Insoluble travel mysteries
There are those issues that always come back when I am traveling. Read along, you will undoubtedly recognize them.
Why does a hotel room have so many light switches and why don't I understand them?
My fine but truly modest hotel room in Milan had 13 light switches, eight of which were already next to the bed. It took me an hour to figure out how to turn off the light under the TV and I still don't understand the logic of the bathroom lighting. The light from the mirror was in the walk-in in front, the light from the shower ‘just’ in the bathroom itself.
Why is the heat in the shower not constant?
From the Four Seasons to Le Meurice to an ordinary three-star hotel, I can't get a constant stream. Not in water quantity but certainly not in temperature. I keep fiddling with the knob in my quest for the perfect warmth. It's not working. It probably has to do with the fact that at ‘my’ moments there are still 75 others in and out of their showers. Understandable, but also quite annoying.
The more expensive the hotel, the more glitchy the wifi
From eight euros a day to twenty-four euros. And then also having to submit your email address every time or type in a novel as a password. Why, people? We don't have to pay for gas and electricity, do we?
The hair mystery
In New York, your hair is always bad and you have dark circles. The latter could be due to the jet lag, but it's not dark circles but puffy cases above your eye instead of below it. In Milan, on the other hand, our hair looks good. Liesbeth's curls and mine has volume. See; beauty may not be genetic but is certainly geographically determined.
Why is the suitcase always fuller on the way back?
Even if you haven't bought anything your suitcase weighs at least a kilo or two more and fits less. We all brought gifts for our Milanese friends and returned with just three light Frozen dolls (and okay, a Olaf cutlery) but it was packing and pushing and measuring. Is the suitcase sometimes full of memories?
Why does your mobile run out of battery so quickly abroad?
Especially during fashion week, our iPhones last until 11:00 at most but okay, then you also stumble over the Kims and Olivias of this world and take a few more pictures. But even outside the fashion circus, it's a given that there's a leak in the mobiles. It starts in the airplane and then we drag ourselves with batteries and power strips. Who tells us why this is? Who?
