Just had the immense pleasure of driving the entire length of France without so much as a whiff of a traffic jam (okay, maybe there was a short queue outside the Carrefour car park on my way out of Calais, but given the amount of Brits buying boxes of wine it%26#39;s reasonable). The scenery was in the main stunning - especially the lesser known departments such as Aveyron with its Grandes Causses and Grottes. Millau Bridge (British designer, French engineers) is a marvel. The brown information signs showing things to see in the region were great and the stop offs in little medieval towns were also %26#39;genial.%26#39;The food at the service stations, when it was necessary to eat there, was on the whole superior to most food served at the average British services. However, I cannot for the life of me understand why the hole in the floor toilets still exist when, given the choice of five empty ones of this particular type, and a queue for a tradtional British type, everyone, including the French ladies, queue and wait for the latter. If nobody wants to use them, why have them? Does anyone in France actually enjoy getting their feet wet when they flush or are these things in existence in order to make the French practise queuing? Answers on a postcard...
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Good questions, girimanc. I do know the answers but not having a postcard handy they will have to remain one of life%26#39;s imponderable mysteries...
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%26quot;Does anyone in France actually enjoy getting their feet wet when they flush%26quot;
girlmanc,
This is of course why one sees so few French people wearing sandals.
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I haven%26#39;t come across a hole in the ground for years........not since I started to use the disabled toilet. Lol:)
No seriously I noticed this year that at many of the motorways %26quot;aires%26quot; where there are no facilities only toilets that they have started to combine the ladies %26quot;holes%26quot; with a disabled toilet. So maybe they are on the way out. In the meantime if faced with what you had look for a disabled toilet, rarely a queue.
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I don%26#39;t like them either, but if you step away from the footpads your chances of being doused are pretty small...
Any port in a storm.
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You are right about the %26#39;aires%26#39; and the disabled toilets, but we found that in many restaurants too, the %26#39;wet your feet%26#39; kind were the only ones available. By the time you get to Spain again of course, the toilets become more sensible again!
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wet feet is better than wet knickers.....
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They are supposed to be more hygienic----so they say.
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What do you all feel about the unisex toilets that are becoming more common, especially in places like Belgium and Sweden..?
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I%26#39;m not fussed -- at least not after I get over that %26quot;Oh, snap, I%26#39;ve walked into the wrong loo!%26quot; moment!
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I think its a post- WWII thing- some form of tradition of French perseverence, or else they like the leg muscles tight. Cheers,
Lots of time in the 12,
Gregor
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