Dixie-Baden

There's a trend around Wiesbaden....a trend that I hadn't seen before.  Over the past couple of months....around the city parks where the homeless or transit folks hang out......more and more Dixi toilets are appearing.  This is by the city park where the old Rose Hotel used to operate.

It kinda stands out.  They try to put these in the corner of parks and in some way to be barely noticed.  Maybe....eventually....they will 'art-up' the Dixi toilets.  Put a Mona Lisa picture on it.....maybe add some design or windmill contraption.....and make it look dignified.

The general problem is that public toilets in most all German cities have disappeared over the past twenty years.  Other than the train station and a half-dozen of these space-age looking toilets (50-cents per use) that are spread around the city.....there's virtually no place for a regular guy or gal to do their 'business'.  So these folks start to just stand behind some tree and pee there, or crap behind some bush.  As stupid as it looks to have a Dixi toilet in a German city park.....it's the only solution because they've gotten rid of all public toilets.