Bathrooms of Ottawa/Montreal
I would like to take this opportunity to continue Goh's fine literary work "Bathrooms of the Bay Area".
During our recent trip to Ottawa and Montreal, Richel and I had many opportunities to walk to different shops, boutiques, and yes, bathrooms. What I found was quite surprising and astonishing. Although, maybe I shouldn't have been.
What I've realized is that many times the bathrooms reflect the character of the city or the neighborhood that you're in. For example, many of the bathrooms in Chicago, especially on Michigan avenue and pretty nice. They're modern, usually pretty clean, well lit, pretty hi-tech (you don't have to touch anything). Some places even have potpourri. But the bathrooms in Ottawa/Montreal are as old as the cities themselves and often reflect the old feel and architecture of the city. Even bathrooms in grand places like the Fairmont Hotel in Ottawa had very plain bathrooms; I was very disappointed and almost shocked. One would think that the Fairmont Hotel would have the newest and best of everything: marble floors, motion sensors for the sinks, paper towels and soap, clean mirrors, bright lighting. But no. These bathrooms looked like they were from a high school from the 70's - faded tiles on the 60's-ish coloured floor, dingy stalls and sinks, poor lighting, dirty mirrors, no paper in the paper towel dispenser. One could say it almost looked gross.
Stay tuned for the follow-up sequel, "Bathrooms of Chicago".
During our recent trip to Ottawa and Montreal, Richel and I had many opportunities to walk to different shops, boutiques, and yes, bathrooms. What I found was quite surprising and astonishing. Although, maybe I shouldn't have been.
What I've realized is that many times the bathrooms reflect the character of the city or the neighborhood that you're in. For example, many of the bathrooms in Chicago, especially on Michigan avenue and pretty nice. They're modern, usually pretty clean, well lit, pretty hi-tech (you don't have to touch anything). Some places even have potpourri. But the bathrooms in Ottawa/Montreal are as old as the cities themselves and often reflect the old feel and architecture of the city. Even bathrooms in grand places like the Fairmont Hotel in Ottawa had very plain bathrooms; I was very disappointed and almost shocked. One would think that the Fairmont Hotel would have the newest and best of everything: marble floors, motion sensors for the sinks, paper towels and soap, clean mirrors, bright lighting. But no. These bathrooms looked like they were from a high school from the 70's - faded tiles on the 60's-ish coloured floor, dingy stalls and sinks, poor lighting, dirty mirrors, no paper in the paper towel dispenser. One could say it almost looked gross.
Stay tuned for the follow-up sequel, "Bathrooms of Chicago".
posted by V-Hume at 12:54 AM
6 Comments:
Yes. I like bathrooms where you don't have to touch anything. The doors should open automatically, too. Do you like toilets that flush automatically, or do you find them annoying?
I think the automatic toilet is convenient. It saves me the trouble of flushing the toilet with my shoe and getting my shoe all dirty.
Except when it flushes at the wrong time, and you have to use your shoe anyways.
The worst is when you want it to flush and it doesn't. And then you're stuck in the stall waving your hand across the toilet bowl over and over until the damn thing flushes.
Which is exactly why I hate them.
On your other blog, the pictures aren't showing up. And the homecoming stories don't show up on my computer, but it shows up on the other computers.
Not sure why. Have you checked your computer?
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