Nothing beats a flush in NZ
Perhaps we do have this in the States, but we’re not finding it in my local home improvement store.
While in New Zealand in 2007, my husband, Jim, and I were impressed that most of the toilets had two levels of flush. You could do a low-use flush or a full flush. What a boon in water saving, even if there were no instructions and it took me two days to figure it out!
MARION DURHAM
Tempe, AZ
by Paula Prindle, Orient, OH
We’ve all heard Churchill’s description of Russia — “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” — so my husband, David, and I were expecting culture shock on our August ’07 visit. But our biggest discovery was that modern Russia displays as many similarities to America as differences. Oh, sure, ...