The Champagne tasting and sale shop, at 3, rue Dom Perginon proudly annouces that it is open, amonst other times, 10h30 - 18h00, all week except Mondays, all year with certain exceptions November - March. Except, apparently, right when we were there. Very French.
The public toilets were exemplary. Clean, spotless even, accessible, and with the gentlemens' urinals shielded from prudish view by batwing doors. Clearly catering for tourists who expect nothing less, especially, I imagine, our American cousins. Not French at all.
The opening or non opening hours in much of Europe are like that, many years ago we travelled to a town famous for ceramics in the Abruzzi in Italy, to see the tiled ceiling in the old church, it is also a museum.
ReplyDeletePhoned ahead to make sure it was open, but when we got there it was closed and no one had a key, the only good thing was the ceramics school next door felt sorry for us after the journey gave us a personal tour of all that was going on and a tour with guidance of there museum which was wonderful.