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Different strokes for different folks - or: Why can't I move the shower head?
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on October 24, 2007, 06:58:31 am ---I think they're mostly common in Fance. In Germany, they're not regular everywhere, but they're widespread enough so people know what they're for :laugh:
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I remember bidets back in Italy in 1972, but on more recent trips to England, France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, and Switzerland, I never saw one...so I don't think they are very common, at least not anymore.
Leslie
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 23, 2007, 04:50:41 pm ---How about bedding? In Europe you have a duvet and a pillow; cuddle up in the duvet and you are warm and toasty. Here we have sheets, blankets, pillows, comforters...ugh. I like the European style much better.
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I think the American/English style looks prettier, but the European ones are more practical.
As intersting as the bedding is the body of the bed itself. In America (and England), it looks like a bed would exist of two matrasses, one atop of the other, sometimes a valance around the bottom one. They don't seem to have a slatted frame. That was really weird to me the first time I was in England; it felt somehow "fake", like it wouldn't be a "correct" bed, but only two matrasses with a headboard :laugh:
The beds I'm used to look like this:
Then you put a matrass on it (One's enough! ;D) and that's it.
--- Quote ---Let's see...not to be so contrary about the US...we do have bigger refrigerators. And I have to say, I like my big fridge!
Leslie
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I think with the big fridges it's the same as with dishwashers: you don't need one, but as soon as you have one, you would never again want to live without it :laugh:
MaineWriter:
Remember when I was looking for the hotel in Amersfoort and it advertised that it had a box spring? (That's the bottom mattress, Chrissi. It's not really a mattress.) I said to Fabienne, what's the big deal? and she said, oh, box springs are very unusual in Europe! LOL
L
louisev:
Some of the things I found that are different between Germany and America...
Try going to a grocery store on a Saturday evening! In the last two years some of the grocery stores are staying open past 6 p.m. on Saturdays, but you wont find a single one open on a Sunday!
No checks please! Almost all commerce - in Germany, at least, is done via direct bank transfer payments, or what we call ACH payment in the US. I never wrote a check in all the time I was in Germany!
Residence registration: all residents, citizens or visitors, have to register their residence with the local Burgeramt. Because this is unheard of in America, Americans generally overlook this - but if you don't, it is impossible to get a visa.
Satellite tv anyone? In the US and Canada, you have to sign up with a satellite service provider, and get your equipment from them. In Germany, it's all programmed into the equipment, and you simply by the receiver that is preprogrammed.
TV and Radio Tax! While you are registering yourself at the Burgeramt, dont forget to play your TV and Radio tax, for each device you use in your home.
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 24, 2007, 08:12:57 am ---Remember when I was looking for the hotel in Amersfoort and it advertised that it had a box spring? (That's the bottom mattress, Chrissi. It's not really a mattress.) I said to Fabienne, what's the big deal? and she said, oh, box springs are very unusual in Europe! LOL
L
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Box springs are exclusive and very pricy over here. Regular people have beds like the one Chrissi posted (with the one mattress). ;D
Another difference between Belgium and Canada: they drive really big cars over there. And I mean BIG cars! :o Our rental vehicle was a Ford Taurus and I've never driven around in such a huge car. It was nice to drive though. And an automatic, also something we're not used to.
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