Phone booth converted into public shower at Germany's Baltic Sea

In what is perhaps Europe's first telephone booth to have been given a new seaside function, Germany's Baltic Sea coast is now giving visitors seawater showers in a converted shower booth. — Photo: Georg Wendt/dpa

Step into a telephone booth at Germany's north-eastern beaches, and you may get a soaking instead of a dial tone. That's because tourists at one Baltic Sea resort town are now being offered a newly converted shower booth.

Designed for a quick rinse with a view of the sea, the former telephone booth is one of thousands across Germany - and all across the planet - to have been decommissioned in the era of smartphones, but possibly the only one now finding a second life as a shower.