Instead of toilet paper they used a sponge on a stick. If the person before you did not clean the sponge properly or put it back the wrong way you might grab the wrong end of the stick. This is an expression we still use. There was a bath room where they had a long process to get washed. First you had to get changed, then sweat in a hot room. The slaves would scrape all the sweat off you and put it in a jar which they would give to you to take home. Men would give the jar to a lady to use in her hair.
The water supply had 6000 litres. There was a historical species of snail on the post, just by the water source.They are protected and you can't touch them.
The Villa had heated floors. They built a fire underneath the floor to keep the room warm. They had to wear sandles in the hot room so they didn't burn their feet.
This would have been a heated room.We also visited an Abbey in a little village. In the church yard we saw a grave stone that said 35 year old lady killed by a tiger in 1703.
That is absolutely disgusting and I am so very glad I was not born in that time...! A communal toilet - that doesn't sound very private. I didn't know that that was where that expression came from - but it is very appropriate. I would not like to get the wrong end of the stick...YUCK!!
ReplyDeleteThose snails are very interesting. I don't really like bugs and slimy insects but that snail look pretty cool. Not at all like our garden snail here in Australia.
Graveyards can be sad places to visit. How interesting that a lady was killed by a tiger? I can't imagine what sort of animas would have been wondering around in 1703