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July 5, 2007
The Big Blue Bathtub
During my recent visit to Toronto (the one that afforded the opportunity to meet Dale), I stayed at a really lovely b&b near High Park. The hostess had agreed to give me a room with a private bathroom, and when I arrived, she said she had two rooms available, one with a shower and one with a bathtub, and asked if I had a preference for baths or showers. I said, "Actually, I prefer baths," because I do. So she showed me to a room that included this, immediately to your left upon entirely the main room:
It was huge! It dominated the room. If you liked bathing with an audience, it could be cool, because there were two ways you could be seen: someone could just lie in bed and watch you take a bath, or someone could stand in the hall and have quite a good view.
That door you see a bit of to the left is the door out into the hall. There were no locks on the doors, and the latches weren't entirely tight--the door sometimes blew open if another door in the house was shut forcibly. So I had to prop a chair against the door to ensure that it wouldn't blow open while I was sitting in the tub.
If I ever stay there again--and it really was a lovely place, so I wouldn't rule that out--I'll take the room with the shower.
Posted by holly at July 5, 2007 9:38 AM
Ha ha, I ended up with a room with a similar problem once! It had a separate bathroom with a gigantic tub in the center of the room, but that separate bathroom had an entire wall of WINDOWS. With no curtains or blinds!
What a glorious tub!
My first reaction was, 'what's a little "chair propping" inconvenience compared to the magnificence of this tub' (especially when weighed against a mere shower). However, given some time for clarity of thought, I completely understand why you might pick the room with the shower given another opportunity.
Hope you had an enjoyable Independence Day.
You told me it was big Holly but I really didn't expect it to be that dominant! Hilarious.