Nightmare in France mixed toilets

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Ive been in France for two weeks now and appalled at toilet rules here.

i have two young DD who I cannot let go to the toilets on their own anymore.

Bistro number 1, urinals, a male toilet and a female toilet. Past the urinals!!! So having to take my 8 year of and 11 year old past pissing men to access the toilet.

Restaurant number 2 - mixed sink area, 4 toilets one in male/female and baby changing, one male and one female and one blank. Took them both to the loo - had to put one in blank and one in female as baby changing was full. Then had to stop men in my rudimentary French from trying to use the blank one as my DD was in there, then having to listen to men pee etc and get my daughters out of there ASAP.

just shocked at how toilets are now mixed in France and feel I should warn you all.

Ha! We wnet to a music festival in France a few years ago and there was an area outside the venue with supplementary temporary toilets. They had single portaloos on one side and a number of temporay urinals in a star shape (so four men could stand around and use them IYSIM) on the other and a mixed queue down a pathway in the middle . The urinals were simply placed opposite the portaloos with none of the hoardings or privacy screens you see at UK fesitvals. No one seemed to bat an eyelid that the (mainly female) queue for the portaloos had full view of the urinals.

What on earth are you talking about? You are in France, it is acceptable to have mixed conveniences and have done for centuries. You either accept it is their way of life or, leave the country and don't return.

Yeah.

IMO this thread sounds like "I went to a foreign country and they do things different from my own country, make them change to suit me!"