The Bathrooms
The bathrooms are quite spacious because there’s nothing in them except the bare necessities! The floors and walls up to about six feet are light-colored ceramic tiles. The sinks are attached to the walls with no cupboard or skirt below them. The toilet flushes by pulling a fob on the top of the tank behind the “seating area.” Each bathroom has a water heater near the ceiling above the toilet to heat water for the shower and the sink. We turn the electricity for it on each morning before we need to use hot water, then turn it off again. On the far side of each bathroom there is a window with frosted glass, both of which are so rusty they don’t shut, but it doesn’t matter. Next to the window there is plumbing to shower, a nozzle below, and a flexible metal hose that the cleaning lady uses to fill a bucket to clean with. When we take a shower water gets all over the bathroom because there’s no shower curtain. There is one towel rack and two small wooden shelves between the sink and the shower that can hold soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and toothpaste. Anything other than that has to be stored in the bedrooms or kitchen.