I saw a sinks with levers to work taps with knee

Pizza vending machines – really

Lots of baguette vending machines

Cycle tracks cross back and forth across roads but are everywhere

Interdit is everywhere on everything.

Houses spread all the way around coast with no breaks at all

Motorhomes wave as they pass each other

French cannot make tzatziki – they need a lesson from the Greeks

Traffic calming and high kerbs are everywhere, high kerbs in centre of the road  and on edge so the lane is narrow.

Gravel paths abound whereas we use tarmac

Saturday afternoon closed, Sunday closed, Monday closed, lunchtime closed, How do you buy anything?

Don’t have best before dates on everything, in fact, generally the stupid bureaucratic laws, attributed by Brits to the EU and so bemoaned by brexiteers are not applied here (nor in Sicilly when we visited last summer).

No passports shown when going France, Belgium, Germany , making the whole airport process faster and more pleasant, none of the 30 mins queues you get at UK boarders. (see last comment)

Many dog walkers walk dog around edge of campsite, most are just peeing but do you really want to let you kids play on grass where dog urinate.

Power pylons are concrete not as tall and is in someways tidier, but not as nice in engineering terms.

People say hello sir, or madame rather than just hello (in French not English)