Toting babies in Spain
I can say this easily, Spain is not baby-friendly. I've become used to bathrooms here - and in Italy - that are truly water closets, small recessions in the wall that contain a toilet and then maybe a common area sink that may or may not contain soap and certainly won't have a reliable dryer. I accept that as part of the cultural landscape. But what I can't accept now, as a parent, is the inability to change a baby anywhere in a restaurant besides on your seat. We've been taking an informal poll and the ONLY place we've been that had an actual baby changing area in its servicios was the new rest area we stopped at on the way home from Madrid; and maybe because it was brand new it had to comply to a public building code that mandated a changing area. In two days in Madrid we changed Bianca on a patio table outside the front door to the Polish Embassy, in the rear seat of the BMW, in the front seat, in her stroller, on the counter of the ladies' room at a Mexican restaurant (I did this one as there was no soap or counter in the men's room) and on our chairs. I'm sure the restaurants would object to changing her on the table. And our hotel, which was very nice, had a three step staircase to access the elevators, with no ramp; which means we had to do a tandem lift on the stroller every time. I guess wheelchair bound people can't stay at that hotel. And don't get me started on getting a stroller out of parking garages - using the ramp is not always easy or, you know, takes you to a different block!


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