Public toilets

So. Public toilets in France. Where to start ? First of all there are the horrors of the small stops along the motorway which are either metal toilets or porcelain holes in the ground. While the holes are disappearing quickly in France, it is very easy to stumble across them. I found one at a train station in the south of France once and the disabled ‘normal-style’ toilet was nowhere to be found. I also found that at one of the biggest ski resorts in the region has nearly nothing but holes in the ground as their facilities. If you do have the luck to find a ‘normal’ toilet then you will find that the national toilet-seat thief (I call him Jean-Claude de Merde) has stolen all of the loo seats in France for his own personal use. God knows what he does with them! There are also a surprising number of unisex toilets. With many of them placing the urinal next to the cubicle. So yes ladies, if you experience a call of nature you may have to walk pass a peeing man to answer said call. At university especially, if there is a gender-specific toilet members of the opposite sex will use it anyway. How odd!