So Many Hotel Rooms, So Many Taps

[icyfroth]

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.

[onlinehokum]

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@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

[lloydslights]

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

[lurker172602]

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..

[go-tazz]

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@lloydslights wrote:

Hiya Icy.

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

DEB

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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).

[lind9650]

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

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

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!!

[icyfroth]

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@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

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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.

[icyfroth]

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@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

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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.

[icyfroth]

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@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..

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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.