What is that nasty smell?
Here’s a FAQ not to be read while eating. I hope this never happens to you, but just in case, I thought I’d address the evil odour that often wafts up through drains in my bathroom, and, it seems, in many other peoples’ bathrooms in places a couple of hundred years old. This would be an embarrassing topic, if it were not entirely NOT MY FAULT IT SMELLS!! I thought I was being a bad housewife, but it turns out it has to do with the plumbing system in Italy. Here is how it works. In most civilized countries, the “dirty waters” from your kitchen and bathroom go directly into a common sewer and travel to the treatment plant. In Italy and France, they are first held in a fosse biologica, a kind of septic tank, on your property. Those of you with a cottage in North America will be familiar with this primitive system. In this nasty place, the size of which is commensurate with the size of the building in question, brace yourself: intestinal bacteria breaks down the… yaknow, the stuff. Without
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