Posted: 2006-01-07 18:49:00
I find it very useful to pass a string through a loo roll and tight it behind your neck. So you can wear the roll like a necklace, so when you go to squat toilet, or a very dirty one and you have nowhere clean to put it, if you wear it around your neck, it stays clean! No more wet patches or disgusting things on it!
(I know; you will look funny, but you have to make a choice!)
--- "It is far more better to have seen it once than to have heard about it a thousand time." Mongolian proverb
Posted: 2006-01-08 17:11:00
too funny.. I just gather what I can, where I can and put it in a baggy and put it in the waistband in the back of my pants, that way it's always there when I need it and it doesnt' get soggy from the humidity.
Posted: 2006-01-09 02:38:00
The last couple of weeks before a trip, I "monitor" the bathrooms in my house and watch for rolls to get about 2/3 done. Then I grab the roll, flatten it and put it in a baggy. The cardboard roll kepts it tidy and easy to pull out and the baggy keeps it dry. I like Isabelle's idea though because it would keep the roll handy. I think I will start tying a string through before I put it in the bag so it is ready to go when I have to!
Eire
--- Life is not measured by the breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.
Posted: 2006-01-14 20:56:00
Lol roll, I wish I had taken loo roll with me when I 'had' to find a toilet in Kenya.... no such luck.. leaves were helpful though ;-)
Posted: 2006-01-21 15:01:00
I was entertained to say the least when in a rural part of Gambia. My rather obsessive friend appeared with more rolls of pink loo roll than required!! I was not laughing later when we were both rather ill and fighting over it!
In Nepal, i guess i went native out in the rural areas - hand and a water bucket!!
I will remember the string idea for future trips!!!!
Posted: 2006-01-21 15:53:00
Tissue in rollform or "Cleenix" type box-form is very essential and usefull always when travelling and can be used for almost everything. This doent help sometimes though. I wonce boarded a train in South America and when needing to "go" discovered that the train toilets were disgustingly decorated with brown finger smears all over the walls and doors. Not accepting this I waited painfully for the next train station. Making sure that the train will stop for atleast 5 minutes, I dashed into the station and headed to the gents to find 12 stainless steel bowls but everyone of them filled to the brim! I ran back to the train and as it pulled off used the toilets there with a bit of protest! RR
Lately I always packed wet towels, normally used for cleaning of babies, they are great when you are somewhere in the bush and need to clean... great for thousand of purposes...
Have a clean day
Martin
--- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it!
