anything Really!!

Re: So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

icyfroth — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:30:47 GMT

@lloydslights wrote:
Hiya Icy.

Things have been running hot and cold here too.

Difficult to know which way to turn, pull, plug, unplug resulting in varying degrees of drips, spurts, deluges and gentle pulsating showers.

Hope the choccies reached their destination. See ya back here soon.

DEB

He loved the Rocklea road, Deb, fortunately I had a shoebox full of it. Not so much the Rocky Road made in the "Misty Blue Mountains of Australia" lol. He kept serving it up at visits.

Re: So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

icyfroth — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:35:31 GMT

@lind9650 wrote:
Hi Icy, good to hear you are enjoying yourself and having fun with taps.

Now that you are in Germany, I will wish you;

Gute Fahrt!

Erica

Thanks Erica. Wer'e in Nuremberg so wer'e having lots of Bratwurst and Sauerkraut. Well I'm having them with sauerkraut, Hubs always opts for Kartoffelsalat.

I like to have a Weissbier to wash it down.

Heading out for Oberfranken tomorrow when we get our hire car. Right hand drive omg.

Re: So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

icyfroth — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:38:24 GMT

@lurker172602 wrote:
My OH says he did a mental catalogue of all the showers we used in 6 weeks in Ireland and the UK last year (mainly B&Bs and Guest Houses) and he reckons we didn't get to use the same system twice. The craziest was the one that had the cord to turn the hot water on hanging from the ceiling in the bedroom, across the room from the ensuite door. Every morning was a mental challenge LOL

Did you get to Robin Hoods Bay (near Whitby)? My favourite village in all of England. So cute it was ridiculous..

Nah would have liked to, Lurk, but we just ran out of time. My favourite place was Kings Lynn it was so historic. Also got to go to Caithness Crystal and watched the glass blowing there.

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jimmy*part4 — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:16:20 GMT

Icy, let me know if you find a bathroom with the 3 seashells. I've wondered about it for a while now.

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nicnacs_4u — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:13:18 GMT

Hiya Icebuddy

Jealous here too cold and too miserable!

Have a great trip and be safe

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grumpy*cat*rocks — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 07:39:32 GMT

@lind9650 wrote:

Now that you are in Germany, I will wish you;

Gute Fahrt!

Erica

Did you just wish her a good fart?

🙂

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moonflyte — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 21:43:33 GMT

Guten morgan icy,

Hope your holiday in Germany is as wondeful as mine was. Loved the Rippchen mit sauerkraut, couldn't get enough of it.

The Adolph Wagner wine keller in Frankfurt was a haunt not to miss.

We miss you here, nothing happening and all the good old posters who had something politically interesting to contribute have disappeared, just the stinking thread that seems to self perpetrate with h8te rants.

I have put up a couple of threads but it's all leftist replies and Labor loveins ,absolutely no one else. Looks like they got what they wished for but it makes for a very barren place now.

Happy travelling.

Re: So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

icyfroth — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:19:24 GMT

@grumpy*cat*rocks wrote:
@lind9650 wrote:

Now that you are in Germany, I will wish you;

Gute Fahrt!

Erica
Did you just wish her a good fart?
🙂

Maybe try the stinking thread for that, Grumps,

Re: So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

icyfroth — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:32:03 GMT

@nicnacs_4u wrote:
Hiya Icebuddy

Jealous here too cold and too miserable!
Have a great trip and be safe

Heading back to Frankfurt tomorrow, Nics, to return our hire car and fly home on Wednesday, with a stopover in Hong Kong.

We´ve had a great time even though the weather has been cold and rainy all the month we`ve been away. I think we´ve had the same kind of weather we left behind when we left Sydney.

The relos have been feeding us as if we were a cpl of hungry chicks. I won`t be able to look at food without feeling queasy for quite some time lol.

I`m really missing home now and looking forward to getting to familiar things.

I'm cool with right hand drive now I'll have to adjust to left-hand when I get back.

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icyfroth — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:37:54 GMT

There'll be lots to catch up on, Jilly, there hasn't been a skerrick of news from Australia here.

They've accommodated a lot of Asylum Seekers here even in this small village near Bayreuth, just outside of the Czech border.

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moonflyte — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 01:03:59 GMT

There was some news here that many Euro countries have now had to close their borders because of the hundreds of thousands of African economic migrants flooding in.

We must really look at the root cause of this movement as many of these African countries have been raped, pillaged and murdered by the millions by their very own people they elect, the despotic warlords and military juntas.

Pouring money (aid ) into these countries, which prospered and thrived for centuries without it, has done a lot of damage and the real help would be something like an army of volunteers protected by the UN to help with water and crop advice, there's just not enough done to lift these people out of the hell their leaders have visited upon them.

No education, no skills, no European understanding of that culture, it's a catastrophe just waiting to happen like the no go Muslim ghettos in France and UK.

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baybizz — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:37:59 GMT

>> #18: There was some news here that many Euro countries have now had to close their borders because of the hundreds of thousands of African economic migrants flooding in.

Technically it's now illegal for EU countries to close their borders to other EU nationals (a source of increasing political controversy in the UK - see links below). But the UK is under increased siege again from non-EU migrants trying to smuggle themselves illegally into the UK (from the French port of Calais - what's so terrible about France?). A transport strike in France has led to a backlog of stationary lorries, in or on which the immigrants try to hide themselves, hoping to be transported incognito into the UK via the tunnel under the English Channel:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/23/calais-migrants-strikes_n_7648768.html

(video):

http://news.sky.com/video/1507352/migrants-try-board-lorries-to-uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec7oFd0hg4g

www.ft.com/big-jump-in-migrants-to-UK/0/82e3f512-ff92-11e4-8c46-00144

UK public opinion is hardening. UKIP (UK Independence Party), the fast rising anti-immigration, anti European Union party, scored a large increase in its percentage vote in the recent UK general election:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results

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baybizz — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:50:03 GMT

>> Stowaway migrant falls to his death from jet as it approaches London Airport:

www.dailymail.co.uk/3130926/stowaway-falls-to-death-from-heathrow-jet