30 August 2011

French toilettes. . .


Apparently it is completely normal for men to be wandering around the women's bathrooms.  Sometime the bathrooms are truly unisex, but mostly they were Dads helping their daughters.  But my girls were a little confused. . .Mags even went back out and checked the sign on one of the doors to make sure we were in the right place!

And another new thing at the train station public toilettes:

 

Our first pay toilet!  It even had a ticket booth and turnstiles to walk through!  There was a woman mopping the floor and monitoring the bathroom, but I think it is a little ridiculous that we had to pay almost $1.00 each to use the bathroom!  I have never liked the whole concept of tipping the (usually singing) women who offer me strange lotions and hard candy in bathrooms in the US either.  And they are never at fancy places where it might be expected--it's always at places like the Sandwich Fair or the Wildhorse Saloon, etc.  Oh well, when in Rome (or Paris). . . 


I had been warned by a few different people that French bathrooms are never very clean, so I am glad that we were at Disneyland for our first experience.  Disney is immaculate no matter where you are in the world!!