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Prague
The Prague Metro system has some facilities. You have to pay to use them.
You will also need to pay to ride the Metro: 18 Kč for a ride of up to five stations and a period of 30 minutes. Validate it when you enter the system, keep it until you get out.
This is the clean and modern toilet and sink at
Hotel Anna,
in Prague.
Budečskà 17
+420-222-513-111
http://hotelanna.cz/
It features the standard rocker switch and grounded 230V outlet found throughout western and central Europe.
Czech Trains
The City Night Line passenger train provides great service north and west from Prague through Berlin, Köln, and Amsterdam.
The City Night Line includes the common couchette overnight accomodation, but it also has luxury first-class sleeper compartments.
This is the nicest overnight train I have ever seen!
This gymnastic minded toilet is in the spacious handicap accessible lavatory in a couchette car on board the City Night Line train.
The luxury First Class sleeper compartments on the City Night Line train have their own compact but private toilet and shower!
It is not as cramped as you might expect — there is no need to stand straddling the toilet as you shower. The private lavatory is oval in shape, with the toilet at one side and a sink and shower area at the other.
This washroom is on board a EuroCity train running from Budapest to Prague.
Rose George's The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters is a fascinating description of sanitation conditions around the world. "2.6 billion people don't have sanitation. [....] Four in ten people have no access to any latrine, toilet, bucket, or box."
In September 2009, Morna Gregory and Sian James published a book titled Toilets of the World. It's pretty much the same theme that you find here — photographs and commentary on other people's plumbing.
The Porcelain God: A Social History of the Toilet, by Julie Horan, contends that civilization began with the toilet.
Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, edited by Laura Noren and Harvey Molotch, has essays by anthropologists, sociologists, and architects on the importance of the toilet, especially for urban dwellers.
Latrinae Et Foricae: Toilets in the Roman World describes the toilets of the Roman Empire from Iberia to Syria, and from North Africa to Hadrian's Wall in Britannia.
Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks, and Sewers: A History of the Bathroom, explains the history of personal cleanliness and hygiene to children in grades 5-8.
| A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used. |
How long have my Toilets of the World pages been around? I'm not exactly sure, although they started in the mid 1990s as a single page on a Purdue University server. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine lets you see what that looked like as far back as January 17, 1999.
My cromwell-intl.com domain appeared in September, 2001, although the Wayback Machine didn't notice its one enormous Toilet of the World page until January 17, 2002. Some time soon after that I split it into categories, and the collection has grown ever since.
In December, 2010 I registered the toilet-guru.com domain and moved the pages to a dedicated server.
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