Ohhhhhhhhhh, dear oh dear oh dear! What happened to those tough yanks? Dirty Harry? John Wayne? Was that all a show? :lol

Hotels will have dunny paper......usually. Other places? A plastic dipper, a tap and your left hand! You fill the dipper. You hold it behind your back with your right hand. You pour it down your bum crack, and you wash vigourously with your left hand! It comes out so clean, you could eat your dinner off that area!

And the only place you'll find WORKING hot water is in the plushest hotels. Ordinary hotels will have silly little instantaneous units on the wall which never work, and always look like they'd electrocute you if they did! But hey.....this is the Phils! It's HOT! Their version of winter means that in the early hours of the morning you MAY turn off the ceiling fan and cover yourself with a sheet. You'll get to love the feeling of cold water hitting you. If you stay at your lady's parents house, chances are it won't be a shower anyway. It'll be a bucket of water. You squat on the floor. You tip water over yourself with the dipper. You soap up. You rinse the same way.

Honestly, Dave......you HAVE to realise that this isn't just another state of the US of A. It's a different country and different culture. You won't find the Wall Street Journal for sale. You won't eat pancakes for breakfast. You need an open mind and an adventurous nature. :D


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