Things are different here...
Don Erickson
derick at shark.zeni.net
Fri Apr 11 23:44:00 CDT 2003
In article <1050064139.3e96b50be0484 at www.tarcanfel.net> you write:
>For one thing, there's the keyboard. Left shift key is too short, and has the
>pipe/backslash right next to it. @ is with single-quote, down by L, along
>with ~#. Right-alt doesn't usually work.
Right. Try sending an email from Zurich, where the @ sign is the third
choice on a swiss keyboard key, and shift, alt, ctrl, nor any combination
of the above give you the @.
>The plumbing is different too. We're not in one of those quaint cottages
>where the drains run down the outside wall, but it still seems primitive. The
>toilets have these great deep bowls, and when you flush it feels like you're
>pumping the water up a well.
I was curious about the lack of water in the bowls in Italy... it's not a
water saving thing, as the water level is always the same before and after
the flush... I finally decided it must be to make less noise in the
cement walled bathrooms.
Maybe.
>Live from Andover, England
>Jonathan
Thanks for keeping us posted. Have a Guiness for me, the proper
temperature.
Regards,
-Don
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