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Post by Terrapin Station on Aug 10, 2018 9:36:54 GMT
Tons of times, in lots of different countries. Partially due to traveling as a musician. Partially due to girlfriends, fiancees, wives. Your girlfriends, fiancées, wives, or someone else's? It was never the home they still lived in, as they were living in the States at that point, and usually with me (actually every one of them was living with me except for a girlfriend from Laos and a girlfriend whose mom was from Japan), but sometimes it was the house they'd been living in. For example, up until a few years ago, my present wife's mom, aunt, and a nephew she had raised more or less as her own son (that sister had a number of problems) were still living in a house my wife had lived in since she was teen, and that's where we'd usually stay when we visited South Africa. Aside from that, it could be the homes of parents, siblings, aunts/uncles, cousins, friends--all sorts of things. On the music side, it was also sometimes the homes of people with some professional association to us--promoters, venue owners, all sorts of things, or people I'd just met and become friendly with at the time. Or course I've stayed in hotels plenty while working, too, but sometimes it's nicer, and it's certainly cheaper--which was sometimes part of how a tour was feasible in the first place--to stay in someone's home. Sometimes there are "band houses," too--homes or apartments a venue, promoter, record label, etc. owns expressly for the purpose of letting the band stay there while in town, but I'm not sure if those would count for this. Those work more like time shares that you don't have to pay for. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 20:14:00 GMT
Tons of times, in lots of different countries. Partially due to traveling as a musician. Partially due to girlfriends, fiancees, wives. A girl in every port? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 20:14:37 GMT
Yes, in France
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2018 3:31:05 GMT
I suppose they consider toilets in the house unsanitary. Unlikely that it's an idea of being unsanitary inside the house. Has to do with plumbing. Need a water source .. in the country you need a well with piping going into the house. Did your grandparents have running water in the kitchen with some sort of a pump or did they carry water into the house with pails ? You also need some kind of drain field or holding tank for the used water.
Late 70s lived in an old house with ONLY an outdoor facility and carried water into the house via milk pails. Heated water on the stove for bathing and washing dishes etc. Getting the well connected to the new house and having a shower and not having to trot out to the privy …. MMMmmmmmm ! Heaven !
OP answer : yes . Pretty much the same as here except that there were heating pipes in the closets to warm your clothes overnight and the rooms themselves were kept on the chilly side. |
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Post by gameboy on Aug 14, 2018 4:11:54 GMT
I suppose they consider toilets in the house unsanitary. Unlikely that it's an idea of being unsanitary inside the house. Has to do with plumbing. Need a water source .. in the country you need a well with piping going into the house. Did your grandparents have running water in the kitchen with some sort of a pump or did they carry water into the house with pails ? You also need some kind of drain field or holding tank for the used water.
Late 70s lived in an old house with ONLY an outdoor facility and carried water into the house via milk pails. Heated water on the stove for bathing and washing dishes etc. Getting the well connected to the new house and having a shower and not having to trot out to the privy …. MMMmmmmmm ! Heaven !
OP answer : yes . Pretty much the same as here except that there were heating pipes in the closets to warm your clothes overnight and the rooms themselves were kept on the chilly side. My grandmother had a sink with running water. But I suppose you're right and it's a plumbing issue. However, on old farms in Colorado and in working class Mexican neighborhoods, the gist is the same, they just don't imagine the toilets being in the house. Some of the houses in Mexico have a very modern restroom in the back. It's almost like a small restroom with a toilet and a sink you'll see in an American park. Other homeowners with less money just have an outhouse in back. But all the houses I stayed in had running water in the kitchen. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2018 11:21:11 GMT
gameboy It's all similar to the way campers and RVs are set up. Grey water (kitchen sinks/bathtubs) and Black water (toilets). They have to be dealt with differently. A simple drain field can handle the grey water from the house and often it's just a matter of a pipe going outside and a wet spot in the yard. The outhouse/privy is another matter and needs a hole in the ground.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 14, 2018 17:59:24 GMT
Right after I finished university I went on an internship exchange program in Poland, during which time I became friends with a number of other foreigners who were on the same program. After I left Poland, I traveled extensively through Europe and visited some of those friends in Germany, Italy, France, Holland and Belgium.
Aside from that, I have been traveling all over the world for work for quite some time now. I’ve been invited to dinner by the people I was working with in a few different countries – France, South Korea, England, India, Australia. Australia was a funny story – the engineer I was working with invited me to come to his home on Sunday “for tea and to watch the footy”. I gladly accepted it, but then I made plans to go out of town, so I cancelled. It was only later that I found out that by “tea” he had meant the evening meal. I thought he was inviting me to stop by for a cup of tea; if I had known that he was actually inviting me for a meal at his home, I would never have cancelled.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 14, 2018 18:45:44 GMT
Yes, in Ireland. I travelled with a friend and we stayed at his Uncles house in Lisdoonvarna, and also visited his grandma in Craggah. Several others in Ireland.
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Post by mslo79 on Aug 15, 2018 3:50:50 GMT
No.
I only been to Canada briefly (I live in Michigan USA) back in the day (probably something like the early-to-mid 1990's or so) with parents. but we did not know anyone.
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