Plumbing Caribbean Style!

We forget in our first world way how different simple things can be in a third world country. Sanitation has to be the one basic commodity, and just the fact that we cannot put toilet-paper in the toilet here due to the poor plumbing system highlights differences!! Somehow it still feels un-natural to go to the toilet and put all tissue-paper in the bin besides the toilet! Nick and I have joked about how this is a simple difference but one that takes some time (and experience) to become a ‘practiced bin depositer’! This caused us a little issue with our ‘hopper’ here, after we failed to do effective bin-deposting and we ended up with a blocked toilet. Requests to have it fixed eventually resulted in Nick taking on the task of plumber, being that plumbers here work on “island time”. We have now taken to using the toilet in Lily’s Restaurant downstairs for those ‘No.2’ moments…..just in case!