Civilized Features of France

Here are some things that make traveling in France satisfying.

The typical petit dejeuner, a french breakfast. Sometimes just a croissant, bread and coffee, Often supplemented with cheeses, cold cuts, jams, yoghurt, muesli, fruit cocktail, juices and more.

Boiled eggs were a new experience for me

Cafes everywhere

And pastry shops ...

where a quick meal or just pastry with tea or coffee can be had

Cooked food available in the open-air food markets

Open-air booths full of fresh oysters in Cancale

Opened right in front of you. The separated top of the shell is left on for you to remove. Often there is meat on the top and bottom shell.

Eaten on a ledge over the water with the shells discarded into the sea and the plate returned to the vendor.

This represents the amuse bouches delivered at the start of many meals to delight the palate. Here, a tomato partially coated with Elmer's glue and sesame seeds in an olive oil sauce. An egg concoction alongside.

American coffee, proudly offered

Excellent wines at low prices. The muscadets went very well with oysters in Brittany.

Cider on the right, served in the traditional way

This church-corner sculpture represents a culture which provides a tourist with plenty of places to piss

Tourist #1

Tourist #2

The tradition of pissing in public lives. Here, a man pisses on the side of a church.

Many hotels provide toilet rooms separate from the wash room

A funny list of instructions in a restaurant toilet

Countless beautiful places to walk on the wild side

Ditto

Well marked

Or nice places to sit in a museum

Flowers everywhere - at a fair price

Street decorations

Nice walks on the river in Rouen ....

With special features to make it easy for bicyclists

Well-designed manhole covers

Playful rolls of hay in the countryside

Amusing greenery at the entrance to a museum

Good little hotels, easily found by recommendation from other hotels if they do not have room

Bars (here in a small Brittany port) where everyone who enters shakes the hand of those already there - including mine

Graceful old objects. Here, a rope holder separating lanes inside the abbey at Mont St. Michel.

Witty souvenirs (this one at Mont St. Michel)

And a love of vacations! Here shown in a message on a restaurant door.