{"id":2241,"date":"2013-02-10T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T10:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ozaki.fr\/blog\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2013-02-10T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T10:05:56","slug":"oddity-1-traveling-with-your-own-loo-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozaki.fr\/blog\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Oddity 1 – Traveling with your own loo seat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Why do Belgians collect? Well, it’s anxiety. A fear of death which is really a fear of life. We’re so scared of living we’re like the living dead. So we collect in order to become immortal – the complete speeches of General de Gaulle, stamps, Magritte’s paintings, it can be anything even tins of pilchards. It’s a false idea of life – as if we were eternal.
\nI exhibit the underwear I get in the post – which isn’t much. For every thousand letters I send, I get about 10 pairs – it’s tough. I wrote to the King – ‘Majesty, send me your Y-fronts’ and the Queen of England – ‘Hey Queen of England! Send me your knickers!’ Why not?” – Jan Bucquoy in “Belgium” by Jonathan Meades<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, why not? Anybody in the Queen’s entourage, could you please spare one and send it to Jan? For Art’s sake?<\/p>\n

\nSo according to BBC news, Prince Charles travels with his own loo seat.<\/p>\n

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“She (the Queen) never takes her own loo seat,” a royal official has said. “Only Prince Charles does that.” <\/p>\n

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It reminds me of Leh’s bus station, Ladakh, north India. Early morning, I was about to embark in a long, long and uncomfortable bus ride. Asking a group of locals directions to the toilets, I only got them to laugh at me: “Toilets?” The guys waves his hands around. “Open toilet! Open!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Why do Belgians collect? Well, it’s anxiety. A fear of death which is really a fear of life. We’re so … <\/p>\n

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