#toillettes

The big question that no one dares to ask, but comes to all tourist sooner or later. It is the law on nature. Well, I think I have some good advice on this one (and on everything in general, but that's a different story).

So, I have been walking the streets of Paris for two months now. I am a great walker, when it comes to discovering. I wonder, I see, I observe, I marvel, my mouth drop in awe, I drink in the city, the feeling, the people, everything. So here is what I learned in the last two months.

First, if you are doing things right, you might not even need to find a toilet in the 8 hours you spend in Paris a day. Why? Because you walk so much, your body simply decides to hold on to the liquids rather than to let it go. You are an animal, and evolution is real, so your body tries to survive the show which is called: Sightseeing in Paris.

If you have drunk too much or walked too slowly, one of the most basic needs of people might rise inside you when you are under the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame or a nameless, but lovely little street. What to do?

You need to know that you should not get your expectations very high. Paris is great in many ways, toilets are not one of them.

Here is what you can do:

-walk into any fast food restaurants (Quick, Macdo, Burger King, KFC...) and search for the toilet. No one will stop you, because all the toilets are working with a 50 cent coin. They are fairly nice too. Or you can buy something for one euro and ask for a coin, which they are obliged to give to you if you are a paying customer. It is 50 cents more, but you can satisfy two basic needs from one euro, I think it is not such a bad business.

-if you are under 26 (or in some cases, 25) almost all museums are free for you. And the toilets in the museums as well. It is not the best motivation to go into a museum, and I won't say how many nice places I discovered like this (because of couse I went into all of them driven by my hunger for art), but give it a try. There are not many toilets in the museums, but they are fairly nice and you have a good chance to avoid a long queue.

-If it is the end of the world, there are many toilets in the streets of Paris (I think you need to pay one euro), and also in the metro (these one only work with the public transport card). They have a certainly lower niveau, but if nature calls, you have to go. And there is also a lot of people waiting in the busier places of Paris. I have never tried the ones on the street, but the ones in the metro is fairly fine if you can hold your breath for 45 second, and don't want to redo all your makeup.