Toilets of the World

One of these days I want to do a book on toilets of the world. For example, in Schiphol Airport's men's, they have a fine collection of miniature toilets, plus perfect flies painted here and there on the white porcelain fixtures. Here in the Gulf, every home lavatory includes a bidet. My wife used to fill them with mothballs on the assumption they were urinals.

Seeing the toilets is an important part of any foreign trip. It's why God invented Montezuma's revenge.

Here's a lovely example on the highway between Canakkale and Izmir in Turkey, just around a mountain bend. It's even better with the sound effects: as you sit on the head, a little voice says "I love you."