Some general observations:
American TV, Movies and Music dominate Europe. Whenever there is music playing in a public place, it is always English-language even though a lot of the people don't speak English. There are ads for American movies in all the subways (Spy, Jurassic World). The train station in Madrid had each set of huge windows covered in ads for American (and a few British) tv shows - Breaking Bad, Orange is the New Black, etc.
Except for Spain and Turkey, in the homes and the public restroom, they've had dual-flush toilets.
Every place we've stayed has had a hand held shower head not an attached shower head. But the really odd thing is that the hot and cold water pipes come out of the wall and join with a handled knob that sticks several inched out from the wall. And they are extremely sensitive - i.e. the different between too hot and too cold is about a fourth of an inch. On top of this, they have their hot water set REALLY hot. AND for many of these, the shower is very small (2 1/2 feet square) AND the handle is mounted between elbow and shoulder height. So your in this tiny shower and you lift your arm to wash your hair and it bumps this very sensitive handle..well you get the picture.
No one uses measuring cups (even the homes that are actuallly lived in, not just rented out, didn't have measuring cups).
No one drinks directly from a bottle (yes, I'm a barbarian because I drink directly from my water bottle).
Very few people own clothes dryers (just washing machines).
And lastly:
IKEA rules: everywhere we go and stay, has some IKEA items. The most popular is the round, silver, utensil holder (that we also own).
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