Public Restrooms

When in a café, you are allowed to use the restroom, but you cannot just come off the street and use the WC in a café without buying a drink. You never know what kind of bathroom you will get: it may be one you need to access by putting a coin in the door; it may be a toilet like in North America or it may be a turkish toilet, where there is no toilet bowl, but basically a very flat porcelain basin level with the ground requiring you to squat (no picture yet).

You do get used to these things . . . Outdoor restrooms are also available.

There aren't too many of these left around the city. A quick pit stop for guys only. This one is on my way to the bank, just between the street and the sidewalk.

It is also a good place for graffiti.

A more modern version, available to anyone for a euro or two. After each use, the entire inside gets rinsed, so chances are that you may end up with a very wet restroom.

I often wonder why the French put up with restrooms that more often than not are not very clean or user friendly. These things don't surprise me anymore, but they do still make me wonder.