My nemisis is the electric shower. I think I am pretty relaxed traveler. Ive stayed fairly happily in some pretty awful hotels... I'll try not to dwell on the windowless musty smoky crumb --and therefore ant--ridden over-priced room in Mendoza...But the one thing I hate is a cold shower, especially in Bogota which is a fairly chilly city. So why is it that everytime I come to Bogota I get saddled with a strange shower. My least favorite is this one. First of all electricity heats the water right before it hits you. Yes, exactly electricity +water+ old machine= really really safe. I cringe everytime I have to use one fo these which is luckily not that often. But this one has two additional faults: 1. unless the water is a little drip its cold--sure not freezing I just came from a glacier cold but cold none-the-less. The second little flaw, Maria saw sparks flying from it. She told me this right before she expalined how this was the most efficient way to heat water.
Well since the sparks, we have been bathing the old fashioned way which means stealing showers from other places if we are lucky or using a big bucket of water. Pesonally I have only had to do the bucket thing one time it should be two but I have decided I am just not showering. Previously, I managed by showering at my father's place great water pressure no crazy electronic heater and nice big marble shower, or by using a shower no one uses at the gym(there is only one). To give an indication of how desperate that makes me let me mention my father lives 45 minutes from here (during rush hour) and that the shower in the gym was in the only working woman's bathroom at the gym. There is one toilet, one shower in the bathroom, so I kept all the women in the gym without a toilet for about 7 minutes while I showered and got dressed. Not very nice I admit it.
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