I remember the French “hole in the floor toilet” . I am a woman and had to undress to make sure I was over it just to pee. Wouldn’t you know it there was a man on the roof peeking at me.
I think I screamed something that they had not heard a Texan say since WW2.
If you had told anyone over there about it, you would have gotten that stupid shrug that they do. I had a Depardieu look alike on the Metro show me how he used to fight in the old days. Fists stopping inches from my nose. I looked him straight in the eye and he ambled away. A french dude translated that he had actually been a boxer and was probably trying to scare an American tourist.
All in all it was a beautiful city. Oh, I almost forgot, I saw a salami hit his wife in a McDonalds. He slapped her with a hand he brought from behind his head. No reaction whatever in the place. This was 96.